Restaurants near Ginza

Izakaya and yakitori joints packed under the brick railway arches, built in 1910, between Yurakucho and Shimbashi. A drinking strip with postwar black-market roots that fills with office workers after hours, a classic Tokyo evening scene.

A street given over to monjayaki restaurants.

Known for its secondhand bookshops, Jimbocho is also called a curry mecca. The story goes that students liked a dish they could eat one-handed while reading; European-style and spice curries now line the side streets.