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Best restaurant in Asakusa:
Asakusa is a famous traditional Japanese town where thousands of national and international tourists visit every day. Visitors enjoy their trips to the area thoroughly when they get good food and enjoy it. So, knowing about a good and pleasant restaurant in Asakusa is one of the essential parts of their trip.
A restaurant cannot be better without good seats and location. The taste of the food cannot be designated a restaurant better. To be better definitely needs better taste, better seats, better environment, and better location.
Asakusa is famous for sightseeing. Some of the area’s spots are tremendously popular for tourism, such as Sensoji Temple, Kaminarimon Gate, Kitchen Street, Azumabashi Skytree photo spot, Fireworks Festival Sukura Bridge, and Sumida Walkway or Mizumachi.
Besides, Don Quijote, Asakusa Rox, Comedy theatre Asakusa Engei Hall, amusement park Asakusa Hanayashiki have also attract visitors lots every day.
As a result, all the restaurants in Asakusa, Tokyo, start getting crowded from the opening hours. In addition, some of the restaurants are very small and counter-based or congested, from where very hard to see outside while enjoying the meal.
However, there are very few restaurants where tourists can enjoy Asakusa’s traditional Japanese town even during their meals. Asakusa Umaimon Azuma is one such restaurant.
Azuma Umaimon restaurant in Asakusa is one of the best near Sensoji Temple. It is traditional, historic, well-decorated, and delicious food with good service.
Why Azuma restaurant:
What kind of restaurant do you like? Of course, the answer to the question varies where you are! Probably, if you are in Italy, you like tasting Italian food. The same logic can be applied in Japan.
But, Umaimon Azuma has everything. Local and western popular food items are available here.
People usually try to find out what makes Azuma different from other restaurants.
Well, that cannot be answered in one line. However, it has better food, better service, and better location.
The list below can explain why Umaimon Azuma is the best restaurant in Asakusa.
Specifications of Umaimon Azuma:
1) Better food
Better food and better taste:
There are various kinds of food items. It has local and western-style food items. No matter what item you choose, the taste of the food at this restaurant is excellent.
Most of the cooks in this restaurant have been working for several years. They are professional cooks, and they have many years of experience in cooking the items the restaurant serves.
2) Better service
There is always someone who speaks professional English here. Therefore, non-Japanese-speaking customers do not face a language barrier here.
Besides, the waiters and (mostly) waitresses are well-trained. They are very polite and serve guests professionally.
In short, the service of the best restaurant in Asakusa is really thank-worthy.
Japan is an island and was separated from the other countries. As a result, most of the people of Japan do not speak English or other languages.
On the other hand, they are a free nation in a free country. Therefore, they do not need to learn other languages. Therefore, tourists who come from different countries face language problems.
However, Azuma overcame the language barrier, and customers do not worry about language.
3)Better location
The restaurant is located in a better location. It has elegant and clean with better seats where customers can eat satisfactorily.
It is good to mention that the seats of the restaurants in Japan are smaller than in other countries. Most of the tourists feel the same. Sometimes, they only can move their hands and eat.
But Azuma has better seats, and that is one of the excellent points which Azuma made a better restaurant in Asakusa.
Customers can enjoy their food here, watching outside through the transparent glass wall. Even there is proper management of sitting out in the winter.
On the other hand, if you do not want people see you then you can sit on the second floor.
Moreover, it is a historic restaurant that was opened in 1952. Eating somewhere that has a long history makes a trip more memorable.
At the same time, it is close to the Station and Sensoji Temple.
What is the best Menus:
Every item here is good. But some of the menus are very popular, which are mentioned below briefly:
Famous katsu-don:
Katsu-don is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments. It also includes a side of pickles and miso soup.
It is one of the famous menus in Japan.
Kaminarimon bento box lunch:
It is a set menu covered with Kaminarimon Big Light Mark. Most of the foreign customers like it for their Asakusa trip’s memory.
Some people say that food we eat but still get hungry and but memory we keep last forever.
Kaminarimon is the main entrance of Sensoji Temple. Azuma took the symbol of Kaminarimon Light Mark as a restaurant of Asakusa.
The menu contains Pork fillet cutlet, fried scallop, fried prawn, fried pumpkin, vegetable, Japanese miso soup, and sweets.
Surprise?
Nothing. Only vegetables?
No, Kaminarimon Bento box has three parts. Keep opening until you can find fry and rice.
When you open the top part(led) salad and vegetables will come out.
And, separate the vegetable plate and fry and rice will come out.
Sushi:
Do you know what sushi is in Japan?
Sushi is a traditional Japanese delicious healthy dish prepared with vinegared rice, salt, and sugar, accompanied by some ingredients, such as seafood, often raw, and vegetables.
Sushi is popular with local people and foreign customers. It is a unique Japanese traditional menu. If you are new in Japan, it is better to once.
Among the sushi items below, three are popular, which are reasonable compared to other sushi restaurants in Asakusa.
Kotobuki Chirashi:
It is a regular menu
Price ¥1,300
Jo Chirashi:
It is a special item
Price ¥1,900
Tokujo Chirashi:
It is an Extra Special item.
Price ¥2,600
Salad:
The restaurant serves a few kinds of good salads. However, these three salads are popular among the customers.
Fresh Salad:
Price ¥1000
Healthy salad with 8 kinds of vegetable
Crab Meat Salad:
Price ¥1,200
Potato Salad:
Price ¥400.
Besides, customers get complimentary Green Tea with beautiful Japanese Green Tea Cup. During the winter it hot fresh Green Tea makes body warm within a few chips.
Besides, Green Tea brings appetite. You are free to drink as much as you like.
Drinks:
The restaurant serves drinks. Please visit the restaurant link below.
Asakusa Kibidango Azuma:
Azuma has a branch shop in Nakamise Shopping Street, name is Asakusa Kibidango Azuma where very nice Japanese sweet called Kibidango.
Kibidango used to sell in Nakamise during the Edo Period. Kibidango is served with tea or some kind of sweet drink.
It is cheap but very delicious. You will see Rabbit Mark in the shop and people lining up in front of the shop.
Opening hours:
11:00 – 21:00 (Last call 20:30/ Last entry 20:00)
How to access:
Asakusa Ginza Station is the nearest Station.
Ginza Line(G-19)
2 minutes walk(Exit: 1)
Tobu Skytree Line(TS-01)
3 minutes walk(main Exit)
Toei Asakusa Line(A-18)
5 minutes walk(Exit-4)
Tel: 03-3841-0190
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