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Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Housed in a re-created kura (traditional Japanese warehouse) with a high ceiling and a central, open kitchen, this is one of Tokyo's most imaginative inexpensive Japanese restaurants. It offers a wide variety of dishes, including yakitori (such as skewered albacore with Gorgonzola tartar sauce), fish (such as miso-glazed black cod), sushi (on the third floor), noodles, tempura, and more. From the outside, you'd expect this place to be much more exclusive than it is -- and you probably will be excluded if you fail to make reservations for dinner. There are branches of Gonpachi at the G-Zone, 1-2-3 Ginza (tel. 03/5524-3641); in Shibuya on the 14th floor of E-Space Tower, 3-6 Maruyama-cho (tel. 03/5784-2011); and at Mediage on Odaiba (tel. 03/3599-4807), all open from 11:30am to 3:30am or later. However, they don't match the Nishi Azabu location's atmosphere.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Tokyo, 10th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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