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Kamiya Bar
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Frommer's Recommended

ADDRESS: 1-1-1 Asakusa
CITY: Tokyo
COUNTRY: Japan
PHONE 1: 03/3841-5400
This inexpensive restaurant, established in 1880 as the first Western bar in Japan, serves both Japanese and Western fare on its three floors. The first floor is the bar, popular with older, tobacco-smoking Japanese men. The second floor offers Western food of a sort (that is, the Japanese version of Western food), including fried chicken, smoked salmon, spaghetti, fried shrimp, and hamburger steak. The third floor serves Japanese food ranging from udon noodles and yakitori to tempura and sashimi. I personally prefer the third floor for both its food and its atmosphere. Although the menus are in Japanese only, extensive plastic-food display cases show set meals of Japanese food costing ¥1,500 to ¥3,500 ($12-$29/£6.30-£15). This is a very casual restaurant, very much a place for older locals, and it can be quite noisy and crowded.

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

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