① Restaurant Features A long-established tempura restaurant in Ningyocho. It has six counter seats and a tatami room in the back. Tempura is available as a rice bowl, set meal, or à la carte. ② Food Review ◎ Tempura Rice Bowl This black tempura rice bowl features sand whiting, conger eel, two shrimp, and carrots, all coated in a sweet and savory soy-based sauce. The conger eel and sand whiting are tender and delicious. ◎ Additional Tempura I ordered additional sand lance, eggplant, and squid. You can choose between the sweet-and-salty sauce or the standard tempura dipping sauce. The sand lance has a wonderfully fluffy texture that’s exceptionally delicious. The squid is also tender, and the cooking technique is truly masterful.

This restaurant is famous because popular TV program (named Solitary Gourmet/ 孤独的美食家) has introduced here. When I visited here, there were many foreign people on the queue. If you will visit here, you might be confused for the rule. Hence, I would lecture before visiting here. 1. It's prohibited to shoot video. 2. You can pay by cash only. 3. You can't stay on your seat anymore after finish to eat. 4. You should visit here before opening time (11:15) cause the queue would be long every day. 5. I suppose the staff can't speak anything except Japanese. You might feel uncomfortable though, they have no offence. Please calm down and deal with what happens. 6. I couldn't find any English menu. Hence before visiting here, please check the picture I upload and decide which menu you will order.

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Despite the high rating the taste is rather ordinary to me. The sauce is of very dark color, and not as sweet as other tendon places. Price is very affordable. The shop itself looks old and feels like it has been around for a long time.

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Delicious tempura! The owners are very lovely elderly couple. They do all the preparation, cooking and serving of food. They're very friendly, even allowed us to take photos and videos of them. We were very loud inside with lots of laughing and they were even laughing with us. The service was impeccable! Hey gave us free flowing water and even free dessert afterwards 🤗

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Absolutely delicious “black tendon” colored tempura, kakiage, and pickles. We enjoyed the secluded, quiet location, perfect for listening to the crackling and popping tempura oil and kitchen sounds during an evening dinner. Thank you for a wonderful experience, even with our limited Japanese language skills!

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