Sasanoyuki

A tofu specialty restaurant founded in 1691, one of Tokyo's oldest continuously operating establishments and said to be the birthplace of silken (kinugoshi) tofu in Edo. Reopened in August 2024 in a newly built two-story building right next to the Shiki-an museum, after the original prewar structure was rebuilt; the dining room upstairs doubles as a small gallery of calligraphy and paintings, with a quiet, refined, non-smoking atmosphere and spacious table seating. The restaurant historically served literary figures including the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, and its name comes from a Edo-era prince who likened the whiteness of its tofu to snow piled on bamboo leaves. The single fixed course, built entirely around tofu preparations (simmered, chilled, in yuba, in ochazuke and more), is served identically at lunch and dinner.