A cozy neighborhood teppanyaki restaurant near the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, run by Fukagawa-born chef Motoaki Fujii and his wife Namie, who handles service. The warm, wood-toned dining room mixes greenery and local art for a relaxed, cafe-like feel, with counter seats facing the museum that are especially popular with solo diners. Loved in the neighborhood for over 20 years, the kitchen cooks its original Japanese-Western dishes on antique Nanbu ironware griddles and pots forged by the 1852-founded Seieido foundry. Signature dishes include the sizzling "Juju-yaki" pork teppanyaki, finished tableside with a raw egg, and "Fukagawa-don," a miso-based Aoyagi clam rice bowl recreating an early-Meiji-era street-stall dish.
