Longer guides to eating halal in Tokyo, written from the same dataset that powers the directory. Every venue named below has a listing you can check, with its verification tier, the certifier where one is on file, and the date we last verified it.
Twenty-nine South Asian halal restaurants in our Tokyo data, sorted by the thing that actually decides whether you can eat there: whether alcohol is served. Plus the one with a named certifier.
Where to eat nasi campur, rendang, nasi lemak and laksa in Tokyo, which kitchens are Muslim-owned, which have prayer rooms, and which serve beer alongside an all-halal menu. Eight verified venues from our directory.
Twenty halal ramen shops in our Tokyo data, ordered by evidence rather than opinion: ten with a named certifier, ten verified without one, and what each one puts in the broth instead of pork.
Only one sushi restaurant in our Tokyo data holds a named halal certificate. Here is which one, why the list is so short, and the four questions that decide whether any sushi is halal.
In Japan the two labels are different claims, and one of them is unregulated. Here is what each guarantees, why Japan has no single halal authority, and how many Tokyo venues in our data hold a named certificate.
Every halal restaurant in our Asakusa data β four with a named certifier, eight verified without one β plus the closing days that catch travellers out and where to pray between Kaminarimon and Nakamise.
Ginza has the highest concentration of halal-certified restaurants of any Tokyo district in our data. Three name a certifier, three do not, and the price range runs from a walk-in tempura bowl to a Β₯20,000 omakase.
Ikebukuro holds the only JAKIM-certified restaurant in our Tokyo directory, a Pakistani kitchen trading since 1990, and a halal bakery open two days a week. Ten venues, which are certified, which have prayer rooms, and which serve alcohol.
Every halal venue in our Shibuya and Harajuku data, with the certifier named, plus the ones a few minutes down the line in Ebisu, Yoyogi-Uehara, Nakameguro and Shimokitazawa that most Shibuya guides leave out.
Shinjuku ward holds more halal venues than any other part of Tokyo in our data, and exactly one of them names a certifying body. Here is what that means, and where to eat around Shinjuku Station, Nishi-Shinjuku and Takadanobaba.
The stretch from Kanda through Akihabara and Okachimachi up to Ueno holds eighteen halal venues in our data and five with a named certifier, which is more certified halal food than any single Tokyo district we cover. Two are open until 5am.
Turkish, Arab, Persian, Uyghur and Central Asian halal dining across Tokyo, from a Β₯500 all-you-can-eat lunch to Japan's only Egyptian restaurant β and an honest explanation of why no venue in this category names a certifier.
Hon-mirin is an alcoholic seasoning at around 14% ABV, so most scholars treat it as haram. Here is how to read Japanese labels, what certified Tokyo kitchens replace it with, and how to ask.
Japanese soy sauce contains roughly 2 to 3% alcohol from fermentation, and scholars disagree about it. Here is what is actually in shoyu, where dashi and ramen broth carry a separate risk, and how to order in Tokyo either way.
Tokyo's mosques, department-store prayer rooms and, the part nobody maps, the 37 verified halal restaurants in our directory that have a prayer space and wudu on site.
The best halal wagyu in Tokyo ranked by evidence: every yakiniku, sukiyaki and wagyu ramen in our data with the certifier named and the alcohol policy stated.
Halal food at Narita airport and Haneda on arrival day: what we could not verify at the terminals, and the first verified halal meal on each route into Tokyo.
Where to eat halal near Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea: the verified venues closest to the resort in our data, what we could not verify, and what to pack.
Halal food near Tokyo Station sorted by what the label guarantees: a certified noodle shop in the station, verified kitchens a few stops away, the bento gap.
A street-by-street guide to Shin-Okubo halal food: every verified venue in our data, who runs it, what it serves, and the certifier question nobody answers.