Tonkatsu Hasegawa

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Tonkatsu Hasegawa (とんかつ はせ川)

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🐷 Tonkatsu / 📍 Ryogoku / Higashi-Ginza

📓 Visits: 1

The main branch is a 20+ year established restaurant on Yokozuna Yokocho in Ryogoku.  The owner is from another tonkatsu restaurant, Musashiya, now in Shimbashi.  The Ryogoku restaurant was actually called Musashiya until it went independent in 2004.  It held a Bib Gourmand until the great shake up in the 2024 Guide when lots of restaurants lost their Bibs.  My visit was to the Higashi-Ginza branch which opened in 2021.

Dinner menus are available in Japanese and partly in English and you can preview them on their website (Ryugoku, Higashi-Ginza).  Be careful if you can't read Japanese because "Hasegawa's Deep Fried Deluxe Pork Cutlet" might sound appealing but if you don't like your tonkatsu filleted with garlic, shiso and cheese before frying then skip over this.  There are some cheaper items available at lunch only including rosu katsu at JPY 1,600, katsu curry at JPY 1,600, 120g rosu + 60g hire at JPY 2,200 and finally hire katsu at JPY 1,800, which was my choice.

Food arrived within 20 minutes.  They use their own breed of pork which had good flavour but not the best texture.  It tasted like it was fried in lard so the katsu has a rich flavour, which is to my preference.  A homemade onion dressing is provided for the cabbage which was good and made a refreshing change from ponzu or tonkatsu sauce.  The rice, cabbage, miso soup and tonkatsu sauce were good.  I don't always have refills of rice at tonkatsu restaurants but I did here.  Up to two refills of rice and cabbage are free, charged at 350 yen and 250 respectively thereafter.  Refills of miso soup are 250 yen a time.
Service was fine and the restaurant is clean and well-ventillated.  I would go back if I was in the area and didn't have a better option.

❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0

📱 Booking: Bookings for lunch are not taken.  I arrived five minutes after opening at 11:35 on a weekday and was seated immediately.  By 11:40 the restaurant was full and they didn't start turning tables until midday.  By the time I left there were seats free and no queue.  English menu.

📍 Location: 

    Higashi-Ginza: 1-13-11 Tsukiji.  2-3 mins from Higashi Ginza station Exit 5 or Tsukiji Station Exit 3.

    Ryogoku: 3-24-1 Ryogoku.  2 mins south from JR Ryogoku Station East Exit.

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📅 Visit May 2025

Hire katsu

💴 Damage: 1,800
⏱️ Time taken: 40m

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