Sushi Tanaka

Sushi Tanaka (鮨 田中)

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🍣 Sushi / 📍 Minami-Azabu

📓 Visits: 1

Ryu Tanaka's first own restaurant having run Sushi Rizaki Aoyama (review here) for four years.  The JPY 13,000 nigiri-only lunch stopped the moment the restaurant earned a Michelin Star.  Omakase rose in price from JPY 19,000 to JPY 22,000 not long after.  It became the most difficult to book of the newly-added or promoted sushi restaurants in the 2026 Tokyo Guide.

The best of the tsumami was the awabi, the kimo sauce with tamanegi particularly good.  The cold tsunami were all a bit too cold.  Taco was less than perfect: a bit lacking in flavour and not uniform in texture.  Shirako a decent size portion but each piece a bit small in diameter and very caramelized so lost the impact a large piece of top notch milt has.

The nigiri were an improvement over the tsumami.  All the salinity, the main reason I stopped going back to Sushi Rizaki Aoyama, was gone.  A massive ankimo temaki was the best I've ever had.  A huge alum-free uni nigiri and rare kuruma ebi were other highlights.  Akami, supplied by Hicho, was excellent and sinew-free.  Jabara had a fair amount of sinew but the flavour was fantastic.  Kinmedai was a bit cold and somewhat obliterated by a bitter tamanegi topping.  Kohada was a bit on the fishy side and had no fat.  Rice is fairly sour and very al dente, bordering hard.

After the course you can repeat any nigiri or order makimono.  Only ikura was available as an extra on this visit.  Happily, these were reasonably charged.

Tanaka-san doesn't speak English but one of his wait staff can.  He does open up to conversation if you can speak Japanese.  I detested the pre-meditation of which plate of tsumami each customer would get.

Other than Sushi Matsuura, which is very difficult to book, Sushi Tanaka would be my pick of the full course omakase dinners in Tokyo at this price.

📌 https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1316/A131602/13293885/

❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.1

📱 Booking: 🟧 From 7am on the first of each month via Tabelog.  All slots will be taken within a couple of days of being released.

📍 Location: 

2-7-23 Minami-Azabu.  7 mins north from Shirokane-Tanaka station Exit 2.
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📅 Visit December 2025

🐟 Amadai amazuzuke x2
🐟 Sumagatsuo warayaki x3
🐟 Iwashi isobemaki 
🐟 Taco-ni x2
🐟 Shirako 
🐟 Sugiara ni
🐟 Kuro awabi, kimo sauce
🐟 =7
🍣 Sawara 
🍣 Aori ika
🍣 Kinmedai 
🍣 Akami 
🍣 Toro
🍣 Kohada 
🍙 Ankimo temaki 
🍣 Kuruma ebi
🍣 Bafun uni 
🍲 Ebi dashi
🍣 Anago
🥚 Tamago
🍣 =10
+Ikura 
+Ankimo

💴 Damage: 20,800 incl. tea

⏱️ Time taken: 1h50m (1h40m without extras)