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Japanese•New York•splurge
Shinzo Omakase
Shinzo Omakase is an easy japanese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Omakasespecial occasionintimate
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9.8
Based on 978 reviews
Best Japanese Restaurants in New York: 41 Picks for 2026
New York's Japanese dining reaches from world-class omakase temples to the ramen and izakaya rooms that define downtown late nights. The city's sushi counters compete with any outside Tokyo, and the depth below the famous names — the neighbourhood spots locals guard — is the real measure of the scene.
41 restaurantsAvg rating 9.4$$$$ – splurgeUpdated July 2026
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Top Japanese picks in New York
Fast answers for diners comparing japanese restaurants in New York. These first picks are sorted from live restaurant data and editorial fit.
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Mido Omakase - West Village
Mido Omakase in the West Village has built a reputation around a deliberate argument: that omakase — the formal surrender of choice to the chef — should not require a three-week waitlist, a black card, or a room designed to intimidate.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 443 reviews
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Zen Sushi Omakase
Zen Sushi Omakase occupies a specific and deliberate position in New York's omakase landscape — not the hushed, ceremony-first rooms of Midtown where minimalism functions as the main course, but a counter built around maximalism as a con…
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 380 reviews
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Kazumi Omakase
At $75 for a 13-course omakase with complimentary sake included, Kazumi is making a calculated argument: that Greenwich Village can sustain serious nigiri counter culture without the $300-plus price tag that dominates the conversation up…
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 345 reviews
5
Japanese•Crown Heights•value
Don Udon
Don Udon is an easy japanese option in Crown Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.8
Based on 289 reviews
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Japanese•Lower East Side•moderate
Kaki
Kaki is the kind of japanese room in Lower East Side you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Lower East Side dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.8
Based on 221 reviews
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Omakase by Kun Tsuki
In the former home of Totto Ramen on West 51st Street, Omakase by Kun Tsuki has quietly redrawn what a New York omakase can cost — and what it can ask of you in return.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 204 reviews
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KAWA Omakase
At $88 for a 14-course seasonal omakase at a 13-seat East Village counter, KAWA poses a question that most Manhattan sushi rooms prefer you don't ask: what does the price actually reflect?
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 164 reviews
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SoZo Sip Bar + Omakase
SoZo Sip Bar + Omakase suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 77 reviews
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Japanese•New York•$$$$
MICHELIN ★
Bar Miller
Bar Miller is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
japanesemichelin stardate night
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9.8
Based on 59 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Kin ramen
Kin ramen is a sensible japanese call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.6
Based on 4520 reviews
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Uka Omakase
Uka Omakase occupies an unglamorous stretch of East 60th, and the proposition here is tiered rather than singular.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 1031 reviews
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TAKUMI OMAKASE
Takumi Omakase is not a room interested in restraint as a philosophy.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 786 reviews
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Japanese•New York•$$$$
MICHELIN ★
Tempura Matsui
Tempura Matsui occupies a position in New York dining that has no direct equivalent: it is, by every verifiable account, the only restaurant in the United States dedicated exclusively to tempura at this level of craft.
japanesemichelin stardate night
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9.6
Based on 371 reviews
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Domo omakase
Domo Omakase occupies a modest footprint on East 29th Street in the Murray Hill corridor — not the neighborhood you'd expect for serious omakase, which is partly the point.
Omakasedate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 309 reviews
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Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
HOUSE Brooklyn
HOUSE Brooklyn is a japanese pick in Greenpoint in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.6
Based on 109 reviews
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Japanese•East Village•value
Odo East Village
Odo East Village is an easy japanese option in East Village in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation. Moriawase and Kanisu also give you a decent sense of the menu.
East Village night outcasual nightlate night
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9.6
Based on 29 reviews
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Ivan Ramen
Ivan Orkin's path to the Lower East Side is unusual enough to be worth understanding before you walk in.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 9505 reviews
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Japanese•Prospect Heights•moderate
Ozakaya
Ozakaya is a japanese pick in Prospect Heights in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 1606 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Shinjuku Ramen
Shinjuku Ramen is an easy japanese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 1535 reviews
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Japanese•Gramercy•moderate
Oceans
Oceans lands on Park Avenue South with the ambition of a Vancouver import that knows exactly what it wants to be: a 220-seat seafood palace that doesn't apologize for its scale.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 830 reviews
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Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
ACRE
ACRE opened on Meserole Avenue in the spring of 2020 — which is either the worst timing imaginable or proof that the concept was strong enough to survive it.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.4
Based on 582 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Yasubee Authentic Ramen
Yasubee Authentic Ramen is not trying to impress you — and in a city where ramen has become a vehicle for chef ego and forty-dollar bowls with reservation wait lists measured in months, that restraint reads as a genuine point of view.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 301 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Loong Ramen
Loong Ramen is doing something specific and worth paying attention to: a Battery Park waterfront spot founded by Michelin-trained chefs from Shanghai, serving tonkotsu-based ramen at price-point-one through a lens that is distinctly pan-…
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 186 reviews
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Japanese•SoHo•moderate
Momoya SoHo
Momoya SoHo suits a night out in SoHo when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 1439 reviews
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MICHELIN ★
Torien
Torien is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
japanesemichelin stardate night
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9.2
Based on 269 reviews
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Japanese•Upper East Side•value
Taishoken NYC
Taishoken NYC is making a specific argument on the Upper East Side, and it's one worth hearing: that the tsukemen format — thick, chewy noodles served separately from an intensely reduced dipping broth — belongs in the same conversation…
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.2
Based on 196 reviews
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Japanese•Manhattan•$$$$
Blue Ribbon Sushi & Steak
Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar and Grill in Manhattan occupies a specific and useful niche in New York's special-occasion landscape: a hybrid Japanese-American room that takes both its raw fish and its beef seriously enough that neither side of t…
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 173 reviews
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MICHELIN ★
Tsukimi
Tsukimi suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
japanesemichelin stardate night
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9.2
Based on 141 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Ichiran
Ichiran doesn't compete for the title of best date spot or loudest group table in New York — and that deliberate narrowness is the whole point.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.0
Based on 4696 reviews
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Japanese•Union Square•moderate
Kyuramen - Union Square
Kyuramen - Union Square is an easy japanese option in Union Square in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.0
Based on 2268 reviews
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Kyuramen
Kyuramen is an easy japanese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.0
Based on 1987 reviews
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The Flatiron Room NoMad
The Flatiron Room NoMad is an easy japanese option in Flatiron in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Business dinnerbusiness dinnerlunch
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9.0
Based on 1986 reviews
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Japanese•Murray Hill•value
The Flatiron Room Murray Hill
The Flatiron Room Murray Hill is a sensible japanese call in Murray Hill in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 1257 reviews
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Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
Lingo
Lingo is doing something quietly radical in Greenpoint: a menu that refuses to pledge allegiance to any single culinary tradition, and by all accounts it's sharper for it.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 330 reviews
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MICHELIN ★★
odo
odo is a japanese pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
japanesemichelin stardate night
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9.0
Based on 309 reviews
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MICHELIN ★
69 Leonard Street
69 Leonard Street is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
japanesesushimichelin star
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9.0
Based on 240 reviews
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Japanese•Chelsea•moderate
Buddakan
Buddakan suits a night out in Chelsea when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Gallery nightdate nightgroup dinner
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8.8
Based on 5826 reviews
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Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds is a japanese pick in Greenpoint in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.6
Based on 1642 reviews
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BIB GOURMAND
Sobaya
Sobaya has occupied the same East Village address since 1996, which in New York's restaurant economy counts as something close to a statement of principle.
japanesebib gourmand
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8.6
Based on 1210 reviews
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MICHELIN ★★
The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
fine diningjapanesemichelin star
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8.6
Based on 615 reviews
Common questions about Japanese in New York
What are the best Japanese restaurants in New York?
The top Japanese restaurants in New York include Shinzo Omakase, Mido Omakase - West Village, Zen Sushi Omakase. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings, review volume, and editorial judgment.
What is the highest-rated Japanese restaurant in New York?
Shinzo Omakase is among the highest-rated Japanese restaurants in New York, with a 9.8 Google rating across 978 reviews.
How much does Japanese food cost in New York?
Japanese restaurants in New York range from $$$$ to splurge. Most mid-range options fall in the moderate range.
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