Japanese Restaurants in Singapore

April 19, 2010 | 52 Comments

Japanese Restaurant in Singapore

If there’s one thing that Singaporeans love other than buffet, it’s definitely Japanese food.

Japanese cuisine has always been very popular in Singapore. While I am not a big fan of Japanese food, it’s easy to understand why people love Japanese food. From affordable Japanese restaurant chains in Singapore like Sushi Tei, to fine dining Japanese restaurants like Tatsuya – there are always plenty of options to choose from.

By and large, I don’t usually crave for Japanese food, much less blog about it. Well, I like sushi, and I love tonkatsu, but I won’t specifically crave for it if you get what I mean. Usually if I visit a Japanese restaurant, it can only mean one thing: my friends are craving for it. But this year, I can see myself going to more Japanese restaurants because of you.

I know many of you have commented in my Singapore Buffet List that Hanabi is not worth the while, but I’d like to go for a Japanese ala carte buffet restaurant just for the experience of gorging myself silly with sashimi, tempura and sushi. Otherwise I will probably check out Senki restaurant for their Japanese buffet, or save up for Chiharu at Bukit timah.

Oh ya, we are having the Ramen craze this year isn’t it? Ramen restaurants seem to be opening all over Singapore, but so far I have only tried Marutama and Santouka Ramen. The new ramen restaurant at Mandarin Gallery, now what is it called again? Eh yes, Ippudo right? Maybe when the hype dies down, I will go there to see what’s the fuss about.

Pardon my obsession with list, but here’s the top Japanese restaurants in Singapore that I want to try (or revisit) this year. It doesn’t need to be Japanese fine dining restaurants, and it definitely does not include all the Best Japanese restaurants in Singapore.

Hello Sushi, Sashimi and tonkatsu!

Chikuwa Tei

Chikuwa Tei
9 Mohamed Sultan Road #01-01
Tel: +65 6738 9395

Chiharu Japanese Buffet Restaurant
779 Bukit Timah Road
Tel: +65 6769 1929

Sashimi Platter

En Japanese Dining Bar
207 River Valley Road
#01-57 UE Square Singapore
Tel: +65 6735 2212

IKOI Japanese Restaurant – Japanese Buffet
401 Havelock Road #01-01
Hotel Miramar Singapore
Tel: +65 6887 3788
// Japanese ala carte buffet
Weekday Japanese ala carte Buffet $33++
Weekend Japanese ala carte Buffet $33++
* Reservations highly recommended

Ippudo Ramen

Ippudo Mandarin Gallery
333A Orchard Road
#04-02/03/04 Mandarin Gallery
Tel: +65 6235 2797

izakaya nijumaru

Izakaya Nijumaru
5 Koek Road #02-10
Cuppage Plaza Singapore
Tel: +65 6235 6693

Japanese BBQ

Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ Restaurant
29 Lorong Mambong
Holland Village
Tel: +65 6466 4001

Koh Grill & Sushi Bar
435 Orchard Road #04-21
Wisma Atria Singapore
Tel: +65 9180 3805

Kuriya Penthouse
181 Orchard Road
#12-02 Orchard Central
Tel: +65 6509 4222

Nara Japanese Restaurant
167 Thomson Road
Goldhill Centre
Tel: +65 6256 6568

Ootoya Japanese Restaurant Singapore

Ootoya Japanese Restaurant
181 Orchard Road #08-12
Orchard Central Singapore
Tel: +65 6884 8901

Ramen Santouka
6 Eu Tong Sen Street #02-76
The Central Singapore
Tel: +65 6224 0668

Satsuma Shochu Dining Bar
1 Nanson Road
#01-10 / #02-10 The Gallery Hotel
Tel: +65 6235 3565

Senki Japanese Buffet Restaurant
109 Killiney Road
Tel: +65 6734 5565
// Japanese ala carte buffet
Weekday Japanese ala carte Buffet $30++
Weekend Japanese ala carte Buffet $33++

Shin Kushiya Singapore

Shin Kushiya Japanese Chargoal Grill
1 Harbourfront Walk
#02-120-122 VivoCity Singapore
Tel: +65 6275 8766

Standing Sushi Bar Singapore

Standing Sushi Bar
8 Queen Street #01-03 Singapore
Tel: +65 6333 1335

Sashimi

Sugisawa Japanese Restaurant
30 Robertson Quay
#01-16 Riverside View
Tel: +65 6235 0212

Tatsuya Japanese restaurant
22 Scotts road
Goodwood park hotel
Tel: 6887 4598

Tetsu Japanese Restaurant
163 Tanglin Road
#03-18 Tanglin Mall
Tel: +65 6836 3112

Wasabi Tei Japanese Cuisine
14 Scotts Road
#05-70 Far East Plaza
Tel: +65 6238 8216

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I will be adding this list to the top of my Delicious page. Meanwhile, let me know if you have a particular favorite Japanese restaurant to share with everyone. For the past two weeks, I went to a few Japanese restaurants in Singapore, and I will be blogging on three of them this week. Watch this space.

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52 Responses to “Japanese Restaurants in Singapore”

  1. lj
    April 19th, 2010 @ 9:38 am

    Looking at the pictures make me hungry. hahaha

  2. Jess
    April 19th, 2010 @ 9:46 am

    tweeted abt this & now i shall share with u all my 2cents worth.

    personally, i kinda like ippudo coz it’s pretty good except i find it wayy to salty, i couldn’t bring myself to drink the broth after i’m done without fear that i might get msg/sodium poisoning. lol.

    as for wasabi tei, my sis wen last week and she is very disappointed. her chawanmushi (mind e spelling) was tasteless and her sushi set was served warm coz while the chef was doing it, he keep getting distracted with other things and end up leaving it there half done for too long while he goes about doing other stuff. but she said the udon was passable. lol

    if u all wanna try ala carte jap buffet, do give shin yuu @ greenwood ave a shot. the variety may nt be out of this world, but they have a few stuff worth trying.

    hope that helps ((:

  3. kitsune shoujo
    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:21 am

    you *need* to try Goto. please do.

    http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/goto_japanese_restaurant/

    http://www.chubbyhubby.net/blog/?p=527

    http://casslovescooking.blogspot.com/2008/02/goto-japanese-restaurant.html

    it’s exquisite… on Sundays for lunch, the lovely people from Enso Kitchen serve shojin ryori there too:

    http://www.ensokitchen.com/order.htm

    http://living-vegan.blogspot.com/2009/08/shojin-ryori-at-enso-kitchen.html

    i’ve visited all the restaurants you have on your list, but for me, Goto wins hands-down. in fact, there’s no competition… hehheh.

  4. hater
    April 19th, 2010 @ 11:41 am

    SHAMELESS

  5. Miss Steel Gourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 12:34 pm

    Yeah, delete the critical comments, keep the good stuff. Then, put up lists when he has not visited many of them, call it top 10. A clever person would know it’s just to keep his blog there for google searches. I’m not a hater, but I’m very much amused by such antics.

  6. Ben
    April 19th, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

    hater = coward. Must be an owner of a failed competing japanese restaurant or a failure in life in general.

    This post makes me want to eat japanese! Yums.

  7. Miss Steel Gourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 12:55 pm

    Yay! Glad LIC finally revealed what he sees everyone as, as a perfect unit for his much treasured TRAFFIC. Of course, his “fans” can’t see this, and won’t even entertain the thought. Trust me, someday, you will, and you will remember my words people.

  8. ChiewMei
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

    i heard the wasabi tei management changed – no more the scary uncle and aunty. lemme know if its still good! (:

  9. Ben
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:12 pm

    @Miss Steel Gourmet – You are obviously a kid, still schooling and taking pocket money. For a blog like Lady Iron Chef’s to continue churning out good content, he needs an audience or in another words, traffic.

    No one single blogger starts a blog so that they don’t get readership or – traffic.

    What stupid thing to say. Yes I will always remember your words cos it’s embarrassingly stupid.

  10. Miss Steel Gourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

    Or, I’m not pathetic enough to depend on a blog for traffic traffic traffic. Good content? Sorry, I may not have a blog, but I know of some others that are more sincere about writing. Ah Ben Ben, you sound like LIC too :)

  11. Miss Steel Gourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

    good job by the way brad, you’re finally not deleting comments. phew, at least you’re maturing steadily.

  12. Ben
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:24 pm

    Erm, if you don’t like ladyironchef, why are you sticking around his blog? Shouldn’t you go elsewhere? Shouldn’t you not come back?

    Why are you keeping track of further comments to see if people reacts to your comments?

    Shouldn’t you spend time on succeeding in life like ladyironchef is working hard doing rather than go around flaming?

    What a fool, do you even know you’re making a fool out of yourself?

    I’m sure you don’t. Grow up.

    If you come back and leave another comment, you’re nothing but a childish kid or failure in life who has nothing to do but get jealous of people’s success.

  13. Miss Steel Gourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:39 pm

    I like to be amused by deluded people. LIC is succeeding in life? It’s a success? :D

  14. Ben
    April 19th, 2010 @ 1:40 pm

    At least more successful than you? LOL. Hey, go get a job. I’m sorry for your broken life.

  15. Arnold
    April 19th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

    @Miss Steel Big Mouth – Get a life please.

    You do NOT own this blog nor have you contributed to it in any way except SPAM your futile comments which have inadvertently helped this post rank better in Google. Shows how much you really know about search engine strategy.

    Brad can write whatever he likes about food because HE owns it and its content and can exercise his right to delete whatever comments he deems unnecessary or like yours, down right stupid.

    I’m sick of people like you who don’t even own a blog, yet feel compelled to tell hard-working bloggers like Brad how to run theirs…

    Pretty sad that you have to troll a food blog…a food blog of all places!?

    If you have nothing constructive to say go wriggle back to the hole from which you came from.

    P.S. I LOVE JAPANESE FOOD! :)

  16. JEAN
    April 19th, 2010 @ 3:43 pm

    Brad, love your blog to the max =DD so dun get affected by anyone who tries to pull you down (: cheers !

  17. fwy
    April 19th, 2010 @ 3:46 pm

    For tonkatsu, Tonkichi and Tampopo are my all-time favourites.

  18. MissSteelGourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

    @ best geek blog (by nuffnang standards): who said i didnt want to draw attn to this post, nice to know pple will arrive here to see a top ten list, only three of which have been visited.

    work hard brad, still only seeing sparklette and ieat on the first google page for “singapore japanese food”.

  19. tyvm
    April 19th, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

    steel = ice? too obvious.

  20. MissSteelGourmet
    April 19th, 2010 @ 4:21 pm

    ice? i’ve heard of her before, she’s another one of the bloggers right? but she has more character in putting her name/credentials down wherever she goes. anyway, i have an email that lic can reply me, but pity not one to clarify or talk to me till today.

  21. Sushi Girl
    April 19th, 2010 @ 4:45 pm

    I love Japanese food! Thanks for the list! Can I add some pls pls? :D

    Hanabi, En Dining Bar, Shin Yuu (Greenwood, buffet!) and Ootoya!

    More Japanese posts pls!

  22. mei
    April 19th, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

    hey brad, i’ve been enjoying your blog for some time but too shy to comment. but i love jap food! is tatsuya ex? so far i’ve only been to tetsu after reading your post!! and i love the tonkatsu! try ikoi too :) )

  23. tyvm
    April 19th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    very funny, what do you want him to reply you about? like forcing him to admit on the things you claimed then you’ll be happy? i’m sure you must be feeling quite frustrated by now because he doesn’t even want to response lol. if it were me, i won’t waste my time too :D

  24. Arnold aka Mr.Gadget
    April 19th, 2010 @ 6:11 pm

    Come to think of it, Brad I think you were too kind in letting Miss Steel Grot’s comment be published. It just distracts readers from what you’re talking about in the post and just sets the stage for other trolls to join the party…

  25. pammiez
    April 19th, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

    TAMPOPO! haha Miharu at Gallery Hotel is not bad too and sometimes, i do have occasional cravings for Sushi Tei =Pp

  26. Life for Beginners
    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:35 pm

    I shall work much harder at infecting you with my love for Japanese food. It is just soooo good! Ramen me this, udon me that, yakitori at night, sushi in the morning… ;)

  27. charmaine
    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:56 pm

    woah whats up with the crazy hater/stalker on your blog?

    Anyway I for one am always craving for Japanese food! I think the best I have tried in Singapore is Sushi Yoshida!
    I need to try everything on your list as well!

  28. Raine
    April 19th, 2010 @ 11:08 pm

    I want my Cha Soba!! You are now making me crave for it againnnnnn!

  29. joeron
    April 19th, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

    at abt $38 for Hanabi buffet dinner, you get unlimited sashimi n many other dishes.
    i think it’s not fair that many said Hanabi isn’t any good, i was there for dinner with my colleagues the week before, the sashimi was fresh and most of the other dishes we ordered were quite decent too(except the shishamo, pls skip that)

    jus bare in mind at $38, you cant expect $138 quality. ordering 2-3 dishes at any regular Jap eatery would have easily cost you $38, and they dun alway taste good too.

    i totally agree with LIC, jus go experience gorging yourself silly..lol.(do remember to ask e waitress for small servings)

  30. maz
    April 20th, 2010 @ 1:31 am

    u should try sushi yoshida at killiney area

  31. Shawn Lim
    April 20th, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

    Thanks for the list! Now I know where to go for Jap food :)

  32. extreme
    April 20th, 2010 @ 9:36 pm

    I love japanese food. Always have them after my badminton game. Nice.

  33. Joyce
    April 20th, 2010 @ 10:35 pm

    Nanbantei at Far East Plaza serves authentic yakitori. Really nice and very homely. Must reserve or go early.

    Inagiku @ Fairmont is also another great place with really high quality fresh ingredients.

    Then there’s Sushi Jiro at East Coast Rd and Chanko @ Hong Leong Gdn Shopping Centre West Coast, both are small, home run style places, not too commercialised and most importantly, great food.

  34. SJ
    April 20th, 2010 @ 11:14 pm

    I think Saboten @ Parco Millenia walk has much better tonkatsu and salad than Tonkichi.
    U guys can give it a try.

  35. Matilda
    April 21st, 2010 @ 12:51 am

    For Japanese ala carte buffet, I would prefer Senki to Hanabi in my humble opinion. More variety at Senki. Just my two cents worth.

  36. ladyironchef - Singapore Food Blog
    April 21st, 2010 @ 10:14 am

    wow everyone! thanks for the recommendations and tip-off! i will take down all the places and check them out when my partner is craving for Japanese food : )

  37. gy
    May 5th, 2010 @ 10:51 am

    forget about Wasabi Tei. Not worth going since Peter sold the place. completely lost its character

  38. ladyironchef - Singapore Food Blog
    May 6th, 2010 @ 10:42 am

    gy: OH! u mean wasabei tei has changed owners already? oh dear, what a shame. Is he like opening a new place somewhere else?

  39. jac
    October 5th, 2010 @ 1:34 am

    you’re missing some great ones!

    for fusion japanese, waku ghin at MBS.

    for buffet japanese, en japanese dining (mostly shabu shabu but other stuff as well)

    for expensive but best toro, shiraishi

    for fantastic but expensive sushi, kanesaka

  40. ladyironchef - Singapore Food Blog
    October 12th, 2010 @ 8:09 pm

    jac: wow you been to waku ghin already? i heard it’s very difficult to get in! how much is the Japanese buffet at en Japanese dining bar?

  41. Liz
    October 15th, 2010 @ 2:24 am

    I love your site! My husband and I are coming for our first visit to Singapore in June 2011. We will be there for one week. We are “foodies” and I have trolling the net to find recommendations. As far as Japanese goes, I would love to know what restaurant does Shabu Shabu?

  42. jane
    December 3rd, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

    The owner and chef for wasabi teh is now at shifted to a new restaurant, Chikuwa Teh at 9 Mohammed Sultan. Still serving very good and quality sashimi.

  43. May
    December 14th, 2010 @ 9:49 am

    Aoki at Shaw Building, love there Maizen Chirashi.

  44. Jody
    January 31st, 2011 @ 11:21 am

    Nice post. Best Japanese Yakitori in Singapore http://www.nanbantei.com.sg.

  45. MagaJoy
    February 11th, 2011 @ 11:57 am

    Nice blog regarding Japanese food, Haha:D i’ll like to recommend euu to try the chasoba and udons (men-rui)s at Hoshi Japanese Restaurant:D They also provides buffet too:D It’s first time passing by and starts reading your blog. Hope to see more foods from your blog:D

  46. Angeline
    May 3rd, 2011 @ 4:43 pm

    Hoshi Japanese Restaurant – what is the price like? Gd or not?

  47. piggy
    June 23rd, 2011 @ 11:28 am

    I recommend Go Go Curry at B4 of ION Orchard! Very nice and afforable! Rich and superlicious curry! Opposite Guardian (:

  48. jane
    July 1st, 2011 @ 8:20 pm

    Chikuwa TeH at mohammed sultan..is the ex-Wasabi Teh. Maybe you have already know.

  49. monica
    August 16th, 2011 @ 10:39 pm

    hey there, do you know about kiseki japanese buffet ? my friend and i are planning to go there on the upcoming September. Please write about the review if you’ll go there :)
    Thnkyou before!

  50. Arlene
    August 28th, 2011 @ 8:49 pm

    I have just recently discovered this site about 2 months ago and am a big fan already. I love Japanese food, and I’d like to suggest the following restaurants which I hope make it on your list in the future:

    1. Waku Ghin in Marina Bay Sands – pricey but worth it! I’ve written a blog entry just recently. I ate there a few days ago and the experience was amazing. http://goodfoodishappiness.blogspot.com/2011/08/waku-ghin-japanese-fine-dining-and.html

    2. Saboten in Parco Department Store, Millenia Walk – I saw one of the readers suggest this as well. This is my all time favorite tonkatsu place! Try the tenderloin tonkatsu set.

    3. Tonkichi – Also a favorite tonkatsu place of mine. The kata rosu (black pork) is divine.

    I have also heard good reviews about Takumi in Marina at Keppel Bay. That is next on my list of places to try out.

  51. Jas
    September 29th, 2011 @ 1:32 am

    my humble contribution which you may want to explore – sakuraya for sashimi, kushingin for yakitori esp during lunch there is special set lunch value for money but quality not compromised. tks for the list. do add on to it… en dining – depend if you want the beef side free flow or not, if so its about S$50 per pax. just craving for hotpot only… wondering where there is good ones.. any recommendation? tks

  52. Pieste
    December 9th, 2011 @ 10:51 am

    Ikoi at Hotel Miramar is probably the worst Japanese restaurant in Singapore or probably in the whole region. Food is prepared by and served for Chinese tourists who have no clue. Disgusting!! Really

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