Ebisu / Daikanyama / Jiyugaoka

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• Yebisu Garden Place

  4.0

  469 Reviews

  Tokyo Shibuya-ku Ebisu 4-20

  This is a complex in Shibuya City housing office buildings, shopping facilities, restaurants, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Museum of Yebisu Beer, and the Westin Hotel Tokyo etc. Among the restaurants, the French restaurant “Gastronomy Joel Robuchon” is famous for being awarded three stars in the Tokyo Michelin Guide. It is about a five-minute walk on the “Ebisu Skywalk”—a moving footpath from the east exit of Ebisu Station.

• Gotoku-ji Temple

  4.5

  404 Reviews

  Tokyo Setagaya-ku Goutokuji 2-24-7

  A Soto Buddhist temple located in 2 Chome Gotokuji, Setagaya City, Tokyo. The temple was built in 1480 by Kira Masatada, then lord of Setagaya Castle. According to a historical anecdote, a man named Ii Naotaka, the second lord of Hikone Domain (which also ruled Setagaya subsequently), escaped being struck by lightning after a cat beckoned him to enter the temple, and thus the temple is also said to be the origin of Japan's famed maneki-neko beckoning cat figures. Countless beckoning cat figures are arranged around the temple's grounds, and many tourists visit the temple to see this stunning sight.

• Tonki

  4.5

  449 Reviews

  Tokyo Meguro-ku Shimomeguro 1-1-2

  This is a long-established tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet) shop that is famous for its nostalgic appearance reminiscent of Japan’s Showa period. It has been featured in the news and there is often a long line of customers. Using Japan-produced pork loin and high quality filet meet cooked slowly over a long time in a process unchanged since long ago, the restaurant serves up juicy and fragrant offerings that have earned many fans who come back frequently. It even offers counter or table seats as well as private dining rooms.

• Meguro Parasitological Museum

  4.0

  196 Reviews

  Tokyo Meguro-ku Shimomeguro 4-1-1

  This museum is dedicated to the subject of parasites. It features some 300 specimens and other related exhibits including an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm specimen illuminated with LED lights. The first floor of the museum, which has a theme of ''diversity of parasites,'' presents the diverse shapes and appearances of parasites through specimen, video, and other exhibits. The second floor, which has a theme of ''human and zoonotic parasites,'' covers topics including the symptoms that parasite infections cause in humans as well as the history of parasitology in Japan. The museum's shop offers a selection of original goods including t-shirts featuring detailed illustrations of parasites.

• Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

  4.0

  179 Reviews

  Tokyo Meguro-ku Mita 1-13-3 In Yebisu Garden Place

  This general photography and video museum opened in 1995. In addition to photograph and video displays, they also offer classes and community outreach. The facility was renovated in 2016. Every floor offers exhibits on a different theme. Admission depends on the current exhibitions on each floor. They host the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions every year in February, and also offer regular photography and film workshops.

• Spring Valley Brewery Tokyo

  4.0

  166 Reviews

  Tokyo Shibuya-ku Daikanyamachou 13-1 Log Road Daikanyama 1 Building

  A restaurant adjoining a brewery just a four-minute walk from Daikan-yama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line. The spacious interior, covered with warm woods, creates a special atmosphere that seems distance from the hustle and bustle of the everyday. Craft beers are created daily in the on-site brewing facility, and the restaurant offers old standards and limited-time beers as well as experimental beers only available once, never to be sold again. Spring Valley Brewery’s popular pairing set gives patrons the opportunity to enjoy six different beer varieties together with specially matched sides and snacks.

• Pizzeria e trattoria da ISA

  4.0

  206 Reviews

  Tokyo Meguro-ku Aobadai 1-28-91F

  This is a famous shop for Naples-style pizza located in the Aobadai district of Tokyo's Meguro City. Pizza shokunin Hisanori Yamamoto, who trained at a well-known store in Naples and won the World Pizza Championships twice consecutively, opened this restaurant in 2010. The shop features a space ambience thanks to its open terrace, and is almost like a real pizzeria in the downtown area of Naples. All of the pizzas baked in the large stone oven are exquisite, and popular items on the menu include the margherita pizza with the melted mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. It is a popular restaurant that invariably has a queue outside on holidays.

• Shake Shack Atré Ebisu

  4.0

  146 Reviews

  Tokyo Shibuya-ku Ebisuminami

  The second Japanese location of this popular hamburger chain from New York, located inside the West Building of the Atré Ebisu commercial facility adjoining JR Ebisu Station. Toppings such as various vegetables, cheese, and bacon can be added to the shop’s popular burgers, and the patties, made with 100% Angus beef fed with special fodder, are juicy and delicious. The relaxed atmosphere of the shop has made it a popular destination for workers to have a drink or two on their way home. Long lines can form around lunch time and on holidays.

• Jiyugaoka Sweets Forest

  3.0

  118 Reviews

  Tokyo Meguro-ku Midorigaoka 2-25-7 La Cool Jiyugaoka 1-3F

  This food theme park for sweets that opened in 2003 is a spot to try sweets made by some of the finest patissier. There are shops offering an incredible variety of sweets including cakes, Asian sweets, crepes, and soufflé, and there are even shops that make their sweets after receiving the customer's order. In addition to trying and comparing tastes within the mini park, takeout offerings are also popular. In the Sweets Select Zone are shops selling ingredients and implements for making bread and sweets, a cooking studio and even a dedicated chocolate shop. The closest station is Jiyugaoka Station.