Solo traveler with one night in Tokyo needs recommendations for a “nice” restaurant ( want to make reservation) —-Japanese cuisine
but not exclusively sushi. Thanks for the help

Try dishes at Tatsuya Shinjuku.

https://gonpachi.jp/nishi-azabu/

One of my favorite Tokyo restaurants. Reservations are required although if you go early and you are lucky they might have an opening.

Aloha!

Aloha, P
Hope u and L are well
How is Ken?

Andy’s Shin Hinomoto!

Thanks for suggestion

Aloha Bill

We are well, thanks. Sorry to have missed you on your recent pass through but we were eating our way through N CA.
Saw Ken and J recently as they walked into a restaurant as we were having dinner. Still traveling often.
Going to Japan during the tsuyu soon (what I always tell people not to do lol). Looking forward to it though as we will take the mountains, N Tohoku and revisit Hokkaido by car for a bit. Should be a blast.

Aloha!

Shin Hinamoto is a good suggestion if you are staying around Yurakucho. English spoken and it’s a popular izakaya serving good, reasonably priced food and drinks.

You're back HT. I hope you and L are doing great. Hopefully, I can zip back over to Hawaii one day for another meet up. I'm in touch with K and J on email and we connected in Singapore and hung out in Jan 2020.
Sorry for the thread hijacking. Yikes!
Happy Travels!

Tabelog website may be helpful. I don’t usually reserve restaurants except occasionally when I’m going upscale in which cases I rely on my friends or sometimes the hotel concierge. There is lots of good food in Japan and it tends to very specialized. I tend to eat in small mom and pop type restaurants.

We don’t sweat eating in Japan. Though we make reservations if we really want to dine at a specific restaurant, for the most part, like mjs we go to mom and pop neighborhood places. Even these unassuming local spots will serve better Japanese food than anything we can find at home. Tabelog is a great resource!