Sakagura, a hidden Japanese restaurant and sake bar in Midtown Manhattan is one of our favorite hidden gems. We’ve highlighted it before for its quirky bathrooms that are in the shape of oversized ...

Lake Tahoe’s new upscale Japanese restaurant, Smoke Door, is unassuming to the point of being almost invisible. The subtle, modern restaurant is inside a single-story building with blackened wood ...

It’s not every day someone hands me an empty clamshell and tells me to scoop raw meat right off the bone with it, but Saito is not your everyday Japanese restaurant. While Saito might not have a ...

As Japan’s popularity soars, many travelers want to experience the country beyond the usual touristy hotspots. I’ve been on Travel + Leisure’s A-list as a top Japan specialist for more than 10 years, ...

If you’ve had seafood at a New York restaurant lately, chances are you’ve eaten something influenced by ike jime — even if you didn’t know it. It starts with a method of killing fish quickly and ...

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