Our Introduction to Kaiseki at Tofuya-Ukai

Our budget won’t allow us to repeatedly indulge in kaiseki, or Japanese haute cuisine, so we wanted to be very careful about the restaurant in which to experience it. After considerable research, we decided to go with Tofuya-Ukai, and I doubt we could have made a better choice.

Found at the foot of the Tokyo Tower, Tofuya-Ukai is one of the most popular kaiseki restaurants in the city. From the moment we walked through the gate, we were enchanted. In the middle of the noisy, modern Tokyo, the...