Yakitori is Tokyo's grilled chicken skewer over binchotan charcoal: every part of the bird (thigh, breast, liver, gizzard, tail, skin) seasoned with salt or tare sauce; in Japan we have verified places to eat it in Tokyo. Start with where to eat Yakitori in Tokyo.
Yakitori · Tokyo
Yakitori is Tokyo's grilled chicken skewer over binchotan charcoal: every part of the bird (thigh, breast, liver, gizzard, tail, skin) seasoned with salt or tare sauce.
Yakitori began as Edo-period street food and became a postwar yokocho staple. Toshihiro Wada's Bird Land moved to Ginza in 2002 and helped kick off the high-end overhaul with shamo free-range chicken from Ibaraki and binchotan grilling. Today the form runs the full price spectrum, from 200-yen sticks in Omoide Yokocho to 30,000-yen omakase courses in Ginza basements.
Where to eat in Tokyo:
- Bird Land Ginza
- Omoide Yokocho yakitori alley
- Harmonica Yokocho
Where to eat Yakitori in Tokyo: the editor picks