12 Best Restaurants with a View in Tokyo

Tokyo is a city full of skyscrapers, offering numerous restaurants with stunning views.

Tokyo is a city filled with highrises and towering hotels. Many of these are crowned in fine dining restaurants that offer views of Tokyo's vast cityscape. Lit up with twinkling neon and offices burning the midnight oil, Tokyo transforms into a picturesque backdrop perfect for a special occaison or memorable date. These 12 restaurants feature selections from the Michelin Guide and OMAKASE's own catalogue of restaurants, each serving cuisine befitting of their breathtaking views.

1. Plaiga TOKYO (プレーガ 東京) / French / Tokyo Station

Plaiga, headed by chef Shota Ikeda, brings guests closer to the seasons with its vegetable-forward course menus. Diners enjoy the changing of the seasons as reflected in a sea of trees and elegant landscape that surrounds the restaurant. Chef Ikeda's signature dish, Yamagata Tsuyahime Kegani, reflects the changing seasons as viewed along the Wadakura waterway of the Imperial Palace, which can be seen from Plaiga's floor to ceiling windows. In addition to its frequent vegetable rotations Plaiga also directly sources Hida beef from gifu prefecture throughout the year, paying attention to changes in the meat's quality and character in each season. The restaurant received Michelin Guide selection in both 2023 and 2024.

2. ARMANI / RISTORANTE (アルマーニ リストランテ) / Italian / Ginza

ARMANI RISTORANTE, a 2024 Michelin Guide selection, spand the tenth and eleventh floors of the Armani Ginza Tower. Its warm, inviting cuisine includes risotto using Japanese saffron and an updated take on the classic carbonara. Views of Ginza's premium shopping and luxurious streets lie just beyond the window pane, while inside the sensibilities of Armani beguile guests with equally opulent cuisine. Leading the charge is ARMANI RISTORANTE's head chef, Carmine Amarante, a Naples native to came to Tokyo in 2018. Since 2020, Chef Amarante's dedication to pursuing the comforting luxury of Italian soul food through the lens of ARMANI's singular aesthetic has defined ARMANI RISTORANTE's position among Tokyo's great Italian restaurants.

3. Ginza Yamashina (銀座 山科) / Yakiniku / Ginza

Chef Ishida takes pride in offering beef with a 2-week aging time and unique light-fastness, dubbed "Azuki-iro" due to its similarity to red beans. This deep, rusty color exemplifies the ideal balance between lean and fatty meat, a careful product of Japanese breeding techniques and expert aging. Surprisingly, its signature dish is a petite gyu-katsu sandwich, a memorable bite of pillowy bread and juicy wagyu. From its private rooms, where staff expertly grill each cut and tune the heat of yakiniku flames to suit, views of Ginza add to the charm of modern interior design. Ginza Yamashina, a winner of the Japan Restaurant Award, has also been named one of the Best 100 Yakiniku restaurants in Japan since 2021.

4. Sazaanka (さざんか) / Teppanyaki / Toranomon

Sazanka's 41st-floor restaurant space towers over much of the city. Its windows are occupied by evening views of stars and open sky with glimpses of Tokyo's cityscape as seen from The Okura Prestige. Sazanka traces its cuisine back to the roots of teppanyaki and is a classic representative of the Okura brand. Teppanyaki, now a classic culinary style, was first debuted for the 1964 Olympics to captivate foreign visitors with the quality of Japanese cooking. Sazanka makes use of seasonal ingredients from the land and sea, selecting the best fish and seafood to pair with fresh vegetables and premium cuts of meat. Sazanka's selection of domestic black-haired wagyu includes sought-after Kobe beef as its signature ingredient.

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5. apothéose (アポテオーズ) / French / Toranomon

Chef Keita Kitamura opened apothéose in 2023. Located in Tokyo NODE, apothéose cuts a stark contrast between the breathtaking views around it and the down-to-earth philosophy behind its cuisine. Chef Kitamura spent eight years training under the Narisawa banner before making his own name in Paris with a Michelin star. His return to Tokyo marks a new chapter in his cuisine, one that calls attention to the importance of grounding in nature while serving dishes hundreds of meters in the air. Each thought-provoking course is tailored to the day, and no two evenings share exactly the same menu.

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6. KEI Collection PARIS (ケイ コレクション パリ) / French / Toranomon

Plush couch seating, familiar tables, and intimate chef-driven counter dining spaces fill out the 49th floor of Toranomon Hills Station Tower. A new concept from star chef Kei Kobayashi, KEI Collection PARIS offers a la carte dinner options and a full bar with sweeping views of Tokyo. This location is a grown-up gastronomic playground, where experimental French cuisine delights guests. By focusing on the essence and inherent nature of each ingredient, the chefs of KEI Collection PARIS coax out surprising new culinary experiences using ingredients from Japan and around the world. Grass-scented wagyu beef and other thoughtful signatures have earned KEI Collection PARIS selection in the Michelin Guide.

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7. The Pizza Bar on 38th (ピッツァバー on 38th) / Pizza / Nihonbashi

Eight seats, eight pies, eight slices, and just one seating. The Pizza Bar on 38th incorporates the rustic whimsy of New York pizza parlors with the elegance of countertop omakase in a way that only Tokyo could. This petite venue's sought-after seats occupy the 38th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo in Nihombashi. Its signature pie is the Bufala, an organic Italian-wheat pizza crust topped with Buffalo mozzarella, tomato, and basil. From its sky-high dining room, guests can enjoy the view of Tokyo's skyline. Unlike many restaurants on this list, The Pizza Bar on 38th serves its Michelin-selected and Bib-Gourmand-awarded pies during daylight hours, during a shorter lunch course, making for a spectacular mid-day meal with a view.

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8. Sense (センス) / Chinese / Nihonbashi

1. Michelin (2014 - 21): One Star
2. Michelin (2024): Selected Restaurant

Just a floor down from its Italian neighbor, The Mandarin Oriental in Nihombashi provides another fine dining experience with a memorable view. At Sense, led by Chef de Cuisine Toshiyuki Nakama, guests enjoy dim sum and orthodox Cantonese cuisine while looking out across Tokyo. From Sense's windows, the modern marvel of Tokyo Skytree creates the perfect backdrop. Signature dishes include Barbequed Platinum Pork and Kyoto Duck, Double-boiled Superior Broth with Abalone, and more. Sense held its Michelin Star from 2014 to 2021 and remains a Michelin selection.

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9. PIERRE GAGNAIRE (ピエール・ガニェール) / French / Akasaka

1. Michelin (2008 - 23): Two Stars

Pierre Gagnaire has been called the Picasso of the Kitchen for his artistic French cuisine. At his namesake venye in Tokyo, courses take on a life of their own with sauces that dance across plates of Japanese ingredients. Each meal beautifully applies a French treatment to the venue's domestic canvas, creating a one-of-a-kind experience that has been honored with Two Michelin Stars. Tokyo Tower rises above the skyline in eye-catching red when viewed from the windows of the ANA InterContinental Hotel. A fitting piece of scenery, Tokyo Tower also exemplifies French genius in a way that can only be enjoyed in Japan, just like PIERRE GAGNAIRE.

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10. est (エスト) / French / Tokyo Station

1. Michelin (2022 - 24): One Star

Crowning Otemachi's Four Seasons Hotel is one Michelin starred French restaurant Est. The restaurant's menu expresses the essence of French cuisine through chef Guillaume Bracaval's humble beginnings. Growing up in a small French village, the chef's childhood experience of tending the family's vegetable garden sprouted into a lifelong career. Est's cuisine focuses on terroir and paying respect to Japan's native ingredients, even featuring a map of Japan. From its windows, guests can enjoy looking out over the architecture surrounding Tokyo Station, the Marunouchi area, and beyond.

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11. China Blue (チャイナ・ブルー) / Chinese / Ginza

1. Michelin (2008 - 13): One Star

Once guests pass through its blue gates, the hardwood interior and warm lighting that bathes China Blue's dining space invite guests to peer out the sky-high windows onto Tokyo Bay. China Blue evokes the opulence and sea-faring history of Cantonese cuisine from its menu to its atmosphere. Vegetarian a la carte dishes that highlight mushrooms and seasonal produce make China Blue's menu friendly to a variety of diners, while the eye-catching serving style is as bold as its flavors. Diners can expect to be wowed by a walk-in wine cellar and glimpses at the kitchen while finding their seats. After earning its first Michelin star in 2008, China Blue has continued to wow Tokyo with its scenery and Chinese cuisine.

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12. WASHOKU 蒼天 SOUTEN / Japanese / Akasaka

Souten's interior calls attention to its soaring location on the 35th floor of The Prince Gallery. From walls and ceilings, artful furnishings inspired by crystalline structures build on the venue's ice theme. As if frozen in time, this restaurant sources the best ingredients from the season and served them fresh. A floor to ceiling wine cellar contrasts the sweeping views of Tokyo viewed from wrap-around windows. In addition to a main dining room serving Japanese food, guests can choose to dine at a dedicated sushi counter or sip sake sourced from around Japan at WASHOKU SOUTEN's sake bar. Part of the interior decoration also features sake casks decorated with the timeless insignias of their breweries.

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