The most famous restaurant in each category is usually excellent. It is also, for a visitor, close to unreachable: no booking from outside Japan, and no realistic way in once you land. So here is the one to skip, and three you can actually eat at this week.
Skip this.
Try that.
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If you're an American living in Japan, tell us one dish at one restaurant you'd send a visiting friend to — the one that isn't famous.
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