Although a greater part of restaurants in Japan are furnished completely with tables
and chairs of Western style, restaurants with Japanese traditional tables and the visitors seating on cushions on the ground, are very common as well. A few of the
Japanese Restaurants integrates both the styles. According to conventional
Japanese home customs, generally it is mandatory to leave the shoes prior to stepping to the seating zone or even at the
restaurant's doorway.
The visitors and food lovers to Japanese restaurants are received and greeted with the popular expression "irasshaimase" which stands for ‘please come in'. The most proficient waiters and waitresses are there in the restaurants to assist the gourmands with polite attention.
Japanese restaurants can be categorized in several variants as Specified Japanese restaurants , Foreign Cuisines, General Category Restaurants, Kissaten and Coffee Shops, Yatai and Rotensho and Kaiseki Ryori and Ryotei.
Specified Japanese restaurants include the restaurants which are specialized in any particular sort of food and are called as Sushi-ya, Ramen-ya, Gyodon-ya, Kare-ya, Soba-ya and Kaiten-zushi. Whereas general category Japanese Restaurants are well admired for catering a wider spectrum of food stuffs than that of specified restaurants. The array integrates family restaurants and Shokudo, Izakaya, Teishoku-Ya. The range of the Foreign Restaurants contains Chinese Restaurants, Hamburger Fast Food, Ethnic Cuisine, Italian Restaurants,Yakiniku Ya and Yoshoku Ya.
A few of the most eminent and well liked re staurants in Japan are as following:
- Lexington Queen
- Kinmata Restaurant
- Tengu
- Gionzushi OCAT Mall-ten
- Agatha
- Choya
- Iciran Ramen
- Ganko Nijoen
- Ichiryu Ramen
- Chachani Moon
- Yebisu Garden Place
