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Our Story · 物語

A tavern with a mission.

Named for a boy who read while carrying firewood and grew up to feed a nation — Kinjiro has been bringing good food and drink to Little Tokyo since 2014.

Ninomiya Kinjiro · 二宮金次郎

From humble roots to a nation's table.

Ninomiya Kinjiro is famous across Japan as the boy who studied while walking, a bundle of firewood on his back. He rose from humble origins to become a beloved statesman whose agricultural reforms brought food and joy to people through hard times.

His statue still stands outside schools throughout Japan. We named our nomiya — our tavern — after him, because his mission is ours: to bring happiness to each guest, one plate and one pour at a time.

Kinjiro dining room
Black cod with saikyo miso
The kitchen

Chef Yoshikazu Kondo.

Working from a tiny kitchen in Honda Plaza, Chef Kondo cooks izakaya food with fine-dining precision — dashi-cured ikura, kelp-cured mackerel, miso-glazed bone marrow, and grilled beef tongue sliced thick.

The menu moves between the traditional and the contemporary: a pickle course of rice-bran nukazuke sits beside squid ink udon and uni risotto. Owner Jun Isogai runs the room and the sake list with the same quiet care — spare décor, relaxed service, and a pour for every mood.

2014Established
40+Sake labels
15+Press features
Reservations

A small room. Worth planning ahead.

Reservations open at noon, exactly four weeks before your date — and they go fast. Email us your date, party size and preferred seating.