Ninja Akasaka

Address	Akasaka Tokyu Plaza 2-14-3 Nagata-cho Chiyoda-ku
Transportation	Easiest access is through subway stop at Akasaka-mitsuke Station
Price	Ranges between 7,000 and 20,000 yen
Hours	Monday through Saturday from 5pm to 4am, Sunday and Holidays from 5pm to 11pm
Phone	1-81-3-5157-3936
Website	www.ninja.tv

Vacations are normally somewhat predictable—you check out the museums, go shopping and visit the local historic monuments. But it’s difficult to find a restaurant that can be entertaining enough to act as an attraction of its own. Though pricey, Ninja Akasaka fulfills this role. The restaurant is designed as a ninja house, complete with the mysterious ambiance and waiter theatrics. As you enter the dark restaurant, or cave, as it is set up to feel like, you’ll notice smoke bubbling around you as you cross a tiny bridge. You’ll also have your own ninja—or, sometimes, a ninja in training—who performs various tricks when he (or she) brings you a menu or serves up your food. The bamboo rice, for instance, is set on fire so that it’s warm when you eat it. The dessert menu, which is apparently “top secret,” bursts into flames after you’ve chosen which sweet you want. But the best part of the restaurant, thankfully, is the food: from succulent sushi to sweet sake.