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Omo cafe is styled on Tokyo’s kissaten.

Relive your magical trip to Japan at these nine Melbourne venues

Pocket-sized sushi restaurants, old-school Tokyo-style cafes, and affordable delis with build-your-own bentos are just the tip of a rapidly growing and highly specialised Japanese scene.

  • Emma Breheny
Temaki platter, nori sheets and rice, ready for DIY assembly.

Get hands-on with this sushi platter with a difference at this 10-seat city restaurant

Tiny Temaki Sushi joins Melbourne’s growing number of Japanese specialty venues.

  • Dani Valent
Mamuki’s mango matcha smoothie epitomises social-media thirst

This serene inner west cafe is a must-visit for all matcha fans

Strawberry matcha lattes are all well and good, but how about a mango matcha smoothie?

  • Lee Tran Lam
Chilled tofu with syrup.

Doughnuts, ice-cream and nuggets: How this tiny shop puts a creative spin on tofu

A small-batch tofu maker is pushing perceptions of the vegetarian staple into new territory, using McDonald’s, low-waste cooking and more for inspiration.

  • Emma Breheny
Hareruya Pantry in Carlton - just open with gelato-filled mochi, sandos, bentos and musubi. By the Le Bajo Milkbar and 279 team. For Good Food, 1 July, 2022

Hareruya Pantry

Specialising in Japanese desserts like mochi-wrapped gelato.

  • Emma Breheny
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Chef Naoyuki Suzuki on the grill in the Yakitori Washokudo kitchen.
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Griller tactics: Japanese yakitori experience is faithfully recreated in Perth’s CBD

Never mind wing-or-drumstick: this lively Japanese grilled chicken restaurant and open kitchen serves heart, gizzard, skin and other lesser-seen parts of the chook.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The “torotaku” hand roll.
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This ‘fantastically affordable’ new sushi counter is the answer to our critic’s prayers

Why can you only get very cheap or very expensive sushi asks Besha Rodell. Nori Maki delivers high-quality sushi in a setting that feels special.

  • Besha Rodell
Miji Bar & Grill, North Sydney.

Self-serve sake bar opens in Sydney (and offers pour-your-own cocktails too)

It’s not a cost-cutting model, says the owner of Miji Bar & Grill, “It’s all about bringing fun”.

  • Scott Bolles
Sydney’s newest rooftop bar is perched atop the Cartier flagship store.
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Sydney’s hot new rooftop bar is worth dressing up for – if you can get a table

Japanese-inspired three-bite snacks star at Joji, the new high-energy CBD bar from the team behind Nour in Surry Hills and two-hatted Aalia in Martin Place.

  • Callan Boys
Original aburasoba bowl with chashu pork, seaweed and an ajitama egg.

A cult Japanese noodle shop arrives in Melbourne with summer-ready bowls

Everything you need to know about aburasoba, the “dry ramen” that ditches the soup but still packs loads of flavour into every squiggly bite of noodles.

  • Emma Breheny

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