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A halal-CERTIFIED (NAHA / Nippon Asia Halal Association) restaurant run by a Uyghur Muslim owner; a fully alcohol-free venue with a prayer room serving Uyghur and Japanese dishes.
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Halal
豚肉とお酒（アルコール）は食べられません。
Butaniku to osake (arukōru) wa taberaremasen.
I can't eat pork or alcohol.
- みりんや料理酒は使っていますか？Do you use mirin or cooking sake?
- ハラル認証はありますか？Is this place halal-certified?
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Details
- Nearest station
- Uguisudani Stn
- Cuisine
- Halal-certified Uyghur & Japanese cuisine
- Price
- ¥¥
- English menu / support
- ✓
- Signature
- Lamb shabu-shabu simmered from lamb neck bones for six hours, plus Uyghur dishes
Tucked a few minutes from Uguisudani Station's north exit, near the border with Nippori, Halal Sakura has served halal Central Asian food — a mix of Uzbek and Uyghur dishes — alongside a Japanese-style menu since opening in 2017. It's one of the relatively few Tokyo restaurants where the halal claim is backed by outside certification rather than a house promise: the restaurant holds certification from NAHA (the Nippon Asia Halal Association), and the kitchen reportedly keeps pork and alcohol out entirely.
The menu leans into Central Asian classics rather than a generic "halal food" catch-all. Plov — Uzbekistan's national rice pilaf, cooked with lamb, carrot, and cumin — is the dish most reviewers order first, available as a lunch set from roughly ¥1,300–1,500. Samsa (baked meat pastries), shashlik skewers, and Uyghur-style lagman noodles round out the non-Japanese side; a lamb shabu-shabu (around ¥3,280, made from a long-simmered bone broth) and a Wagyu beef dish (around ¥2,580) sit at the pricier end, while a Japanese-style ramen (around ¥980) anchors the more affordable side of the menu. Across the board, dinner mains run roughly ¥2,000–3,000 — mid-range rather than a cheap eat.
Facilities are built with Muslim travelers in mind: the restaurant spans two floors with roughly 50-plus seats, a private room, and a prayer room. Staff reportedly speak English and Russian, with some also able to communicate in Uzbek or Turkish, and menus are multilingual, so ordering without Japanese shouldn't be difficult. That said, there's no confirmed dedicated vegan menu — dishes center on lamb, beef, and chicken — so vegetarians and vegans should ask staff directly rather than assume an option exists; the same caution applies to gluten, since noodle dishes like lagman are wheat-based.
Online table reservations don't appear to be available through major platforms — Hotpepper's own listing for the restaurant notes it isn't currently taking online bookings — so calling ahead is the safer route, especially for groups or the private room. As of mid-2026, customer reviews as recent as June 2026 confirm it's still up and running. Current Tabelog and Hotpepper listings both show no fixed closed day, though a few older write-ups mention a Tuesday closure; given the discrepancy, it's worth confirming by phone if you're planning a visit around a specific day.
Last verified Jul 2026
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