★ Beef curry with a secret spice blend & a whole boiled potato
The original champion of the Kanda Curry Grand Prix; this book-town flagship serves a rich, fruit-rounded European-style curry that starts with a whole steaming potato.
A fifth-generation wagyu family's alcohol-free basement grill in Ginza serving 100% halal-certified Japanese wagyu steaks and burgers, so every traveller can taste real wagyu. (The halal kitchen is the basement venue.)
A tiny tatami-floored diner on the Shimokitazawa backstreets where every bowl of rich, medicinal-herb ramen is 100% plant-based and built on sprouted brown rice.
A Sri Lankan-Muslim owner's wholly halal-certified ramen shop where collagen-rich chicken broth meets a fiery soy-sauce kick, steps from Assalaam Mosque.
The 1947 Ginza institution that invented katsu curry itself, plating a crisp pork cutlet over rich Western-style curry at the very spot where the dish was born.
★ Customisable Japanese curry rice with halal toppings; pick your rice size and spice level
Permanently closed. CoCo Ichibanya's halal-certified Akihabara branch and its Shinjuku sister shop shut during the 2020 pandemic and have not reopened — as of 2026 there is no halal-certified CoCo Ichibanya in Japan. For halal Japanese curry and other options, see our halal fast-food chains guide and halal Tokyo guide.
★ Kuchifuku set — nine seasonal vegan sides with rice and miso soup
A casual, affordable vegan cafeteria run by a Kamakura temple lineage beneath the Akihabara rail arches, where even garlic and onion are forsaken in true shojin style.
