There are about 1,500 Italian restaurants in Tokyo, but Alter Ego is one of the most legendary. Here the tajarin pasta is a tangle of delicately thin noodles bathed in a silky butter sauce ...

this trattoria-slash-pizzeria has staked out a spot in an area that must boast one of the highest concentrations of Italian restaurants in the whole of Tokyo. Run by a pair of bona fide Italians ...

For a unique eating-out experience, bypass the generic Italian restaurants and head straight for Garage 50 in Kichijoji, where the pizzas are cooked in a retrofitted VW van. It’s hipster ...

Many of Tokyo’s restaurants specialize in a particular ... located in Bvlgari’s Ginza Tower. The Italian jeweler’s influence is clear upon arrival with a glitzy dining room: “One can ...

But when imported products became widely available in 1990s, Japanese cooks focused instead on precisely replicating Italian recipes. Yet echoes of itameshi's legacy live on in Tokyo's current scene.