Tokyo · Updated: 2026-10-14
Seven walking spots are gathered around Shin-nihombashi Station (新日本橋駅) in Tokyo, ranging from long-established tempura and soba restaurants to a cafe where avatar robots take your order and a shop devoted to Edo Kiriko cut glass. All seven list Shin-nihombashi Station as their nearest station and sit within a 1- to 4-minute walk, so the whole route fits into half a day. Five of the seven are closed on Sundays, so a weekday afternoon is the easiest day to plan.
This guide covers 7 walking spots; 7 of them are an average 3-minute walk from the nearest station (1–4 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
Leave the station and start with Tenmo, a 1-minute walk away, then Nikusen Tonya Sasaki and SALONE VENDREDI, both 2 minutes on foot. After eating, pass Muromachi Sunaba Nihonbashi Main Store and Cohana Nihonbashi Main Store at 3 minutes each, take a break at Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β, and finish at Edo Kiriko Hanashyo Nihonbashi Store, a 4-minute walk from the station.
Founded in 1885, this Edo-style tempura house fries seasonal ingredients in sesame oil and stands a 1-minute walk from Shin-nihombashi Station. Alongside the tempura fried by the fourth-generation owner, there is a thin-batter "locabo" tempura course at 17,600 yen, supervised by a diabetes specialist and made with nearly half the usual wheat flour. Hours are 12:00–20:00 Monday to Friday, and lunch only on Saturday, 12:00–14:00. It is closed on Sundays and public holidays, and on Saturdays in August.
A meat restaurant run by a wholesale butcher founded in 1919, 2 minutes on foot from the station. Rather than chasing brand names, the shop picks kuroge wagyu by eye, keeps it chilled instead of frozen, and serves it thick-cut in its signature sukiyaki. The lunch-only sukiyaki set at 1,400 yen comes with small side dishes, pork miso soup and pickles. Open 11:30–21:00 Monday to Friday, closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
The name means "Friday salon," and the place works as a cafe by day and a restaurant bar by night, 2 minutes on foot from the station. Live grand piano and stage performances run throughout opening hours, and you can also just take a single cocktail at the bar counter. The Salon de Parfait — tiramisu — is 1,800 yen. It is open every day: 11:30–22:30 Monday to Friday, 11:30–21:30 Saturday and 11:30–18:30 Sunday.
Founded at the end of the Edo period and in Nihonbashi since 1869, this soba house is where tenzaru and tenmori began. It is a 3-minute walk from the station. Two soba are offered — "zaru," made from sarashina flour bound with egg, and "mori," from whole-grain flour — and the tenmori at 2,200 yen comes with a kakiage of small shrimp and small scallops in warm broth. Tamagoyaki is 880 yen. Hours are 11:30–20:30 Monday to Friday and 11:30–15:30 Saturday; closed on Sundays and public holidays.
A tool shop produced by a handicraft supplies maker founded in 1953, a 3-minute walk from the station. It draws on traditional crafts and local materials from across Japan, collaborating with around 60 regional industries. Items include a needle rest of Awaji roof tile for polishing needles at 3,300 yen and thread-cutting scissors with Iga kumihimo braid at 7,150 yen. Open 10:00–17:00 Monday to Friday, closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
At this cafe, 3 minutes on foot from the station, the avatar robot OriHime handles service and serving. The robots were developed so that people who find it hard to travel can take part in society, and you can talk with the pilots operating them remotely through the robot. The OriHime Diner at 4,400 yen is for two or more guests and fully reservation-only, and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays a remote barista also makes coffee. Hours are 11:00–19:00, closed on Thursdays (open when Thursday is a public holiday).
Hanashyo, an Edo Kiriko maker founded in Kameido after the war, opened this specialist shop in 2016 in Nihonbashi, where the craft began. It is a 4-minute walk from the station. Its own patterns, such as "kometsunagi," a wish for a good harvest, and "tama ichimatsu," are the house character, and its work has been exhibited at the Louvre and presented as summit gifts. The Edo Kiriko workshop requires a reservation. Open 10:30–17:00 Monday to Friday and 11:00–17:00 Saturday, closed on Sundays.
If you walk here on a Sunday, build the route around SALONE VENDREDI (11:30–18:30) and Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β (11:00–19:00). Both the Edo Kiriko workshop at Hanashyo and the OriHime Diner at DAWN need a reservation, so book them once your date is set.