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The best Monjayaki in Tokyo

Also spelt monja, monja-yaki, Tsukishima monja and もんじゃ焼き. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.

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  1. Number 1.Monja Kondo Honten

    Tsukishima Monja Street Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    5pm to 10pm, from 11.30am weekends
    Where
    3-12-10 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    The oldest griddle on the street, dating to 1950, and staff will cook the tokusei Kondo monja for you. Half the tables go to bookings on weekdays, so ring ahead.

    What to orderTokusei Kondo monja

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  2. Number 2.Monjayaki Nishiki

    Tsukishima Monja Street Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    11am-2pm and 5.30pm-10.30pm, shut Tuesdays
    Where
    3-6-4 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Widely credited with inventing the mochi and mentaiko combination, so order the mochi mentai. Fresh noodles go in, not the crunchy kind. Shut Tuesdays, and lunch runs only on some weekdays.

    What to orderMochi mentai monja

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  3. Number 3.Edo Monja Hyotan

    Asakusa, near Nakamise-dori Asakusa and Ueno

    Open
    11am to 5am, from 10am weekends
    Where
    1-37-4 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0032

    A sweet shop counter greets you at the door, and the staff will talk you through the mentai mochi cheese. Scrape the last batter thin for okoge senbei. Hours have changed lately, so check.

    What to orderMentai mochi cheese monja, then curry yakisoba

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  4. Tsukishima Monja Moheji Honten

    Tsukishima, Kachidoki end of the street Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    10.45am-3pm, 5pm-11pm, weekends 10.30am-11pm
    Where
    Linostyle Tsukishima 1F, 3-16-9 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Run by a Toyosu fish wholesaler, which shows in the oysters and geso. Order the squid ink monja, which has rice in it and eats like paella. Weekend queues are long.

    What to orderIka-sumi monja, or the mentaiko mochi monja with mozzarella

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  5. Iroha Honten

    Tsukishima Monja Street, third block Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    11am to 10.30pm daily
    Where
    2F San Grandpa, 3-4-5 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Up on the first floor beside the old police box, open since 1955. Ask for the sakura-ebi monja, made with proper dried shrimp rather than the usual small ones. A service charge applies.

    What to orderSakura-ebi monja

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  6. Monja Hazama

    Tsukishima, alley off the fourth block Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    5pm-10pm, weekend lunch too, shut Mon and Tue
    Where
    3-17-8 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Down an alley off the fourth block, running forty-odd years, tables close together. The hazama monja gets an egg cracked over it just before it finishes. Cash only, and shut Monday and Tuesday.

    What to orderHazama monja, egg cracked in at the end

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  7. Monja Kura

    Tsukishima Monja Street, third block Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    11am to 11pm daily, shut 31 Dec and 1 Jan
    Where
    3-9-9 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Blue curtain and a storehouse front in the third block, open right through the day. The Kura special piles in crab, scallop, clam, mentaiko, mochi and soba. There is nearly always a queue.

    What to orderKura special monja, or the clam chowder monja

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  8. Yoshimiya

    Tsukishima Monja Street, fourth block Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    5pm to 10pm, 4pm weekends, shut Tuesdays
    Where
    3-15-10 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Founded in 1954 and still calls itself the original Tsukishima monja, with twenty seats and no QR payments. Order the tokusei monja with pork, squid and noodles. Closed Tuesdays.

    What to orderTokusei monja, with pork, squid and noodles

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  9. Koboreya Honten

    Tsukishima Monja Street, fourth block Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    11am-4pm, 5pm-11pm, Sunday to 10pm
    Where
    3-16-9 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Staff cook every plate here, so it suits anyone nervous with a spatula. The house kobore monja comes buried in anago, prawn and scallop, with ginger underneath. Pricier than its neighbours.

    What to orderKoboreya monja, the seafood-piled house plate

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  10. Osouzai to Senbei Monja Satou

    Tomigaya, near Yoyogi-Hachiman Shibuya and Harajuku

    Open
    Monja noon-2.30pm and 5pm-10pm daily
    Where
    Moritomo Building 1F, 1-9-22 Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

    The Cristiano's team put strange things on the griddle here, and it works. Wakuwaku Thailand uses fermented prawn paste; the fermented lamb mince is the other one. Monja stops between lunch and evening.

    What to orderWakuwaku Thailand monja, or the fermented lamb mince monja

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  11. Rokumonsen Honten

    Asakusa Asakusa and Ueno

    Open
    11am to 10pm, to 9.30pm weekends
    Where
    1-16-9 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0032

    Trading since the early eighties and claiming the camembert monja as its own, a whole round melting into the batter. You season it yourself at the table. A second Rokumonsen trades nearby, so check the address.

    What to orderCamembert cheese monja

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  12. Osaka Ya

    Kabukicho, Godzilla-dori Shinjuku

    Open
    Open 24 hours, occasional maintenance days
    Where
    Dai-ichi Asakawa Building B1F, 1-17-12 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

    Basement room in Kabukicho, open around the clock for close to forty years, with kombu-heavy dashi in the batter. Mentai mochi cheese is the one to order. Occasional maintenance closures, announced online.

    What to orderMentai mochi cheese monja

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  13. Tsukushi

    Asakusa Asakusa and Ueno

    Open
    11am to 11pm, shut Tuesdays
    Where
    2-4-13 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0032

    Forty-odd years on, cabbage and batter still prepped by hand each morning, and most monja stay under a thousand yen. The tokusei Tsukushi has pickles and fish sausage in it. Shut Tuesdays.

    What to orderTokusei Tsukushi monja

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  14. Oshio I-ima-ten (the late-night Oshio)

    Tsukishima Station Tsukiji, Tsukishima and Toyosu

    Open
    6pm to 3am daily, closes early if food runs out
    Where
    Moon Island Tower 1F, 2-10 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0052

    Almost everything on the street shuts by eleven, and this one runs to three in the morning, right by the station exit. Get the mentaiko mochi cheese. Closing depends on what is left.

    What to orderMentaiko mochi cheese monja

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