Komakata Dojo

Please slow down and enjoy the food provided. ❤️❤️ Follow the rules and respect the local culture. Before writing my comment here, I read some negative reviews. One in particular caught my attention — a reviewer had many unreasonable requests for the restaurant and was disappointed when they were declined. But isn’t it perfectly reasonable for a restaurant to refuse unreasonable demands? Recommend a pot menu 3&4 and deep fried fish, so delicious 🤤 One more time, to anyone interested in coming here: be kind, stay respectful, and take time to understand the local culture. And enjoy your meal here!

Very unique dining experience is one very old setup. The food is something very different where loaches are the staple dish. The taste is kind of weird at first, but after a few bites, it gets tastier, and one begins to enjoy it. The Edo style dining is one that is memorable, and sitting on the floor for the food is not always available.

quite an experience with tatami on the first floor and tables on the second floor! 泥鳅 hot plate with Burdock topping and green onions and deep fried whale red meat, very exotic! Almost all locals, great cultural fun.

This place is well known for their loaches. I've never had loaches before so decided to try them, and I find them to be ok. The portions aren't big and the prices are on the higher end as well, but it's worth the experience in my opinion. The services are fantastic and the overall environment is quite unique. it gives a traditional Japanese vibe that I really enjoy. p.s. They offer English menu if needed :)

Old restaurant and rare Japanese cuisine with japanese loach and whale meats. The taste is quite unique and good. Always visit when we in Tokyo. You can visit across the street on Bandai statue and museum.

Wonderful place with a cool old school vibe where you sit on the floor and enjoy your meal and you can see everyone doing the same thing. It feels so communal and relaxing to just chill on the floor, kick back and have some small eels. The food is great, the small eel is nice and tender but it definitely is not as fatty as normal eels. As a result, this meal doesn’t fill you up as much, making it very easy to order a lot more or eat just enough so that you can go somewhere else after. Give this place a try if you are ever in the area of Asakusa!

Asakusa’s 駒形どぜう (Komakata Dozeu) is a restaurant founded in 1801 and devoted to dishes created using どぜう or pond loach, a sea creature eaten around Asia, but as far as I know, not common in the US except apparently as an aquarium fish. It was my second time this trip consuming the beast, and while it looks somewhat disturbing, I liked it well enough. I found the atmosphere festive, the dining room a vast expanse of tatami with wooden “tables” a few inches off the ground running the length of the room, and servers all wearing kimono. We had their two most popular dishes, どじょう鍋 (dojou nabe), which cooks over a charcoal brazier in front of you as you continually add green onion, and 柳川鍋 (Yanagawa pot), dojou in sweet egg sauce that gradually hardens as you eat.

This restaurant is specialized for meals made wit loaches. They may look ugly but when you would get used to eat them they taste delicious and allow eaters to feel gaining stamina. I recommend you to toss tons of long onion and follow instructions of restaurant’s staff. They serve us a set of traditional meals of Do era.