Top rated Japanese restaurants in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to elevate your visit (Updated February, 2024)

Top rated Japanese restaurants in Kuala Lumpur

Experience the best that Kuala Lumpur has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 77 places from Japanese restaurant category.

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Yakiniku Great WOLO

Yakiniku restaurant

👍👍 My wife and I celebrated her birthday at Yakiniku Great WOLO this evening and had an absolutely amazing experience! I wanted to take a moment to leave a special review for our wonderful waitress, Dee, who made our visit truly memorable. The highlight of our evening was definitely the melt-in-your-m...

4.90 (292 reviews)

Peko Peko TTDI - Japas and Sake

Japanese restaurant

👍 After prior attempts to get a table for 2 over the last 2 years, we finally managed to dine in a rainy Monday night. The place is trendy and feels like being in a night club. The items we ordered where all good is size and taste making the price worth. I definitely suggest the fried shrimps and t...

4.70 (1K reviews)

HANAYA

Japanese restaurant

👍👍 Life got you down? Feeling meh from the pandemic? Drop by Hanaya for their omakase. Guaranteed to cheer you up with good food aplenty. The wagyu beef is not too fatty, enough bite to savour each morsel, and the sauces - yuzu pepper, truffle oil, preserved szechuan pepper all transform each bite of...

4.70 (872 reviews)

Eatomo Food Co (Bangsar)

Japanese restaurant

👍 Small portion, slightly overpriced but everything tasted good. We stopped by at Eatomo to have a quick late lunch on a weekend. Quite surprised that the place barely have people dining in. We ordered two donburi sets; one was the chicken nanban and the other was the orange chicken. Both tasted go...

4.70 (509 reviews)

Zen & Co Happy Garden Japanese Fusion Cafe

Cafe

👍👍 Food comes in generous serving sizes and the it tastes truly amazing and authentic. Atmosphere wise, a great place to chill with the loved ones and the service is up to par. Too bad the matcha lava is unavailable by the time we order, but will definitely give another visit next time!

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4.60 (2.1K reviews)

IPPUDO The Gardens Mall

Ramen restaurant

👍 One of my favourite ramen chains. The food is consistently good, so is the service and restaurant layout. My go-to order is the shiromaru special with tamago.

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4.60 (1.6K reviews)

Sou Omakase Dining - Gardens Mall Mid Valley

Japanese restaurant

😠 Honestly embarrassing to have omakase in your restaurant name and not live up to anything close to the standard and quality of it. It was our one year wedding anniversary. My husband and I paid close to 700 RM for the most lacklustre experience ever. 1. There is no counter dining, so you can’t even...

4.60 (737 reviews)

Sushi Oribe

Sushi restaurant

😐 Went there for dinner with my family for my father's birthday, we went with the 4 pax Oribe dinner omakase set. Food quality: the appetisers (shredded pear coated with white sesame sauce, sashimi platter, and tofu with black sesame sauce) were okay, not mind blowing or extra special. However, I hav...

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4.60 (611 reviews)

THE TOKYO RESTAURANT.

Japanese restaurant

👍 Situated in lot 10, recommended to make booking as there’s always a queue for this place. Pasta- tasty but small portion for the price Sushi roll- well made but lacking any wow factor Cheesecake- star of the show, cheesecake was creamy and smooth. Will return for this but probably not the mains. S...

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4.50 (3.2K reviews)

Kyomo

Yakiniku restaurant

🫤 Rating for the service. Reserved private room. RM90+ service charge with very not attentive services. Undeniably, a lot of “thank you very much” but very not attentive at all. Food was good. Hot food like spicy kimchi soup, rice bowl are nice. For meat, please avoid Sirloin and Flank. Sirloin is no...

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4.50 (1.2K reviews)

IPPUDO Bangsar Shopping Centre

Ramen restaurant

😐 The food is especially delicious at this branch of Ippudo, with firm, chewy noodles and delicious broths; the sides too are very tasty. However, while dining here, a cockroach crawled onto the bench where we were seated, eventually moving toward us causing us to get up and move. It was not a pleasa...

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4.50 (789 reviews)

Nonbei Lounge & Bar

Bar

👍👍 Nice chill out izakaya concept with Authentic Japanese food, and so happen we were surrounded by happy Japanese people that day. We were the only local customers.😆👍 The waiters were friendly and hey, they also informed us that the chef actually changes the menu from time to time so that customers...

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4.50 (67 reviews)

Shin Zushi Bukit Jalil

Japanese restaurant

👍 Be prepared for a long wait when eating during some celebration. A day before Mother's Day saw us (6) waiting 1.5 hours to be seated. Luckily the food was very tasty and my family enjoyed their choices. To the restaurant, please do not use cracked/chipped crockery. To parents with boisterous kids, p...

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4.40 (1.5K reviews)

Yakitori Haki @ Cheras

Japanese restaurant

🫤 Sigh. Traveled more than 20 km to come here, super excited to try this place. Cosy Yakitori place with good selection of items on the menu. I ordered quite a lot, intending to try as much. On the surface its getting me excited. Really wanted to enjoy it but I did not. So here are the issues: - ser...

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4.40 (1K reviews)

Okonomi by Tokyo Don @ Pavilion Kuala Lumpur

Teppanyaki restaurant

👍 There are set menu even on the weekend. The chef is a Japanese, quite some options in the menu but mostly okonomiyaki. Price is average. Let’s just give it a try! Never expected the okonomiyaki could made that great. It was delicious, crusty on the side, the ingredient was the batter with cabbage w...

4.40 (223 reviews)

Yoshinari Japanese Restaurant

Japanese restaurant

👍 Casual no frills restaurant run by a husband and wife team. Expect wholesome simple Japanese fare cooked with decent ingredients and lightly seasoned. Something you would get at your typical neighbourhood Japanese restaurant I suppose. Do not expect omakase like courses similar to those found at upm...

4.40 (187 reviews)

Senya

Izakaya restaurant

👍 This restaurant is famous for Hokkaido pork don, it is very delicious. If can use better Japanese rice, the Don will be perfect! But those fried appetizer are so so. The fried prawn is so oily, the fried salmon skin is oily and soggy. Fried 🐙 is ok. Fried chicken is OK. The bad thing is, it is so s...

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4.30 (1.1K reviews)

Ishin Japanese Dining

Japanese restaurant

👍👍 Wonderful place with Great Japanese food quality and good service. However the restaurant ventilation needs to be upgraded. It smells. The beauty of it being able to witness sushi being prepared in front of you. Being lovely to offer ladies drink for the night.

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4.30 (1K reviews)

牛摩 Wagyu More Malaysia (The Gardens Mall)

Japanese restaurant

👍 Good quality of buffet with great variety. Price around RM48, weekend plus RM3. Excellent service from local Malaysian crew. Can be crowded during lunch and dinner time. Better be early.

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4.30 (933 reviews)

Suki-Ya@Setapak Central

Japanese restaurant

👍👍 Really worth to try, please guys, must order their sukiyaki soup base, is a salty-sweet base soup, and perfectly match with pasteurized eggs dipping, day and night menu will be slightly different(price also), but meat types remain the same (chicken, lamb and beef), I start visit here very often sinc...

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4.30 (750 reviews)

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Top rated Japanese restaurants in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia