Today is dinner with a Spanish friend who has come to Japan for work for the first time in five years. I also wanted to enjoy "Wahoku", which became a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Property, so I visited "Tempura Abe" in Ginza 4-chome. The shop was located on the first basement floor of a food and beverage building that stands quietly north of Ginza Brick Street from Harumi-dori St., which is crowded. 
When you get off the elevator and enter inside, it changes completely and bright atmosphere. There is also a table seat in the foreground, but the main one is a counter where 12 people can sit. Immediately after celebrating the reunion with a friend and toasting with beer, Mr. Abe, the owner himself, showed me the ingredients that were filled with, and fried one by one in front of him.
Starting from Saimaki shrimp, lotus root, pumpkin, small pillar, pea, maitake. 。 。 The combination of tempura, German rock salt and French sea salt is also unique.
At the counter, you can put the freshly fried food on the plate immediately, and enjoy conversations with the shopkeeper, and feel like you're getting tempura at a stall tripping into the city of Edo rather than Ginza!
[Hoegatasai "Edo Modern Artist Zou-maki" (collected by the Tokyo National Museum)]
Not only the crispy tempura texture, but also the dessert where mini sea bream-yaki tempura and iced coffee whipped with a tea whisk are served, as expected, Abe has been fried tempura for 30 years at "Japanese cuisine Nadaman". It's like hospitality. It was a night when I enjoyed the food of Edo.
[Ginza Tempura Abe]
〒104-0061 B1F, Subaru Building 4-3-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
TEL: 03-6228-6077
Business hours Dinner 1700-2100 (lunch is also available)
