Okinawa Paradise

Unfortunately the Japanese have not mastered teleporation yet, but this is the next best thing: an authentic piece of Okinawa in a nondescript Kabukicho building. Okinawa Paradise is a lovely rough-and-tumble izakaya where Tokyo-based Okinawans mingle with locals over island delicacies such as goya champuru stir-fry and soki soba, all washed down with a glass of Orion beer or a cup of awamori. Stay for the Okinawa-born proprietor’s nightly performance of traditional songs and shamisen-playing, which usually brings the atmosphere to boiling point. This is the kind of place that’ll warm you up through and through, even on the coldest of evenings.