While I was in Tokyo, I stopped by Ninja Akasaka for dinner. Located in the shopping center across the street from the Akasaka-Mitsuke station. Ninja Akasaka is a Ninja themed restaraunt, where getting to your table is an interesting experience in itself. Imagine first approaching the restaurant, you are approached by a nicely dressed host/hostess who then summens a ninja that comes swingout out of the top 1/2 of a 2 part door. That ninja then leads you through a series of passages where you are ducking under low beams, climbing up onto platforms, and saying secret keywords to open passages.
Once at the table, we were given a secret code word for our table. This is in the event you get lost inside the restaurant. This can easily happen given all the passages you had to go through to get to your table and the dark setting. Then we were greeted by our cute ninja waitress, Kohana.
The food there is a bit pricy, but it makes up for it in spades with its presentation. Here's a quick and dirty picture dump of the food. Some of the items I liked were: the Escargo Turben Shell bombs where the waitess lit a fuse and it cooks in a flash of flames in front of your very eyes; the crab and grapefruite appetizer served on a sword with smoke coming out of the grapefruit; and the bosai tree shaped ice cream.
At the end of the dinner, you get a nice magic show with a talented ninja (magician). (Sorry, I didn't get any pictures of this)
