Tempura Shinjuku Tsunahachi

Tempura Shinjuku Tsunahachi is a tempura restaurant brand operated by Kabushiki Kaisha Tsunahachi. According to its official website, the shop was established in the Taishō 13th year (1924) in the Tsunohazu area of Shinjuku, and the company operates 23 restaurant locations nationwide — in Shinjuku, the greater Tokyo area, and also Sapporo, Toyama, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka (as of end of January in the stated year) — plus 3 delicatessen (sōzai) shops in food retail areas. Its corporate credo states the mission of 'customer satisfaction provision' (For Your Dreams) and the motto 'おいしさに真心をそえて'. The company profile page describes Kabushiki Kaisha Tsunahachi as inheriting the noren of the tempura specialty shop 'Tsunahachi' founded by first-generation Shimura Kyūzō in Taishō 13, and lists its registered address in Shinjuku 3-31-8, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, with a head office in Nakano-ku, Tokyo.

The official history page records that in 1918 the businesses 'Café Tsubame' and 'Kappo Tsubame' — handling sushi, tonkatsu and oden shops — opened; in 1922 the tempura shop 'Amihachi' opened, and the shop name spread after 'ami' was misread as 'tsuna'; in 1924 'Tachigui Tempura Tsunahachi' opened. In 1930 Kyūzō and Hatsu married, and in 1931 second-generation Keisuke was born. In 1944 the shop building was demolished due to forced evacuation; in 1945, after the war ended, the shop relocated to its current site through land readjustment, and the family made a living with manjū and shaved ice amid material shortages. In 1948 the shop was rebuilt and the tempura business resumed; in 1950 a limited company (yūgen gaisha) was established; in 1954 second-generation Keisuke joined; in 1958 the main store was renovated with mortar rendering close to its present appearance; in 1964 the first branch, the Shinjuku Station Building store, opened. In 1972 the main store acquired and expanded into the neighboring 'Hakutsuru'; 1974 marked the 50th anniversary; in 1978 four stores including the Shibuya store were transferred to Keisuke's younger brother Sōji, and Shibuya Tsunahachi became a separate company; in 1981 the company was reorganized into a kabushiki kaisha (stock company). In 1991 'Tsonohazuan', described as Tsunahachi's guest house, opened. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tsunahachi kitchen car began operation and Tsonohazuan relocated; 2024 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding. The company profile page states that Kabushiki Kaisha Tsunahachi inherited the noren of the tempura specialty shop 'Tsunahachi' founded by first-generation Shimura Kyūzō in Taishō 13 and has carved out more than ninety years of history devoted to tempura.

A long-established Edo-style tempura specialty chain presenting itself as both inheritor and challenger of Japan's tempura tradition, offering 'the best tempura at reasonable prices'.

• Edo-style tempura

• Tempura and sashimi-centered Japanese cuisine

• Bento (sales temporarily suspended July 1 – September 30)

• Delicatessen (sōzai) items

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