Fresh tempura with the finest ingredients and a great chef, you don\t want to miss this place. Small tempura bar and the chef worked very hard to communicate in english to us what we were eating. Wonderful service and the food was over the top great!

The meal was wonderful! I chose the higher price set dinner. The chef, Mr. Inoue, spoke a little bit of English, mainly names of the food he was serving, supplemented by his English dictionary for Japanese food. I arrived early, ahead of other customers. They open for dinner at 5 PM. This led to my having Inoue-san\s full attention. He explained each item he presented to me. I was served soup, beautifully presented sashimi, shrimp, mushroom, salad, gobo, lotus root, turnip soup, thin slices chestnut fried like potato chips, tofu, gingko nuts, fish, pepper, sweet potato, kabo squash, tempura vegetables over rice, and a lemon sorbet. Everything was prepared with a professional care and style. It had to look good on the plate, as well as taste good. It was an unforgettable meal. Finding the restaurant was a challenge. The name, kitamura, is written in hiragana (phonetic alphabet), rather than kanji (the more complicated Chinese characters). The restaurant is down a narrow hall from the Pontocho walk. Look for the better lit and better signed Harukami restaurant (written in kanji, where the haru is the character for spring). It is to the immediate right of that. Hope you find it and enjoy the meal.