3 Best Japanese Restaurants in Canterbury

“Wagamama Canterbury is a chain restaurant with a welcoming atmosphere to serve the most authentic dishes. The restaurant gives you a most pleasant, relaxed, and comfortable experience. Wagamama Canterbury offers Japanese-inspired cuisine with curries, fresh salads, shared sides, and desserts. The restaurant is ideal, with a lively, unique, and friendly setting for an excellent fine dining experience. They can cater to allergy / dietary requirements at their restaurants. They can modify some recipes to remove or replace certain ingredients and try to be as flexible as possible. Wagamama Canterbury offers outside dining, baby facilities, braille menus, induction loops, and magnifying sheets. The restaurant also provides Full wheelchair access on the ground floor. They also have a free wifi connection facility, a kid's menu and vegan dishes.”

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“Tamago is one of the best Japanese restaurants in Canterbury. Tamago quickly established a good reputation on the Canterbury dining scene. The restaurant is the first and best Japanese soul food restaurant in Canterbury. They serve various delicious dishes from izakaya-style small plates and bento boxes. They produce their food in kitchens where allergens are handled by their staff and where equipment and utensils are used for multiple menu items, including those containing allergens. However, your meal is prepared with care. The feel-good combination of Japanese soul food and friendly service makes Tamago popular with Asian students and locals. Tamago offers a casual dining experience, authentic Japanese food, swiftly and smarty executed, with friendly and obliging staff and a clean, stylish environment. They provide dine-in, takeout and home delivery services to customers' preferences.”

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“Happy Samurai is a unique Japanese dining restaurant for the whole family. The Restaurant is quite warm in the seating area upstairs. Happy Samurai is a cosy, traditional Japanese-style booth. Their authentic Japanese family restaurant serves fresh, healthy, and deliciously prepared food. They feature five generations of family recipes. They make dishes that taste the same as those found in Japan. Tonkotsu and Shoyu mix comes with egg, shredded leek, seaweed, beansprouts, bamboo shoots, spring onions, tonkatsu & shoyu mix. If you want to taste amazing Ramen, this is the place for you. They are family-friendly and accept reservations in advance.”

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