Once you know where you are going that day, check in advance whether there is somewhere nearby to pray. It saves you hunting around when you get there.
This article lists the prayer spaces in Tokyo that appear on Halal Gourmet Japan, grouped by the areas visitors go to most, and points you to places to eat.
Each listing gives the location, the floor, and whether wudu facilities are available. The rules for using them differ from place to place, so please check the listing before you set out.
Mosques and prayer spaces are listed separately
Halal Gourmet Japan keeps two separate lists.
What follows is the second kind: prayer spaces set aside inside shopping complexes, stations, hotels, and similar buildings.
Shibuya
The Seibu Shibuya listing notes that the prayer space and the wudu facilities are on different floors.
Tokyo Station, Marunouchi and Ginza
- JR Tokyo Station
- JNTO Tourist Information Center (Marunouchi)
- TRAVEL HUB MIX (Otemachi)
- Matsuya Ginza
Handy before a Shinkansen departure, or on the way out to Narita or Haneda. For the journey between the airports and the city, see From Narita or Haneda into Central Tokyo.
Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree
Sightseeing here tends to run long, so it helps to know where these are in advance.
Harajuku
All three are in Jingumae.
Roppongi and Azabudai
Odaiba, Toyosu and Ariake
- DECKS Tokyo Beach
- Ariake Garden
- Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai, 2F prayer space
- Tokyo Big Sight Visitor & Business Center
If you are at Tokyo Big Sight for a trade show, Ariake Garden is in the same district and gives you a second option.
Haneda Airport
There are prayer spaces inside the terminals.
- Terminal 2, 3rd Floor International Departure Lobby
- Terminal 3, 3rd Floor Departure Lobby
- Terminal 2, 2nd Floor, International Post-Security Area
The third one is past security, so it is the one to remember once you have checked in.
There are also prayer spaces in the complexes next to the terminals.
Elsewhere in Tokyo
- Tokyo Dome City Prayer Room (Suidobashi)
- Prayer Room THE LINKPILLAR1 SOUTH 1F (Takanawa)
- Prayer Room-2F Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba (Hamamatsucho)
- Prayer Room Grandberry Park (Minami-machida)
Hotels, universities and hospitals with prayer spaces are listed too. You will find them all on the prayer spaces in Tokyo list.
Finding somewhere to eat by cuisine
Once you know where you will pray, the next question is where to eat. Listings across Tokyo are grouped by cuisine.
If you have not settled on a cuisine, start from the Tokyo restaurant list. If you would rather eat somewhere with a prayer space on site, see restaurants with a prayer space. Praying and eating in one place means one less trip across town.
Before you set out
Listing details can change without notice. Please check the opening times and conditions on the linked page and on the signs at the site itself.
Each listing page describes that restaurant’s halal arrangements — certification, ingredients, kitchen practice, and so on. Please read the listing and decide whether the restaurant meets your own standards.
To wrap up
What is above is a selection. If your destination is not on the list, the full prayer spaces in Tokyo page will have it, and it may be the quicker thing to keep bookmarked while you are here.
For getting around Tokyo itself, see Getting Around Tokyo by Train, and for the trip in from the airport, From Narita or Haneda into Central Tokyo. Have a good trip.
Image credits
- Featured image (Tokyo Camii): photo by Guilhem Vellut / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
This article was written by the Halal Gourmet Japan team. On Halal Gourmet Japan, you can search for halal-friendly restaurants and prayer spaces all over Japan. The service is also available as an app (iOS / Android).
After seeing his Muslim friends struggle to dine out in Japan, he founded Halal Gourmet Japan, a restaurant search service for Muslims, and has been running it for more than a decade since its launch in 2014. He also co-founded Food Diversity Inc. (formerly Halal Media Japan; he has since stepped down), and has deep expertise in halal support for restaurants and Muslim-oriented inbound tourism. Halal Gourmet Japan is one of Japan’s largest halal-friendly restaurant search services, used in more than 140 countries, introducing halal-friendly restaurants and prayer spaces across Japan in multiple languages.
