The best Japanese restaurants in Chinatown, Las Vegas — 3 ranked picks with ratings and must-try dishes.
3 picksChinatown has 3 Japanese restaurants we would send anyone to, ranked here by rating and review depth. Raku sits at the top with 4.3 stars. If you only order one thing, make it the oden at Raku. Most of this list stays under $40 a head. 1 of the 3 take online reservations, and the live availability badge on each card shows what is actually open tonight.
Manhattan's Chinatown still does the things it has always done well, and a newer generation of rooms has opened alongside without displacing them.
Japanese in Chinatown — 4.3 across 2,609 diner reviews
Must-try: Oden, Wagyu Ishiyaki, Grilled Fish
📍 5030 Spring Mountain Rd #2, Las Vegas, NV 89146
Japanese in Chinatown — 4.1 across 1,170 diner reviews
Must-try: Handmade Onigiri, Chicken Omurice, Negitoro Bowl
📍 5020 Spring Mountain Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89146
Japanese in Chinatown — 4 across 3,351 diner reviews
Must-try: Otoro, Grilled A5 Wagyu, Foie Gras
📍 3900 Spring Mountain Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89102
Raku — 4.3 stars across 2,609 reviews, the highest on this list. Japanese in Chinatown — 4.3 across 2,609 diner reviews.
1 of the 3 book online — Raku. The rest are walk-in or phone-only. Each card here shows live availability for tonight where the restaurant publishes it.
The oden at Raku, the handmade onigiri at Chamon and the otoro at Kaiseki Yuzu. Those are the dishes regulars point to first.
Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 2 of the 3 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.