Address - Tokyo-to, Shibuya-ku, Jingumae 3-27-17 Teizu Bldg. 2FL Opening hours - Open Lunch and Dinner every day Map - See directions Telephone - 3497-1373 Menu - In Japanese CC - OK

Azuma is fairly elegant, but in a cold, functionalist sort of way, with immaculate steel plates to cook the meat and bare, white walls, but the food is good and interesting, which to me is always important. The seats are few and all around Azuma-san who, wearing a chef's hat, cooks right in front of you. As at Tanuki (see review) watching him work is a delight: his hands fly left and right, preparing dishes in a zip. The meat is extremely tender, juicy and already cubed for you so that you can dip it with your chopsticks in the garlic sauce. They don't have just meat, you can for example have garlic rice with scallops in sea-urchin sauce and other stuff like that. Unfortunately, it's sort of expensive, around 4000 per head, but definitely worth a shot. From Harajuku Station, go down to Laforet, turn left, then almost immediately right into Harajuku Dori, then right again on the last street you find. The sign, the name Azuma (same character as for Higashi) the menu and everything else are only in Japanese.