Restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
Quiet room, serious French, low profile.
A French dinner restaurant in Shirokane, Tokyo, run by chef Shintaro Miyazaki and ranked by Opinionated About Dining in both 2023 and 2025. With a 4.4 Google score across 1,000+ reviews and easy booking relative to Tokyo's more prestigious French addresses, Yung is the practical choice for a food-focused traveller who wants critical credibility without the fanfare of a flagship room.
If you are weighing French dining options in Tokyo, the more obvious names — L'Effervescence, Sézanne, or ESqUISSE — carry more international profile and easier booking infrastructure. Yung, run by chef Shintaro Miyazaki out of a first-floor space in Shirokane, Minato, is the quieter choice: ranked #571 in Opinionated About Dining's Leading Restaurants in Japan for 2025, recommended on the same list in 2023, and carrying a 4.4 Google rating across more than 1,000 reviews. That combination of crowd approval and independent critical recognition makes it worth serious consideration for the food-focused traveller who wants French cooking in Tokyo without the fanfare of a flagship address.
Shirokane is a residential pocket of Minato-ku , quieter than Roppongi, less trafficked than Azabu-Juban. Arriving at a ground-floor venue in this neighbourhood, you are not walking into a destination restaurant that announces itself. The setting is deliberate, and for a certain kind of diner , the one who travels to eat rather than to be seen eating , that restraint is the point. Chef Miyazaki's French orientation places Yung in a competitive bracket that includes Florilège and HOMMAGE, both of which operate at higher price points and carry more structural prestige. Yung's OAD recognition without a Michelin star (at least not listed in the available record) suggests a kitchen that earns its audience through food quality rather than institutional endorsement.
For the explorer type who reads OAD rankings carefully and cross-references crowd consensus with critic lists, a 4.4 across 1,095 Google reviews is meaningful signal. That is not a courtesy rating , at that volume, scores compress toward the mean, and sitting above 4.3 indicates consistent execution rather than occasional brilliance. Across Tokyo's French category, consistency at this level, combined with independent critical placement, puts Yung ahead of most neighbourhood options and competitive with several more prominent addresses.
Yung operates as a dinner-only restaurant , Tuesday through Sunday, 6 to 10 pm, with Mondays closed. There is no public indication of a takeout or delivery offering, and for a French kitchen of this profile, off-premise dining is unlikely to be the intended format. French tasting menus and composed plates are among the formats least suited to delivery: sauces separate, textures degrade, and the sequencing of a multi-course dinner is lost entirely in a box. If you are travelling and considering Yung for an in-room or hotel experience, redirect that expectation. The value here is the room, the sequence, and the service , not portability. For food that genuinely travels, Tokyo's ramen and bento infrastructure is far better suited. Book Yung for the table.
Yung is open for dinner only: Tuesday through Sunday, 6–10 pm. No lunch service is available based on current hours. The Shirokane address , 6 Chome-5-5, 1F, Minato City , is accessible by subway; the neighbourhood sits between Shirokanedai and Hiroo stations on the Namboku and Hibiya lines respectively. Reservations: Booking difficulty is rated easy, which is a relative advantage over harder-to-access French addresses in Tokyo like Château Restaurant Joël Robuchon. Still, for weekend dinners , Friday and Saturday particularly , book at least two to three weeks ahead to secure a preferred time. Dress: No dress code is listed, but given the French cuisine and the Shirokane neighbourhood, smart casual is appropriate. Budget: Price range is not published in the available data; treat this as an undisclosed mid-to-upper tier and confirm directly when booking. Contact: No website or phone is listed in the public record , approach via a reservation platform or in-person inquiry.
See the comparison section below for how Yung sits relative to L'Effervescence, Florilège, and others in Tokyo's French category.
Yung is one data point in a broader Tokyo dining picture. For context on where it fits, see our full Tokyo restaurants guide. If you are building a wider Japan itinerary, French-influenced cooking appears at HAJIME in Osaka, and creative fine dining continues at Gion Sasaki in Kyoto, akordu in Nara, Goh in Fukuoka, 1000 in Yokohama, and 6 in Okinawa. For regional French benchmarks beyond Japan, Les Amis in Singapore and Hotel de Ville Crissier offer useful points of comparison. For the rest of your Tokyo stay, our Tokyo hotels guide, bars guide, wineries guide, and experiences guide cover the full picture.
No bar seating is documented for Yung. The venue is a ground-floor space in a residential Shirokane address, and available information points to a seated dinner format only. If counter dining is your priority, L'Effervescence or Florilège are better-confirmed options in Tokyo's French category.
Yung is dinner-only, Tuesday through Sunday, 6 to 10 pm, with Mondays closed. It sits in Shirokane — quieter and more residential than Roppongi or Azabu-Juban — so factor in travel time from central Tokyo. Chef Shintaro Miyazaki runs a French kitchen that earned OAD recognition in both 2023 and 2025, which signals consistent quality without the international fanfare of Tokyo's headline French names.
Yes, with the right expectations. The Shirokane setting and French format work for an occasion dinner where intimacy matters more than prestige-name recognition. If you want a room your guests will already know, L'Effervescence or Sézanne carry more immediate cachet. Yung suits someone who prefers the meal to do the talking.
No specific dietary accommodation policy is on record for Yung. For any restrictions, check the venue's official channels before booking — this is standard practice at this format of French dinner service in Tokyo, where menus tend to be set rather than a la carte.
For more internationally recognised French dining in Tokyo, L'Effervescence and Florilège both carry stronger award profiles. HOMMAGE offers a comparable neighbourhood-scale approach. If you want to stay in the OAD-listed tier with a similar low-profile format, Yung competes well — but check availability at all three before committing.
Dinner is your only option. Yung operates Tuesday through Sunday, 6 to 10 pm, with no lunch service based on current published hours. There is nothing to weigh here: if you want to eat at Yung, you are booking an evening.
No public booking lead-time data is available for Yung, but OAD-listed French restaurants in Tokyo at this format typically require two to four weeks' notice, more on weekends. No website or phone number is publicly listed, so your best approach is to check the venue's official channels or use a concierge service that handles Tokyo reservations.
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