Good Japanese food and lots of space, but can be tricky to find inside Industry City. On a random Saturday evening after a group hangout with some friends, we decided to wing it with two of our friends and their kids. We had never been to this restaurant, nor even heard of it, but, after seeing the number of customers come in to dine, we felt extremely fortunate to have gotten a table at 5:30pm on a busy Saturday night. It seems a majority of folks reserved their tables, but we were lucky enough to have been seated immediately as walk-ins. Honestly, on the cold, early evening that it was, this was the PERFECT dinner spot. The restaurants layout was very interesting as there are some tables right by the entrance, then deeper into it. If you walk by the restrooms, there's a whole "modern" section of the restaurant that doesn't even seem like it's part of the restaurant. As for the menu, it was very diverse and quite overwhelming actually. There were numerous Japanese appetizers and entrees consisting of yakitori, vegetables, seafood, meats, noodles, deep-fried dishes - you name the Japanese dish, they had it. Unfortunately, I didn't get to try much of the food, other than what I ordered for myself, since our friends and their kids had their own foods and we had ours, so my review is mostly based on the atmosphere and this one entree, which was the Nabeyaki Udon. The udon came with shrimp tempura, chicken, shiitake, fish cake, chinese cabbage, green scallion and egg. Oddly, the shrimp tempura was fully immersed into the udon soup, so it was very soggy. My preference was to have it on the outside or only partially submerged to keep it crispy at least Nevertheless, the udon was good, especially on this cold, freezing evening. With all that was happening around with our kids and also conversing with our friends, it was sort of challenging to focus on what I was eating, but, one thing I can say is that it hit the spot! Everything was good, not much to complain about other than the soggy tempura. What we did love as well was that the restaurant offered a kids meal set (Okosama) for $10 for kids 5 and under. It included onigiri, vegetables, fruit, kurobuta sausage, chicken karaage and a dorayaki dessert, which my son absolutely DEVOURED. It was a nice hodgepodge of things so that we didn't have to think too much about what to order for our kids. If we're in the area, we would definitely love to give them another shot. Like I said, unfortunately, I didn't get to try enough foods to give a more well rounded review, but nothing about our experience, nor what I observed, would tell me anything other than the fact that this is restaurant that serves very, very good Japanese food that is well deserving of repeat trips.

This is a nice place to sit down and eat in industry city, located right outside of Japan Village. The skewers and fish were pretty good but I've had better. The chicken wings also tasted good but was a bit too salty. My favorite was the salmon ikura mini don, I would come back just for this. The waitress was very nice but service is kind of slow on Saturday.

Yakitori was delicious. Absolutely love the negima and the pumpkin. Wide selection of sake is a plus. They even had the new Dassai Blue. Service was friendly. Ambiance is chill. Not sure why this place doesn't have more good reviews!

I visited with my friend for my birthday. She suggested Wakuwaku as it would fit my interests. As soon as we walked in, the feeling of being in an Izakaya was surrounding us. Seeing an authentic Japanese style tatami area definitely captured the theme. We were seated right away and handed menus. We ordered a lot of small dishes. Kurobuta sausages, karaage chicken, fried octopus, Japanese pickles, and mackerel sushi. The food came out fast (the mackerel took a little while), but did not come at the cost of quality or flavor. Everything was delicious and the fried items weren't oily. Once the mackerel sushi came, we were feeling full. However, the sushi was not heavy. The flavors were light and the real wasabi added a tangy punch to the palate. Overall, this place was fantastic! I will definitely come back again!