11 Best Japanese Restaurants near Leesburg

“Great food, good service…“

“We thoroughly enjoyed our dinner meal. As always, the chef was masterfully entertaining 🔪🔥— The food was fantastic‼️“

“Yummy… love their presentation and fresh food!“

“I will never eat Pho again! Can't say enough about this place - big fan forever! Annie was attentive and kind as our server and the food was outstanding. Do yourself a favor and give this place a try!“

“The best! They get their salmon fresh everyday and you can tell. Watch the sushi chefs - 6 guys behind the bar working constantly when they are busy. All of their food tastes so fresh and tasty. And their cocktails are delicious! Staff is generally super fast. I eat a lot of sushi and this is by far my favorite place!“

“Outstanding sushi, salad, soup and tempura. Great and attentive service. Akira Sushi hits the ball out of the park.“

“Had an excellent time here. Staff was very nice and attentive. The food was also excellent. We had the seared salmon appetizer which was incredible. We also did the sushi platter for 2. Seems like great value and the quality was great. Will be coming back!“

“This restaurant has been fabulous to myself and my boyfriend. We truly love them.“

“Very good! 4 stars!!! Was nice to get out of the house and dine-in once in a while. Introduced the kiddos to sushi & they really liked it!“

“First time here but definitely not the last.Had a great experience throughout my dining experience.The friendly staff and atmosphere make the dining experience even more enjoyable.we will definitely be coming back to eat again 🥰Thanks to the staff and the owner.l strongly recommend this restaurant 🌹“

“For years I would occasionally go on what was basically a George Costanza-style rant to friends about Japanese steakhouses.

I LOVE the food. Steak and chicken, fried rice, vegetables, soup, salad with peanut dressing, ginger sauce, yum yum sauce... give me all of it.

But do I really need the entire show every single time I want that meal?

And what if I’m by myself? I have absolutely no problem eating alone at a normal restaurant, but something about walking into a Japanese steakhouse and saying “table for one” while everyone is gathered around a hibachi grill for the whole dinner-and-a-show experience always seemed extraordinarily awkward to me.

There was another part of my completely unnecessary rant too.

At a traditional Japanese steakhouse, everything gets cooked and added to your plate at different times. I always felt weird eating each individual part as it arrived, so I would usually wait until most of my plate was assembled before really starting. By then, half the people I was with were halfway through dinner or sometimes practically finished. 😂

Basically, I wanted someone to give me the Japanese steakhouse meal I loved, cook the whole thing in the kitchen, put it all on a plate at the same time, and bring it to me like a normal restaurant.

Then Okada showed up in One Loudoun and basically answered my oddly specific request.

Steak and chicken, fried rice, vegetables, soup, salad, all the sauces I wanted. Everything comes out hot together on an actual plate. No waiting for the next ingredient. No theatrics required. And because you aren’t paying for the whole hibachi-show experience, it also made it somewhere I could eat much more regularly.

It quickly became one of my go-to restaurants.

The other huge advantage is that it isn’t just a place for people who want hibachi-style meals. I could bring friends or family who wanted sushi or other Asian dishes and everybody could get what they actually wanted while I happily ordered essentially the same steakhouse meal again.

I also have one very specific memory of eating here that I’ll probably never forget. I once came in at the end of a five-day water fast. Five full days with nothing but water, so by the time I finally ate again it felt like my entire palate had been completely reset.

And this was the meal I chose to break the fast with.

Steak and chicken, fried rice, vegetables, soup, salad, ginger sauce, all of it coming out hot together on the same plate.

It was absolutely magical. 😂

Maybe anything would have tasted pretty incredible after five days of not eating, but I already knew this meal well before the fast, and experiencing it with what basically felt like a brand-new set of taste buds somehow made me appreciate just how good it actually was even more. I can still remember that meal years later.

I ate here regularly when I lived nearby, and what started as “someone finally made the exact restaurant I’ve been ranting should exist” turned into one of my favorite places to eat in Ashburn / Leesburg / Sterling.

If you love Japanese steakhouse food but don’t necessarily need somebody flipping shrimp into their hat every time you want it, this place gets it.

Five stars.“