Tempura is "deep-fried food" in Japanese style. It is one of the most recommendable Japanese food for non-Japanese people. I believe that many people like it, as long as you do not mind food with oil and flour.
If you would like to have tempura food in the least expensive way, it is to get them at supermarkets. They could be also available at any kind of Japanese restaurants. If you want the best and fresh ones prepared by specialists of tempura, it is better to go to a "tempura restaurant".
Typical ingredients for tempura cooking are shrimp, fish, vegetable such as eggplant, Shitake Japanese mushroom, sweet-potato, pumpkin.
Shinohalu in east Ginza, just a block away from famous Kabuki theatre, is a Japanese upscale restaurant specialized in tempura cooking.
It is often featured by TV programe and magazines because of the high reputation for carefylly selected fresh seasonal ingredients cooked by professionals. However the lunch time, it is available at reasonable cost from Yen 1000 to Yen 2000. That is definetly value for money.
One day my lunch was "Zeitaku(lavish) Tendon" (tempura on top of a bowl of rice). It costs less than Yen2000 even with two big pieces of shrimp, a piece of fish, some vegetable tempuras, all freshly-fried in front of me at the counter table.
Restaurant name: Ginza Shinohalu
Address: B1 floor, M & S building 4-13-11 Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo
Website: http://www.ginza-shinohalu.com
Related story: Kakiage (かきあげ）
http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp/blog/2008/08/kakiage-9483.html
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