Why you should experience Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan.
Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya is a convivial Italian restaurant where Dogenzaka's entertainment culture, Neapolitan pizza, wine-bar informality and a long-running Shibuya dining operation converge beside the Scramble Crossing.
Set beneath the Shibuya Ekimae Building near Dogenzaka and just steps from Shibuya 109, the restaurant places an Italian-imported stone oven at the center of a European-inspired underground dining room. Pizza dough combines whole-wheat flour from Ibaraki with Italian wheat before a 48-hour maturation, creating a crisp, aromatic foundation for toppings that range from tomato and mozzarella to burrata, mushrooms and prosciutto. Pasta, antipasti and wine extend dinner beyond the oven without competing with pizza for the center of the table. The result is a Dogenzaka restaurant where long-fermented dough, intense oven heat and an unusually Central Shibuya address turn casual Italian dining into a convincing prelude to an evening around the crossing.
What you should know about Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya.
Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya is best known for beginning in July 2012 on the middle reaches of Dogenzaka before a building redevelopment forced the restaurant into a consequential relocation a decade later. The original De Salita occupied two floors of Shin-Daiso Building No. 2 at Dogenzaka 2-10-7, with the name combining Italian and Spanish words to mean “on the way up the hill,” a direct reference to its original position on Dogenzaka. Operating company IT Plus closed that restaurant on October 10, 2022 as reconstruction of Shin-Daiso Building approached, then reopened De Salita on December 9 inside the Shibuya Ekimae Building at Dogenzaka 2-3-1. The move brought a restaurant conceived around climbing Dogenzaka down to the foot of the same hill, only seconds from the Scramble Crossing, preserving the original name after the geography behind it had changed. The rebuilt kitchen deepened its pizza program around an oven imported from Italy and dough combining Ibaraki whole wheat with Italian flour through 48 hours of maturation. The new dining room subsequently became a screen location for 1122: For a Happy Marriage with Mitsuki Takahata and Masaki Okada, Ensemble starring Haruna Kawaguchi and Turn to Me Mukai-kun starring Eiji Akaso. More than a decade after the 2012 opening, De Salita has moved from a restaurant named for its climb up Dogenzaka into a Scramble Crossing address whose second chapter has joined food, television and Shibuya's continuing reinvention.
Pizza makes the stone oven immediately legible, beginning with dough matured for 48 hours so the Ibaraki whole wheat and Italian flour develop flavor before extreme heat expands the rim and chars its raised edges. Margherita keeps that foundation exposed beneath tomato and cheese, then burrata or mushroom Bismarck adds progressively richer toppings. The same oven changes purpose with French toast, firing the bread at 500 degrees so the exterior crisps quickly around a chewy center, turning equipment associated with pizza toward dessert. Scallop-and-octopus ceviche with lime cream provides a cooler interruption before truffle cream omelette or white-wine-steamed mussels returns the table to warmer, richer cooking. De Salita works best when the oven supplies the meal's recurring pulse, carrying fermented dough, high heat and char through a progression broad enough to make pizza the foundation.
How to fold Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya into your trip.
Italian Pizza & Pasta De Salita Shibuya works as the meal anchor for an afternoon tracing the commercial reinventions that repeatedly redirected fashion, architecture and public life around the western side of Shibuya Station.
Begin at Shibuya 109, opened in April 1979 as Fashion Community 109 after years of negotiations among 60 landowners, with its cylindrical corner helping redirect pedestrian movement from Koen-dori toward Dogenzaka. Continue to Shibuya Parco, whose 1973 debut arrived one month after Seibu Theater and helped build a new cultural axis around fashion and performance before a ¥21.4 billion reconstruction produced the present complex in November 2019. Conclude at Shibuya Sky, opened with the 229.7-meter Shibuya Scramble Square East Tower on November 1, 2019, a project joining Tokyu, JR East and Tokyo Metro with design contributions from Nikken Sekkei, Kengo Kuma and SANAA. The progression moves from 109's redirection of Dogenzaka foot traffic through Parco's fusion of fashion and performance into a new vertical perspective over the station, compressing four decades of Shibuya's commercial reinvention around dinner.
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