Photograph: Courtesy of Pizza Studio Tamaki

New York’s pizza scene is about to get a very precise new contender. Pizza Studio Tamaki, the Tokyo-based pizzeria that has helped turn Japan into one of the world’s most obsessive pizza capitals, is opening its first U.S. location this spring—right in the East Village.

Before the permanent debut, some New Yorkers will get a tightly controlled preview: a two-night pop-up next week (February 3 and 4) inside the current Moody Tongue Pizza space on St. Marks Place, which Pizza Studio Tamaki will fully take over later this season. Seating will be extremely limited and reservations, which opened this morning, are already full.