The dining room with its open kitchen and wooden counter
The dining room with its open kitchen and wooden counter Photo: Narisawa
Narisawa
No. 19of the 100

Innovative Japanese · Minami-Aoyama · Tokyo, Japan

How to book Narisawa

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All tables for the next month open on the 1st of each month at 10:00 Tokyo time on OMAKASE.

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About Narisawa

Narisawa is a restaurant in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, led by chef Yoshihiro Narisawa1,4. It opened in 2003 as Les Créations de Narisawa, one of the first restaurants in Asia to cook only with the produce of a single country6. The Michelin Guide lists it with two stars4, and it was No.21 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 and No.37 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 20265.

The chef calls his cooking "Innovative Satoyama Cuisine", built on satoyama, the culture of Japan's rural villages and the wooded hills around them1,4. Michelin notes the use of traditional crafts such as lacquerware and washi paper and quotes the chef's theme of "coexisting with forests"4. Ingredients come from across Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa8, and the chef checks his producers himself6. In 2013 the restaurant won the first Sustainable Restaurant Award given by the 50 Best organisation5,6.

The format is a single omakase tasting menu that changes daily, served at lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday1,5. The official site lists the course at 68,000 yen, with vegetarian and vegan menus if requested when booking1. The booking page lists 15 seats, for parties of two or more aged 18 and over3. Tables are booked online only, through OMAKASE or Ikyu, with no phone reservations2.

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Pictures

A dish of greens, flowers and moss-like crumbs on a slab of bark-edged wood
A dish of greens, flowers and moss-like crumbs on a slab of bark-edged wood Photo: Narisawa
Tables laid with white cloths in a daylit dining room
Tables laid with white cloths in a daylit dining room Photo: OMAKASE

Sources

Last checked 30 September 2026.

Sources for the description and pictures

  1. narisawa-yoshihiro.com official: Menu - NARISAWA
  2. narisawa-yoshihiro.com official: Reservation - NARISAWA
  3. omakase.in platform: NARISAWA（ナリサワ）のご予約 - OMAKASE
  4. guide.michelin.com guide: NARISAWA – Tokyo - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant
  5. the50.com guide: Narisawa - Tokyo - Restaurant - The 50 Discovery
  6. theworlds50best.com guide: Yoshihiro Narisawa says winning the Chefs' Choice Award in Asia is "even bigger honour" than being No.1
  7. thepeakmagazine.com.sg press: Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa's Singapore pop-up: A taste of Satoyama in the tropics
  8. tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp reference: Nurturing Nature: Expressing Satoyama through Food

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