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Veteran Japanese chef Yasuo Nanaumi opened Akabeko in March 2023 — his first wholly-owned restaurant after a 50-year career in France's greatest kitchens — delivering surprise omakase menus that weave Japanese culture through French gastronomy.

Chef Shinichi Sato — the Japanese master who previously earned 2 Michelin stars at Passage 53 — opened Blanc in 2023 as his personal statement in French cuisine. Awarded 1 Michelin star within a year of opening, Blanc offers refined tasting menus defined by Japanese perfectionism applied to the finest French produce.

The world's first chakaiseki restaurant outside Japan, Chakaiseki Akiyoshi in the 15th arrondissement is a deeply meditative kaiseki experience by Fukuoka-born chef Yuichiro Akiyoshi, who trained for ten years under the 3-star tea ceremony tradition of Kyoto's Hyōtei. Awarded 1 Michelin star just a year after opening in 2023.

Chef Takayuki Honjo distills his training at Astrance (Paris), Mugaritz (Basque Country), and Quintessence (Tokyo) into a ceremony-like tasting experience in a monastic white space holding a Michelin star.

A two-Michelin-starred kaiseki-sushi sanctuary inside Cheval Blanc Paris, Hakuba unites Japanese sushi master Takuya Watanabe with Arnaud Donckele's sauces and Maxime Frédéric's pastry in a breathtaking counter experience.

A serene kaiseki omakase counter in the 8th arrondissement where chef Yoichi Kino and sous-chef Ryuma Takubo serve multi-course menus in an architect-designed space of hinoki wood and tatami. Le Fooding describes the experience as 'seismic Japanese activity' in the heart of Paris.

Chef Shinsuke Nakatani — who spent nine years at Hélène Darroze, three as head chef — applies Japanese exactitude to seasonal French cuisine at this intimate 16-seat Michelin-starred restaurant, open since 2014 in the 7th arrondissement.

World-renowned designer Shinichiro Ogata's Parisian debut in a Marais hôtel particulier, merging a kaiseki-influenced open-kitchen restaurant, traditional tea salon, gallery, and boutique under one roof.

Since 2014, Japanese chef Ryuji Teshima ('Teshi') has refined his vision of French cuisine through a Japanese lens at Pages, earning 1 Michelin star and a place on the World's 50 Best Discovery list. The 'surprise' tasting menus showcase exceptional French produce with Japanese technique — binchotan-grilled wagyu, Norman seafood, Perche poultry.

Chef-owner Atsushi Tanaka — described by Pierre Gagnaire as the 'Picasso of the kitchen' — presents a single seasonal tasting menu at this intimate Michelin-starred table in the heart of the Latin Quarter.

Housed in a 17th-century vaulted cellar steps from Notre-Dame, Sola delivers a Japanese chef's exquisite creative tasting menu that fuses knife-edge Japanese precision with the finest French countryside produce.

Opened in November 2016 steps from the Palais Royal arcades, EnYaa is a refined Japanese-French kaiseki restaurant where Kyoto-trained chef Daisuke Endo marries traditional Japanese technique with the finest seasonal French produce.

Chef Ryuichi Utsumi's intimate tasting menu restaurant inside La Maison du Saké in the 2nd arrondissement bridges Japanese technique and French terroir through a seasonally evolving 5–7 course menu.

Michelin-starred since 2019, Yoshinori is an intimate Saint-Germain table where Japanese chef-owner Yoshinori Morié expresses French gastronomy through a Japanese spirit of precision and seasonality.

On the iconic Quai Voltaire overlooking the Seine, Chef Masayoshi Hanada presents a €350 omakase where each nigiri is elevated to a work of art — a meditative sanctuary of Japanese sushi in dialogue with Paris's art world.

Paris's pioneering Michelin-starred omakase counter, Jin offers just ten seats at a handsome wooden bar where Japanese chefs craft sublime edomae sushi with Hokkaido-sourced fish.

One of Paris's most celebrated sushi counters, L'Abysse pairs Japanese sushi master Yasunari Okazaki with Yannick Alléno's legendary Pavillon Ledoyen to deliver a 2-Michelin-star omakase of rare precision. Opened in 2018 and already a global benchmark for Franco-Japanese haute cuisine.

The only Matsuhisa restaurant in France, located within the luxury Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris, serving Nobu Matsuhisa's globally celebrated Japanese-Peruvian signatures including black cod with miso and wagyu tobanyaki. Executive Chef Emanuele Bombardier, trained by Nobu for over 15 years, leads the kitchen.

Michelin one-star Sushi B seats eight diners at a marble counter overlooking Louvois Square, where a Japanese sushi master delivers a deeply seasonal omakase of flawless nigiri and sashimi.

Sushi Shunei in Montmartre is led by Chizuko Kimura, the first female sushi chef in the world to earn a Michelin star, who carries forward the dream of her late husband Shunei Kimura at this intimate 9-seat hinoki counter. Opened in 2021, the restaurant has regained its 1 Michelin star in 2025 after a brief hiatus.

Chef Tomoyuki Yoshinaga's two-Michelin-star edomae omakase counter seats ten guests for an evening of surgically precise nigiri, house-aged soy sauces, and standout fatty tuna at 27 rue du 4-Septembre.

Founded in 1958 and widely acclaimed as the oldest Japanese restaurant in Paris, Takara is an immersive traditional sanctuary run exclusively by Japanese women, serving pristine omakase sashimi, shabu-shabu, and seasonal Japanese cuisine.

Chef-owner Toyofumi Ôzuru — formerly of Nobu, Meiji, Kinugawa, and Orient Extrême — brings his Japanese culinary pedigree to this intimate sushi and gastronomic restaurant, widely praised as the most accessible Japanese fine dining in Paris.

Founded by Japanese chefs Terutaka Izumi and Nanyo Kurihashi — each with over ten years of French and Japanese culinary training — Totto is an authentic sushiya in the 12th arrondissement where traditional edomae craft meets curated natural-wine pairings. Le Fooding calls the sushi 'seismic activity'.

A serene 20-seat omakase counter in upscale Neuilly-sur-Seine, Yushin is led by chef-owner Shuhei Yamashita (formerly of Kinugawa Vendôme and Ran) and has quickly earned a place in the Michelin Guide since opening in 2022. Lunch menus from €55; omakase from €130.

Named after the celebrated Franco-Japanese painter, Foujita is one of Paris's oldest and most unassuming sushiya — a Japanese-run counter institution quietly serving some of the city's freshest sashimi since 1981.

A small, unclaimed sushi bar on rue Sainte-Anne operated by Tokyo-trained chef Hiroshi — one of the rare genuinely authentic sushi addresses in the Japanese quarter, lauded by Time Out Paris.

Created by Michelin-starred chef Takuya Watanabe, Takuto is a Tokyo fish-market-inspired hand-roll counter on the Rive Gauche, where ikejime-killed, dry-aged fish is wrapped in crisp nori and served with French gastronomic flourishes.

A Michelin Guide-recognised neighbourhood classic near the Louvre, Zen serves authentic Japanese sushi, sashimi, black cod, and house-made mochi — all week long — with attentive Japanese-run service and excellent value.

Chef-owner Koji Aida opened this historic nine-seat teppanyaki omakase counter in 2005, earning France's first-ever Michelin star for a Japanese restaurant in 2008 — a distinction it continues to hold.

Paris's first sumibiyaki restaurant and the only address in France to serve Ito Ranch Matsusaka Beef — Japan's most awarded premium cattle farm. Owned by the Akaneya Group of Japan, the Kyoto-inspired minimalist interior features 11 bespoke charcoal grills at table level.

Osaka-born chef Seiichi Ito brings the refined kushikatsu tradition of Japan's Kitashinchi district to Paris's 11th arrondissement. His Michelin Guide-listed restaurant is the city's definitive address for the art of the deep-fried skewer.

Founded in 2004 by scholar and sake connoisseur Toshiro Kuroda, Workshop Issé combines a curated Japanese sake boutique with an intimate izakaya — now steered by Sumiko Kuroda and celebrated by Le Fooding.

Chef Satoshi Amitsu — honed at Georges Blanc (3★) and Auberge des Templiers (1★) — applies Japanese precision and binchotan grill mastery to a French bistronomic menu in this warmly designed Saint-Germain restaurant.

Born as a street-food truck, Haikara has evolved into one of Paris's most energetic izakayas under Japanese chef-owner Sho Miyashita, blending the informality of a Tokyo back-alley pub with the creativity of Paris's neo-bistronomic scene.

Time Out Paris calls Happa Tei's Osaka-style okonomiyaki and takoyaki the most authentic in Paris — a Japanese-owned spot where a long queue of regulars is the surest recommendation.

Three-Michelin-star chef Yannick Alléno partners with Japanese sake house Dassai (Asahi Shuzo) to deliver a sophisticated interpretation of the izakaya — tempura, sashimi, karaage, and handrolls in a design setting within the Beaupassage courtyard.

The Paris outpost (opened May 2023) of Gyoza Hohei — a Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded Kyoto institution from the Gion quarter — brings legendary small, elegantly crafted grilled gyoza to rue Sainte-Anne.

The izakaya of the Kintaro Group, Naniwa-Ya on rue Sainte-Anne offers a convivial Japanese small-plates experience: maguro yukke, torikara, house soba and udon, and ice-cold sake in a warm, welcoming neighbourhood setting.

The upscale sibling of Kunitoraya, Charbon presents Michelin-listed multi-course omakase menus — featuring Bresse chicken yakitori and seasonal wagashi — in a beautifully preserved vintage Parisian interior.

Global ramen brand Ippudo, founded in Fukuoka in 1985, serves its renowned Shiromaru and Akamaru tonkotsu bowls steps from the Louvre, with house-made noodles and hirata buns.

Ippudo's République location serves the full range of the brand's celebrated tonkotsu ramen in the Canal Saint-Martin neighbourhood, with a spacious room and outdoor seating on place Jacques Bonsergent.

Ippudo's Left Bank outpost brings Fukuoka-origin tonkotsu ramen to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with the brand's signature Shiromaru and Akamaru bowls alongside hirata buns and Japanese small plates.

A long-standing, Japanese-staffed canteen in the 8th arrondissement, Taisho Ken serves honest home-style Japanese cooking — ramen, gyoza, katsudon, tonkatsu — at prices rarely seen this close to the Champs-Élysées.

Paris outpost of Dosanko Corp, the pioneer of Sapporo-style miso ramen since 1961, serving generous, richly flavoured miso and shio ramen on Paris's Japanese quarter street.

The Les Halles outpost of Hakata Choten delivers the same Fukuoka-origin tonkotsu ramen in an extended continuous-service format, convenient to the Marais and Centre Pompidou.

Hakata-style tonkotsu ramen house near Palais Royal, serving Fukuoka-origin pork-bone broth ramen and Japan-award-winning gyoza in a compact, canteen-style setting.

A cult ramen counter near Palais Royal operated by a Japanese chef, famous for its customisable-fat tonkotsu broth and consistently described as the best ramen in Paris.

One of the oldest ramen restaurants on rue Sainte-Anne, Sapporo has been serving authentic shoyu ramen, gyoza, and Japanese home-style cooking to a loyal local and Japanese expat crowd for decades.

Founded by the Shoji Noto family and named one of Michelin's inspector favorites, Yen is Paris's most celebrated Japanese soba specialist — an oasis of authentic handmade buckwheat noodles in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

The izakaya side-project of lauded chef Katsuaki Okiyama (ex-Taillevent, Robuchon, L'Agapé), Abri Soba is a Michelin-listed soba and small-plates counter in the 9th arrondissement. Handmade buckwheat noodles and creative Japanese 'tapas' are the hallmarks of this always-packed neighbourhood gem.

The only handmade udon restaurant in Paris, Kisin uses imported Japanese flour from Kyushu and pure kelp stock with no additives or chemical seasonings. Its Michelin Bib Gourmand, held for eight consecutive years, is the longest such streak for a Japanese restaurant in Paris.

The original Kunitoraya on rue Villédo is the humble birthplace of Paris's udon revolution, where Kōchi-born chef Masafumi Nomoto handcrafts noodles with exceptional elasticity in a New York-bistro-inspired space.

Award-winning patisserie by Japanese chef Mori Yoshida, winner of Le Meilleur Pâtissier 2018, where classic French pastries are reimagined with Japanese finesse. A must-visit address in the 7th arrondissement.

Founded by Japanese author and chef Kaori Endo, Nanashi is a cult Marais bento canteen serving organic Japanese-French fusion in a relaxed, Scandinavian-inflected setting.

The Paris branch of Nodaiwa — Tokyo's 200-year-old, five-generation unagi dynasty — Nodaïwa on rue Saint-Honoré has been introducing French diners to the exquisite art of kabayaki grilled eel since 1996.

A long-established Japanese-owned institution on rue Sainte-Anne combining a prepared-food counter — bento, onigiri, and hot dishes — with a well-stocked Japanese grocery at the back.

A Japanese-run canteen serving classic home-style dishes — ramen, katsudon, tonkatsu, and curry — in an unpretentious setting near the Opéra and Paris's Japanese quarter.

Named for Japan's legendary Sanuki province (present-day Kagawa, Shikoku), Sanukiya is a beloved casual Japanese udon restaurant founded by a Shikoku-born chef — among the most authentic and affordable noodle spots in Paris.

Part of the Japanese-owned Kintaro Group on rue Sainte-Anne, Udon Jubey is a lively casual udon specialist with generous portions, fresh noodles, and a welcoming counter atmosphere.