Why you should experience In the Garden 135 in Tokyo, Japan.
In the Garden 135 is a relaxed Italian restaurant where Nishi-Shinjuku's high-rise quarter, stone-oven cooking, garden-side dining and chef Katsumi Hashimoto's three decades in professional kitchens converge inside Hotel Rose Garden Shinjuku.
Set along Ome Kaido near Koen-dori and just steps from Shinjuku Central Park, the restaurant occupies the hotel's annex beside a planted garden that separates the dining room from the surrounding office district. An open kitchen keeps pizza baking and char-grilling visible from the tables, giving the restaurant a culinary focus beyond its hotel setting. Stone-oven pizza anchors the Italian menu before pasta, grilled meat and seasonal preparations widen the progression through lunch and dinner. The result is a Nishi-Shinjuku restaurant where fire-driven cooking and a secluded garden soften the hard architectural edges of Tokyo's western business center.
What you should know about In the Garden 135.
In the Garden 135 is best known for bringing chef Katsumi Hashimoto's long career in large-scale hotel and Western cooking into the garden restaurant of the family-owned Hotel Rose Garden Shinjuku. Hashimoto reached deputy-chef level in banquet cooking at Meguro Gajoen in 1996, then moved into another deputy-chef position at Club Lounge in 2001. His career shifted toward Western cuisine in 2016, followed by his arrival at In the Garden 135 as banquet chief in 2020. Hashimoto became the restaurant's head chef in January 2022, placing more than twenty-five years of senior kitchen experience behind its Italian cooking. The restaurant itself belongs to Hotel Rose Garden Shinjuku, founded in 1997, and occupies the first floor of the annex beside the property's garden. The number in its name reaches further into the site: 135 was the street number assigned decades earlier to the ground where the restaurant now stands, preserving an obsolete piece of Nishi-Shinjuku geography inside the contemporary dining room.
Pizza provides the clearest encounter with the open kitchen, entering the dedicated oven until the dough develops a browned exterior around a softer center and the toppings fuse under concentrated heat. Pasta extends the Italian foundation through combinations that change every two weeks at lunch, allowing seasonal ingredients to alter the kitchen's emphasis. Char-grilled cooking pushes dinner toward deeper browning as direct heat concentrates meat and vegetables, giving the fire visible from the dining room a second role beyond pizza. Wine and seasonal cocktails carry those roasted flavors into a slower evening progression beside the garden. In the Garden 135 draws these elements together through heat, freshness and seasonal change, making Hashimoto's kitchen the active center of a restaurant whose name still carries the memory of the site beneath it.
How to fold In the Garden 135 into your trip.
In the Garden 135 works as the meal anchor for an afternoon tracing Nishi-Shinjuku from modern Japanese painting through the creation of Tokyo's skyscraper district and into the civic architecture that redefined the western skyline.
Begin at Sompo Museum of Art, descended from a cultural foundation created in 1976 and distinguished by its acquisition of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers in 1987, a work that became inseparable from the museum's international profile. Continue to Shinjuku Central Park, opened in 1968 before the surrounding Yodobashi purification plant land became Tokyo's principal high-rise business district, preserving a large green space amid the towers that subsequently transformed Nishi-Shinjuku. Conclude at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, completed in 1991 to Kenzo Tange's design after the metropolitan administration moved from Marunouchi, giving the emerging skyscraper quarter a 243-meter governmental centerpiece. The progression moves from private cultural patronage through the landscape inherited from Nishi-Shinjuku's pre-skyscraper era into Tange's grand civic architecture, revealing the forces that remade the district surrounding In the Garden 135.
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