Why you should experience Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.
Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo is an exuberant sushi restaurant where Yoyogi's metropolitan polish, railway culture, hotel dining tradition and appetite for unconventional luxury meet Kazuhiro Kakida's promise of premium sushi.
Set within Odakyu Hotel Century Southern Tower near Koshu Kaido and just steps from Shinjuku Southern Terrace, Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo turns the nineteenth floor into a high-rise counterpoint to the trains, offices and department stores moving beneath southern Shinjuku. Tokyo views establish the scale before the first course, yet the restaurant resists the solemnity associated with expensive omakase through a format built around abundance and direct interaction with the chefs. Counter service retains the theater of individually formed nigiri while table seating opens the concept to larger groups, giving Kakida unusual breadth for a restaurant operating at this price level. The result is a sushi restaurant where Yoyogi's metropolitan altitude meets a rebellious approach to luxury built around letting diners ask for another piece.
What you should know about Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo.
Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo is best known for Kazuhiro Kakida turning seafood bowls prepared as staff meals at recruitment company Unipotential into a restaurant business, opening the original Yurakucho Kakida on July 9, 2022 before teaching himself nigiri and adding sushi the following month. Demand accelerated rapidly, and a crowdfunding campaign launched in November 2022 for the next restaurant crossed its ¥1 million target on its first day, reaching ¥40 million and then ¥43 million to establish a Japanese record for an individual restaurant crowdfunding campaign at the time. Kakida opened his second sushi restaurant on January 23, 2023, then moved the operation from its earlier address to the nineteenth floor of Odakyu Hotel Century Southern Tower, where the current restaurant accommodates 140 diners. His governing concept has remained unusually direct: serve expensive seafood at a price that encourages abundance, now expressed through whole bluefin tuna purchasing, omakase courses and complimentary sushi refills after the prescribed experience.
Whole bluefin tuna gives the current menu its culinary center, allowing akami, chutoro and otoro to move through successive levels of fat before diners decide which nigiri deserves another round. The omakase establishes the initial sequence through seafood, sushi and other prepared dishes, after which the counter format permits complimentary additional nigiri within the restaurant's service rules. Uni and richer tuna cuts push the refill portion toward ingredients conventionally rationed within high-end omakase, converting Kakida's promise of eating premium sushi until satisfied into the restaurant's clearest departure from established luxury-sushi economics. Japanese sake, wine and Champagne broaden the evening around the fish, but the meal reaches its strongest point when the prescribed course ends and personal preference takes control of the remaining nigiri order.
How to fold Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo into your trip.
Sushi Yurakucho Kakida Tokyo works as the dinner anchor for an afternoon connecting Japanese fashion, imperial horticulture and Tokyo's skyscraper ambitions across the southern and western edges of Shinjuku.
Begin at Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum, founded in 1979 from Bunka Gakuen's collection, where Japanese dress joins garments from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas to establish fashion as a serious record of technique, material and cultural exchange. Continue to Shinjuku Gyoen, whose grounds passed from the Naito family estate to an agricultural experimental station before Hayato Fukuba and French landscape architect Henri Martinet shaped the imperial garden completed in 1906. Conclude at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Kenzo Tange's 1991 twin-towered complex, where granite geometry and observation floors above 200 meters provide the sequence's strongest architectural climax before dinner beneath the southern Shinjuku skyline. Bunka Gakuen's study of dress, Fukuba and Martinet's garden and Tange's metropolitan architecture chart three forms of Tokyo ambition before Kakida closes the route with his own challenge to the conventions surrounding luxury sushi.
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