The maker

One pair of hands.

Chef Sato apprenticed eleven years behind a Ginza counter before coming home to Otaru. He wanted a room small enough that no roll would ever wait — ten seats was the answer.

Experience the film →
The itamae in an indigo samue breaking down a whole salmon at dawn behind the counter

Nothing sleeps here.

We buy at dawn, break down by ten, serve by five. The distance from the auction floor to the counter is four streets.

4

streets from the dawn auction to the counter

12

seconds from the itamae’s hand to yours

10

seats, so the chef sees every plate land

A small ceramic cup of hojicha, steam curling upward

The pace is the hospitality.

There is no music and no menu on the table. Hojicha is poured when your cup is low, the next roll arrives when the last one is finished, and dinner ends when the paper says it does. Guests call it quiet. We call it attention.

Sit with us, nightly.

Seatings 17:30 and 20:00 · Closed Mondays