In shortShippoku — Nagasaki's Japanese-Chinese-Dutch banquet cuisine — in the city's oldest ryotei, founded 1813. Reservations run in Japanese and are hard to place from abroad, so our Tokyo desk requests the table for you, by phone and in Japanese.
Price
Shippoku courses ¥13,200–23,760 at lunch, ¥19,800–23,760 at dinner, tax and service included; lunch-only himeju shippoku ¥6,050
Hours
Lunch 11:30–13:30; dinner 17:00–19:30 (entry)
Closed
Irregular; confirmed when booking
Seats
Private rooms only — eight in use — plus a hall for up to 100; chair seating on request
Payment
Lunch cash only; dinner cash or cards; cancellation 100% on the day or for a reduced party
Getting there
Shiyakusho tram stop, 5 minutes on foot; 7 minutes by taxi from Nagasaki station; near Meganebashi
Party size
No solo diners
Shippoku is the dish Nagasaki invented for itself: a round table, a
lacquered spread of Japanese, Chinese and Dutch‑influenced plates
shared with one’s own chopsticks, opened by the hostess’s formal
greeting and a clear soup of sea‑bream fin, closed with sweet
red‑bean soup. Ichiriki has been serving it on Teramachi street
since 1813 — the oldest ryotei in the city, by the house’s account,
and the room where, in the last years of the shogunate, Takasugi
Shinsaku, Inoue Kaoru and Sakamoto Ryoma argued about the country’s
future over its table. It survives as a working restaurant rather
than a museum: all private rooms, eight of them in use today, a hall
that seats a hundred, and a garden that the rooms look onto.
What you eat
The full shippoku procession: the ohire soup and the toast that
follows it, sashimi, the braised pork belly the city calls tobani,
hatoshi (shrimp paste fried between bread), whale, karasumi,
seasonal fish and vegetables, and finally the oshiruko that tells
you the meal is over. Lunch courses are ¥13,200, ¥15,840, ¥19,800 and
¥23,760; dinner ¥19,800 or ¥23,760; every price includes tax and
service. A kaiseki of Nagasaki’s seasonal fish is offered at the
same prices. At lunch only, the himeju shippoku at ¥6,050 packs
the essentials, sashimi and oshiruko included, into a lacquered box
— the reviewers’ favourite for a first encounter. A children’s
shippoku exists. Socks are required; bare feet are not admitted.
The booking reality
Telephone, in Japanese, at 095‑824‑0226 — the house also lists
an email address — and nothing else: no booking sites, no online
calendar. Every course is reservation‑only, and the arithmetic is on
your side: a shippoku table takes two to seven guests, kaiseki two or
more, and with eight private rooms and a great hall the book is
rarely full. One reviewer secured a Golden Week table with two weeks’
notice; another was kept when a delayed flight made them an hour
late. Our desk calls the house in Japanese, settles the course and
the room, and confirms the day’s operating schedule, since closures
are irregular.
The terms to respect: lunch is cash only (dinner takes cards), and
cancellation on the day, or a smaller party than booked, is charged
in full — the house buys and prepares days ahead. Every published
course is for two or more, so a solo traveler should ask about the
himeju lunch rather than assume. The house does not publish a dress
code beyond the socks.
Travelers with one night in Nagasaki who want the city’s signature
cuisine in the room that has served it longest, and anyone who has
found the more famous shippoku house booked and would like the older
one instead.
Free release-date alerts: the day before, on the morning of release day (08:00 JST) and about 30 minutes before when the time is known — or a weekly summary if the house opens a little every day.
Ryotei Ichiriki: common questions
Can you book Ryotei Ichiriki from abroad?
Yes, through our Tokyo desk. Phone in Japanese or email; no release day, no booking sites — a couple of weeks' notice is usually enough. We call the restaurant for you, in Japanese, and the ¥6,000-per-seat fee is charged only if we confirm your table — no seat, no fee.
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Facts on this page were checked by our Tokyo desk. You are welcome to quote them with a link:
Ryotei Ichiriki — Suwamachi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki — SHOKU NOREN (checked September 2026). https://shokunoren.com/restaurants/ichiriki-nagasaki
