In shortKaiseki — family-run. 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
Single course ¥24,250 (tax & service included)
Hours
Dinner only — one simultaneous seating at 18:30
Closed
Sundays & holidays (plus Golden Week, Obon and New Year)
Seats
14 — counter 8 and one six-seat table (four guests minimum)
Private rooms
None — removed in the 2015 refit
Payment
Cards accepted · the ¥24,250 course includes tax and 5% service
Getting there
Hakushima Stn, Hiroshima — 10 min by taxi from Hiroshima Stn; Osaka is 85 min away by shinkansen
Party size
Solo diners accepted
Dietary needs
Some allergies cannot be accommodated; ask when booking
When Michelin surveyed Hiroshima in 2013 it found exactly one three‑star
restaurant in the city: a fourteen‑seat counter in the quiet Hakushima
district, run by Tetsuo Nakashima and his wife. He trained at the Tsuji
culinary institute in Osaka and apprenticed in an Osaka kappo (a
counter restaurant where the chef cooks in front of you) before coming
home to open this room in November 2006; the guide gave it three stars
in its 2013 Hiroshima edition and again in 2018. It never wanted
the noise.
What you eat
One kaiseki course — Japan’s formal multi‑course dinner — at ¥24,250
with tax and service folded in, changing with the market: a crab
dumpling in clear broth that critics single out above everything,
matsutake mushroom and hamo (pike conger, a summer eel‑like fish) in
autumn’s teapot‑steamed dobin‑mushi, Seto Inland Sea bream in spring, a
closing clay pot of rice. Dishes arrive on Edo- and Taishō-era lacquer
painted with cranes and turtles — the owner’s quiet wish of long life
to his guests. He keeps picture books and a tablet behind the counter
to explain fish to foreign guests; his English is thin, his hospitality
is not. He will call your taxi at the end.
The booking reality
The arithmetic is the whole game: eight counter seats plus one
six‑seat table (parties of four and up only), one simultaneous seating
at 18:30, closed Sundays, holidays, Golden Week, Obon and New Year. The
phone (082‑225‑3977, 12:00–21:00 on open days) is answered in Japanese
only; online, the house uses Pocket Concierge, which has an English
page but works as a waiting list — you register a date and the
concierge confirms if a seat opens. And the fine print bites — cancellation inside two
days is charged, same‑day at 100 percent. A desk that books in
Japanese, reconfirms the day before, and knows what a 18:30 hard start
means for your shinkansen timing removes every one of those failure
points at once.
Travelers doing the Hiroshima–Miyajima pilgrimage who want the evening
to equal the day — and value hunters who understand what ¥24,250 buys at a
family‑run counter of this pedigree.
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.
Kisetsu Ryori Nakashima: common questions
Can you book Kisetsu Ryori Nakashima from abroad?
Yes, through our Tokyo desk. One 18:30 seating, fourteen seats; phone in Japanese (12:00–21:00 on open days), or register your date on Pocket Concierge in English — it works as a waiting list. Same-day cancellation is charged in full. 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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