In shortFrench built around the wines of Sadoya, a Kofu winery founded in 1917, with Yamanashi produce. You can book it online yourself, or our Tokyo desk can request the table for you.
Price
Lunch courses ¥3,630–6,600; dinner courses ¥6,600–15,400; all tax included
Tuesdays (open when Tuesday is a holiday) and at New Year
Seats
Forty in the main dining room, plus a ten-seat private room upstairs
Payment
Cards (Visa, Master, JCB, Amex, Diners and others), transport IC, WAON, UnionPay, PayPay
Getting there
JR Kofu, north exit, about five minutes on foot; free parking for seventy cars
Sadoya has been making wine in Kofu since 1917, and its grounds — a
short walk from the north exit of Kofu station — hold the winery,
a chapel, and a French restaurant the house calls Real d’Or. The
main dining room is designed after a Provençal residence and opens
onto a garden terrace; the kitchen’s stated purpose is to cook for
the winery’s own bottles, using produce from Yamanashi and the
surrounding region. The head chef since 2025, Shigeru Ichinose,
learned his fundamentals at Chez Ino in Tokyo and then cooked in Los
Angeles and San Francisco before joining Sadoya’s parent company in
2024. His own stated obsession is temperature: each ingredient
cooked at the heat that suits it, and each plate served at the
temperature it was meant for.
What you eat
Lunch is a choice‑menu that changes monthly: a short course at
¥3,630 (appetiser, fish or meat, dessert), a petit course at
¥4,400 with soup added, and a chef’s course at ¥6,600 that
takes both the fish and the meat. Dinner climbs through four fixed
courses — Provence at ¥6,600, Marseille at ¥8,800, Nice at
¥12,100 with two appetisers, fish, meat and dessert, and the
Spécialité at ¥15,400, a chef’s omakase on premium ingredients.
Any course can swap its main for a red‑wine‑braised Japanese beef
cheek for ¥2,200. Prices include tax; the house does not publish a
service charge. The wine list is Sadoya’s own, around eighty labels
with fifteen by the glass. Children are welcome, and a children’s
plate exists at ¥1,650.
The booking reality
This is one of the easy ones. The house takes bookings through its
own online form, through TableCheck and Ikyu, and by telephone in
Japanese on 055‑288‑8723. There is no release day. The rules that
matter are about dinner: it is reservation‑only, the book
closes at 20:00 the previous day (two days before for Sundays
and holidays), and the house will not hold a table without a course
— you choose your menu when you book. On Wednesdays, Sundays and
holidays, the kitchen may close dinner bookings earlier still
because it has to buy. Cancellation charges begin two days before;
Ikyu lists same‑day cancellation at 100%.
Lunch is more relaxed but not casual: recent guests report a full
room on a weekday lunch, and the house posts weekend lunch
availability on its news page because those dates go. Note that the
online form is a request, not a confirmation — replies sent after
19:00 on a Monday come back on Wednesday, after the Tuesday closure.
For guests abroad, the simplest route is to let our desk call in
Japanese, fix the course, and confirm the private room if you want
it (¥10,000 plus tax).
You can book it online yourself, or our Tokyo desk can request it for you. Request this table →
Go if you
Travelers overnighting in Kofu on the way to the Koshu wineries or
Mt. Fuji who want a proper French dinner they can reach on foot from
the station; wine‑minded couples who would rather taste one
winery’s range with food than tour a tasting bar; and families, who
are genuinely welcome here.
The house's cancellation charge
Same day, with notice100%
Same day, no notice (no-show)100%
Charged by the house, not by us. A plan's own policy takes precedence.
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.
Sadoya Restaurant Real d'Or: common questions
Can you book Sadoya Restaurant Real d'Or from abroad?
Yes. Online (official form, TableCheck, Ikyu) or by phone in Japanese; dinner closes at 20:00 the day before. You can book online yourself, or our Tokyo desk can request the table for you; our ¥6,000-per-seat fee is charged only if we confirm your table.
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Cite this page
Facts on this page were checked by our Tokyo desk. You are welcome to quote them with a link:
Sadoya Restaurant Real d'Or — Kitaguchi, Kofu, Yamanashi — SHOKU NOREN (checked September 2026). https://shokunoren.com/restaurants/real-dor-kofu
