In shortEdomae-style omakase built almost entirely from Chiba ingredients. You can book it online yourself, or our Tokyo desk can request the table for you.
Price
Omakase ¥30,000 per person, tax included; no service charge
Hours
Dinner only, 17:00–23:00 (Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun and holidays)
Closed
Mondays and Thursdays
Seats
Six at the counter; seven for a private buyout
Payment
Credit cards accepted (Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Amex, Diners, UnionPay); no e-money or QR
Getting there
Keisei Shin-Chiba 3 min; JR Chiba 8 min; Chiba Urban Monorail Shiyakusho-mae 5 min
Dress code
No dress code
Takaoka is the sushi counter that made Chiba a destination in its own
right rather than a suburb of Tokyo’s sushi map. Chiharu Takaoka, a
Chiba native, trained for eight years at a Ginza sushi house before
opening here on 8 October 2013, and built his reputation on a
stubborn idea: that nearly everything on the counter should come
from his home prefecture. Fish arrives directly from fishermen at
Futtsu, Choshi and Funabashi; the rice is grown for him on contracted
paddies in Chiba and cooked with Chiba spring water; the sake list is
Chiba too. In March 2023 he took the counter to Tokyo Midtown Yaesu
under the name Chiba Takaoka, where it earned a Tabelog Sushi TOKYO
Hyakumeiten selection in 2025 — and then, in spring 2025, he brought
it back to Chiba City, a few streets from the original site. Tabelog
gave the Chiba house its Award Silver in 2021 and Bronze in 2026.
What you eat
A single omakase at ¥30,000 including tax, with no service charge —
around two dozen courses running from small plates into nigiri.
Diners single out the horse mackerel (aji), which the master serves in
every season, the cuttlefish (sumi‑ika), and a clam dashi
chawanmushi; a television sushi programme built an episode around his
hamaguri clam and his shari. The exception to the all‑Chiba rule is
sea urchin, which comes from Akkeshi in Hokkaido. The house does not
publish a menu; the course follows what the boats bring in.
The booking reality
This is one of the easier fine sushi counters in the Kanto region to
actually secure, and the reason is structural. The ¥30,000 omakase
is listed for online booking on both Ikyu and TableCheck
(TableCheck adds a non‑refundable ¥390 per person; phone bookings earn
no Ikyu points), and the house also takes reservations by
telephone in Japanese on 043‑306‑6269. There is no release day.
Until a few years ago this was a redial‑hundreds‑of‑times house that opened
each date one month ahead, and older articles still say so; that lore
is out of date. Diners in 2026 report booking a Friday two months out
with seats to spare, and a Saturday with a month’s notice.
The rules that matter: six seats, dinner only, closed Mondays and
Thursdays. Children are not admitted. Cancellation is 100% from
two days before the reservation, and a party unreachable 30 minutes
after its time may be treated as a no‑show. Solo diners have booked
without difficulty; there is no dress code. If you would rather not
navigate the Japanese platforms, our desk books it for you — by
phone, in Japanese — and confirms the date and any allergy
notes with the house.
You can book it online yourself, or our Tokyo desk can request it for you. Request this table →
Go if you
Travelers landing at Narita who want a serious sushi dinner on the
Chiba side rather than a dash into Tokyo; anyone curious what an
“all one prefecture” omakase tastes like; and sushi eaters who have
given up on the contested counters and want a master of this calibre
bookable in a normal planning window.
The house's cancellation charge
From 00:00 JST, 2 days before100%
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.
Takaoka: common questions
Can you book Takaoka from abroad?
Yes. Online on Ikyu or TableCheck, or phone in Japanese; no release day, one to two months' notice is plenty. 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:
Takaoka — Noborito, Chiba City, Chiba — SHOKU NOREN (checked September 2026). https://shokunoren.com/restaurants/takaoka-chiba
