The hardest reservations in Kyoto, ranked by data
The 16 of 17 Kyoto restaurants we watch with enough data, ranked by how rarely a table opens and how fast.
- 16 Kyoto restaurants ranked
- Last 90 days, refreshed nightly
- How this is ranked
- By days in the last 90 on which any table opened, fewest first; ties go to the faster-vanishing table.
- How much of Kyoto
- Only the 16 of the 17 Kyoto restaurants we watch that have enough data, not the whole city.
- Hardest on our data
- Kikunoi Honten: a table on 4 of the last 90 days, as of November 11, 2026.
The ranking
Fewest days with an open table first. A restaurant near the top had a bookable table on only a few of the last 90 days.
Ranked by bookable time: the share of the last 90 days during which at least one table, for any date and any party size, was open on the public calendar. Least first; ties by how fast the typical table went. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day).
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1
Chisaki OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 14.0 h
- Share of the time
- 0.65%
- Typical table lasts
- about 71 seconds
- Days with a table
- 29
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2
Takeyamachi Mita OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 22.7 h
- Share of the time
- 1.1%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
- Days with a table
- 21
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3
NOMI RESTAURANT OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 4.8 days
- Share of the time
- 5.3%
- Typical table lasts
- about 15 minutes
- Days with a table
- 16
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4
Kikunoi Honten Pocket Concierge
- Bookable time
- 8.2 days
- Share of the time
- 9.2%
- Typical table lasts
- about 24 hours
- Days with a table
- 4
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5
Tominokoji Yamagishi OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 15.4 days
- Share of the time
- 17%
- Days with a table
- 8
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6
Ogata OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 17.1 days
- Share of the time
- 19%
- Typical table lasts
- about 44 minutes
- Days with a table
- 26
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7
Tokuha Motonari OMAKASE, TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 23.6 days
- Share of the time
- 26%
- Typical table lasts
- about 29 minutes
- Days with a table
- 53
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8
Mizai OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- Bookable time
- 24.8 days
- Share of the time
- 28%
- Days with a table
- 11
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9
monk TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 60.8 days
- Share of the time
- 68%
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 hours
- Days with a table
- 71
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10
400℃ PIZZA KYOTO TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 88.3 days
- Share of the time
- 98%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 days
- Days with a table
- 88
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11
Higashiyama Ogata OMAKASE
- Bookable time
- 89.7 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 3 days
- Days with a table
- 69
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12
Niku no Takumi Miyoshi OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- Bookable time
- 89.8 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 40 hours
- Days with a table
- 73
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13
Kiyama Pocket Concierge
- Bookable time
- 89.9 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 3 days
- Days with a table
- 78
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14
Hyotei TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 days
- Days with a table
- 78
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15
cenci TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 days
- Days with a table
- 80
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16
SoNoMa by SingleThread / Capella Kyoto TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 days
- Days with a table
- 71
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17
Kaiseitei Kitayama Honten TableCheck
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 28 days
- Days with a table
- 81
Proprietary data: Table Alert checks each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock; these figures cover the last 90 days, through November 11, 2026, vouched restaurants only, and are refreshed every night.
How to read the table
Read the last two columns together. A low day count with a typical table that lasts minutes means you must be watching the moment it appears. A low day count with a table that lasts days is a restaurant that releases rarely but not frantically.
Kyoto mixes both. Among the three Kyoto restaurants most watched on Table Alert, in the 90 days to November 11, 2026: Tokuha Motonari had a table on 53 days, the typical one lasting about 29 minutes; Chisaki on 29 days, about 71 seconds; Takeyamachi Mita on 21 days, about 2 minutes.
The days count can also mislead. Restaurants that take big parties by phone show nothing on the public calendar for them. Hyotei's TableCheck page, for one, asks groups of six or more to phone.
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For restaurants at the top with a short lasting time, checking the calendar by hand rarely works: the table is taken before you open the page. Set an alert on the restaurant, and have your details ready to book the moment it arrives.
For restaurants lower down, a daily look at the calendar is usually enough. Where a restaurant has a guide, it states the published booking rule.
What is measured, and what is not
We check each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock. We count the days on which any table appeared, and how long the typical table stayed bookable before it was taken.
We do not know a restaurant's intent. We cannot see tables it never puts on the public calendar, such as seats kept for regulars or hotel guests. Only restaurants whose monitoring we can vouch for are included.
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As of November 11, 2026, Kikunoi Honten: a table on only 4 of the last 90 days. Among the most watched, Chisaki and Takeyamachi Mita lose a table in a minute or two. The table ranks the 16 of the 17 restaurants we watch that have enough data.
By the number of days in the last 90 on which any table appeared on the restaurant's public booking calendar. Fewer days is harder. Ties are broken by how fast the typical table was taken.
Not exactly. It means no table showed on the public calendar on most days. A restaurant may still take phone or concierge bookings that never appear there, so the number measures the calendar, not demand.
We watch 17 in Kyoto. The ranking needs a day count, so the 16 with enough clean monitoring appear. It is a sample of Kyoto, not a census.
Every night. The window always covers the most recent 90 days, and the page shows the date its numbers run through: November 11, 2026. A restaurant's rank can move as old days drop out of the window.
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Sources and how this page is made
Written by Jacob, founder of Table Alert. Facts checked against the sources below on November 12, 2026 and re-checked every night, last on . The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night (latest: November 11, 2026). Out of date? Tell us.
- Table Alert monitoring (proprietary)
- Table Alert: Japan restaurants we watch
- TableCheck: Nanzenji Hyotei booking page
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