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When Kyoto restaurant reservations open

Observed release times for 10 of the 17 Kyoto restaurants we watch, and how far ahead they book.

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The short answer

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What the times are
The time of day new dates first appeared on the booking calendar, in Kyoto time, over the last 90 days.
Published or observed
Observed by us. A restaurant's own stated rule can differ; its guide on Table Alert gives the published one.

Observed release times

Each row is a Kyoto restaurant where new dates appeared at a steady time, on at least three separate days.

Observed by Table Alert: the time new dates appeared on the booking calendar, local time. The pattern is learned over our full history of a restaurant (up to 16 months), so 'Releases seen' can exceed 90. A restaurant's published rule may differ; the restaurant guide says which. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day).

  1. Kiyama Pocket Concierge
    New dates appear
    11:00 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    87 days
    Releases seen
    11
  2. Kaiseitei Kitayama Honten TableCheck
    New dates appear
    11:05 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    82 days
    Releases seen
    105
  3. SoNoMa by SingleThread / Capella Kyoto TableCheck
    New dates appear
    11:05 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    30 days
    Releases seen
    67
  4. Higashiyama Ogata OMAKASE
    New dates appear
    11:10 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    108 days
    Releases seen
    25
  5. Niku no Takumi Miyoshi OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
    New dates appear
    11:10 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    82 days
    Releases seen
    20
  6. cenci TableCheck
    New dates appear
    11:50 AM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    60 days
    Releases seen
    58
  7. 400℃ PIZZA KYOTO TableCheck
    New dates appear
    12:00 PM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    7 days
    Releases seen
    103
  8. monk TableCheck
    New dates appear
    12:00 PM
    How often
    every day
    How far ahead
    61 days
    Releases seen
    36

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 times

We see a new date when one of our checks does, so the real release is at or shortly before the time shown. Be on the booking page a few minutes early.

How far ahead tells you which date to aim for. For a daily release, the new date is the one at the far end of the calendar.

In Kyoto, the daily releases we see cluster around late morning: Niku no Takumi Miyoshi and Higashiyama Ogata usually around 11:10 AM, as of November 11, 2026, on 20 and 25 observed days. Kikunoi Honten is monthly instead, on the 2nd at about 9:00 AM in the four releases we have seen.

Restaurants not in the table

Most of the Kyoto counters we watch on OMAKASE, such as Chisaki and Takeyamachi Mita, show no fixed time in our data. Their tables appear at no fixed time in our data. For these, an alert is more reliable than a clock.

A restaurant also stays out of the table until we have seen at least three releases, so a new or irregular schedule can be missing.

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When Kyoto restaurant reservations open: questions people ask

It differs by restaurant. Most steady patterns we observe fall between 11:00 AM and noon Kyoto time. Exceptions: Kikunoi Honten monthly at about 9:00 AM, and Hyotei at about 11:35 PM, from only three days observed.

No. They are the times we observed new dates appearing on the public calendar. The restaurant's own published rule, if it has one, is on its guide page and may differ from what we saw.

Either its tables appear at no fixed time in our data, or we have not yet seen three releases. Counters like these are best followed with an alert rather than a clock.

The table's how-far-ahead column shows how many days out the calendar reached when we last read it. It varies a great deal, from about a week at some restaurants to roughly four months at others.

We check each calendar around the clock and note when a new date first appears. A time that repeats on at least three days becomes the restaurant's observed schedule, shown in local time.

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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. The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night (latest: November 11, 2026). Out of date? Tell us.

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