When Tokyo restaurant reservations open
Observed release times for 36 Tokyo restaurants, in Tokyo time, next to the published rules we could verify.
- Observed times, Tokyo time
- OMAKASE, TableCheck, Pocket Concierge
- OMAKASE
- In rounds each restaurant sets. Many counters show new dates daily at about 10:05 to 10:10 AM.
- TableCheck
- Set by each restaurant. Sazenka's Japanese page says 5:00 on the 1st, up to two months ahead.
- Our table
- Shows when new dates were first seen, in Tokyo time, over the last 90 days.
Observed is not the same as published
Table Alert checks each booking calendar around the clock and records when new dates first appear. The times in the table are those observations, in Tokyo time (JST). They are not a restaurant's promise.
An observed time can differ from the published rule. A monthly release is one day in thirty, and dates can also appear on other days. The restaurant's guide on Table Alert states the published rule where we found one.
Published rules we verified
These come from the restaurants' own booking pages. OMAKASE rows come from the archived listing copies named in Sources, dated in each row. Rounds change, so confirm on the listing before you plan around one.
Published booking rules, from each restaurant's own listing or booking page, with the copy date where it is an archived OMAKASE listing.
| Restaurant | Platform | Published rule |
|---|---|---|
| Ginza Shinohara | OMAKASE | Rounds at 00:00 Tokyo time on the 25th (next round September 25, 2025 on the 2025 listing) |
| Sushi Hashimoto | OMAKASE | 12:00 on the 5th every month, for dates to the end of the second following month (2025 listing) |
| Kabuto | OMAKASE | 12:00 on the first Thursday of every even-numbered month (next round August 6, 2026 on the July 2026 copy) |
| Sushi Ryujiro | OMAKASE | Rounds at 14:00 on the 1st (next round September 1, 2025 on the 2025 listing) |
| Ao | OMAKASE | Rounds at 14:10 on the 1st (next round August 1, 2026 on the July 2026 copy) |
| L'Effervescence | OMAKASE | A round at 00:00 (October 15, 2025 on the 2025 listing) |
| Sazenka | TableCheck | 5:00 on the 1st, up to two months ahead, one booking a month (its Japanese TableCheck page) |
| Quintessence | OMAKASE | Three months ahead on the same calendar date; its page also says it is currently experiencing difficulties in accepting reservations |
| Sawada, Kagurazaka Ishikawa, Sushi Namba Hibiya | OMAKASE | No fixed schedule: next round TBD (October 2025, February 2026 and October 2026 copies) |
Sushi Shunji also runs lotteries on OMAKASE, according to Tabelog. Its guide at /restaurants/sushi-shunji explains how to enter.
Where our observation and the rule disagree
Sazenka's Japanese TableCheck page says reservations open at 5:00 on the 1st, but the table below shows Sazenka with no fixed observed time.
Ginza Shinohara's published rule is rounds at 00:00 on the 25th, while we observe new dates daily at 10:40 AM.
Observed release times
Sorted by the time of day new dates appeared. Daily means new dates appeared on most days. Releases seen is how many separate releases we saw, and a row appears only after five.
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).
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BAR CENTIFOLIA TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 12:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 16 days
- Releases seen
- 88
-
Joël Robuchon Restaurant TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 12:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 62 days
- Releases seen
- 114
-
L'Effervescence OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 12:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 61 days
- Releases seen
- 67
-
Kioicho Mitani OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 9:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 89 days
- Releases seen
- 24
-
Quintessence OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 9:35 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 92 days
- Releases seen
- 113
-
Sushi Tokami TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 10:00 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 57 days
- Releases seen
- 76
-
Uwotoku Pocket Concierge, TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 10:00 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 61 days
- Releases seen
- 36
-
Hatano Yoshiki OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge, TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 10:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 86 days
- Releases seen
- 27
-
Sushi Masuda OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 10:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 55 days
- Releases seen
- 10
-
Tomidokoro TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 10:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 31 days
- Releases seen
- 76
-
Ebisu Endo OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 70 days
- Releases seen
- 22
-
Ichikawa OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 55 days
- Releases seen
- 14
-
Kiyota OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 45 days
- Releases seen
- 28
-
Kizaki OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 53 days
- Releases seen
- 17
-
Sugaya OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 46 days
- Releases seen
- 36
-
Sushi Kanesaka OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 81 days
- Releases seen
- 17
-
Sushi Taira OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 10:10 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 49 days
- Releases seen
- 85
-
Sushi Takeru OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:15 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 74 days
- Releases seen
- 30
-
Sangubashi Asaya OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:20 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 1 day
- Releases seen
- 15
-
Ginza Shinohara OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 10:40 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 87 days
- Releases seen
- 47
-
Nihonbashi Kakigaracho Sugita OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 11:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 3 days
- Releases seen
- 10
-
Shinbashi Shimidu TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 12:00 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 31 days
- Releases seen
- 82
-
Sushi Ao OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 12:05 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 56 days
- Releases seen
- 7
-
Sushi Yuki OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 12:05 PM
- How often
- weekly, Monday
- How far ahead
- 13 days
- Releases seen
- 24
-
Tonkatsu Narikura（Minami-Asagaya） OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 12:05 PM
- How often
- weekly, Sunday
- How far ahead
- 14 days
- Releases seen
- 22
-
Kurosaki (Sushi) OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 12:20 PM
- How often
- monthly, on the 1st
- How far ahead
- 56 days
- Releases seen
- 6
-
Tempura Motoyoshi OMAKASE, Pocket Concierge
- New dates appear
- 1:15 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 4 days
- Releases seen
- 25
-
Sushi Ryujiro OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 1:55 PM
- How often
- monthly, on the 1st
- How far ahead
- 57 days
- Releases seen
- 5
-
Toshi OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 2:20 PM
- How often
- weekly, Thursday
- How far ahead
- 4 days
- Releases seen
- 6
-
Tempura Niitome (Azabudai Hills) OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 3:05 PM
- How often
- monthly, on the 6th
- How far ahead
- 51 days
- Releases seen
- 6
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Nihonbashi Kawaguchi OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 4:05 PM
- How often
- monthly, on the 1st
- How far ahead
- 56 days
- Releases seen
- 7
-
Sushi Saito Azabudai OMAKASE
- New dates appear
- 8:35 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 85 days
- Releases seen
- 18
-
BenFiddich TableCheck
- New dates appear
- 11:50 PM
- How often
- monthly, on the 19th
- How far ahead
- 40 days
- Releases seen
- 6
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.
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FAQ
When Tokyo restaurant reservations open: questions people ask
It depends on the restaurant. On OMAKASE each restaurant sets its own rounds, often on a fixed day of the month at a stated hour. The published rules table lists the ones we verified, and the observed table shows when dates really appeared.
No. They are what Table Alert observed on the public booking calendars, in Tokyo time. A restaurant's own page is the published rule, and the restaurant guide on Table Alert says which is which.
Each time is when our check first saw the new dates, so the restaurant may have released them a little earlier. A time such as 12:05 AM means they were first seen just after midnight, in Tokyo time.
Some do. Sazenka opens two months of dinners at a fixed time on the 1st (its Japanese TableCheck page). Others open dates daily, and the table shows what we observed. Each restaurant sets its own rule.
Either it has no fixed release time, or we have not yet seen enough separate releases to state one. The table lists only restaurants where we observed at least five.
A batch of dates a restaurant opens at once, announced on its OMAKASE page as the next round. Each listing shows the current reservation period and when the next round opens, or TBD.
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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.
- OMAKASE: Ginza Shinohara (archived September 2025, 2025 listing)
- OMAKASE: Sushi Hashimoto (archived September 2025, 2025 listing)
- OMAKASE: Kabuto (archived July 2026)
- OMAKASE: Sushi Ryujiro (archived August 2025, 2025 listing)
- OMAKASE: Ao (archived July 2026)
- OMAKASE: L'Effervescence (archived October 2025, 2025 listing)
- OMAKASE: Sawada (archived October 2025, 2025 listing)
- OMAKASE: Kagurazaka Ishikawa (archived February 2026)
- OMAKASE: Sushi Namba Hibiya (archived October 2026)
- TableCheck: Sazenka booking page, Japanese (5:00 on the 1st, two months ahead)
- Quintessence: reservations
- Tabelog (English): Sushi Shunji (lottery on OMAKASE)
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