Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo Houses Sushi Shin by Miyakawa's First Tokyo Branch

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo's 38th floor houses one of the city's more distinctive sushi rooms in Sushi Shin by Miyakawa, the first Tokyo branch of Hokkaido's three-Michelin-starred Sushi Miyakawa, led by Chef Masaaki Miyakawa. The restaurant is built around a 350-year-old hinoki cypress sushi counter, sourcing daily from Hokkaido and Tokyo's Toyosu market, with sweeping views of Tokyo Skytree from its perch above the city.

One floor below, Signature, the hotel's French restaurant, holds its own Michelin star under Chef Boujema, giving the hotel two genuinely distinct fine-dining identities within a few floors of each other, one rooted in Hokkaido's sushi tradition, the other in French technique applied at altitude over Nihonbashi.

Bringing a three-Michelin-starred Hokkaido sushi restaurant to Tokyo for the first time, specifically inside a hotel rather than as a standalone restaurant, is a genuinely significant move for both the restaurant and the hotel. For travelers who know Sushi Miyakawa's reputation from Hokkaido, Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo now offers the closest thing to that experience without leaving the capital.

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