Japanese Restaurant Tanryu

27,830 JPY 〜
/ Guest
27,830 JPY 〜
/ Guest

A Japanese restaurant in Himeji City offering simple dishes without any twist to celebrate the bounty of nature in Banshu, Hyogo Prefecture

An eight-minute walk from Himeji Station, Tanryu is surrounded by attractions of Himeji, including Himeji Castle within walking distance. Helmed by Chef Hisafumi Nakae, Tanryu offers Japanese dishes featuring local ingredients from Banshu, Hyogo Prefecture.

Hailing from Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture, Chef Nakae honed his cooking skills at Japanese restaurants in Australia and Dubai to start his culinary career and then returned to Japan to learn Japanese cuisine all over again from ingredients to tableware. He started serving as a chef at Ginza Kojyu. After working at this two-star restaurant for five and a half years, he returned to his home prefecture with an eye toward opening his own restaurant. He further honed his skills at hotels and Japanese inns and even worked as a brewer at Okada Honke, a Japanese sake brewery, in Kakogawa City to learn more about sake for his future career. Then, he finally opened his own restaurant, Tanryu, in 2019.
The restaurant’s name, Tanryu, is derived from the concept of “smoothly flowing like water” as proposed by the Omote Senke School of Tea Ceremony, where the chef is engaged as an instructor. As indicated by its name, the restaurant offers simple dishes without any twist or flashy performance to make diners feel like coming back again and again.
Featuring seafood and vegetables mostly sourced from local waters and farms, the dishes tell stories learned from producers the chef knows in person. He also drives two hours every morning to fetch sweetfish from contract fishermen in the Ibo River during the fishing season. In addition, he collects edible wild plants as well as bamboo shoots by himself. “I would like to purchase a bamboo forest someday to offer guests bamboo shoots I grow by myself,” the chef says.
Chef Nakae sources wild abalone from Ako, eels from the Chikusa River, and watershields from Sanda, as well as Japanese chestnuts from Sanda and swimming crabs from Setouchi in autumn. These seasonal ingredients are simply grilled, steamed, stewed, and turned into the chef’s specialties. Tanryu also offers a 10-course prix-fixe (fixed-price) menu inspired by the spirit of the tea ceremony. The meal starts with one to two appetizers, followed by soup, sashimi, and grill courses and a bowl of rice, and ends with a bowl of matcha tea made by Chef Nakae right in front of the guests.
The drink menu offers Japanese sake, all from breweries in Banshu, including Seiten from Okada Honke. As a former brewer working there, he describes the sake by saying, “It is a must-try that reflects the kind character of the chief brewer,” the chef recommends.

In the sukiya-style (tea-ceremony room) dining room with Juraku (grey wall covering) walls and a bamboo wickerwork ceiling, there is an eye-catching L-shaped counter (seating up to eight guests) made of Yoshino hinoki cypress. The tableware is also carefully selected, including long-cherished plates crafted by Mr. Akinori Bonde, a ceramicist secluded in the mountains in Kazusa, Chiba Prefecture. With a comfy private dining room (seating up to six guests), Tanryu is perfect for different occasions. Please enjoy excellent dishes and beautiful tableware at Tanryu with your family, partner, colleagues, and gastronomic friends.

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10 minutes walk from Himeji Station

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Recommendation(5)

  • 60's

    Date of Visit: 6/2023
    細かいところまで目が行き届いていて、おもてなしの心が素晴らしいと思いました。言うまでもなく、料理は、本当に素晴らしかった。 また、伺いたいお店です。
    Number of visits: OnePurpose: Anniversary
  • 40's

    Date of Visit: 4/2023
    最高のお料理でした!大将自ら山へ赴き、筍や山菜を採るなど、食材に対してとても情熱を注いでおられます。一品一品いただくたびに、本当に感動致しました。また、中江大将ご夫妻の素晴らしいお人柄で、至福のひとときを過ごすことができました。ありがとうございました!また次回もよろしくお願い致します。
    Number of visits: 2+Purpose: Other
  • 50's

    Date of Visit: 3/2023
    中江シェフのお人柄がよく、お話ししやすく、舌鼓をうちながら楽しい時間を過ごさせていただきました。また淡流さんにお伺いするために姫路に行きたいと思います。 これからを楽しみにしております。
    Number of visits: OnePurpose: Date

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Courses

Lunch
Omakase Course
27,830 JPY / Guest
Dinner
Omakase Course
27,830 JPY / Guest

Information

Name

Japanese Restaurant Tanryu [日本料理 淡流(たんりゅう) ]

Cuisine Type

Japanese, Kaiseki, Washoku

Opening hours

Lunch:12:00〜15:00(L.O.12:30) Dinner:18:00〜22:00(L.O.19:30)

Holidays

No holiday, Irregular

Access

58, Asahimachi, Himeji, Hyogo

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