On Saturday, October 10, 2026, Sumijuro, a hand-cut soba restaurant making its first Kanto opening, opened in Tokyo Midtown (Akasaka, Minato City). On Friday, October 9, mimimi JIYUGAOKA, a complex with 4 restaurants and an art gallery, opened in Jiyugaoka. Sumijuro’s cold soba (mori soba) costs ¥990, and mimimi JIYUGAOKA is about 5 minutes on foot from the south exit of Jiyugaoka Station.
In short
- Sumijuro (Tokyo Midtown, Garden Terrace 1F): 44 seats, cold soba ¥990, “Jumbo shrimp and premium tempura seiro soba” ¥2,860 (tax included). Direct from Roppongi Station.
- mimimi JIYUGAOKA (La Cour Jiyugaoka, 2F and 3F): guu table, HoaHoa, Yohaku and LALA PASTA, plus a free art gallery.
Checked with official pages on November 1, 2026 (Japan time). Prices and hours may change.
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1. October 10: Sumijuro, the first Kanto soba restaurant of the brand, at Tokyo Midtown (Akasaka and Roppongi)
On Saturday, October 10, Sumijuro opened on the 1st floor of Garden Terrace in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato City. It is the brand’s first branch in Kanto, a soba dining restaurant where craftspeople hand-cut soba daily from domestic buckwheat flour ground in a stone mill. It has 44 eat-in seats.
Cold soba (mori soba) is ¥990, “Jumbo shrimp and premium tempura seiro soba” is ¥2,860 and “Sansho pepper soba” is ¥1,650 (all tax included). On Tokyo Midtown’s store page, the budget is ¥2,000 to ¥3,000 for lunch and ¥3,000 to ¥5,000 for dinner, and dinner reservations were to open on November 1, 2026. The restaurant describes itself as a place to enjoy Japan’s culture of drinking at a soba shop in a modern form.
It is connected to Roppongi Station by an underground passage, and about 3 minutes on foot from exit 3 of Nogizaka Station. Announcement of October 1, 2026 (Tokyo Midtown Management Co., Ltd.) / Sumijuro (Tokyo Midtown’s store page) (Japanese)
Photo source: “New shops opening at Tokyo Midtown, autumn 2026” (press release by Tokyo Midtown Management Co., Ltd., October 1, 2026) (Japanese)
| Name | Sumijuro |
|---|---|
| Address | Tokyo Midtown Garden Terrace 1F, 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo |
| Hours / Closed | 11:00–23:00 (last order 22:00) |
| Phone | 03-5843-0528 |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
2. October 9: mimimi JIYUGAOKA, 4 restaurants and a gallery in Jiyugaoka (Midorigaoka, Meguro City)
On Friday, October 9, the complex mimimi JIYUGAOKA opened on the 2nd and 3rd floors of La Cour Jiyugaoka in Midorigaoka, Meguro City. It is about 5 minutes on foot from the south exit of Jiyugaoka Station. It has 4 restaurants and an art gallery with free admission. It is run by Okada Fudosan Co., Ltd.
guu table is a restaurant whose character changes with the time of day: a multinational deli buffet, an afternoon cafe and an evening creative bistro.
HoaHoa is an ethnic restaurant using medicinal-cuisine ideas, serving pho and “hananabe” (flower hot pot).
Yohaku serves Edomae sushi as a la carte dishes and omakase.
LALA PASTA is a fresh pasta specialist that also serves wine and bistecca.
In the art gallery, a group exhibition of 7 artists, “SUITE FOREST -mimimi group exhibition #1-“, ran from Saturday, October 17 to Sunday, November 8, from 11:00 to 19:00 with free admission. The 3rd floor also has AGRIKO FARM, a farming area combining fish farming and hydroponics. Announcement of October 9, 2026 (Okada Fudosan Co., Ltd.) (Japanese) / mimimi JIYUGAOKA (official Instagram)
Photo source: “Opening today! The complex mimimi JIYUGAOKA” (press release by Okada Fudosan Co., Ltd., October 9, 2026) (Japanese)
| Name | guu table |
|---|---|
| Address | 2-25-7 Midorigaoka, Meguro City, Tokyo (La Cour Jiyugaoka 2F, mimimi JIYUGAOKA) |
| Hours / Closed | 11:00–23:00 (last order 22:00; Mon cafe only 12:00–17:00; closed New Year holidays, etc.) |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Name | HoaHoa |
|---|---|
| Address | 2-25-7 Midorigaoka, Meguro City, Tokyo (La Cour Jiyugaoka, mimimi JIYUGAOKA) |
| Hours / Closed | 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30), 17:00–23:00 (last order 22:00). Closed Tue, New Year holidays, etc. |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Name | Yohaku |
|---|---|
| Address | 2-25-7 Midorigaoka, Meguro City, Tokyo (La Cour Jiyugaoka, mimimi JIYUGAOKA) |
| Hours / Closed | 12:00–15:00 (Fri, Sat, Sun, holidays only), 18:00–22:30. Closed Wed, New Year holidays, etc. |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
| Name | LALA PASTA |
|---|---|
| Address | 2-25-7 Midorigaoka, Meguro City, Tokyo (La Cour Jiyugaoka, mimimi JIYUGAOKA) |
| Hours / Closed | 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30), 17:30–23:00 (last order 22:30). Irregular holidays such as New Year holidays, etc. |
| Map | Open in Google Maps ↗ |
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Checked with official pages on November 1, 2026 (Japan time).
