Where to eat in Niseko
Our favourite local places within a 10 minute walk, plus two guides for everything else.
Guides to restaurants in Niseko
There are hundreds of places to eat in Niseko. The two guides below are the best way to find them. You can filter by cuisine, area and price, and most listings link straight to the restaurant’s online booking page.
Restaurant bookings
Niseko has two kinds of restaurants. Most of the smaller local places are walk-in only, so just turn up. The most popular and high-end restaurants need a booking, and in peak season they fill up weeks in advance.
If there’s somewhere you’ve got your heart set on, book as far ahead as you can. Each restaurant opens its bookings at a different time, so check early. The two guides above are the quickest way to find a restaurant’s booking link.
For walk-in places, go early or late to skip the dinner rush.
Please note we don’t make restaurant bookings for guests. With so many great places within walking distance, you’ll never go hungry.
Local restaurants
Soup curry
700 m · 10 min walk · Bookings taken · Curries around ¥2,400
Noodle bar
A dan dan noodle specialist. White or black sesame, with or without soup, and a super-hot version if you want it. Gyoza and rice on the side.
600 m · 9 min walk · Walk-in only · Noodles around ¥1,500 to ¥2,000
Café and coffee
グラウビュンデン
Our go-to for coffee. Niseko’s oldest café, open since 1990, with big sandwiches, croffles and seasonal fruit cakes, plus one-plate dinners from January.
600 m · 9 min walk · Walk-in café · Cakes from ¥900, sandwiches from ¥2,000
Italian and cakes
L’ocanda
ロカンダ
A family-run Italian kitchen and cake shop, open since 2012. Chef Takuma Okada trained in Tuscany and cooks with local produce, some from his parents’ garden. His brother makes the cakes.
550 m · 7 min walk · Bookings taken · Closed Tuesdays
Soba and tempura
手打蕎麦いちむら
Buckwheat stone-ground in house and cut by hand. Hot or cold soba, with duck and tempura the signature bowls. Lunch only, and it closes when the noodles sell out.
650 m · 9 min walk · Walk-in only · Lunch only · Soba ¥850 to ¥1,900
Ramen
TAM TAM Ramen
TAM TAMらーめん
A ramen counter inside My Ecolodge. The house special is curry ramen, with miso and spicy miso ramen, gyoza and a ginger pork set too.
550 m · 8 min walk · Walk-in only · Ramen ¥1,000 to ¥1,300
Kanpai
カンパイ
All-you-can-eat shabu shabu for 90 minutes. Hokkaido wagyu, pork and chicken, king crab on the premium plan, and six soups including two vegan ones. Free pick-up in Hirafu when you book.
550 m · 7 min walk · Bookings taken · Around ¥11,000 per adult