Ready to open your sushi restaurant or Japanese cuisine establishment? Looking for a cool name? Check out this list of hundreds of Japanese restaurant name ideas for all types of Japanese food including; noodle shops serving udon soba ramen noodles, tempura, sushi, yakitori, and shabu-shabu too!
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Japanese Restaurant Name Ideas
There are many types of Japanese restaurants, each serving a particular type of Japanese food. Below are name suggestions listed by restaurant type.
Sushi Restaurant Names
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Sushi is more popular in the USA and Canada than it is in Japan. Serving cold rice dressed with vinegar, formed into various shapes, and garnished with raw seafood or vegetables.
Nigiri – Check Availability
Kappa Maki – Check Availability
Sushi and Sake – Check Availability
For Pete’s Sake – Check Availability
The Dragon’s Kin – Check Availability
Ikura – Check Availability
Eastern Roe – Check Availability
Stix – Check Availability
Atomic Sushi – Check Availability
Emperor’s Sushi – Check Availability
House of Bamboo – Check Availability
Sushi Junkies – Check Availability
Love Sushi – Check Availability
Samurai Sushi – Check Availability
Sumo Sushi – Check Availability
Sushi of the Sea – Check Availability
Sushi John (or Jane) – Check Availability
The Dragon and Eel – Check Availability
Sticky Rice – Check Availability
Funny Sushi Roll Names
These are funny Sushi names from actual restaurants reviewed on Yelp
Lasagna Roll – Check Availability
Rolls Royce – Check Availability
Roll in the Hay – Check Availability
Sexy Lobster Roll – Check Availability
Butterfly Roll – Check Availability
Passion of Rice – Check Availability
Power Roll – Check Availability
Angry Bird – Check Availability
Geek Girls Gone Wild – Check Availability
Sweet 16 Roll – Check Availability
Tempura Restaurants
Nagasaki – Check Availability
Ember Days – Check Availability
Anago – Check Availability
The Crispy Prawn – Check Availability
Whisk – Check Availability
The Leavener – Check Availability
Tonkatsu – Check Availability
Furai – Check Availability
The Battered Yam – Check Availability
Korokke – Check Availability
Udon Restaurants
Thick Japanese wheat-flour noodles.
Mirin – Check Availability
Kamaboko – Check Availability
Enni’s Myth – Check Availability
Kukai’s Offering – Check Availability
Heian-kyo – Check Availability
Miso Hungry – Check Availability
Edamame – Check Availability
Ahi – Check Availability
The Noodle Exchange – Check Availability
Kaiseki
Traditional Japanese cuisine served in multiple courses. Each course is small and aesthetically pleasing. It’s not unusual for Kaiseki meals to have 8 courses or more.
Chanoyu – Check Availability
Way of Tea – Check Availability
Sen no Rikyu – Check Availability
The Fourth Tradition – Check Availability
Kamakura – Check Availability
Muromachi – Check Availability
Skizuke – Check Availability
Futamono – Check Availability
Be Miso – Check Availability
Casual Kaiseki – Check Availability
Honzen-ryori
Specializing in Okinawan cuisine, also know as Ryukyuan cuisine, these restaurants can be found throughout Japan serving traditional dishes such as Jushi, Goya chanpuru, mimigaa (pigs ears) with alcoholic beverages awamori and orion beer.
The Warrior’s Table – Check Availability
Shogun – Check Availability
Shiki-Sankon – Check Availability
Tanto – Check Availability
The Wobbly Tray – Check Availability
Oshiki – Check Availability
Shichigosan – Check Availability
San San Kudo – Check Availability
Japanese & Sushi Restaurant Name Generator
Restaurant name generator I used to create even the name ideas below- https://businessnamegenerator.com/restaurants-business-name-generator-ideas/
I tested it by using these Japanese food keywords (ramen, noodles, fish, vinegar, shrimp, rice)
Power Tips on How to Use Business Name Generators to name your restaurant.
Get the best results by first brainstorming a list of keywords. These are words and phrases (2 or more words) that relate to your restaurant’s menu and concept. They do not have to be necessarily the ones that will be contained in your final restaurant name.
An easy way to brainstorm keywords to use in name generators is to use Google. Put in your restaurant type (Japanese cuisine) plus “keywords”. Scroll through the page and pick up related words. I found these keywords = tokyo, hibachi, noodle bar, nobu, kyoto, japanese language and moshi moshi (hello on the phone)
Another source of creative keywords to use in the Japanese restaurant name generator is a glossary of Japanese food words and phrases
Midnight Noodle – Check Availability
Noodle Squad – Check Availability
Ricezilla – Check Availability
Rice Diced – Check Availability
Rice Street – Check Availability
Rice Stack – Check Availability
Rice Smash – Check Availability
Sushi Dip – Check Availability
Sushiverse – Check Availability
Sushiio – Check Availability
Divine Sushi – Check Availability
Coastal Sushi – Check Availability
Chow Sushi – Check Availability
Cut Sushi – Check Availability
Sushivio – Check Availability
Sushisquad – Check Availability
Sushiify – Check Availability
Nouveau Sushi – Check Availability
Dude Sushi – Check Availability
Brew and Sushi – Check Availability
Boss Noodle – Check Availability
Named Best Japanese Restaurants in America
The food critics and American diners have named these Japanese restaurants as the best in America. While some are ramen shops and other Sushi joints, all serve the best Japanese cuisine. Get inspiration for your restaurant branding from these success stories.
Reviews previously published on the New York Post
A favorite of Vegas and visiting chefs, Raku is housed unceremoniously in a Chinatown strip mall, but it’s one of the most compelling reasons to get off the strip.
No sushi is served in the James Beard Award-nominated restaurant’s diminutive digs, just Japanese favorites like silky housemade tofu, exotic offerings like Kobe beef liver sashimi, and plenty of comfort food—from udon noodle soups to donburi (egg-and-rice bowls).
You’ll also find a long lineup of items destined for the robata grill, which uses charcoal imported from Japan for just the right degree of crispness: everything from Iberico pork to apple-marinated lamb chop to enoki mushroom with bacon.
If you crave something sweet after all that fine imported soy sauce, head to Raku Sweets, a desserts-only restaurant, just across the parking lot.
In 2011, Naomichi Yasuda shocked devotees of his lauded midtown stalwart—open since 1999—when he announced that he would be returning to Japan. Fans breathed a sigh of relief when he turned the simple maple counter over to longtime kitchen lieutenants Tatsuya Sekiguchi and Mitsuru Tamura.
Reserve a seat at the bar of this bamboo-clad space to watch Tatsu and Mitsu—as they’re affectionately called by regulars—dispatch purist renditions of nigiri onto wooden trays in elegant, efficient movements. Like the old master, the pair eschew over-the-top combos, letting the primo seafood and their superior knife skills shine.
Shunji Japanese Cuisine, Los Angeles, CA
Shunji almost looks like it could belong in the Shire—with its circular frame and low ceiling, Bilbo Baggins would feel right at home.
Not so Shire-like is the fantastic sushi inside this Pico Boulevard restaurant, including the well-curated omakase available at lunch and dinner. But first, ask about the fried oysters, which come four to an order and will convert even the oyster averse among us with its soft, pillowy exterior shielding a juicy helping of mollusk inside.
The lunch omakase special—seven pieces for $23—might have you trying scallop and salmon, blue fin tuna and mackerel, flying fish and more. When ordering a la carte, though, the Santa Barbara uni is a strong contender, as is the yellowtail.
Chef Shunji Nakao knows exactly how much wasabi to hide in each scoop of rice, and when your plate has been picked clean, a steaming cup of green tea helps ease your way into the outside world—LA, not the Shire, in case you needed a reminder.
10 Best Japanese Restaurants in Tokyo
Tripadvisor members voted these Tokyo restaurants to be the best serving authentic Japanese cuisine. Get ideas from these successful businesses for your new restaurants. Read these reviews posted by happy diners
A teppanyaki restaurant on the 9th floor of a multi-purpose building in the middle of Ginza. Speaking of Ginza, there is an image of a night shop, but in the daytime, there is a different face at noon and it is interesting. It can be enjoyed at a casual price in the daytime and can be used quite easily.
Ise Sueyoshi is a private Japanese restaurant in Tokyo. Placed between Roppongi and Hiroo. We serving traditional “Kaiseki” style Japanese cuisine with an English guide. The owner trained in “Kikunoi” restaurant.
After trained, I spent a year in Tronto, Canada and trained around the world. Returning to Japan with a desire to ‘disseminate Japanese cuisine as a part of this country’s culture’, he headed back to his native Mie to form connections with farmers and other producers.
Blessed with the ample fruits of both the mountains and the sea, the prefecture has long been known as a treasure trove of foodstuffs. He finally opened his own place in 2015, focusing on ingredients
We had all you can eat menu at 4.800 yen. Great meat and Nahid was a great guide, he explained to us everything about shabu-shabu and sukiyaki. Thank you so much!
Good meat and good dinner, the service is good. I had a wonderful time here. And the price is reasonable. Thanks!!
Japanese Restaurant Names Meanings
Says.com wrote an interesting, and funny, article about what the Japanese names of restaurants mean in English translation.
Zanmai – Luxury, indulgence, passion for something (like sushi!) – Check Availability
Sakae – Prosperity (Looks like Sake a Japanese word many English speakers understand ) – Check Availability
Ichibanboshi – The First Star of the Evening – Ichiban (first or best), Boshi (star) – Check Availability
Rakuzen – Joy of Dining (my favorite name since it is easy to say and translates to what your restaurant is offering – a joyful dining experience) – Check Availability
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