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Fine Dining in Nagano

24 places in the "Fine Dining" selection: editorial grades from A+ to F, prices, Tabelog scores and a map.

Places ranked: 24

Yukimoto: South Shinshu Kaiseki
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Yukimoto: South Shinshu Kaiseki

Nagano · Fine Dining

A destination kaiseki restaurant in Iida, Nagano, celebrated for its singular use of South Shinshu ingredients. Chef Yukimoto transforms rare local produce like bear, wild eel, and ayu fish into a unique culinary journey.

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Restaurant Naz: Fermentation-Forward Shinshu Cuisine
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Restaurant Naz: Fermentation-Forward Shinshu Cuisine

Nagano · Fine Dining

In the mountain resort of Karuizawa, Restaurant Naz offers a singular tasting menu built around fermentation and local Shinshu ingredients. It's a destination for its highly creative dishes and bespoke non-alcoholic pairings.

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Yamasei: Jiyaki-style Unagi and Suppon
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Yamasei: Jiyaki-style Unagi and Suppon

Nagano · Fine Dining

A destination for unagi enthusiasts in the Ote district of Matsumoto. Yamasei (山勢) specialises in the rare jiyaki grilling style, serving eel with a crisp skin and tender flesh, alongside sought-after suppon (soft-shell turtle) courses.

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Breston Court Yukawatan: French Cuisine with a River Fish Focus
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Breston Court Yukawatan: French Cuisine with a River Fish Focus

Nagano · Fine Dining

In the Karuizawa Hotel Breston Court, this French restaurant offers a unique 'water-game' concept, transforming local river fish into refined dishes. The experience begins theatrically with amuse-bouches served in the hotel's forest.

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ca'enne: Wood-Fired Italian Tasting Course
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ca'enne: Wood-Fired Italian Tasting Course

Nagano · Fine Dining

ca'enne (カエンネ) is a wood-fired Italian tasting course built on Yatsugatake mountain produce, served in a forest lodge at 1,200m in Toyohira, above Chino in Nagano.

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MANO: Wood-Fired Karuizawa Omakase
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MANO: Wood-Fired Karuizawa Omakase

Nagano · Fine Dining

An intimate eight-seat counter in Karuizawa built around a wood-fire hearth. The chef serves a theatrical omakase menu translating local terroir, foraged mushrooms, and game into innovative Spanish-inspired dishes.

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Fogliolina della Porta Fortuna: Singular, Private Italian Dining
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Fogliolina della Porta Fortuna: Singular, Private Italian Dining

Nagano · Fine Dining

A highly exclusive Italian restaurant in Karuizawa, serving just one group per day. Chef Kobayashi offers a deeply personal tasting menu focused on aroma and temperature, using ingredients primarily sourced from Italy.

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Mumyo: Shinshu Mountain Cuisine, Bear and Clay-Pot Rice
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Mumyo: Shinshu Mountain Cuisine, Bear and Clay-Pot Rice

Nagano · Fine Dining

Mumyo (無名) is a six-seat, chef-run Japanese restaurant in Chino, Nagano, three minutes from Chino Station. It serves an almost fish-free set menu of game, local chicken and foraged mountain produce.

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Hikariya Nishi: Nagano-Sourced French Tasting Menus
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Hikariya Nishi: Nagano-Sourced French Tasting Menus

Nagano · Fine Dining

Inventive French tasting menus built almost entirely on Nagano produce, served upstairs in a candlelit 1887 rice storehouse in Ote, Matsumoto. Known for its vegetable cooking and warm service.

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Makiyaki Kakehashi (薪焼 かけはし): Wood-Fired Omakase Counter
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Makiyaki Kakehashi (薪焼 かけはし): Wood-Fired Omakase Counter

Nagano · Fine Dining

An eight-seat counter in Karuizawa where a husband-and-wife team cooks a single omakase course over a fire of Nagano apple wood. It is worth the trip for the fire-grilled turtle and eel.

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Sushi Inukai: High-Calibre Edo-Style Omakase
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Sushi Inukai: High-Calibre Edo-Style Omakase

Nagano · Fine Dining

A destination for high-calibre Edo-style sushi in Matsumoto. Chef Inukai serves an omakase of fish he sources himself, featuring premium ingredients at a 10-seat counter for a fraction of Tokyo prices.

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Sushi Taka: Edomae Omakase Built on Nagano Produce
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Sushi Taka: Edomae Omakase Built on Nagano Produce

Nagano · Fine Dining

Sushi Taka (すし崇) is a sushi counter in Minaminagano, Nagano, near Zenkoji. Chef Kubo serves Edo-style omakase built on local produce, with aged fish and ten-year-aged red vinegar.

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Toritaka: A Masterclass in Chicken Omakase
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Toritaka: A Masterclass in Chicken Omakase

Nagano · Fine Dining

A destination for chicken omakase in Karuizawa, where chef Tsuchiya-san showcases masterful fire control over a multi-course menu of rare parts and signature dishes. Bookings are essential and difficult to secure.

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Nakano Ya: Authentic Edo-mae Sushi
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Nakano Ya: Authentic Edo-mae Sushi

Nagano · Fine Dining

A high-end Edo-mae sushi bar in an unexpected location in the Nagano mountains. Nakano Ya (中野屋) offers a Tokyo-level omakase experience at a remarkable value, served in a cozy house-restaurant setting.

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Soujoan: Foraged Wild-Plant Kaiseki in a Silk Farmhouse
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Soujoan: Foraged Wild-Plant Kaiseki in a Silk Farmhouse

Nagano · Fine Dining

Soujoan (草如庵) serves an eight-course kaiseki of hand-foraged mountain greens, mushrooms and river fish. It is in Nunoshita, Tomi, Nagano, in a 160-year-old former silk-farming house.

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Asian Table Monkai: Medicinal Chinese Cuisine
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Asian Table Monkai: Medicinal Chinese Cuisine

Nagano · Fine Dining

A unique restaurant in Karuizawa serving medicinal-inspired Chinese cuisine. It's sought after for its elaborate breakfast congee set, served with numerous small dishes and handmade condiments.

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Jingisukan Matsumoto Miyama: Expertly Grilled Lamb
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Jingisukan Matsumoto Miyama: Expertly Grilled Lamb

Nagano · Fine Dining

A lamb specialist in Matsumoto, relocated from Hakuba, serving an unusually wide range of never-frozen cuts. Known for its fresh, tender meat and attentive staff who grill each piece for you at the counter.

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LA CASA DI Tetsuo Ota: Foraged Mountain Tasting Menu
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LA CASA DI Tetsuo Ota: Foraged Mountain Tasting Menu

Nagano · Fine Dining

A six-seat house restaurant near Karuizawa, Nagano, where El Bulli alumnus Tetsuo Ota serves a single long tasting menu built on wild mushrooms, mountain vegetables and game he gathers himself.

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Hermitage de Tamura: French Tasting Menus in a Forest House
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Hermitage de Tamura: French Tasting Menus in a Forest House

Nagano · Fine Dining

Hermitage de Tamura (エルミタージュ ドゥ タムラ) is a glass-walled French restaurant in the woods of Karuizawa, near Naka-Karuizawa. Go for its famous summer white-peach soup and luxury-ingredient courses.

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Kamisuwa Ashizawa: Seasonal Kaiseki at an Eight-Seat Counter
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Kamisuwa Ashizawa: Seasonal Kaiseki at an Eight-Seat Counter

Nagano · Fine Dining

Kamisuwa Ashizawa (上諏訪 芦澤) is a husband-and-wife kaiseki counter in Suwa, Nagano. A local chef trained at Asaba and Ginza's Iseki pairs coastal fish with mountain produce.

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Namaste Tateshina ten: Authentic North Indian Cuisine
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Namaste Tateshina ten: Authentic North Indian Cuisine

Nagano · Fine Dining

Experience authentic, deeply spiced North Indian cuisine at this acclaimed restaurant in the Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina. It's known for its large, bone-on tandoori chicken and oversized, freshly made naan.

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Suki Tei Honten: Apple-Fed Shinshu Beef Sukiyaki
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Suki Tei Honten: Apple-Fed Shinshu Beef Sukiyaki

Nagano · Fine Dining

Nagano's best-known sukiyaki house, founded in 1972, in Minaminagano near the Prefectural Office. It serves its own apple-fed Shinshu Wagyu, cooked tableside in tatami rooms by the river.

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Warabino: Foraged Mountain Cooking, One Party a Day
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Warabino: Foraged Mountain Cooking, One Party a Day

Nagano · Fine Dining

A one-chef restaurant in a restored farmhouse on the Kaida Kogen plateau in Nagano, known for slow salt-grilled iwana and foraged produce. Reported closed since 31 October 2025.

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Unagi Kobayashi: Kanto-Style Steamed and Grilled Eel
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Unagi Kobayashi: Kanto-Style Steamed and Grilled Eel

Nagano · Fine Dining

Unagi Kobayashi (鰻 小林) is an eel house in a timber building in the Shiga district of Suwa, Nagano. Go for very soft Kanto-style eel and the kinkin set, which pairs sauced and unsauced eel.

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