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Yasu Omakase
Yasu Omakase is a japanese pick in Miami when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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10.0
Based on 20 reviews
Japanese · Date Night
Best Japanese for Date Night in Miami
Japanese restaurants in Miami that work well for date night — sorted by rating and curated for occasion fit.
26 restaurantsUpdated July 2026
Top Japanese picks for date night
Fast answers for diners comparing japanese restaurants for date night in Miami.
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OMAKAI hand roll bar
OMAKAI Hand Roll Bar launched in Brickell as Miami's first dedicated hand roll bar, a distinction the Quijada brothers and Chef Aaron Pate have anchored in a space of under a thousand square feet and twenty-seven counter seats.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 940 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$$$
Sérêvène by Chef Pawan Pinisetti
Sérêvène occupies a precise and credible niche in Miami Beach's crowded dining landscape: a Michelin-starred room inside the adults-only Greystone Hotel on Collins Avenue, where Chef Pawan Pinisetti fuses French rotisserie discipline wit…
cocktaildate night
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9.8
Based on 469 reviews
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ELYU Omakase
What Elyu Omakase asks of you is that you take Chef Reiji Yoshizawa's biography seriously — because it's the actual menu.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.8
Based on 199 reviews
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Japanese•Coconut Grove•moderate
Grand Public Kitchen & Bar
Grand Public Kitchen & Bar arrives in Coconut Grove doing something the neighborhood's dining scene has long needed: a contemporary American kitchen that refuses to choose between the serious and the social.
Coconut Grovedate nightbrunch
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9.8
Based on 81 reviews
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OMAKAI sushi
OMAKAI arrived in Wynwood in 2019 with a premise Miami's dining scene had left conspicuously unfilled: structured omakase at a price point that doesn't demand a special occasion to justify the cheque.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 3465 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•moderate
Sokai Sushi Bar Downtown
Sokai Sushi Bar Downtown suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
sushidinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 3335 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•moderate
Yamashiro Miami
A hundred years in the Hollywood Hills, and Yamashiro chose Miami for its first move east — which tells you something about the room's ambitions before you've even booked a table.
New openingsdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 1846 reviews
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Japanese•Wynwood•moderate
Shiso
Wynwood has spent a decade getting the aesthetic right and fumbling the food — rooms where the mural outside carries more intention than anything on the plate.
Wynwood night outgroup dinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 744 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•moderate
Hoshi & Sushi Fusion Cuisine
Hoshi & Sushi's Midtown outpost at 2519 NE 2nd Ave is the younger sibling of a Miami Beach original, and that lineage matters: this isn't a concept built from scratch to chase a trend but a deliberate expansion of a kitchen with an estab…
sushidinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 547 reviews
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Sushi Yasu Tanaka
Chef Yasu Tanaka made a deliberate and somewhat counterintuitive choice: plant a Michelin-recognized sushi counter inside MIA Market, a food hall in Miami's Design District, with no reservations and a format that prioritizes access over…
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 269 reviews
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MICHELIN ★
Hiden
Hiden does not ask you to find it so much as earn it.
japanesesushimichelin star
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9.6
Based on 153 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$$$
Nami Nori Design District
Nami Nori's arrival in the Miami Design District isn't just a New York import landing in a warm-weather outpost — it's the first project the restaurant's founding chefs, Takahiro Sakaeda and Jihan Lee, have undertaken with Pharrell Willi…
date night
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9.4
Based on 516 reviews
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Hiyakawa Miami
Hiyakawa earns its Michelin star in a room that barely seats 25, tucked into the base of a Wynwood apartment building beneath an arch of backlit, undulating wood slats — an intimate, deliberately staged environment where the sushi counte…
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.4
Based on 306 reviews
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MR. OMAKASE
Mr.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.4
Based on 204 reviews
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NAOE
Kevin Cory's naoe operates out of a deliberately small space in Brickell, and that scale is the point.
sushidate night
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9.4
Based on 201 reviews
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Japanese•Sunny Isles•moderate
Ke-uH Restaurant
Ke-uH sits inside the Acqualina Resort on Collins Avenue with the Atlantic just beyond the glass — which means before a single plate lands, the room is already doing serious work.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 150 reviews
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Uchi Miami
Uchi Miami operates from a premise that most of the city's dining culture declines to adopt: that restraint is a form of ambition.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.2
Based on 1435 reviews
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Azabu Miami Beach
Azabu Miami Beach occupies a register that South Beach rarely sustains: quiet, technically serious Japanese dining that doesn't perform for the room.
Sushidate nightspecial occasion
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9.2
Based on 1225 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$
Shokudo Miami
Shokudo earns its place in Miami's dining landscape not by chasing a single-cuisine identity but by leaning into a deliberately pan-Asian comfort register — sushi alongside ramen alongside pho alongside kalbi — backed by a team with real…
date night
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9.2
Based on 813 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$
Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill - South Beach
Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill - South Beach suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1440 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$
Paperfish Sushi
Paperfish Sushi is doing something Miami's Japanese restaurant scene has needed: grounding Nikkei-inflected cooking in a format that reads as conviction rather than concept.
cocktaildate night
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9.0
Based on 1408 reviews
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Japanese•Miami•$$$
Osaka Miami
Osaka Miami has staked out a position that's harder to hold than it looks: a Japanese kitchen operating at genuine technical ambition inside a room that runs loud, late, and Miami-intentional.
date night
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9.0
Based on 799 reviews
24
Japanese•Sunny Isles•moderate
Mykonos Kitchen and Bar
Mykonos Kitchen and Bar suits a night out in Sunny Isles when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 732 reviews
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Zuma Miami
Zuma Miami is the Brickell outpost of the international izakaya brand, positioned along the Miami River in a riverfront room that the city's finance crowd and visiting spenders have made their own.
brunchdate night
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8.6
Based on 2739 reviews
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Japanese•Sunset Harbour•moderate
Monty's Sunset - South Beach
Monty's Sunset - South Beach is a japanese pick in Sunset Harbour in Miami when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Sunset Harbourdate nightbrunch
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8.4
Based on 4389 reviews
Common questions
What are the best Japanese restaurants for date night in Miami?
Top Japanese restaurants for date night in Miami include Yasu Omakase, OMAKAI hand roll bar, Sérêvène by Chef Pawan Pinisetti. TastyPals curates these based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Is Japanese good for date night in Miami?
Yes — Miami has 26 Japanese restaurants rated highly for date night. Yasu Omakase is among the top picks with a 10.0 Google rating.
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