Best Japanese Restaurants in Miami : 29 Picks for 2026

Yasu Omakase

Yasu Omakase is a japanese pick in Miami when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Read restaurant page

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.

Read restaurant page

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…

Read restaurant page

ELYU Omakase

What Elyu Omakase asks of you is that you take Chef Reiji Yoshizawa's biography seriously — because it's the actual menu.

Read restaurant page

Japanese•Brickell•value

MILA

MILA is one of the better-known japanese spots in Brickell in Miami, which makes it a practical place to start.

Work lunchlunchbright

Read restaurant page

Based on 20813 reviews

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.

Read restaurant page

Based on 3465 reviews

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

Read restaurant page

Based on 3335 reviews

New openingsdinnerdate night

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.

Read restaurant page

Based on 1846 reviews

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

Read restaurant page

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

Read restaurant page

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…

japanesesushimichelin star

Read restaurant page

Hiden

Hiden does not ask you to find it so much as earn it.

Read restaurant page

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…

Read restaurant page

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…

Read restaurant page

MR. OMAKASE

Mr.

Japanese•Sunny Isles•moderate

Read restaurant page

NAOE

Kevin Cory's naoe operates out of a deliberately small space in Brickell, and that scale is the point.

Read restaurant page

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

Read restaurant page

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.

Read restaurant page

4.6/5

Based on 1435 reviews

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.

Read restaurant page

4.6/5

Based on 1225 reviews

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…

Read restaurant page

Japanese•Brickell•value

Sexy Fish Miami

Sexy Fish Miami lands in Brickell — one of the most aggressively corporate dining corridors in South Florida — and reportedly refuses to play by those rules.

Work lunchlunchbright

Read restaurant page

Based on 8893 reviews

Japanese•Bal Harbour•splurge

Makoto

Makoto sits on the third floor of Bal Harbour Shops, recently reworked by Paris designer India Mahdavi into something brighter and bolder — colour-saturated banquettes, an expanded sushi counter, more room to breathe outdoors.

upscaledinnerspecial occasion

Read restaurant page

Based on 2356 reviews

Photo of Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill - South Beach

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

Read restaurant page

Based on 1440 reviews

Website Rate

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

Read restaurant page

Based on 1408 reviews

Japanese•Sunny Isles•moderate

Japanese•Miami•value

Sunset Club | Rooftop Restaurant & Lounge

Sunset Club | Rooftop Restaurant & Lounge is an easy japanese option in Miami to suggest without needing a long explanation.

Read restaurant page

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.

Read restaurant page

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

Read restaurant page

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

Read restaurant page

4.3/5

Based on 2739 reviews

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

Read restaurant page

4.2/5

Based on 4389 reviews