Luxurious Japanese cuisine at Sendagi - historical downtown, hometown of a great writer.

Hifumi-an, a reservation only Kaiseki (traditional japanese cuisine) style Japanese restaurant.

An atmosphere of 1920's, very relaxed space with carefully selected seasonal ingredients along with traditional Japanese cooking. You can enjoy a full-scale Japanese cuisine through a course.

 

Sendagi, a downtown with great writers

From Sendagi to Yanaka, Nezu area is Tokyo's downtown. These places remains with belle époque atmosphere due to the reason, area get left behind of a large scale development exceptionally being in the middle of Tokyo.

In this area, neighboring University of Tokyo and the great writers of Meiji Era resided. Such as Soseki Natsume who wrote "I Am a Cat (Wagahaiwa Nekodearu) " and the "Kokoro" (1867-1916), Ougai Mori who is called the great writer on a par with Soseki Natsume and who wrote the "Maihime" and the "Sansho-Dayu" (1862-1922), Yasunari Kawabata who wrote "The Dancing Girl of Izu (Izu no odoriko)" and "Snow Country (Yukiguni)" by the first Nobel Prize for literature winner as Japanese (1899-1972), a poetical works "Jashumon", and a book of nursery rhymes "Karatachi no hana" Hakushuu Kitahara (1885-1942), and Koutarou Takamura, known for poetical works "Doutei" and "Chieko's sky (Chiekosho)" by the engraver and a poet.

Building of a Hifumi-an, leaving the atmosphere of the belle époque era of Noh's (traditional Japanese performance art on par with kabuki) Utai (those who sing words to a peculiar tune on the Noh stage) life style.