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

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

In a relaxing space with an atmosphere of 1920's, we serve traditional Japanese cooking choosing the best seasonal ingredients. You can enjoy a full-scale Japanese cuisine through the course.

 

Sendagi, a downtown of great writers

From Sendagi to Yanaka known as Nezu area is Tokyo's downtown. The area remains with belle époque atmosphere. Although located in the middle of Tokyo, the area was not included in the large scale city development.

In this area, neighboring University of Tokyo, great writers of Meiji Era resided including Soseki Natsume(1867-1916) who wrote "I Am a Cat (Wagahaiwa Nekodearu) " and Kokoro", Ougai Mori(1862-1922) who is known as great writer on a par with Soseki Natsume and who wrote "Maihime" and "Sansho-Dayu" , Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) who is the first Nobel Prize for literature winner as Japanese and who wrote "The Dancing Girl of Izu (Izu no odoriko)" and "Snow Country (Yukiguni)", Hakushuu Kitahara (1885-1942) who is the auther of the poetical works" Jashumon" and a book of nursery rhymes "Karatachi no hana" Hakushuu Kitahara (1885-1942) and a book of nursery rhymes "Karatachi no hana" and Koutarou Takamura(1883-1956), known as engraver,poet and auther of poetical works "Doutei" and "Chieko's sky (Chiekosho)" .

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