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Sushi Restaurant

For a sushi restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Joe Chikamori designed a space that highlights the Japanese high quality materials and food for clients satisfaction.

The concept of the restaurant started from the idea to make a sushi restaurant that provides truly real Japanese sushi in Ho Chi Minh City made by a highly skilled chef.

Prioritizing guest’s high satisfaction rather than achieving more seats, the existing upstairs was removed to make a high ceiling one-story, composed only 8 counter seats main-building and a new-built annex.

Joe Chikamori, Sushi restaurant, Ho Chi Minh City

By separating the main-building and the annex by the pond, the annex private-room value is emphasized being visible but inaccessible because the sloping over the pond connects the counter to the annex only for service.

Precious materials, as Japanese cypressum, were imported with the aim to differentiate the restaurant from the local “copies” of a typical sushi restaurant.