OHMIYA is a Japanese restaurant on Orakei Road in Remuera, Auckland, built around a simple promise: to carefully craft each dish using fresh, high-quality ingredients and honour the authenticity of Japanese cuisine. The name is inspired by Ohmiya, an ancient province in Japan known for its rich history, scenic landscapes and deep culinary heritage — and the restaurant carries that spirit into everything it serves, from delicate sashimi to hearty donburi.
The menu spans the classics of the Japanese table — sushi (with its own dedicated page on the website), sashimi and donburi among them — alongside a considered drinks programme: house-choice cocktails, a 'we recommend' wine list with pours from Saint-Julien to California, and a craft beer line-up of new arrivals.
Service runs in two sittings: lunch from 11:00 to 14:30 and dinner from 17:00, seven days a week, with dinner stretching half an hour later on Friday and Saturday nights. Reservations can be made by phone or through the website's contact form — and each booking is confirmed personally by reply from the team.
Whether you're settling in for an unhurried dinner or a well-made lunch, OHMIYA invites you to relax into a dining experience that bridges past and present, tradition and innovation. Itadakimasu!
On Orakei Road in Remuera, Auckland, OHMIYA sets out its stall in a single sentence: carefully craft each dish using fresh, high-quality ingredients to honour the authenticity of Japanese cuisine. It's a promise the kitchen repeats everywhere — on the homepage, on the about page, in the sign-off 'Thank you for dining with us. Itadakimasu!' — and it shapes the whole restaurant. The tagline is 'Bringing a taste of Japan to New Zealand', and the menu is built around the pillars of the Japanese table: sushi, which gets its own dedicated page on the website, delicate sashimi, and hearty donburi bowls.
The name itself is a statement of intent. OHMIYA is inspired by Ohmiya, an ancient province in Japan known for its rich history, scenic landscapes and deep culinary heritage. The restaurant positions itself as a place that embraces the essence of tradition — a dining experience, in its own words, that bridges the past and present, tradition and innovation.
Ask what OHMIYA is known for and the answer is the classics, done properly. The restaurant's about page name-checks two touchstones of the cuisine: delicate sashimi and hearty donburi, each reflecting the flavours and harmony that define Japan's culinary culture. Sushi is prominent enough to anchor its own section of the site, and the kitchen's photography leans on freshness — clean slices, generous bowls and dishes built from ingredients chosen for quality first. If your measure of a Japanese restaurant is how it treats the fundamentals, this is where OHMIYA asks to be judged.
The full menu is published on the website as its current set of menu pages, so it's worth a look before you visit to see the complete spread, check the seasonal line-up and get a feel for the drinks lists described below.
The drinks programme runs deeper than you might expect. Under 'Our choice', the cocktail list spans eight serves, from the Royal Arrival — Captain Morgan spiced rum lifted with pineapple — to a Tequila Sunrise, Cuba Libre, Coco Spice, Savoy Affair, El Presidente, Hennchata and Michelada. The 'We recommend' wine list reaches across the old world and the new: Léoville-Las Cases and Léoville Barton from Saint-Julien, Corton-Charlemagne from the Cote de Beaune, Hermitage La Chapelle from the Rhone, Meiomi Pinot Noir and Monte Bello from Ridge Vineyards in California, plus Moscato Cavit and Riesling Ranch for lighter pours. And under 'New arrivals', a craft beer line-up adds Yuengling Lager, Southern Star, Ranch Imperial, London Fields, The Rare Barell and Whitewater to the fridge.
OHMIYA runs a two-service day. Lunch is served from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm, and dinner from 5:00 pm, every day of the week. Monday through Thursday and on Sunday, the evening finishes at 9:00 pm; on Friday and Saturday, dinner stretches half an hour longer, to 9:30 pm. The afternoon gap is a real pause between services, so plan your visit around one sitting or the other — the rhythm suits both a working lunch and an unhurried dinner.
Find OHMIYA at 2/236 Orakei Road, Remuera, Auckland 1050. Reservations are taken by phone on 09 520 0842 or through the contact form at ohmiya.co.nz — and there's one detail worth underlining: a booking is only confirmed once you receive a reply from the restaurant confirming your table, so don't count the evening as locked in until you hear back. Promotions and news also surface on the restaurant's social channels, including Instagram at @ohmiya236 and TikTok at @ohmiya.auckland.
Come for the sushi and sashimi, stay for a pour from a wine list that runs from Saint-Julien to Santa Lucia, and let the kitchen's parting note land the way it's meant to: thank you for dining with us. Itadakimasu.