Restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
Japanese-rooted Italian worth the Otemachi trek.
Arva is Chef Masakazu Hiraki's Italian-meets-Japanese produce kitchen on the 38th floor of The Otemachi Tower, holding a Michelin Plate in 2025. It is the right booking for a business dinner or considered date night when you want seasonal Italian cooking grounded in Japanese ingredients, with city views that justify the ¥¥¥ price point. Booking is easy by Tokyo standards.
Arva is the right call for a business dinner or a considered date night when you want something distinctly Japanese in spirit but Italian in structure — a combination that is genuinely hard to find at this level in Tokyo. The dining room sits on the 38th floor of The Otemachi Tower in Chiyoda, and the view across the city skyline is the first thing you will notice when you are shown to your table. If you are visiting Tokyo for the first time and want to understand how Japanese producers and Italian technique can intersect in a single meal, this is one of the clearest answers the city offers. Book for an evening rather than lunch: the city views read very differently once the light drops, and that visual payoff is part of what you are paying for at the ¥¥¥ price point.
Chef Masakazu Hiraki trained in Italy, particularly in the Veneto region, and the cooking at Arva is built around that experience applied to Japanese ingredients sourced directly from domestic farmers. The restaurant's name means 'harvest' , a signal that the menu is not static. Produce drives the dishes here, which means what you eat in late spring will look and taste different from what arrives in autumn. Vegetables and fruit carry colour and weight on the plate; this is not a meat-forward Italian programme. For a first-time visitor, that emphasis on seasonal produce means the leading time to book is whenever Japanese ingredients are at their most expressive: late spring for mountain vegetables, autumn for root vegetables and citrus. Avoid booking during the flattest weeks of summer if seasonality matters to you, as peak heat tends to reduce the variety of cool-climate produce that Hiraki's approach depends on.
The Michelin Plate recognition in 2025 positions Arva as a venue worth your attention without the full commitment , in price or booking difficulty , of a starred room. A Michelin Plate signals food of good quality prepared with care; it is an honest assessment of where Arva sits in Tokyo's dining hierarchy. You are not paying for the complexity of a tasting menu at [RyuGin](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/ryugin) or the technical precision of [L'Effervescence](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/leffervescence), but you are getting a coherent, ingredient-led Italian meal in one of the city's leading dining room settings.
For context on how Italian cooking sits across Japan's major cities, [cenci in Kyoto](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/cenci-kyoto-restaurant) takes a similar produce-first philosophy to a higher technical register, and [8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana in Hong Kong](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/8-12-otto-e-mezzo-bombana-hong-kong-restaurant) offers a useful comparison point for Italian at the upper end of Asian fine dining. Within Tokyo itself, [Aroma Fresca](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/aroma-fresca-tokyo-restaurant) and [PRISMA](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/prisma-tokyo-restaurant) occupy the same Italian-in-Tokyo space at different price levels, while [Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura Tokyo](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/gucci-osteria-da-massimo-bottura-tokyo-tokyo-restaurant) and [Principio](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/principio-tokyo-restaurant) give you sharper points of comparison if you are weighing up where Italian technique intersects with local identity most interestingly. [AlCeppo](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/alceppo-tokyo-restaurant) is worth knowing about if you want something at a lower price tier.
Arva is located inside The Otemachi Tower at 1 Chome-5-6 Ōtemachi, Chiyoda City , a direct address for anyone arriving from central Tokyo. The building is well-served by multiple metro lines, and the Otemachi area is one of the easiest parts of the city to reach from major hotels and transport hubs. Booking is rated easy, which is meaningful in a city where the most talked-about rooms can require weeks of planning. A Google rating of 4.4 across 313 reviews adds a reasonable layer of verification that the experience is consistent. Specific hours are not confirmed in our database, so check directly with the restaurant before finalising your plans. For a broader view of where Arva fits within the city's dining options, see [our full Tokyo restaurants guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/tokyo). If you are planning a trip around food, [our full Tokyo experiences guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/experiences/tokyo) and [our full Tokyo hotels guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/hotels/tokyo) are worth consulting alongside it. For exploration beyond Tokyo, [HAJIME in Osaka](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/hajime-osaka-restaurant), [Gion Sasaki in Kyoto](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/gion-sasaki-kyoto-restaurant), [akordu in Nara](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/akordu-nara-restaurant), [Goh in Fukuoka](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/goh-fukuoka-restaurant), [1000 in Yokohama](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/1000-yokohama-restaurant), and [6 in Okinawa](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/6-okinawa-restaurant) are all worth knowing if your itinerary extends beyond the capital. Tokyo also has compelling options for drinks and wine; see [our full Tokyo bars guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/bars/tokyo) and [our full Tokyo wineries guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/wineries/tokyo) for what else the city offers.
Book Arva if you want Italian cooking that is genuinely rooted in where it is being made, in a room that earns its setting. The seasonal emphasis means timing your visit pays off, and the easy booking difficulty makes it one of the more accessible options at the ¥¥¥ level in Tokyo. It is not the most technically complex Italian meal you can find in the city, but it is one of the most coherent arguments for why Japanese ingredients and Italian structure belong together.
Arva works well for solo dining, particularly if you want a considered meal rather than a casual one. At the ¥¥¥ price point in Otemachi, the setting is formal enough that solo diners are treated as a matter of course. The city views from the 38th floor give you something to look at, and the produce-led Italian format means the meal has enough going on to engage you course by course. If you are solo and want something more counter-focused or interactive, Tokyo has strong alternatives , [Harutaka](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/harutaka) at ¥¥¥¥ offers an omakase counter experience that suits solo diners particularly well , but Arva is a reasonable and accessible choice if Italian is your preference.
Smart casual is the safe call. Arva sits at ¥¥¥ in a tower dining room in Chiyoda, so the environment leans formal without enforcing it rigidly. Business attire is comfortable here; so is a well-put-together evening look. Trainers and shorts will read as underdressed given the setting and the Michelin Plate recognition. Tokyo dining at this tier generally expects you to look like you made an effort, even if the dress code is not stated explicitly.
Arva's menu is built around seasonal Japanese produce interpreted through Italian technique, so the honest answer is to follow what is in season when you visit. Chef Masakazu Hiraki's time in the Veneto informs the structure, but vegetables and fruit are the visual and flavour focus on most plates. We do not have confirmed signature dishes in our database, so avoid arriving with a fixed idea of what you want , ask what the kitchen is most focused on that week. That approach aligns with how the menu is designed and will give you the strongest version of what Arva is trying to do.
Booking difficulty is rated easy, which means you are unlikely to need more than a week's notice for most dates. That said, Otemachi is a business-heavy district, and the room will fill faster on weekday evenings when corporate dining is active. If you are planning around a specific date , a weekend visit, a holiday period, or a time when Tokyo is especially busy , booking two weeks out is sensible. The Michelin Plate recognition generates consistent interest, so do not assume last-minute availability is guaranteed even if the rating suggests ease of access.
Arva works for solo dining if you are comfortable in a formal setting at the ¥¥¥ price point. The 33rd-floor view gives you something to sit with between courses. That said, the format is better suited to a two-person dinner — the cooking here is deliberate and conversation-friendly, and the experience lands harder when shared.
Arva sits inside The Otemachi Tower, a corporate-prestige address in Chiyoda City, and the room is a 33-floor dining room with a Michelin Plate. Dress as you would for a serious business dinner: neat, put-together, and not casual. Jeans and trainers will feel out of register here.
Chef Masakazu Hiraki builds the menu around seasonal Japanese vegetables and fruit interpreted through Veneto technique, so the vegetable-led dishes and produce-forward courses are the reason to be here. Let the kitchen's seasonal emphasis guide your choices rather than defaulting to the most familiar Italian items on the menu.
Book at least two to three weeks ahead, particularly for weekend evenings or business-dinner slots when the Otemachi Tower crowd fills the room. For a weekday lunch, lead time is likely shorter, but the ¥¥¥ price range and Michelin Plate recognition mean availability is not guaranteed on short notice.
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