Miyamasou earns three stars
- Michelin elevated Kyoto mountain ryokan Miyamasou to three stars in the Kyoto Osaka 2026 guide announced April 23, giving Kyoto its first new top-tier restaurant in six years. - Miyamasou first won one star in 2010, moved to two in 2011, and now joins six three-star restaurants in Kyoto with a menu built around foraged satoyama ingredients. - The 2026 guide lists 479 restaurants across Kyoto and Osaka, with five new two-star and 19 new one-star additions, expanding Kansai’s fine-dining map. (guide.michelin.com)
Miyamasou has been promoted to three Michelin stars in the Kyoto Osaka 2026 guide, Kyoto’s first new top-tier addition in six years. (guide.michelin.com) Michelin announced the selection on April 23, 2026. The guide says Miyamasou was first awarded one star in 2010, moved to two stars in 2011, and now reaches the guide’s highest rank. (guide.michelin.com) (michelin.com) The restaurant sits in Kyoto’s Hanase mountains and operates as both a ryokan and a restaurant. Michelin says chef Hisato Nakahigashi builds the menu around nearby seasonal ingredients, including wild mountain vegetables, river fish, mushrooms and game. (michelin.com) (guide.michelin.com) Tokyo Weekender reports Miyamasou opened in the 1890s during the Meiji era and began operating as a Japanese-style restaurant with an attached inn in 1937. The publication describes its cooking as tsumigusa, a highly seasonal style centered on foraged plants, herbs and flowers. (tokyoweekender.com) The promotion lifts Kyoto to six three-star restaurants. Tokyo Weekender says Miyamasou now joins Kyoto names including Mizai, Hyotei and Gion Sasaki at the guide’s top level. (tokyoweekender.com) The wider Kyoto Osaka 2026 guide includes 479 restaurants in total. Michelin says five restaurants were newly awarded two stars, 19 were newly awarded one star, and 12 were newly added to the Bib Gourmand selection. (guide.michelin.com) In Kyoto, four restaurants were promoted to two stars: Doppo, Higashiyama Yoshihisa, Muromachi Yui and Tokuha Motonari. In Osaka, Teruya was the only new two-star promotion. (guide.michelin.com) (tokyoweekender.com) Michelin also used this edition to introduce its first Sommelier Award for the Kyoto Osaka area. The award went to Miki Tanaka, owner-sommelier of LOUISE in Osaka, while the Mentor Chef Award went to Hideaki Matsuo and the Service Award to Yuko Kuwamura. (guide.michelin.com) For diners, Miyamasou’s rise puts one of Kyoto’s most remote and tradition-heavy restaurants at the very top of Michelin’s Japan map. For Michelin, it is the clearest change in this year’s Kyoto Osaka edition. (guide.michelin.com) (tokyoweekender.com)
