Approaching The Essence of Food with The Style of A “Breakfast Restaurant.”

The start of the day. Make a soup full of seasonal vegetables, scoop up freshly cooked rice and carefully brew some tea before digging in—this Japanese breakfast scene once found in every household is gradually disappearing from our hectic modern lives.

We want to re-examine the significance of breakfast, to bring back that fading sense of living our lives with awareness and meaning. This spirit led us to open Breakfast Kishin.

The name comes from a Zen teaching: “the wonder of approaching meals with a joyful spirit.”

To eat is to live and eating three times a day is indispensable for living. We can’t continue on living without eating and creating. This isn’t always fun. Sometimes we also struggle as if we were in training, and we may encounter troublesome aspects.

But exactly for these reasons, we approach food with a joyful heart. We want our guests as well as our staff who prepare and serve our meals to continue having joyful hearts and to hold on to the blessings and joy that people sometimes tend to forget. “Kishin” combines the Japanese characters for “joy” and “heart,” and this name expresses “the wonder of approaching food with a joyful heart,” representing our desire for each of our customers to have a dining experience that they can take home with a joyful heart. That is our wish for Breakfast Kishin.

And what kind of experience is waiting for you at Breakfast Kishin?

Perhaps you’ll be surprised by the joy you can feel at the power hidden within breakfast, the fundamental that starts every day.