Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday in Japan, but that doesn’t mean you have to skip it. This year Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, 26 November, and restaurants across Tokyo are putting on special courses and buffets, with a few even selling whole meals (including the turkey!) for you to eat at home with friends or family.
As an American, I’ll admit the homesickness hits harder in late November and December, when the holidays come along. While dreaded for some, it’s really a classic case of don’t know what you have until it’s gone because, man, being separated from family for the holidays year after year is not easy. Especially Thanksgiving, when for the rest of Tokyo it’s just another Thursday. So I went looking for the best places to celebrate Thanksgiving in Tokyo this year and rounded them up below, from a Grand Hyatt steakhouse to a couple of British pubs putting on their best American impression, with dates, prices, and how to book each one.
High-End Thanksgiving Dinners in Tokyo
The Oak Door
Honestly, The Oak Door is top tier. This is fine dining; the food is superb, the staff are genuinely warm, and I mean, come on, it’s the Grand Hyatt. The course starts with an autumn harvest salad before the roast turkey arrives with pork sausage, apple and chestnut stuffing, and cranberry jam. It ends with The Oak Door’s own pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream. If you go for the wine pairing, it opens with Veuve Clicquot and finishes on a Grgich Hills Zinfandel from Napa, selections from Oak Door’s fabulous sommelier, Steven Hagan.
- Dates: 26 and 27 November (seatings at 17:00 and 20:00), 28 November (17:00 to 21:30)
- Price: ¥13,750 per person, or ¥20,350 with the wine pairing (tax included, service charge extra); kids’ menu ¥3,190 for ages four to six and ¥5,500 for ages seven to 11
- Location: 6F Grand Hyatt Tokyo, 6-10-3 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Online via the official site or 03-4333-8784, parties of two or more only
- Map: The Oak Door on Google Maps
- Official site: tokyo.grand.hyatt.co.jp
Ruby Jack’s
Ruby Jack’s is a seafood and steakhouse in Ark Hills, connected to Roppongi-itchome Station, and its Thanksgiving dinner is built around a slow-roasted jumbo turkey with gravy, pork and date stuffing, pumpkin gratin, cranberry chutney, and Brussels sprouts with bacon. Shrimp cocktail and a sweet potato and Shinshu apple potage come first, and dessert is a pumpkin Basque cheesecake with cinnamon ice cream.
- Dates: 26 to 28 November
- Price: ¥11,000 per person (tax included)
- Location: 2F Ark Hills South Tower, 1-4-5 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Online via the official site
- Map: Ruby Jack’s on Google Maps
- Official site: rubyjacks.jp
American Restaurants Doing Thanksgiving in Tokyo
Soul Food House
I’ve already booked my own table here, which should tell you how much I trust it. Soul Food House was opened in 2015 by Atlanta natives David and LaTonya Whitaker, and it’s about as close to a Southern kitchen as Tokyo gets (on any other night, the chicken and waffles alone justify the trip to Azabu-Juban). The Thanksgiving course runs from pumpkin soup and an apple nut salad to honey-smoked turkey with garlic mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce, plus your choice of BBQ spare rib, beef rib, or salmon. Then come the sides, including mac and cheese, greens, cream corn casserole, and cornbread, before a house holiday dessert. Vegetarian and vegan options are available too.
- Dates: 25 to 27 November (seatings at 17:00, 19:00 and 21:00)
- Price: TBC
- Location: 6F Patio Azabu-Juban, 2-8-10 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku
- Booking: Online via the official site
- Map: Soul Food House on Google Maps
- Official site: soulfoodhouse.com
Down Home Restaurant & Cafe
Down Home is an American restaurant and café in Fukasawa, Setagaya, where the pies are baked in-house, and 2026 is its sixth annual Thanksgiving dinner. This year it’s teaming up with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Trade Office in Japan to cook with ingredients sourced from across the US. It’s a bit out of the way (the nearest bus stop is Todoroki 7-chome, a short ride from Jiyugaoka Station), but it’s one of the few Thanksgiving dinners in Tokyo with lunch seatings, and it falls on a Saturday.
- Dates: 28 November (seatings at 11:30, 13:00, 14:30, 17:00 and 19:00)
- Price: ¥7,500 per adult, ¥2,500 for kids under 12
- Location: 1-13-6 Fukasawa, Setagaya-ku
- Booking: Email info@downhome.jp or DM @downhome_restaurant_tokyo on Instagram
- Map: Down Home Restaurant & Cafe on Google Maps
Bistro Vino
Bistro Vino is a wine bistro in Roppongi with over 100 wines to choose from, and it has the longest Thanksgiving run on this list at nine days. The turkey plate comes loaded with stuffing, mashed potatoes, creamed spinach, buttered corn, and cranberry sauce, with a seafood salad and mushroom soup before it and panna cotta with autumn fruit compote after. It also does a whole turkey to go, which we cover in the at-home section below.
- Dates: 21 to 29 November
- Price: ¥8,980 per person (tax included)
- Location: 1F Piramide Building, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Online via TableCheck or 03-5785-3671
- Map: Bistro Vino on Google Maps
- Official site: bistrovino.jp
IVY Place
IVY Place cooks more broadly Western than strictly American, though with an unmistakably American accent. There’s a terrace too, if you’re the sort of optimist (like myself) who dines outdoors in late November. The one-night-only course starts with roasted butternut soup topped with crispy chorizo, then homemade smoked salmon with mushroom farro salad, before turkey roast with mushroom gravy, cranberry relish and a butterscotch pumpkin pudding to finish.
- Dates: 26 November
- Price: ¥7,500 per person
- Location: Daikanyama T-Site Garden, 16-15 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku
- Booking: Online via the official site or 03-6415-3232
- Map: IVY Place on Google Maps
- Official site: tysons.jp
T.Y. Harbor
T.Y. Harbor sits right on the water in Tennozu Isle, and it’s the closest Tokyo has come to returning me to the West Coast. The food is solid, though the setting is what really keeps me coming back. Its Thanksgiving course keeps things simple with tomato cream soup, turkey roast with mushroom gravy and cranberry relish, and a classic pumpkin tart with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream. T.Y. Harbor has also been brewing its own beer on site since 1997, so get a pint with it.
- Dates: 26 November
- Price: ¥7,000 per person
- Location: 2-1-3 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku
- Booking: Online via the official site
- Map: T.Y. Harbor on Google Maps
- Official site: tysons.jp
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Thanksgiving, BBQ Style
Smokehouse
Smokehouse is where I go when the homesickness kicks in, and the BBQ is good enough to (almost) cure it. It’s upstairs from The Roastery on Cat Street, between Harajuku and Shibuya, and it’s serving its Thanksgiving course at lunch as well as dinner. You start with a smoky salmon chowder with corn, plus pumpkin mac ‘n’ cheese topped with bacon and spiced pumpkin seeds. Then get a BBQ turkey breast plate with cornbread, green beans, whipped yams and cranberry relish. Finish with a classic pumpkin pecan pie.
- Dates: 26 November (lunch and dinner)
- Price: ¥7,000 per person
- Location: 2F, 5-17-13 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
- Booking: Online via TableCheck or 03-6450-5855
- Map: Smokehouse on Google Maps
- Official site: tysons.jp
Midtown BBQ
Midtown BBQ opened in Nagoya in 2017 and has since added branches in Yokohama and in Tokyo. Its Thanksgiving plate is one of the more affordable ones on this list, with a seasonal autumn salad, roast turkey with mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie for ¥6,000.
- Dates: 26 to 28 November
- Price: ¥6,000 per person
- Location: 2F, 3-10-9 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku (Tokyo); 1-8 Onoecho, Naka-ku (Yokohama); and Nagoya
- Booking: Contact your branch directly (details on Instagram)
- Map: Midtown BBQ Tokyo on Google Maps
- Instagram: instagram.com
Thanksgiving Buffets and Pub Dinners
Two Dogs Taproom
Two Dogs Taproom is a craft beer and pizza bar in Roppongi, and its Thanksgiving is a buffet with all-you-can-eat food and all-you-can-drink, craft beer included. The 2026 menu hasn’t been posted yet, but past years have stuck to the classics, from roast turkey to homemade stuffing.
- Dates: 26 November (two seatings, 18:00-20:00, 20:30-22:30)
- Price: ¥8,200 per adult, ¥3,600 for kids aged six to 12, free for kids under six
- Location: 2F Aries Building, 3-15-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Email only, to info@twodogs-tokyo.jp
- Map: Two Dogs Taproom on Google Maps
- Instagram: instagram.com
Yokohama Country & Athletic Club
The Yokohama Country & Athletic Club opens its Thanksgiving buffet to guests as well as members, and it’s a proper party, with drinks and live musicians playing festive music through the evening. Guests can book through the form on the club’s site.
- Dates: 26 November (doors open at 18:30)
- Price: ¥7,800 per adult guest, ¥3,900 per child guest
- Location: 11-1 Yaguchidai, Naka-ku, Yokohama
- Booking: Online form on the official site
- Map: Yokohama Country & Athletic Club on Google Maps
- Official site: ycac.jp
Good Heavens!
There’s a certain irony in a British pub hosting an American holiday, and Good Heavens! is leaning right into it. This Shimokitazawa pub is doing turkey with all the trimmings, pumpkin pie, and a drink for ¥4,300, which makes it the cheapest Thanksgiving dinner on this list. The pub itself is a delight, and much of that comes down to an owner whose warmth is hard to overstate. When we held a friend’s birthday there, they baked the cake in-house and decorated it by hand, a gesture that made the whole evening.
- Dates: 26 November (from 17:00)
- Price: ¥4,300 per adult (one drink included), ¥2,500 for children
- Location: 2F Shelbo Shimokitazawa, 5-32-5 Daizawa, Setagaya-ku
- Booking: Via Instagram @goodheavenstokyo
- Map: Good Heavens! on Google Maps
Hobgoblin Roppongi
Hobgoblin Roppongi makes it two British pubs on this list. It’s doing a three-course Thanksgiving dinner with Caesar salad, then smoked turkey and roast chicken, then pumpkin pie, and there’s a veggie option available.
- Dates: 26 November (from 18:00)
- Price: ¥8,800 per person
- Location: 1F Aoba Roppongi Building, 3-16-33 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Required, by email to info@hobgoblin.jp
- Map: Hobgoblin Roppongi on Google Maps
- Official site: hobgoblin.jp
Celebrating Thanksgiving in Tokyo at Home
Hosting this year? These two will do the roasting for you.
Bond St. Kitchen Thanksgiving Package
Bond St. Kitchen is the team behind T.Y. Harbor, and its Thanksgiving Complete Package feeds up to eight people. You get a whole roast turkey, which they can pre-carve for you, plus mushroom gravy, cranberry relish, cornbread stuffing, sautéed green beans, mashed potatoes, and a Lily Cakes pumpkin tart. Extra mash or gravy is ¥1,200 each, and quantities are limited.
- Dates: Order by 24 November, pickup 26 to 29 November
- Price: ¥60,500 for the package
- Location: Tennozu Isle, Shinagawa-ku (behind T.Y. Harbor)
- Booking: Online via the official site
- Official site: tysons.jp
Bistro Vino Whole Turkey to Go
Bistro Vino’s whole turkey with gravy serves four for ¥16,800, and you can add more people from ¥4,200 each. Orders are by phone only and need to be placed at least five days before pickup, which starts at 17:00 on the day. The map and site are in the Bistro Vino listing above.
- Dates: 21 to 29 November, ordered at least five days ahead
- Price: ¥16,800 for four people (tax included), extra people from ¥4,200
- Location: 1F Piramide Building, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku
- Booking: Phone only, 03-5785-3671
- Official site: bistrovino.jp
DIY Thanksgiving with a Costco Run
This is my go-to for a Friendsgiving on a budget, and one trip to Costco gets you most of the way there. Personally, I don’t trust myself to roast a whole turkey and have it actually taste good, and my Tokyo apartment oven couldn’t fit one if I tried. So I swap the turkey for two or three rotisserie chickens, depending on how many people are coming (and honestly, they taste better anyway), and pick up one of the pumpkin pies Costco stocks over the holidays. A whole sack of potatoes takes care of the mash, and you can make a decent gravy at home with the drippings from the chickens plus some butter and flour. Costco also has big blocks of cheese for mac and cheese, and it usually carries stuffing and cranberries around the holidays too, though stock varies by warehouse.
- Location: Costco Kawasaki, 3-1-4 Ikegami-shinmachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki (a bus ride from JR Kawasaki Station); Costco Makuhari, 1-4 Toyosuna, Mihama-ku, Chiba (a two-minute walk from Makuhari-Toyosuna Station)
- Membership: Required. Anyone 18 or over can join, and a Costco membership from home works in Japan too
- Map: Costco Kawasaki on Google Maps and Costco Makuhari on Google Maps
- Official site: costco.co.jp
Thanksgiving in Tokyo FAQs
When is Thanksgiving in 2026?
Thanksgiving 2026 is on Thursday, 26 November. Most of the places doing Thanksgiving in Tokyo on this list run their menus for a few days around it, starting as early as 21 November at Bistro Vino.
Is Thanksgiving a holiday in Japan?
Not the American version, no. Japan does have Labour Thanksgiving Day (Kinro Kansha no Hi) on 23 November, a national holiday for honouring work and giving thanks, but it grew out of an imperial harvest ritual called Niinamesai, and nobody’s carving a turkey for it. In 2026 it falls on a Monday, which gives you a long weekend just before Thanksgiving.
Do I need to book Thanksgiving dinner in Tokyo?
Yes, and as early as you can. Most of these are set courses with limited seatings, Bond St. Kitchen’s packages are limited in number, and Two Dogs and Hobgoblin only take reservations by email.
Where can I get a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner in Tokyo?
Soul Food House has vegetarian and vegan options on its Thanksgiving course, and Hobgoblin Roppongi offers a veggie option on its three-course menu. Elsewhere, ask when you book.
Which Thanksgiving dinners are good for kids?
The Oak Door has its own kids’ menu with juice, roast turkey and pumpkin pie (¥3,190 for ages four to six, ¥5,500 for ages seven to 11). Down Home charges ¥2,500 for kids under 12, Two Dogs lets kids under six eat free, and Good Heavens! and the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club also offer children’s prices.
