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Minato

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Restaurant · Japanese · Sushi · Izakaya · ₪₪ · Herzliya rabbinate, meat

8 HaMenofim Street, Beit Ofek, Herzliya Pituach, Herzliya

Checking the clock in Israel1118 ratings on Google

A small kosher Japanese restaurant in Herzliya Pituach's business district, with a sushi bar and izakaya dishes led by chef Akki Tamora, a fourth-generation sushi chef from Tokyo

Minato is a kosher Japanese restaurant in Beit Ofek, an office building at 8 HaMenofim Street in the business district of Herzliya Pituach. Its website describes it as combining sushi and izakaya, a Japanese bar that serves a meal of small dishes with good drink. The kitchen is led by chef Akki Tamora, who by the restaurant's account is a fourth-generation sushi chef from Minato, one of Tokyo's 23 wards, where his family's restaurant has been handed down for more than 90 years; he started in the kitchen at 12 under his parents, has lived in Israel for 30 years, is in charge of the menus at the restaurants and at events, and stands behind the bar every evening. Minato means "port" in Japanese. The Jerusalem Post wrote in 2019 that its owners, two Israeli entrepreneurs, also own a similar restaurant in Caesarea, and its website lists a second branch, Minato Caesarea, at the Paz filling station there. The menu runs from miso and noodle soups and harusame salads to tartares, which its lunch menu calls the house signature, beef, salmon and fish seared on an iron pan, gyoza, tempura, nigiri, sashimi and rolls, with a section of rolls of cooked fish it calls pregnancy sushi; dishes are marked vegan, vegetarian or gluten-free. To drink there are sake, umeshu, Japanese whisky and beer, cocktails and wine. It is kosher, meat, under the Herzliya religious council; it is closed on Friday and opens on Saturday an hour and a half after Shabbat ends. On weekdays it serves a business lunch, and it offers a tasting menu for two at 710 shekels. Chanoma, a private room in the wabi-sabi style with its own screen, sound system and toilets, seats up to 30, and the restaurant also caters events and brings a Japanese chef's table to people's homes. In July 2026 mako put it among Israel's 50 best kosher restaurants, writing that for more than 14 years it has kept a rare consistency in a modest, minimalist room. In February 2026 Haaretz's Roni Kashmin wrote that it has insisted for years on modesty and respect for Japanese tradition, and in January 2025 Gloria Deutsch of The Jerusalem Post found it always busy, as on her earlier visits. In 2019 ynet named it among the three most highly regarded kosher Japanese restaurants in Israel.

29 facts checked 2026-10-01

What happens here

Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00
Business lunch

Every lunch dish comes with two starters chosen from miso soup, harusame salad, wakame salad, aubergine in udon broth, steamed rice and a green salad with Japanese vinaigrette. Yaki udon with salmon, chicken or tofu, a cold soba salad or a vegetarian roll combination cost 75 shekels; rice bowls such as tori katsu don and teriyaki don, beef yaki udon, the niji salad and four roll combinations 85; seared beef, salmon or fish on rice, the tataki salad and two roll combinations 95. Tartares cost 105 to 123 shekels, special rolls 79 to 98 and sushi combinations 82 to 168, also with two starters.

Every evening
The chef behind the bar

By the restaurant's account, chef Akki Tamora is behind the bar every evening, making its special and best-loved dishes himself.

As published on minato.co.il, read 2026-10-01.

At a glance

Shabbat
Closed, back 90 minutes after it ends
Kosher
Herzliya rabbinate, meat
Diet
Japanese, sushi, izakaya, gluten-free options
Prices
₪₪ of ₪₪₪
Wheelchair
Accessible entrance and toilets, an accessible table, accessible parking nearby
Parking
Accessible parking listed
  • Own website
  • Active on Instagram
  • Facebook page
  • Takeaway
  • Vegan options

Photos

On the chain's Facebook

For illustration: the town and the trade, not Minato itself. The chain's own pictures are on Instagram

Sushi rolls laid out on tiered white stands

Judgefloro / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Sushi rolls; here chef Akki Tamora works behind the sushi bar, and the rolls run from salmon and avocado to the Roppongi with zuke tuna
Thin slices of raw white fish dressed with olive oil

BanzJapan / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Thin slices of raw fish; here the sashimi comes as san ten mori, three fish of your choice, and as a hamachi tataki with ponzu
Office buildings in Herzliya Pituach's business zone, with café umbrellas at their foot

StateofIsrael / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Office buildings in Herzliya Pituach's business zone; it is in the Beit Ofek office building on HaMenofim Street

Opening hours

Checking the clock in Israel

Opening hours by day
Sunday to Thursday12:00-23:00
FridayClosed
Saturday night20:30-23:00
Sukkot26 September to 2 October
Simchat Torah3 Octoberfrom Friday evening

On Saturday it opens 90 minutes after Shabbat ends, so the time moves with the week: 20:30 this week.

Minato has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times

Candle lighting 6:05 PMShabbat ends 7:00 PM

As published on minato.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times

Sources disagree on these hours

Its website's Hebrew contact page gives Sunday to Thursday from 12:00 to 23:00, closed on Friday, and Saturday from an hour and a half after Shabbat ends until 23:00; its lunch menu is served from Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00. Its English contact page gives Sunday to Thursday from 16:00 to 23:00 and Saturday from 19:00 to 23:00. Its Google listing, as the copy in its Tabit booking record of 15 September 2026 gives it, has Sunday to Thursday from 12:00 to 22:30 and Saturday from 21:00 to 23:00; Wanderlog's copy has the same weekday hours and Saturday closed. Its Ontopo booking page gives Sunday to Thursday from 12:00 to 22:30 and Saturday from 21:30 to 23:00, and its Tabit booking page takes no tables on Friday. The Jerusalem Post's review of January 2025 gave noon to 23:00 from Sunday to Thursday and Saturday night from an hour after Shabbat.

Location

Map showing Minato at 8 HaMenofim Street, Beit Ofek, Herzliya Pituach, Herzliya

8 HaMenofim Street, Beit Ofek, Herzliya Pituach, Herzliya

WazeGoogle Maps
  • Train: Herzliya1.1 km from the door, straight line
  • Bus: Nearest stop 166 mlines 34
  • Parking: Accessible parking listedIts accessibility statement says there are accessible parking spaces nearby. OpenStreetMap maps the Beit Ofek underground car park, paid, with its entrance about 40 metres away, a paid surface car park about 50 metres away, and the Life Plaza underground car park, paid, about 115 metres away.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.

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Questions

About Minato

  • Closed on ShabbatOn Saturday it opens 90 minutes after Shabbat ends: 20:30 this week.
  • 1,270 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
  • 1.1 km from Herzliya stationBus stops within 492 m: החושלים/הסדנאות, ישעיהו ליבוביץ/אלן טיורינג, הסדנאות/שדרות אבא אבן, אבא אבן/ משכית, ישעיהו ליבוביץ/החושלים, מחלף הסירה לדרום, אלן טיורינג/אריה שנקר, שדרות אבא אבן/אריה שנקר, נעמי שמר/אבא אבן, יהושע בן נון/שד. אבא אבן, עדה לאבלייס/ישעיהו ליבוביץ.
  • Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
  • Price band ₪₪Rest puts it in the second of its four price bands, at 60 to 120 shekels a person, and its Google listing, as the copy in its Tabit record gives it, in the second of four. On the menus its website shows, read on 1 October 2026, soups cost 38 to 41 shekels, salads 42 to 90, tartares 88 to 111, the pan-seared dishes 75 to 98, gyoza 65 to 69, nigiri 22 to 25 a piece, sashimi 81 to 115, rolls of eight pieces 41 to 64 and special rolls 63 to 99; the desserts cost 47. Business lunches cost 75, 85 or 95 shekels, and the tasting menu for two 710.

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