Best Sushi & Japanese in Palma

Arume sits on Carrer de Sant Miquel, the pedestrian street near Plaça d'Espanya in central Palma, built around a big open kitchen and a long bar where you can watch chef Tomeu Martí's team work. Repsol files the cooking as Asian, Mediterranean and gastronomic, pairing nigiri with more creative hot dishes, and calls out the entrecôte tataki Thai salad, assorted nigiri, and prawn-and-sea-urchin tempura parcels. The carta also runs to tuna tartare, an Arume sashimi selection, a house chili crab and a duck, foie and shiitake dim sum. It's the only restaurant on this list holding a Repsol Recomendado listing. Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Monday and Sunday, and there's a chef's omakase at 105 euros a head if you want Martí's full sequence rather than picking off the carta. Diners rate it 4.6/5 on Google from 892 reviews and 9.4/10 on TheFork from 570.

Japo sits on Carrer de Sant Magí in Santa Catalina, running as an adults-only restaurant that doesn't take bookings for children under nine. The kitchen calls its own style japofusión, spanning classic Japanese cooking through to more avant-garde, fusion dishes with Mediterranean influences. The carta runs starters, gyozas, tartar, sashimi and tataki, sushi rolls, nigiri and desserts, with dishes like a Rossini roll built on beef tartare and foie gras mi-cuit with white truffle cream, and a Gadira wild bluefin tuna tataki. It holds a 9.7/10 score on TheFork and 4.2/5 on TripAdvisor from 406 reviews. Check the restaurant's own site or Instagram for current hours before visiting.

Kaizen takes its name from the Japanese idea of constant improvement, framing its values around product, respect, technique and dedication. It sits near Santa Eulàlia in Palma's old town, on Carrer de l'Argenteria, and chef Ismael Rojo runs contemporary Japanese cooking: sushi, sashimi, and shabu-shabu, the simmer-it-yourself hot pot that sets it apart from a straight sushi counter. The barra de sushi runs to Hokkaido scallop usuzukuri, O-toro nigiri and a Kagoshima A5 wagyu tataki, and the room is small enough that reservations, taken through Restoo, are worth making ahead. It's open Monday to Wednesday evenings and Thursday to Saturday for both lunch and dinner, closed Sunday. Diners rate it 4.9/5 on Google from 1,535 reviews, 4.9/5 on TripAdvisor from 621, and 9.7/10 on TheFork from 325.

Izakaya sits in the heart of Palma and frames itself as high Japanese cuisine, traditional technique carried through with a more avant-garde edge and local, seasonal produce. Chef Carlos Piedra Buena leads a deep kitchen team, and you can order a la carte or go the omakase route in 6, 8 or 9-step tasting formats with wine pairings available. It's open daily for both lunch and dinner. The numbers back up the ambition: 4.6/5 on Google from 2,241 reviews and 4.9/5 on TripAdvisor from 4,308, where it's ranked #1 of 2,669 restaurants in Palma de Mallorca and carries a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Best of the Best 2025 award. The raw bar runs to 50 grams of Siberian Reserve caviar at 130 euros, alongside robata-grilled Wagyu Miyasaki A5 and toro usuzukuri.

Hanaita has been a fixture next to the Santa Catalina market for close to four decades, according to a November 2025 Última Hora profile that describes it as the first Japanese restaurant in the neighbourhood. Chef Endo Koji has run the kitchen alone for 37 years per that profile, handling the market shopping and cooking himself with two servers helping out. The room seats around thirty across a dozen tables, cotton tablecloths and slightly antique tableware, austere but fairly welcoming per the same profile. There's no individual nigiri or maki ordering: the short carta comes as set, plated dishes, a misoshiru soup, a sunomono raw-fish salad built around tuna, salmon, langoustine and yellowtail, and a sushi platter that includes the house's signature Iberian ham nigiri, which staff suggest eating without soy sauce. Chef Álvaro Salazar of Voro, in Canyamel, has separately named Hanaita among his favourite places to eat in Palma, calling it the first Japanese place on the island. Open Tuesday to Saturday, lunch and dinner, closed Sunday and Monday; it has no website of its own, so call ahead to book.

Wasabi Palma spans two floors on Carrer de Sant Magí in Santa Catalina, part of the Wasabi group, which says on its own site it has run in Mallorca since 2004. A second location, Wasabi Blue, sits separately in Ciudad Jardín on the other side of the city. The kitchen combines traditional Japanese technique with fusion recipes: the Cold Appetizers section alone runs from ceviche and a seaweed salad to a spicy tuna tartare, a Creole tiradito and a hamachi tiradito, priced between 15 and 27 euros. It's open daily 13:30 to 23:00, until 23:30 on Fridays and Saturdays, one continuous service rather than a lunch-dinner split. Diners rate it 4.6/5 on Google from 1,044 reviews and 4.4/5 on TripAdvisor from 401. Book online through the restaurant's own Restoo page.

Daikiya Sushi sits on Carrer del General Riera in northern Palma, a cozy, casual room built around Japanese hospitality. Sushi is made fresh to order alongside sashimi, maki and hot dishes, with menus in Spanish and English. The carta runs wide: yaki-udon and yaki-soba alongside a full sushi bar, a chef's tartare trio of ceviche, salmon and tuna, and combo platters that stack up to an Exclusive AI-Type set of 25 pieces at 45.50 euros. It's open Monday, Wednesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner, closed Tuesday. Diners rate it 4.8/5 on Google from 1,569 reviews, 4.7/5 on TripAdvisor from 249, and 9.7/10 on TheFork.

Ta·Ke Sushiclub, branded on-site as TA·KE Japanese Restaurant, sits in El Terreno, a neighbourhood on Palma's seafront side of the city. The room is intimate and light-filled, big windows and wood decoration built to be faithful to Japanese spirit and aesthetics, with a bamboo-pole screen and a backlit wooden sign of the take (竹) kanji the name plays on. The a la carte menu runs from sashimi, tataki and tartar of tuna, salmon and butterfish through nigiri, hosomaki and maki-uramaki rolls to hot dishes like gyoza, yakisoba, fried rice and teriyaki salmon, plus an omakase note inviting diners to let the kitchen choose. abcMallorca's coverage names Alejandro Márquez as the chef, citing around 20 years in Japanese cooking, though the restaurant's own site doesn't name a chef itself. Dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday, 17:00 to midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. Takeaway and delivery run through Glovo and Just Eat alongside dine-in, and diners rate it well too: 4.8/5 on Google and 9.5/10 on TheFork, per aggregated review data.

Harajuku runs a gastro-sushi concept on Carrer de Joan Crespí in Palma's Ponent district, plating contemporary takes on Japanese dishes with premium ingredients rather than a straightforward rolls-only menu. The carta divides into house specialities, starters, salads, pokes, rolls, nigiri, sushi mixes, sashimi and desserts, running from a pulled pork bao with barbecue sauce to a hamachi tartare and a tempura salmon tataki. Beyond dine-in, it also runs takeaway and delivery across Palma, so it works as an at-home order as easily as a sit-down meal. Closed Sundays, open the rest of the week for lunch and dinner, with slightly later Friday and Saturday closing. Diners rate it 4.7/5 on Google from 771 reviews and 4.8/5 on TripAdvisor from 43.

Marui sits on Plaça del Progrés in Santa Catalina, blending Japanese heritage with local Mallorcan ingredients across sushi rolls, sashimi, nigiri and speciality dishes paired with sake. Temaki tacos are a house format here, a wagyu version stuffed with chopped A5 wagyu and ikura at 16.50 euros, alongside a Nigiri Omakase running 39 or 48 euros for eight pieces. There's also a distinct Marui Steak concept sharing the same address, so it's not purely a sushi room. It's open evenings only, Tuesday to Sunday from 17:00, with last orders running later Thursday through Saturday, closed Mondays. Diners rate it 4.8/5 on Google from 366 reviews.

Kasui opened in September 2019 on Plaça Raimundo Clar in Palma's old town, the project of Mallorcan chef Miki Cerdá after a stint at Roka in London. The format is robatayaki grilling crossed with Southeast Asian street-food influences, served as Asian-style sharing tapas: scallop sashimi with tobiko and a yuzu-truffle dressing, pork ribs marinated in Korean chilies, and a beef dim sum with Thai curry and cured prawns. It's got both a terrace and a bar, useful for a group rather than just two. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday, 13:00 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 23:00, closed Sunday and Monday, with reservations available online through Restoo or by phone. TripAdvisor rates it 4.8/5.

De Tokio a Lima runs Japanese, Peruvian and Mediterranean cooking under chef Germán de Bernardi inside Hotel Can Alomar, near Passeig del Born in Palma's old town, with a second outpost in Valldemossa. The kitchen states a focus on seasonal, locally sourced produce from Mallorcan farmers and artisans: a nigiri trilogy of scallop ceviche, Iberian pork and truffled quail egg, a roasted octopus with red mole and Lima-style causa, and a caviar corner running up to 100 grams of Oscietra Adamas at 360 euros. It's open daily, 13:00 to 15:30 and 19:30 to 22:30, and online bookings run up to seven people with tables held for 15 minutes past reservation time. Diners rate it 4.5/5 on Google from 590 reviews.

Mar de Nudos sits on the Moll Vell, Palma's old fishing harbour, founded by Marco di Loreto as a waterfront spot built around seafood. The kitchen runs both a Mediterranean menu and a distinct Japanese Cuisine section, from an Omakase Moriawase chef's selection (12 to 40 pieces, 38 to 98 euros) to signature rolls like the Wagyu Roll, foie gras, asparagus and pear in red wine topped with flambéed wagyu, at 46 euros. A cocktail programme runs alongside, and the kitchen keeps a long day, roughly 1pm to 1am, covering lunch straight through to late dinner. TripAdvisor rates it 3.5/5 from 808 reviews.

Quinta Avenida is a Japanese gastrobar on Avinguda del Comte de Sallent in Palma, built around an open kitchen with marés stone walls and vertical gardens. Chefs Guillermo Guzmán and Raúl Enseñat run a menu centred on robatayaki, the traditional Japanese charcoal grill, alongside sushi, with a stated philosophy of product and innovation and fusions across flavours. The entrantes section alone runs to a shiromi ceviche, a crispy tuna tartare, a tuna tiradito with Japanese truffle dressing, and Tebasaki, Japanese-style chicken wings. It's open daily, lunch 13:00 to 16:00 and dinner 19:30 to 23:00. Diners rate it 4.7/5 on Google from 2,301 reviews and 4.5/5 on TripAdvisor from 278.

Kansō takes its name from the Japanese idea of simplicity, letting flavours stand without ornament, framing itself as a modern Japanese tavern about five minutes from Plaça d'Espanya in central Palma. The kitchen centres on robata, Japanese charcoal-grill cooking, alongside a sushi bar and a list of signature cocktails, in a small, intimate room built for couples and date nights rather than big groups. The Kushiyaki skewers run from free-range chicken wings with yuzu teriyaki to Kagoshima A5 wagyu, and the robatayaki plates add an o-toro with parsnip purée and mirin-caramelised shiitake, and a black cod done Nobu style. It's open Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, then lunch and dinner Thursday to Saturday, closed Monday and Sunday. Diners rate it 4.9/5 on Google from 157 reviews. Reservations run through Restoo.

Kno-ma is a small omakase counter on Carrer Espartero where chef Miguel Rodríguez, five years at UMU in London before this, runs a chef-directed sequence blending Edomae tradition with kaiseki, everything prepared right in front of you. There's no fixed menu: a shorter tasting at 90 euros a head or a longer one at 135, with sake-and-wine pairings on top at 65 euros, or 110 for the premium version. The kitchen notes the menu includes raw and cooked fish, shellfish, soy and gluten, with no vegetarian adaptation, so it's not the flexible pick for a mixed-diet table. Two seatings a night, 19:15 and 21:30, Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday, and the meal runs around two and a half hours. Diners rate it 4.9/5 on Google from 106 reviews and 5.0/5 on TripAdvisor.

Nagami Nikkei sits on Carrer de Caro in Santa Catalina, building its menu around the nikkei tradition that unites Peruvian and Japanese cooking. The structure runs cold starters, hot starters, sushi rolls, mains and desserts: a Causa Limeña of Peruvian potato purée topped with aburi salmon, a smoked ají amarillo Ceviche Nikkei, and a Lomo Salteado, Peruvian stir-fried tenderloin in a chifa sauce reduction. There's a private group lounge for bigger bookings, plus gift experiences on offer. It's dinner only, Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Saturday from 18:30 to 23:00, closed Thursday and Sunday, a small, intimate room rather than a walk-in-friendly spot. TripAdvisor rates it 5.0/5 from 24 reviews.