Plan

Japanese design for the history and new era to come.

Offering Japanese cuisine Since 1945, Moritomi is relocating to the main street leading, and much closer, to the world heritage Himeji Castle. The design for its new space is inspired by the castle’s stone fortification base and reproduces similar patterns using three different materials: Rough and polished stones at the entrance wall, Black oxide coated steel plates at the reception wall, but also unconventionally using Japanese tatami mats to cover the walls of the banquet room and VIP room.

Furthermore, in the same spirit of traditional Japanese stone gardens, the floor was made in small resin coated gravels in white and black. The curves create a flowing movement from out the street to inside the restaurant’s reception hall mimicking the castle’s moat with both metallic and stone walls plunging in it.

Photography

1. Front exterior

2. Carved signature

3. Automatic door

4. Stone wall monument

5. Entrance hall

6. Black stone wall monuments

7. Sofa seating and Entrance hall

8. Sofa seats

9. counter seat

10. Private room on ground floor

11. Private room on ground floor

12. Private room on for 6 personsr

12. Private room

13. 6-person VIP room

14. Banquet room with partitions

15. Banquet room

16. Banquet room

Photo by: Stirling Elmendorf