After a week of cao lau, mi Quang and banh mi, most visitors start craving something different, and Japanese food is the change people reach for most. That is not a coincidence in this town. Four centuries ago Hoi An had its own Japanese quarter, and the bridge that ends Tran Phu Street is still called the Japanese Covered Bridge. Today the Japanese kitchens cluster again within about a kilometre of that bridge.

This guide covers sushi in Hoi An for every budget: a sushi bar 210 m from our shop on Phan Chau Trinh, a small omakase room in an alley off Le Loi, a street-food stall in the night market, a long-running restaurant on the road to Cua Dai beach, and three more. For each one we list the address, opening days, the per-person price band that diners report on Google Maps, and how far it is from 84 Phan Chau Trinh on foot or by bike.

Quick pick: which sushi place fits your evening

The seven places below are very different meals. Pick by the kind of night you want rather than by the rating, because every one of them sits between 4.7 and 5.0 stars on Google Maps.

Sushi in Hoi An Old Town: three places within 600 m

Three of the best-rated sushi places in town sit inside or on the edge of the heritage zone, close enough to walk between them. All three open in the afternoon, so they work as a dinner after the lanterns come on rather than a lunch stop.

Hien Sushi Bar — the all-round choice

62 Phan Chau Trinh · open 4 PM–10:30 PM · 4.9★ from 1,018 Google reviews · 200,000–300,000₫ per person (reported by 128 diners) · +84 559 868 888

Hien is the Old Town sushi bar with the longest track record on Google Maps. It is a dinner-only room lit by lanterns, and its rating holds up across more than a thousand reviews, which is rare for a Japanese place in a town this size. Diners mention avocado sushi, tempura rolls and eel alongside the usual nigiri and sashimi. It is 210 m from our shop, a three-minute walk along Phan Chau Trinh toward the river.

The price band is the sweet spot of the town: enough for a set of nigiri, a roll and a drink at around $8–12 a head. Go early on weekend evenings, as tables fill once the Old Town crowd moves off the river.

Temari Omakase & Sushi — the special-occasion choice

02/22 Le Loi (an alley off Le Loi Street) · open 4 PM–10:30 PM, closed Tuesday · 4.9★ from 350 Google reviews · +84 934 948 017

Temari is one of the newer names on this list and the most focused. Reviewers describe a small, calm room where a Japanese chef serves an omakase menu course by course and explains each piece, with bluefin tuna sashimi and the temari sushi it is named after (small round balls of rice topped with fish) mentioned most often. Google Maps shows no price band yet; diners call it a premium meal, so budget above the 300,000₫ that covers Hien.

The room is small, and reviewers note people being turned away at the door. Message or call to book, especially on Friday and Saturday. It is 350 m from 84 Phan Chau Trinh, five minutes on foot.

Ni Sushi — Japanese street food at the night market

Nguyen Phuc Chu, An Hoi · open 2 PM–10:30 PM daily · 5.0★ from 595 Google reviews · 100,000–200,000₫ per person · +84 905 806 960

Across the An Hoi bridge, in the night-market strip, Ni Sushi sells sushi as a snack rather than a sit-down dinner. Diners single out a smoked-salmon rice roll, and the cooking leans Vietnamese-Japanese rather than strict Tokyo. A perfect 5.0 from almost 600 reviews is unusual anywhere; part of it is price, because this is the cheapest sushi on our list.

It is 600 m from our shop, about eight minutes on foot. Combine it with a stroll through the Hoi An night market: a roll or two here, then grilled corn and a coconut further along.

In Hoi An the sushi bars open as the day-trippers head home. Plan your Japanese dinner for after dark, and your Japanese lunch somewhere east of the river bend.

East of the Old Town: Echitora and Samurai Kitchen

The streets east of the market, toward Phan Boi Chau and its colonial houses, are quieter and less touristy. Two Japanese kitchens there serve lunch as well as dinner.

Echitora — sushi, sashimi and tempura at lunch too

11B Phan Boi Chau · 11 AM–2:30 PM and 5 PM–9:30 PM, closed Wednesday · 4.8★ from 771 Google reviews · 200,000–700,000₫ per person · +84 702 474 707

Echitora calls itself an authentic Japanese restaurant and lists sushi, sashimi and tempura in its name, which is a fair summary of the menu. The owner previously worked in a Japanese restaurant in Australia, according to local guides, and the wide price band reflects a menu that runs from simple rolls to large sashimi platters. With its lunch service it is a good choice for sushi in Hoi An in the middle of the day.

From 84 Phan Chau Trinh it is 1.1 km, about 15 minutes on foot or three minutes by bike. Mind the afternoon gap: the kitchen closes from 2:30 PM to 5 PM.

Samurai Kitchen — when you want cooked Japanese food

09 Tieu La · 11:30 AM–8:30 PM daily · 4.7★ from 641 Google reviews · 100,000–200,000₫ per person · +84 778 504 627

Not everyone in a group wants raw fish. Samurai Kitchen is the answer: a small wood-panelled room doing ramen, tonkatsu, okonomiyaki, karaage and unagi rice bowls, with staff who teach origami at the table. It is our bonus pick, since sushi is not the point here. It closes at 8:30 PM, earlier than everything else on the list, and it is 700 m from our shop, a ten-minute walk.

North side: Min’s Sushi and Wakaku

North of the Old Town, between Tran Cao Van and Ly Thuong Kiet, the streets are outside the walking zone. That makes these two the easiest Japanese dinners to reach by scooter at night.

Min’s Sushi Bar & BBQ — long hours, every day

18 Tran Cao Van · 11 AM–10:45 PM daily · 4.8★ from 763 Google reviews · 100,000–500,000₫ per person · +84 935 452 472

Min’s is the most flexible place on the list: open every day, from late morning until almost 11 PM, with no closing day. The menu mixes sushi with grilled beef; diners mention California rolls, avocado maki, sashimi sets and salmon-skin salad. Reviews credit a Japanese-trained chef and prices that stay reasonable.

It is 800 m from 84 Phan Chau Trinh, an 11-minute walk, and you can park at the door because Tran Cao Van is not part of the restricted zone.

Wakaku — dinner in a hotel dining room

39 Dao Duy Tu (inside Hotel Royal Hoi An) · 4 PM–10 PM daily · 4.7★ from 109 Google reviews · +84 235 3950 777

Wakaku is the most formal of the seven: a hotel restaurant with an open kitchen, serving sashimi, sushi, ramen, unadon and miso soup, with sesame ice cream to finish. The room takes its theme from the old Japanese–Vietnamese trade, which suits the town. Fewer reviews than the others means fewer data points, but the score is steady. It is 750 m away, about three minutes by bike.

On the beach road: Hoshigami

207 Cua Dai, Hoi An Dong ward · 11:30 AM–10 PM, closed Monday · 4.7★ from 507 Google reviews · 200,000–300,000₫ per person · +84 868 785 586

Hoshigami has been on Cua Dai Road since 2015, which makes it the veteran of this list. It sits on the road between the Old Town and Cua Dai beach, so it is the natural stop on the way back from a swim, or a dinner if you are staying in one of the resorts along that road.

From 84 Phan Chau Trinh it is 3.2 km, about 10 minutes by scooter or e-bike. That is too far to walk comfortably on a hot evening, and a short, easy ride on a wide road. Cua Dai Road is outside the walking-street zone, so parking at the door is not an issue.

What sushi in Hoi An costs

Sushi in Hoi An costs several times a bowl of cao lau, but it is still a modest bill by international standards. The table uses the per-person price band diners report on Google Maps; it is a guide to the bill, not a menu.

Three things push the bill up: sashimi platters (imported salmon and premium tuna are the expensive lines on every menu), imported Japanese beer or sake, and the omakase format at Temari. A couple sharing two rolls and a nigiri set with soft drinks will usually land in the 400,000–600,000₫ range at Hien or Hoshigami. Most places take cash; ask before you order if you plan to pay by card.

Why a Vietnamese trading town does Japanese food well

In the early 1600s Hoi An was one of the busiest ports in Southeast Asia, and Japanese merchants on licensed “red seal” ships came every season with the winds. They lived around the west end of town, near today’s Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street. The covered bridge at the end of that street is traditionally credited to them, which is why everyone still calls it the Japanese Covered Bridge; in 1719 the Nguyen lord Nguyen Phuc Chu renamed it Lai Vien Kieu, “the bridge of friends from afar”.

The Japanese quarter faded fast after the Tokugawa shogunate closed Japan to the outside world in the 1630s, the policy known as sakoku: Japanese subjects abroad could no longer go home, and trade passed to Chinese merchants. A few merchants’ graves still stand in the rice fields outside town.

The link never fully broke. Hoi An and Japan hold a Hoi An–Japan cultural exchange in the Old Town, Japanese visitors are among the town’s steadiest guests, and most of the Japanese kitchens on this list sit within a kilometre of where the old quarter stood. Eating sushi here is, in a small way, eating in what was once the best-known Japanese town in Vietnam.

Ordering well: freshness, booking and the rainy season

• Go where the turnover is. In a hot climate, raw fish is only as good as the cold chain behind it. The places above are busy, which is the best guarantee you can get as a visitor. Be more careful with sashimi at quiet restaurants whose main menu is not Japanese.
• Ask what came in today. Salmon on most menus is imported. If the kitchen has local tuna or another fish that came in fresh, it will usually say so when asked, and that is often the best plate of the night.
• New to sushi? Start cooked. Tempura rolls, eel, California rolls and torched salmon are good first orders, and children usually prefer them.
• Book the small rooms. Temari needs a reservation on busy nights; Hien can fill up on weekend evenings. Use the phone numbers above, which are the ones listed on Google Maps.
• Mind the flood season. From October to December, heavy rain can flood the riverside streets, and Nguyen Phuc Chu, where Ni Sushi stands, is among the first to go under water. On flood-alert days, choose a place away from the river such as Min’s or Hoshigami.
• Tell them about allergies clearly. Write it down or show it on your phone; shellfish, sesame and soy are common in Japanese sauces.

Getting there: walking-street hours and parking

The sushi places in the Old Town open just as the town shuts to motor traffic. Hoi An closes its heritage core to motorbikes and cars in the afternoon and evening, and on Phan Chau Trinh the barriers go up at around 17:30. The full schedule and the list of closed streets is in our guide to the Old Town vehicle restriction hours. In practice:

Distances are Google Maps walking routes (driving for Wakaku and Hoshigami), measured on 2 October 2026. If you are staying out at An Bang or Cua Dai, ride in before the barriers go up, or park in a paid lot on the edge of the zone and walk the last few hundred metres. Do not trust the navigation line: Google Maps does not know the walking-street hours and will route you straight down a closed street.

Hungry for more than sushi? Our what to eat in Hoi An guide covers the local dishes, and the Hoi An food crawl by motorbike strings five stops into one afternoon.

Sushi in Hoi An: FAQ

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This is a researched guide, not a sponsored list: no restaurant paid to appear. Addresses, opening hours, phone numbers, ratings and per-person price bands come from Google Maps as of 2 October 2026; dishes are those named in public diner reviews. Distances were measured on Google Maps from Anh Khoa, 84 Phan Chau Trinh. Photos of sushi are illustrative and were not taken at the restaurants named. Hours and prices change, so call ahead before a special dinner.