Issen — Restaurant in Naoshima

Three course options to pick from, around 3k yen each. Frankly speaking, you're paying for the ambience rather than the food. The food is just ok.. I'd have hoped the sashimi is fresher and of better quality/types of fish, given that it's an upscale place. There's not many options for food around the Benesse Museum (there's a cafe which is more affordable), unless you don't mind paying more than you should for food, and want to take instagrammable shots, I wouldn't recommend. You can eat around the two ports where there are more food spots.

That said, the service is...

For this price, I was expecting a nice or at least decent dinner. The food was bad, the quality of the product was super low, the salmon sashimi had no taste, or even worse, it had an old freezer finishing taste (no fish taste involved). We had a simple lunch at the port for 20€ that was way better. Honestly go eat elsewhere in the island. I really...

After I couldn’t get a seat at the cafe upstairs, I saw that the restaurant only had 2 tables with people, I asked if I could have a drink and they said it’s fully booked, just ridiculous, it was clearly empty, and even if people booked the tables, I told them it will only take 10 mins for me because I have to catch the shuttle, they still would...