Shikairou
Nagasaki's oldest Chinese restaurant, and the place where champon was invented in 1899.
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Shikairou
SaveNagasaki's oldest Chinese restaurant, and the place where champon was invented in 1899.
A bowl of champon is pork and chicken broth loaded with local seafood and vegetables; saraudon started here too.
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Glover Garden, then champon at Shikairou (July 2021)
Down the hill from Glover Garden. Told a two-hour wait, but tables turn fast and it was just over an hour.
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Nagasaki with a 3- and 4-year-old, part 2: Glover Garden, then lunch nearby
Noon with a 3- and 4-year-old: ten minutes' wait, a lift wide enough for the buggy, and child bowls and chopsticks.
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Nagasaki 2: a big private room at Shikairou with a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old
Private rooms are the only bookable seats, course menu only: 4,840 yen a head, each dish plated individually.
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Walking the hill city: Golden Week in Nagasaki with primary-school children
Oura and Glover are all slopes. By evening the six-year-old sat down and they took a taxi back. Plan the tram legs.
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- Fee：No prices are published anywhere on the official site - all eight pages carry the history of champon and saraudon but no menu and no figures. Budget cannot be given from the official source.■
- Hours：Lunch 11:30-15:00 (last entry 14:30) and dinner 17:00-20:00 (last entry 19:30). Last entry moves earlier when it is busy, so arriving in the 14:00 hour may not get you in. The restaurant is shut between 15:00 and 17:00. The first-floor shop keeps different hours, 10:00-17:30, and stays open through that gap. Closing days are not a fixed weekday: roughly two Wednesdays a month, announced month by month (5 and 19 August 2026; 2 and 16 September).■
- Time needed：60 min
- Booking：The restaurant takes no reservations at all, and bookings through websites, apps or reservation agencies are refused without exception. There is no way to hold a table from abroad; you queue on the day. The only exception is a private room, which must be arranged by phone (095-822-1296) or fax (095-826-7353) at least two business days ahead, for four people or more, and only with a set course ordered. Enquiries are taken 10:00-17:00.■Official booking site ↗
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Champon was invented here in 1899, for Chinese students living in Nagasaki, on pork and chicken broth with whatever the local sea and hills gave. Saraudon came out of the same kitchen, and comes two ways: soft thick noodles in sauce, or thin ones fried crisp. Order the thick ones for a child who cannot manage hard noodles. Lunch stops taking guests at 14:30, earlier when busy, so arrive before 14:00. From 15:00 to 17:00 the dining room shuts; the ground-floor shop stays open to 17:30.
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| Private room | Yes | Private rooms exist but are reservation-only: at least two business days ahead, four people or more, and only with a set course ordered. They cannot be taken on the day, so they are not a fallback for a family that turns up with a baby. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | shikairou.com |
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