The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa Refurbished: The New Restaurants and What Has Changed

Coastal Italian Elegance package (one room, two guests, dinner and breakfast, tax and service in)JPY 124,500per room, per nightBreakfast at Gusuku and a five-course dinner at Riva Ristorante

Hotel

The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa (1343-1 Kise, Nago, Okinawa; 97 rooms; opened 28 May 2012)

Refurbished

2026-07-17 — every restaurant plus the Lobby Lounge & Bar

New restaurant

Riva Ristorante (Italian, 60 seats, 17:00–21:30)

Stay period

2026-07-17 – 2027-01-17

Deadline

Stays up to 2027-01-17

Checked on

2026-09-14

The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa reopened on 17 July 2026 with every restaurant and the Lobby Lounge & Bar refurbished. The Italian room changed hands — Chura-Nuhji is gone and Riva Ristorante stands in its place — and the commemorative package, Coastal Italian Elegance, starts at JPY 124,500 for one room and two guests with dinner and breakfast. It runs to stays of 17 January 2027.

Chura-Nuhji has become Riva Ristorante, and the commemorative plan starts at JPY 124,500 for two

Riva Ristorante is built on southern Italy meeting Okinawa. It cooks with fish, seafood and herbs from the islands, and it sends the food out on large plates to share rather than plating each guest separately. Sixty seats, terrace included. Service runs 17:00 to 21:30 and the dress code is casual. The kitchen answers to Rei Matsuyama, the hotel’s new executive chef, who worked through luxury hotels in Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom, joined Park Hyatt Niseko HANAZONO as an opening member and set its food and beverage concept, and was executive chef at The St. Regis Osaka.

The other rooms moved as well. Gusuku, the all-day dining room, has made shabu-shabu of Okinawa-prefecture ingredients its new signature, and serves breakfast from 7:00 to 10:30 and dinner from 17:00 to 21:30. Teppanyaki Kise now plates its kuroge wagyu on vessels by Ryukyu master craftsmen, also 17:00 to 21:30. The Lobby Lounge & Bar is open 11:00 to 23:00, and the entrance, the front desk and the rest of the shared space were rebuilt at the same time. The guest rooms were not in the scope. All 97 of them date from the opening on 28 May 2012; what changed here is the food and the parts of the hotel everyone walks through.

Bookings for Coastal Italian Elegance opened on 5 June 2026. The price of JPY 124,500 is for one room and two guests and already carries consumption tax and the service charge. It buys one night with two meals: breakfast at Gusuku, and at Riva Ristorante a prix fixe of five courses built for this plan alone — antipasto, a warm appetiser, fresh pasta, a main and a dessert. The welcome spritz cocktail, or its mocktail, ran only to stays of 31 August 2026, so anyone arriving from September gets the meals and nothing beyond them.

Two meals inside the rate puts this plan on different ground from a room-only booking with dinner taken outside. What the same dates cost without meals shows up on the date-by-date view at Klook. Set that gap beside the price of one dinner before deciding.

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Source: The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa, press release on the renewal opening of 17 July 2026 / the same hotel’s announcement of Coastal Italian Elegance / The Ritz-Carlton Okinawa official site, Dining (checked 2026-09-14) / Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)