Swissôtel Nankai Osaka (Chuo Ward, Osaka), a hotel with Swiss roots, is offering limited-time special plans at its in-house restaurants for the festive season from Christmas through the year-end and New Year holidays. The lineup includes lunch and dinner buffets suited to meals with family and friends, Christmas course menus from each restaurant, and special plans for the year-end and New Year period.
For details, see the official festive dining offers page (Japanese).
Festive Season Plans
Table36
Table36 Christmas Buffet / Image
On the hotel's top floor, Table36 serves lunch and dinner buffets for Christmas and the New Year holidays with views over the Osaka cityscape. At Christmas, the menu includes dishes such as roast turkey and pork braised in red wine. For the New Year period, the buffet features dishes made with fresh seafood and seasonal vegetables.
On New Year's Eve, a countdown party welcomes the new year with a light-bite buffet, free-flow drinks including champagne, and live band music.
Christmas Lunch Buffet
- Dates: December 24 (Thursday) and 25 (Friday), 2026
- Price: Adults ¥9,500 / Children (ages 4 to 12) ¥4,750
Christmas Dinner Buffet
- Dates: December 24 (Thursday) to 27 (Sunday), 2026
- Price: Adults ¥13,000 / Children (ages 4 to 12) ¥6,500
Year-End and New Year Lunch Buffet
- Dates: December 31 (Thursday), 2026 to January 3 (Sunday), 2027
- Price: Adults ¥9,500 / Children (ages 4 to 12) ¥4,750
Year-End and New Year Dinner Buffet
- Dates: December 31 (Thursday), 2026 to January 3 (Sunday), 2027
- Price: Adults ¥13,000 / Children (ages 4 to 12) ¥6,500
Table36 Countdown Party 2026 - 2027
- Date and time: December 31 (Thursday), 2026, 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM (next day)
- Price: Adults ¥20,000
Sample menu (Christmas dinner buffet)
- Savory: Seafood terrine with herb salad and basil mayonnaise, yellowtail carpaccio with yuzu vinaigrette, prosciutto and melon, Japanese pond smelt escabeche, pork braised in red wine, lobster cream croquette, roast turkey, seafood platter, roast beef of Wagyu ribeye, and more
- Sweets: Strawberry tart, stollen, panettone, strawberry shortcake, Mont Blanc cake, strawberry chocolate fountain, white chocolate fountain, and more
Teppanyaki Minami (鉄板焼「みなみ」)
Teppanyaki Minami / Image
At Teppanyaki Minami, guests can watch the chef at work right in front of them. For the festive season, the restaurant offers special course menus using premium Olive Beef, top-grade Japanese black beef, Ezo abalone, and seasonal vegetables from its contract farm Senshu Agri (泉州アグリ).
Festive Season Menu
- Dates: December 19 (Saturday), 2026 to January 3 (Sunday), 2027
- Price: ¥15,000 (lunch only) / ¥18,000 / ¥26,000 / ¥30,000
Sample menu: Christmas set menu, Premium Olive Beef Course (December 19 to 25), ¥30,000
- Yellowtail carpaccio with caviar and salmon roe, yuzu foam
- Live Ezo abalone and maitake mushrooms with soy butter sauce
- Creamy organic pumpkin soup with black truffle
- Sorbet of the day
- Premium Olive Beef tenderloin (50 g) and sirloin (50 g)
- Three kinds of seasonal vegetables direct from Senshu Agri
- Garlic rice with Senshu vegetables, miso soup, and pickles
- Warm cheesecake with vanilla ice cream, served with a flame presentation
Reserve Teppanyaki Minami (TableCheck)
Chinese Restaurant Empress Room (中国料理「エンプレスルーム」)
Empress Room / Image
Empress Room serves authentic Cantonese cuisine. The Christmas course features ingredients such as lobster, roast duck breast, and caviar. For the New Year, the restaurant offers a course for celebrating the start of the year, with a traditional steamed soup made with delicacies from the mountains and the sea, spiny lobster, and abalone.
Christmas Course
- Dates: December 19 (Saturday) to December 25 (Friday), 2026
- Price: ¥14,800
New Year Celebration Course
- Dates: January 1 (Friday) to February 28 (Sunday), 2027
- Price: ¥23,000
Sample menu: Christmas course (December 19 to 25), ¥14,800
- Assorted chef's special appetizers
- Thick cauliflower soup with crab meat, topped with caviar
- Roast duck breast with mango and plum sauce
- Lobster in chili sauce with fried bread
- Fried rice with seafood and flying fish roe
- Almond jelly with strawberries and bird's nest, and a seasonal roll cake
Reserve Empress Room (TableCheck)
Japanese Restaurant Hanagoyomi (日本料理「花暦」)
Hanagoyomi / Image
Hanagoyomi values carefully prepared dashi and the flavors of each season. For the end of the year, it offers a kaiseki meal featuring seafood and mountain ingredients such as crab, tuna, golden eye snapper, and Osaka-raised Kawachi duck (河内鴨). For the New Year, the restaurant serves dishes made with ingredients such as tiger pufferfish and seared sea urchin, along with auspicious ingredients such as herring roe.
Year-End Kaiseki (年の瀬会席)
- Dates: December 26 (Saturday) to December 31 (Thursday), 2026
- Price: ¥19,500
New Year Menu (お正月メニュー)
- Dates: January 1 (Friday) to January 3 (Sunday), 2027
- Price:
- New Year Lunch Gozen (新春昼御前): ¥8,500 / ¥11,000
- New Year Kaiseki (新春会席): ¥14,500 / ¥16,000 / ¥23,500
Sample menu: New Year Kaiseki "Hanagoyomi" (新春会席「花暦」), ¥23,500
- Appetizer: Homemade tapioca and lily bulb tofu, sake-steamed abalone, Hokkaido salmon roe, and savory dashi jelly
- Steamed egg custard with snow crab and mizore-style sauce (霙餡), scented with yuzu
- Boiled rape blossoms with herring roe
- Sashimi: Assortment of three (tiger pufferfish, pufferfish skin in ponzu vinegar dressing, medium-fatty bluefin tuna), sprinkled with gold leaf
- Grilled fish: Hokkaido kichiji (thornyhead) Saikyo-yaki, vinegared vegetables, and boiled mizuna and mushrooms
- Fried dish: Shrimp and lotus root sandwich fry, vegetable tempura, tempura dipping sauce, and red salt
- Hearty dish (強肴): Domestic beef loin, roast beef style, with seared Hokkaido sea urchin, sautéed Kyo-negi (Kyoto green onion), sprouts, Japanese-style sauce, and chopped wasabi
- Rice: Three pieces of premium nigiri sushi, eel and cucumber thin roll (鰻胡細巻き寿司), and miso soup
- Dessert: Yuzu matcha mousse, dumplings with sweet soy sauce, domestic strawberries, and gold leaf
Reserve Hanagoyomi (TableCheck)
Whisky & Wine "Shun" (ウイスキー＆ワイン「シュン」)
Whisky & Wine "Shun" / Image
Whisky & Wine "Shun" lets guests enjoy rare whiskies and fine wines from around the world alongside food. For the festive season from Christmas to the New Year holidays, it offers a course of 10 distinctive skewers and a course of 8 selected skewers. At Christmas, creative skewer dishes such as kuruma prawn, fried tilefish with scales, and beef and foie gras Rossini style can be enjoyed at both lunch and dinner.
Christmas Course Menu
- Date: December 25 (Friday), 2026
- Price: ¥12,000 / ¥15,000
Festive Course Menu
- Dates: December 26 (Saturday) and 27 (Sunday); December 30 (Wednesday), 2026 to January 3 (Sunday), 2027
- Note: December 30 to January 1 is open for dinner only
- Price: ¥9,000 / ¥10,000
Sample menu: Christmas course menu (December 25), ¥15,000
- Appetizer, starter, vegetable sticks (with Shun's original miso), and champagne granita
- 10 creative skewers: Kuruma prawn; cream croquette of ebi-imo taro simmered in dashi; fried tilefish with scales; scallop in a clam chowder style; daikon oden style with yuzu miso; red gurnard with sweet-vinegar myoga; beef and foie gras Rossini style with burdock mash; "Winter Trio" of steamed turnip, fried turnip skewer, and turnip vichyssoise; sea bream and strawberry skewer with cinnamon-scented sherry sauce; apple and Camembert with a honey flavor, "in the style of a dessert"
- Grilled kuruma prawn risotto with Américaine sauce, and warm chazoba noodles with Mitsuse chicken (みつせ鶏)
- Bûche de Noël with berry sauce and vanilla ice cream
Reserve Whisky & Wine "Shun" (TableCheck)
Retro Bar "NAMBAR10" (レトロバー「ナンバー10」)
Retro Bar "NAMBAR10" / Image
On the 10th floor, the Retro Bar "NAMBAR10" is holding its Christmas Chicken Party again this year after its popularity last year. It is a 2-hour order-style buffet of the hotel's original chicken dishes, such as fried chicken and grilled chicken, with side dishes, paired with free-flow drinks. The party is suited to a lively Christmas with friends.
Christmas Chicken Party
- Date: December 25 (Friday), 2026
- Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (last order at 9:00 PM)
- Price: ¥7,500
Retro Countdown Party 2027
- Date: December 31 (Thursday), 2026
- Time: Opens 6:00 PM, closes 1:00 AM (next day)
- Price: ¥3,500
Sample menu (Christmas Chicken Party)
- Food: Fried chicken, Buffalo chicken wings, grilled chicken with champagne sauce, sweet and sour chicken, chicken nuggets with BBQ sauce, crab meat salad with apple dressing, crispy french fries, and more
- Drinks: Beer, highballs, wine (red and white), assorted cocktails, and assorted soft drinks
Reserve Retro Bar "NAMBAR10" (TableCheck)
Swiss Gourmet (スイスグルメ)
At Swiss Gourmet, the takeout shop on the 6th floor, the lineup includes four kinds of Christmas cakes, along with the hotel's original fried chicken and roast chicken. Items that also suit Christmas gifts are on offer too, such as stollen, Kugelhopf, and cookies designed after the hotel's mascot character みなみモウ.
Midosuji Illumination Festive Package 2026
Swiss Executive Room (スイス エグゼクティブ ルーム) / Image
Sole Ocean travel set / Image
After enjoying the Midosuji illumination, guests can relax with a stay at the hotel. This seasonal accommodation plan comes with a travel set from Sole Ocean, a skincare brand from Taiwan, and lets guests combine winter sightseeing in Osaka with a hotel stay.
- Stay period: November 3 (Tuesday) to December 31 (Thursday), 2026
- Package includes:
- Breakfast buffet at Table36
- Sole Ocean Revitalizing Series travel set, one set per room (toner, serum, day cream, night cream, and eye cream)
Midosuji Illumination Festive Package 2026 (official site, Japanese)
Reservations and Inquiries
36th floor
- Table36: 06-6646-5125 / Table36.Osaka@swissotel.com
10th floor
- Teppanyaki Minami: 06-6646-5128 / Minami.Osaka@swissotel.com
- Empress Room: 06-6646-5129 / EmpressRoom.Osaka@swissotel.com
- Hanagoyomi: 06-6646-5127 / HanaGoyomi.Osaka@swissotel.com
- Retro Bar "NAMBAR10": 06-6646-5129 / Nambar10.Osaka@swissotel.com
6th floor
- Whisky & Wine "Shun": 06-6646-5122 / Shun.Osaka@swissotel.com
Swissôtel Nankai Osaka
- TEL: 06-6646-1111 (main) / Email: Osaka@swissotel.com
- Official website (Japanese)
Notes
- Listed prices include a 13% service charge and 10% consumption tax.
- Contents and prices are subject to change without notice.
- All photos are for illustration purposes.
