{"id":36427,"date":"2026-03-15T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36427"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:51:36","slug":"japanese-food-chain-itacho-sushi-shuts-all-outlets-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36427","title":{"rendered":"Japanese food chain Itacho Sushi shuts all outlets in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Japanese restaurant chain Itacho Sushi appears to have shuttered all its outlets in Singapore, following a spate of closures here in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">As at March 15, the four remaining Itacho Sushi outlets were listed on Google Maps as permanently closed. These outlets were located at Ion Orchard, Bugis Junction, The Star Vista and Novena\u2019s Square 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They had been listed on Itacho Sushi\u2019s website \u2013 which is down \u2013 according to a <!-- -->Nov 12, 2025, archived snapshot. <!-- -->This follows closures of the chain\u2019s other outlets at <!-- -->Tampines Mall <!-- -->and <!-- -->Bedok Mall<!-- --> within a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Checks on <!-- -->TikTok, Instagram and Facebook<!-- --> on <!-- -->March 15<!-- --> showed that the company\u2019s Singapore accounts had been taken down too. The Itacho Sushi mobile app was also not available on the Google Play Store and App Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to the government portal Bizfile, Itacho BM, which operates the Singapore chain of restaurants, is listed as being \u201cgazetted to be struck off\u201d the <!-- -->Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority\u2019s<!-- --> Register of Companies. The notice was first published in the <!-- -->Government Gazette on Feb 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Itacho Sushi opened in Singapore in July <!-- -->2009<!-- --> as a subsidiary brand of <!-- -->Taste of Japan Group<!-- -->, which was founded in <!-- -->Hong Kong in 2004.<!-- --> While branding itself as a handmade sushi specialist, the restaurant offers a variety of Japanese dishes such as sashimi, hand rolls, as well as rice and noodle dishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It shut its last Hong Kong branch in <!-- -->December 2024,<!-- --> following the death of its founder<!-- --> Ricky Cheng<!-- -->, <!-- -->a<!-- -->ccording to Hong Kong media site South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Straits Times has contacted <!-- -->CapitaLand<!-- --> Malls, Far East Malls and The Star Vista for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/japanese-food-chain-itacho-sushi-shuts-outlets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Japanese restaurant chain Itacho Sushi appears to have shuttered all its outlets in Singapore, following a spate of closures here in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}