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Best Sushi Restaurants in Las Vegas 2026
Sushi & omakase · Las Vegas · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 20, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026
Michelin gave up on Las Vegas in 2009, which tells you nothing useful about the sushi. Some of the best imported fish in America lands here every morning, flown from Japan to feed rooms run by chefs who hold stars on other continents — Tetsuya Wakuda, Nobu Matsuhisa, Masaharu Morimoto — and to supply a small Chinatown counter that quietly out-cooks most of them. The city's sushi splits cleanly in two: the big-name Strip rooms, where the fish is excellent and the setting is theatre, and the off-Strip Edomae counters on Spring Mountain Road, where the nigiri is purer and the bill is lower. Ranked on the fish, the room and what the bill buys, with what to order at each.
1.Wakuda
Tetsuya Wakuda's first US room, with a hidden six-seat omakase counter; book it for the grandest sushi night on the Strip.
Wakuda, in the Palazzo lobby at The Venetian, is the highest-profile sushi room in Las Vegas — the first United States restaurant from Tetsuya Wakuda, the Australian-Japanese chef behind the two-Michelin-star Waku Ghin in Singapore. The main room does modern Japanese and a strong sushi bar with seafood flown in from around the world; the real prize is the Omakase Room, six seats tucked behind a bar and lit by an onyx counter, where the chef builds a tasting to the table. Interiors nod to Shinjuku, the cocktails are serious, and the bill climbs fast — à la carte runs into the low hundreds, the Omakase Room well beyond. Book a week ahead for the dining room and as far out as you can for the omakase counter. The Strip's headline act.
Reserve a week ahead, or further for the Omakase Room; the chef's nigiri, the toro, the signature cocktails.
2.Kabuto Edomae Sushi
The off-Strip Chinatown counter flying fish from Japan six days a week; book it for the purest, best-value nigiri in the city.
Kabuto Edomae Sushi, on Spring Mountain Road in Chinatown, is where serious sushi people in Las Vegas actually eat. It is a small, traditional Tokyo-style room: a Hinoki-wood counter, two daily-changing omakase menus, and fish flown from Japan six days a week, shaped into nigiri over warm shari across a roughly two-hour seating. There is no casino, no spectacle, no view — just the counter and the chef — and it out-cooks most of the Strip for a fraction of the resort price. It is the antidote to the megaresort sushi room. Book a week ahead, take a counter seat, and order the full omakase rather than à la carte. The purist's pick, off the Strip.
Reserve a week ahead, sit at the counter; the daily omakase, the aged tuna, whatever flew in that morning.
3.Mizumi
Wynn's lagoon-side Japanese room with a sushi bar and waterfalls; book a garden table for the most beautiful sushi setting on the Strip.
Mizumi, at Wynn Las Vegas, is the most beautiful Japanese room in the city — a sweeping space framing a private lagoon and Zen garden, with sliding glass panels that open onto two waterfalls cascading into a koi pond. It runs three kitchens at once: an à la carte menu, a theatrical teppanyaki room, and a sushi bar working fish sourced daily from Japan. The sushi is very good without being purist, and the setting does a lot of the work — a garden table at dusk is one of the Strip's signature dinners. Prices are resort-level. Book a few days ahead, request a table by the waterfalls, and split your order between the sushi bar and the robata. The most scenic pick.
Reserve a few days ahead, ask for a garden table; the sushi-bar nigiri, the toro, a robata skewer.
4.Nobu
The flagship Nobu inside its own hotel at Caesars; book it for the dishes that defined modern Japanese-Peruvian dining worldwide.
Nobu, inside the Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace, is the Las Vegas home of the most influential Japanese restaurant brand on earth. Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian playbook is all here — yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, black cod marinated in miso, tiradito and rock-shrimp tempura — alongside a full sushi bar. It is not the most traditional sushi in town, but it is the most consistent crowd-pleaser, and the room, attached to the world's first Nobu Hotel, runs like a machine. À la carte lands in the low hundreds; the omakase climbs higher. Book a few days ahead, sit at the sushi bar if you want nigiri, and order the black cod and the yellowtail-jalapeño whatever else you get. The reliable global classic.
Reserve a few days ahead; the yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, the black cod miso, the sushi-bar nigiri.
5.Morimoto
Iron Chef Morimoto's flashy MGM room with a sushi bar and full sake list; book it for a sushi-and-spectacle dinner with a group.
Morimoto, at the MGM Grand, is Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's Las Vegas flagship — a big, design-heavy room that does a bit of everything: a sushi and sashimi bar, robatayaki, a long sake program and the chef's signature flourishes like the toro tartare and the "angry chicken." The sushi is solid and the seafood towers and tableside theatre make it a strong group and celebration room rather than a purist's counter. It is loud, fun and built for a night out. Prices run resort-level, climbing with the premium fish and wagyu. Book a few days ahead, take a seat at the sushi bar for nigiri or a table for the full spread. The spectacle-and-sushi pick for groups.
Reserve a few days ahead; the toro tartare, the sushi-bar selection, a flight from the sake list.
6.Zuma
The Cosmopolitan's buzzy izakaya with a proper sushi counter and robata; book it for sushi as part of a lively, shareable night.
Zuma, at The Cosmopolitan, is the Las Vegas outpost of the global contemporary-izakaya group, and it treats sushi as one pillar of a three-part menu — a sushi and sashimi counter, a robata grill and a busy cocktail bar. The format is shared plates rather than a paced omakase, which makes it the room for a lively dinner where sushi is part of the spread, not the whole point. The fish is well-sourced, the room is loud and design-forward, and the bar scene runs late. Prices are resort-level and add up across a table of small plates. Book a few days ahead, sit near the sushi counter, and build a table around nigiri, robata and a few cocktails. The social, shareable pick.
Reserve a few days ahead; the sushi and sashimi selection, the robata skewers, a round from the bar.
How Las Vegas eats sushi
Sushi in Las Vegas runs on two tracks. On the Strip, the big names — Wakuda, Mizumi, Nobu, Morimoto, Zuma — pair excellent imported fish with the spectacle the city is built for: lagoons, waterfalls, hidden omakase rooms, late bars. The cooking is genuinely good, but you are paying for the setting and the brand as much as the nigiri. Off the Strip, the Chinatown corridor along Spring Mountain Road is where the purists go: small Edomae counters like Kabuto that fly fish from Japan, serve daily-changing omakase, and charge a fraction of the resort price. A good plan uses both — a Strip room for the occasion, a Chinatown counter for the serious sushi.
A few practical notes. The Strip rooms book a few days to a week out and get much harder on fight weekends, conventions and holidays. The off-Strip counters are small and fill for weekends, so reserve ahead and sit at the bar. If pure nigiri is the goal, the counter-only omakase rooms are the play — RFK maps the counter scene in the best omakase in Las Vegas guide. For the rest of the city's tables — its steakhouses, French temples and celebrity-chef flagships — the Las Vegas dining guide maps it by resort and occasion.
Where not to look for it
Skip these for serious Las Vegas sushi
The all-you-can-eat sushi and buffet "sushi stations." The AYCE rooms and the casino-buffet sushi corners trade on volume, not quality. For real nigiri, take a counter seat at Kabuto in Chinatown or the sushi bar at Wakuda.
A loud Strip room when you want a quiet, paced omakase. Morimoto and Zuma are group-and-spectacle rooms; if you want a chef-paced nigiri tasting in near silence, that is Kabuto, or the dedicated omakase counters off the Strip, not the big dining floors.
Frequently asked
What is the best sushi restaurant in Las Vegas?
On the Strip, Wakuda at The Palazzo is the headline room — Tetsuya Wakuda's first US restaurant, with seafood flown in from around the world and a six-seat private Omakase Room hidden behind a bar. Off the Strip, Kabuto Edomae Sushi in Chinatown is the purist's choice, a traditional Tokyo-style counter that flies fish from Japan six days a week. Choose Wakuda for the grand Strip occasion and Kabuto for the most serious nigiri in the city.
Does Las Vegas have Michelin-starred sushi?
No — the MICHELIN Guide stopped rating Las Vegas after its 2009 edition and has not returned, so no Las Vegas sushi room holds a live Michelin star. The benchmark is the chefs' pedigree elsewhere: Tetsuya Wakuda holds Michelin stars for Waku Ghin in Singapore, Nobu Matsuhisa and Masaharu Morimoto are global names, and Kabuto draws on a strict Edomae tradition. Standing is measured by reputation, Forbes Travel Guide and diner consensus rather than stars.
How much does sushi cost in Las Vegas?
The Strip rooms run wide. À la carte at Wakuda, Mizumi, Nobu, Morimoto and Zuma can be $80 to $150 a head, while their omakase and the private rooms climb to $300 and beyond. Wakuda's six-seat Omakase Room is a high-end tasting at the top of that range. Kabuto in Chinatown is the value-for-quality pick, with set omakase menus that undercut the Strip while serving more traditional nigiri. Drinks, wagyu and premium cuts push every bill higher.
How far ahead should you book sushi in Las Vegas?
Book the Strip rooms a few days to a week ahead, and longer on fight weekends, big conventions and holidays when the city fills. Wakuda's private Omakase Room and the chef's-counter seats need the most notice. Kabuto in Chinatown is small and books up for weekends, so reserve a week out and ask for the counter. Most Strip rooms use OpenTable or the casino concierge; Kabuto takes reservations directly and on Resy.
Where is the best off-Strip sushi in Las Vegas?
Spring Mountain Road in Chinatown is the answer. Kabuto Edomae Sushi, at 5040 Spring Mountain Road, is the standard-bearer — a small Tokyo-style counter serving daily-changing omakase at a Hinoki-wood bar, with fish flown from Japan six days a week. The Chinatown corridor around it holds the city's deepest concentration of Japanese rooms, and it is where locals go for serious sushi away from the resort prices. Reserve ahead and take a counter seat.
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