The banks of the beautiful lake Außenalster is home to a stylish, functional Japanese style hotel named Nippon. The superb greenery around is ideal for jogging and biking while the proximity to the Hamburg city centre allows easy access to shopping. Amidst this unique splendour is the chic Wa-Yo Restaurant which serves Japanese cuisine and hosts the city's fun loving crowd.

The interior features minimal colours and decorations renouncing distracting details to open a view for the clear and ascetic form of the atmosphere. Straight lines, clear forms, light wood, light colours and maximum free space are the trademarks of the style. Elements such as the shoji, traditional rice-paper partitions, which allow a softened daylight to stream in and the tatami, the firm and soft floor covering, enhance the authentic feel.

The menu presents a range of appetizers such as bean curd soup, salmon sashimi with foamed wasabi and chives-shiso-dressing, shrimp sticks with seaweed sauce and salad, barbecued chicken sticks with sesame-noodle salad and softy pastry cases stuffed with pork in herbs, to prepare you for the delicacies to follow.

Sushi lovers can revel in the choice offered by opting for fatty tuna, yellowtail, sea bass, bonito, shrimp or Norwegian lobster. Sashimi, sushikets and uramaki sushi present more diversions before you settle your eyes on the main dishes.

Among the mains, poultry is represented by chicken in teriyaki sauce, duck breast in mustard sauce and spicy chicken. Seafood lovers can order short fried tuna locket on teriyaki sauce, with seasonal vegetables and fried salmon in momiji sauce. Those who prefer meat can feast on beef in wasabi sauce. All these dishes are served with rice and a mixed salad with apple dressing.

Another category on the menu that simply cannot be missed is the noodles. Thick noodles in soup, fried noodles with vegetables, and tempura on thick noodles come to fore in this fine assortment.

Stewed dishes, which are boiled at the table on a portable stove, consist of pieces of thinly-sliced beef or seafood and chicken with vegetables and rice.

Those with a sweet tooth can rejoice in the variety to which they can have access. Tempura plums with sake-sabayon, fried ice-cream with green tea powder and foamed sake sauce, and ginger-shichimi-sorbet with baked fruit sticks are just some of the specialities.