Return to the roots.

Né — “root” in Japanese, “born” in French.

A new root, reaching toward the future

In the farmland of Shibata, Niigata, Né was born within the grounds of the Honma family — the family who first cleared this land and kept it for generations.

The rice fields, the farms, the mountains, the sea — they are all still here. What grows thinner, little by little, are the people and the systems that tend, harvest, carry and inherit them. Né was made to reweave the resources and work that remain here into another kind of value — through cuisine and architecture — and to pass them on.

Even in an age awash with information, a meal cannot be digitised. To go, to be present, to touch with all five senses — in that instant lives an experience that moves the heart.

We keep no profit to ourselves; what we earn returns to this land — a cycle not of economy, but of culture and life.

May the time spent here become a new root, reaching toward the future.

Timeless Traditions, Evolving Forward

Traditions inherited, renewed toward the future.

Why Shibata.

In Shibata, Niigata, on land the Honma family kept for 300 years, the quiet richness of the countryside still endures.

We wished to hand this beauty to the future through cuisine and architecture. From that wish, Né began.

Why cuisine and architecture.

Eating remains the last experience that cannot be digitised. Architecture is the vessel that binds that experience to the land.

Where the two meet, the very act of coming here becomes a step toward nurturing the future.

The Honma residence

A residence of some 3,200 tsubo, handed down for 300 years.

The soil of Shibata and the hands of local craftsmen shaped this place.