Sushi Ikumi releases reservations on Resy 2 weeks ahead, at 12:00 AM ET. A table for two was open on 33% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 640,967 checks of Sushi Ikumi through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book a Wednesday: a seat for two has shown on 42% of the Wednesdays we have checked, against 33% of dates overall. For a weekend, be on Resy at midnight, 14 days ahead, or watch the week and catch a cancellation.
At midnight, one new date each night, 14 days ahead, on Resy.
The 8:30 PM seating most often. 46% of openings are in prime time and 13% at lunch; none have been at 9 PM or later.
Wednesday, at 42% of checks for a seat for two. Monday has never shown one.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a seat appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
Midweek, no. On a weekend, yes. Across 640,967 availability checks, Sushi Ikumi has shown a bookable seat for two on 33% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 27%. A two-top has shown on 42% of the Wednesdays we have checked; Monday has never shown one. Over the whole record, 41% of dates opened at some point.
An omakase counter seats in fixed sittings, and the calendar behaves that way: seats appear in blocks at the seating times rather than trickling through the evening, and the 58 release events we have recorded are fewer than at a dining room of the same difficulty.
Open rate, party of two: 33%. Party of four: 27%.
Easiest night, party of two: Wednesday, 42% of checks. Monday: 0%.
Sushi Ikumi books on Resy, and a new date appears at midnight, 14 days ahead. The window rolls forward one night at a time. A midnight release rewards people who set alarms, and the two-week window means the fresh date each night is the only genuinely new inventory on the calendar.
Release time: midnight, one new date each night, 14 days out.
Prime time, unusually. The seating we have seen open most often is 8:30 PM, and 46% of recorded openings fell in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window, one of the highest prime-time shares of any room we track. Another 13% came before 6 PM, across a lunch service that starts at 11:45 AM. Nothing has opened at 9 PM or later.
That is the omakase pattern: there are two or three sittings, the 8:30 is one of them, and when a seat comes back it is a seat at a normal dinner hour.
Prime time: 46%. Before 6 PM: 13%. 9 PM or later: 0%.
Book a Wednesday, and this is a counter you can sit at this week. For a Friday or Saturday, be on Resy at midnight two weeks ahead with your card saved, or watch the week and be told when a seat comes back; the seatings are fixed, so a cancellation is a seat at the hour you wanted. Come as two; a four-top shows on 27% of dates against 33%.
Book on Resy. New dates appear at midnight, 14 days out.
Try Wednesday. 42% of Wednesdays have shown a seat for two.
The 8:30 PM seating is the one that comes back most.
For a weekend date, watch the week rather than search it.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Sushi Ikumi on Resy around the clock and tells you the moment a seat appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own Resy account, at the restaurant's own price. Nothing is reserved, held or resold on your behalf, which is the line New York's 2024 reservation law draws and the line we stay on the right side of.
Because you cannot say any of the above about a directory. SnagRes tracks 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, with 61,530,416 logged availability checks between the rooms with a full record. Nothing watching tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you that one SoHo omakase gives back 46% of its seats at prime time and opens 42% of its Wednesdays, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Sushi Ikumi releases reservations 14 days ahead at midnight, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 33% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 640,967 checks, Sushi Ikumi has shown a bookable table for two on 33% of dates, though 41% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 58 release events there. 46% of the openings we have seen were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. The seats you can actually get are the ones that come back when someone cancels, which is why an alert on the date beats refreshing.
Sushi Ikumi's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 17 November at midnight, and each later date follows the same rule: 14 days ahead at midnight. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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