Hanami Brussels
Hanami in Brussels is a Japanese-Asian restaurant near Tour & Taxis, the redeveloped harbour district along the Brussels canal. The restaurant scores exceptionally well on food quality and offers particularly helpful staff — a genuine recommendation for anyone who puts gastronomic enjoyment first and is willing to accept a few threshold-related realities.
Accessibility is partial and calls for honest preparation. The threshold at the main entrance is steep: in practice it cannot be crossed independently in a wheelchair — anyone arriving alone will need help from staff or a companion (and that help is willingly given). Once inside, the dining room is spacious enough to sit comfortably at table and manoeuvre, especially if you book ahead. The main drawback concerns the sanitary facilities: the restaurant''s toilets are in the basement and not reachable for wheelchair users — there is no accessible toilet on the ground floor.
A practical strategy for your visit: park at Tour & Taxis (5-10 min from the restaurant) and use the accessible public toilet there before and after your meal. The surface between Tour & Taxis and Hanami includes a few cobbled sections and kerbs — passable but not level ground. Anyone who takes this into account will experience Hanami for what it is: a place where the food and service make all the preparation more than worthwhile.
Good to know
- Reservation
- **Book in advance** and mention that you are a wheelchair user — the staff will then take your table position into account and can help with the threshold.
- Busy and quiet times
- Busiest on Friday and Saturday evenings. Weekday lunch and early evening are quieter and give the staff more room to help at the threshold.
- Things to note
- **The threshold at the entrance is too steep to roll in independently** — help from a companion or staff is required. Once inside, the dining room is spacious enough. **Toilets in the basement, no accessible toilet on the ground floor.**
- Visit tip
- **Park at Tour & Taxis** 5-10 min away and use the accessible public toilet there before and/or after your visit. The road surface between Tour & Taxis and Hanami has cobbled sections — passable but not flat.
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Visitor Experiences
Real experiences from wheelchair users who visited this location.
A very pleasant and welcoming restaurant with extremely helpful staff and delicious food — **the food made it all absolutely worthwhile**. Space at the table was no problem (do book ahead!), but **getting inside without help is not possible**: the threshold was too steep for me. Luckily I was not alone, and I think the staff are also happy to lend a hand where needed. Trickier is that there is **no reachable accessible toilet** — the toilets are in the basement. We had prepared for this: I had visited the toilet at Tour & Taxis, where we were also parked (a short trip over uneven surface, pavement and cobblestones to cover).
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