田中本店 · Tanaka Honten · Japanese skincare on Falcon Street since 1968 四代目 · Yotsudaime · the fourth generation now on the floor 美 と 和 · Beauty and harmony · Crows Nest, by appointment 田中本店 · Tanaka Honten · Japanese skincare on Falcon Street since 1968
Est. 1968 · Yondaime
田 中 本 店
Tanaka Honten
Falcon Street · Crows Nest
和 美 · Harmony & beauty · since 1968

The Japanese seven-step ritual, practised for fifty-eight years.日 本 の 七 段 階 美 容 法

A Japanese skincare house on Falcon Street since 1968. Four generations of one Tanaka family have practised the seven-step ritual in the same lacquered room — and most evenings still close with a small bowl of matcha at the front counter.

予 約 · Book the room 読 む · Read the ritual 系 譜 · Lineage
The lacquered Tanaka room 店 内 · the lacquered room
The seven-step counter 作 法 · the counter
The matcha at the front 茶 · the matcha bowl
"The skin is the family heirloom we cannot pass down. So we tend it with the same care."

The seven-step ritual 七 段 階— pressed by hand, never by machine —

Practised in the same room since 1968
i.
洗

Oil cleanse

Camellia and rice bran. Pressed onto warm skin, slowly emulsified, never rubbed.

ii.
浄

Foam cleanse

Cold-processed konjac foam. Whipped by hand at the counter, never with a brush.

iii.
和

Soften (jyunbi)

Lotion-toner pressed in seven layers with the back of the hand. Twelve quiet minutes.

iv.
滋

Serum (youeki)

Selected each visit. Hyaluronic, vitamin C, fermented rice, or yuzu. Twelve drops.

v.
封

Seal (fuusui)

Sheet mask or hand-pressed cream. The room is silent for the duration of this step.

vi.
輝

Glow (kagayaki)

Pearl-tone oil applied as the final layer. The skin appears to lift from inside.

vii.
護

Sun (higaeshi)

Mineral SPF 50, pressed into the skin. Removed at the front counter before the matcha.

— 系 譜 · Lineage

Four generations of Tanaka on the floor— four daughters, four lacquered rooms —

The first room
1968 – 1991
初 代

Tanaka Hisako

Shodaime · First Generation

Trained at the a Ginza skincare academy (1958). Emigrated 1965. Opened the original Falcon Street room in 1968 with one bowl, two oils and a single sheet of washi.

The second generation tools
1991 – 2008
二 代

Tanaka Ayako

Nidaime · Second Generation

Apprenticed under her mother from age fifteen. Took over the room in 1991 and brought the seven-step into its current rhythm. Continues to consult most Friday afternoons.

The third generation bench
2008 – 2026
三 代

Tanaka Mariko

Sandaime · Third Generation

RMIT (Esthetics, 2003) and three years at a Tokyo flagship before joining her mother in 2007. Took over the floor in 2008. Trains the fourth generation now.

The fourth generation room
2024 – present
四 代

Tanaka Hana

Yondaime · Fourth Generation

Bachelor of Skin Science, UTS (2019), and two years at the a Ginza flagship store before joining the family room in 2024. Practises three afternoons each week.

— 茶 室 · The tea-room booking

The booking includes the bowl of matcha at the counter.予 約 と お 抹 茶

Every Tanaka appointment finishes at the front counter with a small bowl of ceremonial-grade matcha. The matcha is the punctuation. The booking is the sentence. The two together are the visit.

Slots open at 9am every Tuesday for the coming fortnight. Appointments are by phone or by walk-in only — there is no online booking system, and we have no plans to add one.

The matcha bowl on the counter 茶 室 · the closing bowl
— 訪 問 · Visit Tanaka Honten

By phone, in person, or by post.— and most reliably, in person —

The shop has never used an online booking system. New guests are welcome to phone any morning, walk in for an introductory consultation, or send a letter — yes, by post. Cards welcomed; cash preferred; envelopes treasured.

The Falcon Street shopfront 店 頭 · falcon street · 1968

住 所 · Address

Shop 4, 142 Falcon Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065

営 業 時 間 · Hours

Tue · Wed · Fri · Sat
10:00 – 17:00

連 絡 · Reach

+61 2 9436 1968
tanaka.honten@bigpond.net.au