is a Japanese video game developer. Founded by Kaz Ayabe in 1997, the company is best known as the creators of the Boku no Natsuyasumi ( ('My Summer Vacation') series of video games.
Millennium Kitchen was established as a limited company on December 1, 1997 by video game developer Kaz Ayabe. Ayabe, who had previously worked at the video game companies NMK and K-Idea as a programmer and a designer, founded the company in order to produce Boku no Natsuyasumi, which was released for the PlayStation in 2000. On December 1, 2013, the company became a joint-stock company.
Boku no Natsuyasumi (2000) won a New Wave Award at the fifth Japan Game Awards, and was a finalist for the Excellence Award at the third Japan Media Arts Festival. Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (2002) and Bokura no Kazoku (2005) were selected as juror-recommended works at the Japan Media Arts Festival, and Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale (2015) was selected as an honorable mention for Best Narrative at the Game Developers Choice Awards.