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I Tried Tokyo's CHEAPEST Restaurants 🇯🇵 5 Meals Under $10 | Budget Japan
I Tried Tokyo's CHEAPEST Restaurants 🇯🇵 5 Meals Under $10 | Budget Japan
Discover five popular Japanese restaurant chains where you can enjoy satisfying meals for under 1,000 yen (about $6.50), from home-style cooking to tempura, ramen, and beef bowls.
1 plan · 4 places
Plan · 4 places · Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo's Budget Restaurant Chain Crawl
“We're going for five meals at five different restaurants, each for 1,000 yen or less, to see what that budget really gets you in Japan. These chains are everywhere and offer culinary efficiency at its peak.”
1OotoyaSyokudo and Teishoku restaurant · Chiyoda City3.9 (514)Open · until 11 PMJapan, 〒101-0021 Tokyo, Chiyoda City, Sotokanda, 1 Chome−18 Ootoya, 19「BiTO AKIBA」4FCreator's voice- Fried chicken cakes in vinegar soy sauce · ¥1000 — A delicious and surprisingly healthy-feeling dish of fried chicken cakes in a sticky, beautiful vinegar soy sauce, served with miso soup, five-grain rice (goroku rice), green beans, onions, carrots, and a side salad. It's absolute witchcraft how much food you get for less than 1,000 yen.
2GustoFamily restaurant · Shibuya3.4Open · until 11 PMGusto, ストークビル道玄坂 ２階 2 Chome-11-4 Dogenzaka, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0043, JapanCreator's voice- Gusto lunch menu · ¥990 — For just 990 yen (before tax), you can pick three items, get a soup, and an all-you-can-drink bar. My meal included spinach covered in bacon and butter, karaage fried chicken, and a cheese-stuffed hamburg steak. The food is ridiculously cheap and surprisingly not too bad, served by a robotic cat on wheels.
3Tendon TenyaTempura donburi restaurant · Chiyoda City4.0 (1,183)Open · until 9 PMTendon Tenya, Kishou Bldg, 1F 4 Chome-5-4 Sotokanda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-0021, JapanCreator's voice- Tempura and cold soba set · ¥620 — An absurdly large portion for less than 1,000 yen, this set includes cold soba noodles, about six pieces of tempura (very light batter, crispy, salty, not oily or greasy), soup, pickles, radish, and a sauce for the noodles with wasabi and onion. The entire experience is quick, lasting less than 5 minutes.
4YoshinoyaGyudon restaurant · Shibuya3.6 (1,096)Open · until 2 AMYoshinoya, 1 Chome-17-1 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001, JapanCreator's voice- Cheese gyudon set · ¥987 — A large bowl of gyudon (beef bowl) topped with one or two kinds of cheese, served with soup and a salad in a bag. The thinly sliced shabu-shabu style beef is marinated in a secret broth (sugar, soy sauce, mirin, cooking sake) that gives it a tantalizing flavor. The food is served incredibly fast, often in under a minute.
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