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Cheap monthly subscription to Tokyo yakiniku restaurant lets us eat intestines every day for free
And it’s an all-you-can-eat plan, too!
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The top nine stand-and-eat soba noodle restaurants in Tokyo
- Krista Rogers
Feb 11, 2020
Our resident soba expert ate at over 200 soba spots in the greater Tokyo area, and here are his top picks.
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- (cheap eats • COK • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)
Japanese Twitter breaks down the perfect spot for a first date, and it’s surprisingly cheap
- Katy Kelly
Feb 3, 2020
Flummoxed about where to take a prospective partner for the first time in Japan? Twitter, as always, has the answer (well, an answer).
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- (cheap eats • dates • dating • food • funny • relationships • restaurants • romance • Saizeriya)
Izakaya etiquette: Stacking your plates after eating doesn’t help waitstaff in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 22, 2020
Japanese restaurant worker says there’s a better system that diners should use.
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- (cheap eats • culture • drinking • etiquette • food • izakaya • japanese manners • manners • restaurants • society)
Futon izakaya lets you drink and sleep on the cheap
- Oona McGee
Dec 17, 2019
Now you can sleep inside a restaurant in Japan.
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- (cheap eats • COK • drinking • futon • izakaya • Osaka • SNOJ • value for money)
Dine at Akihabara’s Dorami and get all-you-can-eat mapo tofu, plus delicious dumplings and more
- Katy Kelly
Oct 22, 2019
Our Japanese-language reporter follows a hot tip to a mouth-searing offer he can’t refuse.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • cheap eats • COK • mapo doufu • Seiji Nakazawa • SNOJ • value for money)
Japanese convenience store’s fried chicken pizza burger is a some-assembly-required masterpiece
- Casey Baseel
Dec 21, 2017
Frankenstein’s monster of fried chicken is frighteningly tasty.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • chicken • COK • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • Lawson • pizza • SNOJ)
Akihabara restaurant Dante’s 10-buck steak: delicious, and so divinely cheap it feels like a sin
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2017
Splurging on tech toys in Tokyo doesn’t mean you have to skip steak for lunch and dinner.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef • cheap eats • food • meat • restaurants • steak • Tokyo)
Save yourself hundreds of yen at CoCo Ichibanya curry chain through menu mastery!
- Richard Simmonds
Sep 28, 2017
Taking advantage of the menu options can have you stuffing your face with delicious curry rice, for less.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • coco ichibanya • curry • life hacks • restaurants)
10-yen sushi? Such wonders do exist at new Tokyo restaurant in Shinjuku
- Casey Baseel
Aug 7, 2017
See that mouth-watering plate of yellowtail sushi? It cost us less than a buck.
- Japan
- (awesome • buri • cheap eats • food • restaurants • shinjuku • sushi • Tokyo • yellowtail)
Subway Japan’s crazy new seafood sandwich packs in a whole fistful of shrimp!
- Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2017
This massively shrimpy sandwich is the latest marine muse of our lunchroom.
Tokyo restaurant’s all-you-can-eat curry, udon is under five bucks, comes with free fried chicken
- Casey Baseel
Apr 26, 2017
Or grilled fish, if you’re in the mood for something healthier.
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- (all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • curry • food • fried chicken • karaage • restaurants • Tokyo • udon)
Tokyo restaurant offers amazing sushi lunch deal for less than 5 bucks
- Oona McGee
Apr 21, 2017
Moulded by hand by a sushi chef in front of you at the counter, this impressive selection is the type of special locals usually keep a secret to themselves.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • food • restaurants • sushi • Tokyo)
All-you-can-eat fried chicken in one of Tokyo’s most fashionable neighborhoods for under 7 bucks
- Casey Baseel
Apr 14, 2017
We found one of our favorite things in one of the last places we expected it to be.
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- (all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • fried chicken • Harajuku • karaage • restaurants • Takeshita Dori • Tokyo)
Awesome mountain of meaty goodness now at beef bowl restaurant in Tokyo’s Akihabara and Shimbashi
- Casey Baseel
Apr 5, 2017
Two kinds of beef, and a surprising amount of veggies, are keeping Tokyo’s otaku and businesspeople full.
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- (Akihabara • beef • beef bowls • cheap eats • food • meat • restaurants • rice bowls)
Semi-secret Shinjuku sushi lunch is a great way to get your fish fix for cheap in central Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2017
Delicious maguro tuna and all-you-can-drink coffee for less than most fast food set meals.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • coffee • food • restaurants • shinjuku • sushi • Tokyo)
Quite possibly the greatest food bargain in Japan: tasty convenience store pasta for less than a buck
- Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2017
This chain’s 100-yen pasta and noodle dishes are just the thing when you’re looking to stretch your budget.
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- (cheap eats • convenience stores • food • Hokkaido • pasta • Seico Mart • yakisoba)
Udon chain’s awesome “Tempura Pass” deal works out to less than 10 yen per piece over five weeks
- Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2017
Prepaid tempura plan is totally the way to go, and even lets you choose fried chicken if that’s what your heart desires.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • deals • food • frid chicken • karaage • Noodles • restaurants • tempura • udon)
Clam chowder tempura being offered by Japan’s most popular tempura restaurant chain
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2017
Tenya buries the lede (under other types of tempura) in its new “Bacon Chicken Tempura Bowl.”
- Japan
- (awesome • cheap eats • clam chowder • crazy • fast food • food • soup • tempura • Tenya)
Awesome Tokyo ramen restaurant’s all-you-can-drink plans start at less than three bucks
- Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2017
Come for the unlimited beer, stay for the Japanese-style fried chicken (and probably the ramen).
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • beer • cheap eats • food • fried chicken • karaage • ramen • restaurants • shinjuku • Tokyo)
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12-year-old British girl who went missing in Tokyo found safe after visiting anime sites around Yokohama
7-year-old boy left behind on Mt. Fuji by his own dad
Japan’s final Penguin Suica train cards have already shipped, and when they’re gone, they’re gone
Sushi Bus: Japan’s first conveyor-belt bus lets you eat sushi while sightseeing around Tokyo
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Japan approves foreign resident visa renewal fee increases of up to 967 percent, starts soon
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Solo travel in Japan: Hidden beer garden in Tokyo is a haven for single visitors
Kyoto temple bans visitors from wearing kimono
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
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