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Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building serves up an exclusive ramen

• Oona McGee
  Mar 6, 2025
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Is the Tocho ramen worth the elevator ride up to the 32nd floor?

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• (cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • curry • eating • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • ramen • restaurants • secrets • shinjuku • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias • Tocho • Tocho Ramen • Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building)

Ninja Soba Goemon: A Japanese restaurant that’s like a ninja hideout

• Oona McGee
  Mar 1, 2024

Because shadow warriors need to eat noodles too. 

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• (cool • eating • food • Goemon • goemonburo • Gunma • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Ninja • Ninja Soba Goemon • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soba • soba restaurant • taste test)

Tokyo government building serves local school lunch to public in Japanese cafeteria

• Oona McGee
  Oct 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what a Japanese school lunch tastes like, you’ll want to head to this hidden gem.

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• (Adachi • cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Japanese school lunch • Japanese stew • Kyushoku • restaurants • school lunch • school lunches • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • Stew • white stew)

Stunning Japanese restaurant is like eating in a samurai residence

• Oona McGee
  Aug 11, 2023

If you’re looking for a very Japanese experience, this is a place you’ll need to put on the itinerary.

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• (COK • cool • eating • food • Icchou • icho • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Kanto • Masanuki Sunakoma • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tochigi)

Sushi store makes waves in Japan for meal with a surprising 14-character katakana name

• Oona McGee
  Jul 31, 2023

A sushi bowl by any other name wouldn’t sound as sweet.

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• (cakes • chirashizushi • COK • cool • cute • Daimaru Department Store • Daimaru Tokyo • depachika • eating • food • Japanese food • mille-feuille • sashimi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • Sushi Cake • taste test • Tokyo • unusual • weird)

Tokyo’s first sushi cake specialty store opens in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 26, 2023

A unique way to celebrate a special occasion.

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• (Ahiruneko • birthday cake • birthdays • cakes • chirashizushi • COK • cool • cute • eating • food • Japanese food • SNJO • sushi • Sushi Cake • taste test • unusual • weird)

Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo’s Kabukicho is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2023

This underground world is filled with hungry government officials and cheap eats.

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• (cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • curry • eating • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • restaurants • secrets • shinjuku • Shinjuku Ward Office • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)

Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2022

Rub shoulders with government officials at this cheap eatery that feeds the ministry.

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• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries • Mr. Sato • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)

This Tempura Soba Burger has some famous credentials behind its creation

• Oona McGee
  Nov 28, 2022

Will these unlikely bedfellows make for an illicit relationship or sublime harmony?

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• (bread • burgers • COK • eating • food • ginger • Iwashita New Ginger • Japanese food • Japanese sandwiches • Mr. Sato • restaurants • sandwiches • SNJO • soba • taste test • tempura • Tokyo • weird • yakisoba)

Sushi birthday cake turns out to be the best present our reporter could’ve ever asked for

• Oona McGee
  Nov 26, 2022

With this “jewellery box of the sea”, birthday dinner and dessert is sorted in one meal.

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• (Ahiruneko • birthday cake • birthdays • cakes • chirashizushi • COK • cool • cute • eating • food • Japanese food • SNJO • sushi • Sushi Cake • taste test • unusual • weird)

Aomori Prefecture’s regional soul food is…English Toast lunch pack sandwiches?

• Oona McGee
  Nov 25, 2022

Well, this was a bizarre discovery. 

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• (Aomori • Aomori Prefecture • cheap food • COK • eating • English Toast • food • Japanese food • Japanese sandwiches • lunch packs • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • toast)

Cheese Hamburg Steak Sushi?!? Japanese convenience store chain throws tradition out the window

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2022

It’s not the only sushi getting a makeover at Family Mart.

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• (bread • COK • eating • food • hot dogs • Ikebukuro • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tempura • Tokyo • udon)

Secret staff cafeteria in Osaka is one of Japan’s best-kept secrets

• Oona McGee
  Nov 18, 2022

This super cheap find is open to the public, so join us as we walk you through how to eat there.

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• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • K. Masami • Osaka • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias • train stations • trains)

Secret staff cafeteria at this Japanese train station is still open…for those in the know

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2022

Eat where the rail employees eat, at super cheap prices. 

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• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Japanese train stations • Namba Station • Osaka • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • train stations • trains)

School Cafeteria for adults is a great place to go for cheap Japanese food in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Oct 20, 2022

Experience the comforting flavours of a school lunch, and enjoy all-you-can eat Japanese curry as well! 

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• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Japanese school lunch • Mr. Sato • restaurants • review • school lunches • secrets • shinjuku • shokudo • SNJO • Tokyo)

The secret staff cafeteria at Osaka Airport that few people know about

• Oona McGee
  Sep 15, 2022

Behind this door lies an oasis of cheap Japanese meals, if you know where to find it.

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• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Itami Airport • Japanese food • Osaka • Osaka International Airport • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO)

Sous chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant makes hot dogs classy in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Aug 29, 2022

Baby Hotdog Cafe proves that simple dogs can sometimes be the best. 

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• (Baby Hotdog Cafe • bread • COK • eating • food • hot dogs • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Bowl or chopsticks: Which one should you pick up first?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2022

An introduction to the finer details of Japanese dining etiquette.

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• (bowls • chopsticks • eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • manners • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)

Move aside hot dogs, the Tempura Udon Dog is here, and it’s amazing

• Oona McGee
  Apr 4, 2022

This Japanese fusion dog dares to go where most fear to tread. 

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• (bread • COK • eating • food • hot dogs • Ikebukuro • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tempura • Tokyo • udon)

How should you add wasabi to sushi at a conveyor belt restaurant?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2022

There are four common methods you should know about when dining out in Japan.  

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• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • eating • food • how to • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • wasabi)

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