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Only two Yoshinoya branches in all of Japan are on a train platform, and this is one of them
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2026 - Tweet
Gyudon on the go in Kyobashi Station.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • food • gyudon • Kyobashi Station • platform restaurants • SNJO • stations • trains • Yoshinoya)
Japan’s new delicious dark horse sweet potato dessert drink is waiting at a beef bowl chain
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2026
A beniharuka shake rolls into Sukiya as sweet potato season gets underway.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • beni haruka • beniharuka • food • gyudon • milk shakes • shakes • SNJO • Sukiya • sweet potato • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test • yaki imo • yakiimo)
Japanese restaurant chain offering free food for a year if you beat massive meat bowl challenge
- Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2026
A stamina bowl of legendary size could save you a ton of money on future meals.
- Japan
- (big food • crazy • Densetsu no Sutadonya • donburi • food • free food • gyudon • meat • pork • rice bowls • stamina bowls • sutadon)
Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 5, 2026
Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain is now serving up simmered kinmedai.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • fish • food • gyudon • kinmedai • restaurants • sea bream • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)
Yoshinoya and Dragon Quest slaying scalpers with shift to made-to-order collaboration merch
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2026
Following suspiciously swift sell-out of Yoshinoya’s Dragon Quest Slime bowls, new policy means that everyone who wants one can buy one at the regular price.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • cool • cute • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • dragon quest walk • food • gyudon • interior • restaurants • scalpers • slime • SNO • Square Enix • tableware • video games • Yoshinoya)
The quest for Dragon Quest Yoshinoya figure sets: Worth taking for fans, tricky for scalpers[Pics]
- Casey Baseel
Jul 5, 2026
Dragon Quest Slimes appear at Yoshinoya, and the restaurant is trying to make sure they go home with actual fans.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • cool • cute • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • dragon quest walk • figures • food • gyudon • restaurants • slime • SNO • Square Enix • toys • video games • Yoshinoya)
Dragon Quest’s next quest is a journey to Yoshinoya for awesome Slime toy meals[Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Jun 25, 2026
These are some Slimes we’d be happy to see while we’re eating.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Slime • food • gyudon • restaurants • slime • Square Enix • video games • Yoshinoya)
Japan’s cheap beef bowl chain goes upscale with Matsuya Premium, but is it worth the higher price?
- Casey Baseel
Jun 12, 2026
Ordinarily cheap Matsuya opens a high-priced Matsuya inside another upscale Matsuya.
- Japan
- (beef • beef bowls • bento • boxed lunches • COK • department stores • food • Ginza Matsuya • gyudon • Japanese beef • Japanese food • Kobe beef • Matsuya • Matsuya Ginza • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)
Japan’s cheap beef bowl chain Matsuya opens gourmet Premium Matsuya with Kobe beef…inside Matsuya
- Casey Baseel
Jun 8, 2026
A tale of four Matsuyas, and a whole lot of gourmet wagyu beef.
- Japan
- (beef • beef bowls • bento • boxed lunches • COK • department stores • food • Ginza Matsuya • gyudon • Japanese beef • Japanese food • Kobe beef • Matsuya • Matsuya Ginza • restaurants • Wagyu)
7-Eleven Japan releases their second lineup of upsized foods from a muffin to bukkake soba
- Elliot Hale
May 21, 2026
As well as a double-sized cheesecake worth fighting battles over.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • beef bowl • Cheesecake • COK • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • gyudon • hiyashi soba • Japanese convenience stores • onigiri • P.K. Sanjun • rice ball • SNJO • soba • tororo)
Only five branches of Japan’s beef bowl giant Matsuya serve milk shakes, but how do they taste?
- Casey Baseel
May 1, 2026
Matsuya makes the step from beefy bowls to milky drinks, but only at select locations for now.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • drinks • fast food • food • gyudon • Matsuya • milk shakes • shakes • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Yoshinoya invites you to give the gift of beef bowls this Mother’s Day
- Master Blaster
Apr 14, 2026
I mean, if I were a mother, I’d appreciate it.
- Japan
- (Arita ware • beef bowls • COK • fast food • food • gyudon • Mother's Day • Speedia • Wakasa lacquerware • Yoshinoya)
Why is Yoshinoya called Yoshinoya?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2026
There’s a beautiful reason why Mr. Matsuda didn’t name his restaurant after himself.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • cherry blossoms • food • gyudon • Mt. Yoshino • restaurants • sakura • Yoshinoya • Yoshinoyama)
Which Japanese beef bowl chain’s near-identical demon grater onioroshi ponzu gyudon is the best?
- SoraNews24
Jan 17, 2026
We go looking to see if there’s a devil in the details at Japan’s big-three beef bowl chains.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • daikon • food • gyudon • Matsuya • onioroshi • Ponzu • SNJO • Sukiya • taste test • Yoshinoya)
Japanese beef bowl chain Sukiya’s 2026 Smile Box lucky bag basically pays for itself
- Elliot Hale
Jan 5, 2026
This year’s lucky bag is all about everyday usefulness.
- Japan
- (beef bowl restaurant • chain restaurant • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2026 • fukubukuro roundup 2026 • goods • gyudon • lucky bag • Lucky Bag 2026 • lucky bag roundup 2026 • lucky bags 2026 • merchandise • Saya Togashi • SNJO • Sukiya)
With prices in Japan rising for everything else, one beef bowl chain announces price cuts
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2025
Sukiya swims against the economic current by permanently reducing gyudon prices.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • restaurants • Sukiya)
We found the classiest branch of one of Japan’s best cheap restaurants on a Kyoto side street
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2025
We hardly recognized this beef bowl joint’s sign, and another surprise was waiting inside.
- Japan
- (beautiful • beef bowls • COK • cool • food • gardens • gyudon • Kyoto • Matsuya • restaurnts • SNJO)
Sukiya closes its beef bowl restaurants in Japan after rat and cockroach contamination
- SoraNews24
Apr 4, 2025
There are some surprises you don’t want in your gyudon…so we explore other options.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • fast food • food • gyudon • Japanese food • news • Sukiya)
Japanese man who ate at same beef bowl chain for 2,000 days in a row announces he’s gotten married
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2025
But will marriage change his eating habits?
Yoshinoya serves gyudon beef bowls from a tiny truck in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Mar 10, 2025
Moving Yoshinoya is an Orange Dream on the food truck scene…for those who know where they’re hiding.
- Japan
- (beef • cars • chain • COK • food • food trucks • gyudon • kitchen cars • lunch • Moving Yoshinoya • Orange Dream • Restaurant • SNJO • Tokyo • Yoshinoya)
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