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Japanese airport offering 19,250-yen sandwiches as last Japan meal for international travelers

Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2026
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If you want one last taste of Japanese luxury, Kansai International Airport has a restaurant that says it can give it to you in just five minutes.

Japan
(airports • beef • fast food • food • Japan travel • Kansai International Airport • Kobe beef • sandwiches • steak • travel)

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)

This Kobe Beef croquette currently has a 35-year waitlist…So is it worth it?【Taste Test】

Dale Roll
Jun 26, 2023

Should you wait almost four decades for a frozen croquette?

Japan
(crazy • croquette • croquettes • food • Kobe beef • meat • P.K. Sanjun • potatoes • taste test)

Japanese arcade lets you win Kobe beef and “Japan’s number-one beef stew”【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2023

Three of the most prized wagyu varieties are waiting inside this crane game.

Japan
(Arcades • beef • beef stew • COK • cool • crane games • food • game centers • Kobe beef • SNJO • taste test • UFO catcher • Wagyu • weird)

Japanese woman receives Kobe beef croquettes after waiting nine years, and she was lucky.

Casey Baseel
May 5, 2022

Backlog for Kiwami Croquettes has more than doubled in the near-decade she was waiting.

Japan
(beef • crazy • croquettes • food • Kobe beef • meat)

Our reporter transforms into a fancy celebrity to sample the fanciest udon at Marugame Seimen

Krista Rogers
Jul 8, 2021

Two new limited-time menu items at the restaurant feature Kobe beef, so we pulled out all of the stops to feel worthy of this gastronomic celebration.

Japan
(Ahiruneko • gourmet • Kobe beef • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • Restaurant • sampling • udon)

Yoshinoya teams up with Wagyumafia for a super expensive beef bowl

Oona McGee
Mar 18, 2021

Only available in Japan for one day only.

Japan
(beef • beef bowls • COK • food • Japanese food • Kobe beef • Wagyu • Wagyumafia • Yoshinoya)

Wagyu vs. kokusangyu – The difference between the two types of “Japanese beef”

Casey Baseel
May 14, 2016

Before you order that Japanese steak, make sure you know what you’re getting.

Food & Drink, Japan
(beef • food • Japanese language • Kobe beef • meat • Wagyu)

Japan’s 10 best restaurants, as chosen by foreign travelers

Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2015

People travel to Japan for all sorts of different reasons. Many are seeking a taste of tradition and history, and plan visits to the country’s most important shrines and castles. Some are drawn by Japan’s natural beauty, heading for its mountains and forests, while still others come to throw themselves into its neon-soaked urban entertainment centers.

But no matter what’s on your itinerary, at some point you’re going to need to get something to eat, and when your stomach starts growling, you can rely on the experience of those who made the trip before you with TripAdvisor’s list of the 10 best restaurants in Japan.

Japan
(food • Kobe beef • Kyoto • Osaka • restaurants • sushi • Tokyo • travel)

We try the new 1,500-yen Kobe beef burger from Lotteria 【Taste Test】

Oona McGee
Jan 30, 2015

Japanese hamburger chain Lotteria‘s newest luxury burger has finally landed, and it features legendary Kobe beef made from special livestock reared on pure water and premium feed. Kobe beef is of such renown that there are even rumours that cattle from the area are allowed to sip on beer, listen to fine music and enjoy a good massage so that their meat tastes simply divine.

So what would the fast food version of this luxury beef taste like? We were so curious we had to swing by Lotteria to pick up one of the new Kobe beef burgers as soon as they were released. Check out all the delicious details after the jump!

Japan
(burgers • fast food • Kobe beef • Lotteria • taste test)

Kobe beef burgers coming to Japanese fast food chain Lotteria

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2015

It’s kind of ironic that the hamburger gets saddled with a stigma as the lowest rung of entrées. Sure, it’s a staple of cheap, low-quality fast food chains, but it’s also beef, the highest form of our three most commonly eaten meats, and as such deserves a certain measure of respect.

That goes double for the newest hamburger from Japanese hamburger chain Lotteria, since it’s made with the most respected beef of all: Kobe beef.

Japan
(burgers • cheap eats • fast food • food • Kobe beef • Lotteria)

Better Than Kobe Beef? 【You, Me, And A Tanuki】

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Jan 22, 2013

You, Me, And a Tanuki is a weekly featured blog run by Michelle, a Californian who is currently one of only two foreigners living in Chibu, a tiny fishing village on one of the Oki islands in Japan. Check back every Saturday for a new post or read more on her website here!

There is a very special restaurant on Ama, the island closest to Chibu. The sign outside reads, “Island born, island raised. Oki Beef Shop.” The beef served there is said to be even better than Kobe beef, the delicately marbled beef from Hyogo prefecture.