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This train station bento boxed lunch shop has been in business for nearly 100 years

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2026
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Inside Chiba Station, Manyoken is a piece of edible history.

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• Japan
• (bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • Chiba • COK • cool • food • old restaurants • pork cutlet • SNJO • stations • taste test • tonkatsu • trains)

Here comes a new katsudon: ice cream katsudon?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2026

Casual Japanese restaurant chain creates a new genre of pork cutlet bowls.

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• Japan
• (Coolish • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • ice cream • katsudon • Lotte • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • sweets • weird)

Hidden travel gems of northern east Japan, presented by the Kita Kanto Brothers!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 2, 2025

Our northern Kanto reporters team up and head to Gunma for a look at this part of Japan that gets overlooked by tourists.

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• Japan
• (Calpico • Calpis • COK • food • Gunma • Kanto • katsu • Kita Kanto • Kita Kanto Bros. • Kita Kanto Brothers • Masanuki Sunakoma • north Kanto • northern Kanto • pork cutlet • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • Tanuki • Tatebayashi • temples • tonkatsu • tourism • travel)

Is katsudon a dish best served cold? Trying out the new Hiyashi Dashi Katsudon in Tokyo【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2025

West Japan pork cutlet chain has arrived in Tokyo, and it’s brought something unusual for the summer.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Good-cop interrogation part of the menu at new restaurant in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 4, 2025

“Hey, this must be really hard for you. How about some katsudon?”

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • themed restaurants • weird)

Beyond matcha sweets: Japan’s favorite katsu sandwich maker releasing matcha pork cutlet sandwich

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2025

Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation.

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• Japan
• (food • green tea • Iemon • katsu • katsu sandwiches • Maisen • matcha • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Suntory • tea)

Katsu weight showdown! Which Japanese supermarket gives you the most tonkatsu meat for your yen?

• SoraNews24
  Nov 12, 2024

We strip four pork cutlets down to their fighting weights and see who’s got the most meat inside.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • experiment • food • funny • katsu • pork cutlet • SNJO • tonkatsu)

Foreign tourists go crazy for white tonkatsu in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jul 16, 2024

Restaurant serves up an unusual Japanese dish that’s even surprising locals. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • Fukuoka • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)

Katsudon vs. tonkatsu vs. katsu sandwich – What’s the best way to eat pork cutlet in Japan?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 20, 2024

Three great ways to enjoy katsu, but when you have to choose one, what’s your pick?

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• (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • pork • pork cutlet • SNO • tonkatsu • tonkatsu sandwiches)

Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!

• Shannon
  Apr 15, 2024

We commemorate the new Hokuriku Shinkansen route with a truly local meal.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fukui • fukui prefecture • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hey Taxi Driver • Hokuriku Shinkansen • Japanese taxi driver • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • sauce katsu • sauce katsudon • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • travel • Tsuruga)

The most delicious way to eat tonkatsu blows people’s minds in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2024

Diners are shocked to learn they’ve been eating tonkatsu the wrong way all their lives.

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• Japan
• (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)

Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Fuji Soba?

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 5, 2023

There’s more than noodles that’s worth ordering at this ubiquitous soba chain.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fuji Soba • Japan super budget dining • katsudon • Noodles • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • soba • Super Budget Dining)

Japan’s favorite pork cutlet sandwich maker also has awesome katsudon restaurant in Tokyo Station

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2023

Maisen Shokudo will make sure you get on the train with a full and happy stomach.

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• (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • Maisen • pork • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • stations • Tokyo Station • trains • travel)

Restaurant Yoshibei is crazy in the best way: A pork cutlet set with a side of pork cutlet bowl

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2023

Pork cutlet so nice you get to eat it twice.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • tonkatsu)

Tokyo all-you-can-eat tonkatsu pork cutlet restaurant is all we need for a happy meal

• SoraNews24
  Jul 31, 2023

Free refills are often part of the deal at tonkatsu joints, but usually not for the cutlets themselves.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • COK • cutlet • food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • tonkatsu)

Japanese convenience store sells an epic egg sandwich you won’t find anywhere else

• Oona McGee
  May 8, 2023

Konbini food just reached new levels of awesomeness, thanks to one very special chain.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • egg sandwiches • ham katsu • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Seico Mart • Seicomart • SNJO • taste test)

Tokyo family serves totally non-traditional super old-school katsudon at century-old restaurant

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2023

The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • history • katsu • katsudon • Ningyocho • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

Katsu curry rice you can eat with your hands? Mos Burger unveils new Rice Burger Katsu Curry

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2023

One thing might prevent this from being one of the greatest sandwiches ever made, though.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • curry • curry rice • food • katsu • katsu curry • Mos Burger • pork cutlet • rice burgers)

In our search for crispy katsudon, we try a highly recommended place in a Tokyo university town

• Dale Roll
  Jan 27, 2023

But reviews had us concerned about whether it offered what we wanted or not. 

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• Japan
• (katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • Rice Bowl • Seiji Nakazawa • Takadanobaba • Tokyo)

Eating Japanese katsudon once served in police interrogation rooms

• SoraNews24
  Nov 18, 2022

A surprising taste of history in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • katsu • katsudon • police • pork cutlet • restaurats • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tonkatsu)

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