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Solo travel in Japan: Hidden beer garden in Tokyo is a haven for single visitors

• Oona McGee
  Aug 30, 2026
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This rooftop in Kabukicho is a hidden oasis where all diners will feel welcome. 

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• Japan
• (beer gardens • cheap eats • food • izakaya • Japanese restaurants • Kabukicho • Restaurant • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • solo dining • solo travel • Tokyo)

Watch a sumo bout inside Tokyo Tower, at a new restaurant endorsed by two yokozuna

• Oona McGee
  Aug 15, 2026

Sumo and chanko nabe are just some of the highlights of this new Japanese culture experience.

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• Japan
• (chanko nabe • COK • cool • dining • dinner • Restaurant • restaurants • sport • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • Tokyo • Tokyo Sumo Stable Entertainment • Tokyo Tower • tourism • tourist sites • yokozuna)

Will we eat the gyoza or our words at this all-you-can-eat dumpling challenge?

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 25, 2026

One of our writers seeks to redeem himself at this all-you-can-eat gyoza deal for 2,000 yen (US$12.40).

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• (Ahiruneko • all-you-can-eat • COK • deals • food • gyoza • P.K. Sanjun • potstickers • Restaurant • restaurants • SNJO)

Enjoy the world’s oldest gyoza chain hidden just outside Shinjuku Station

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 23, 2026

Serving up dumplings with almost 200 years of Chinese history.

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• Japan
• (China • Chinese cuisine • chinese food • COK • dumplings • food • gourmet • gyoza • Laobian • Laobian Dumpling • Restaurant • Rouben Gyozakan • Seiji Nakazawa • Shanghai Great World Guinness • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • Tokyo)

Does the Fukuryumon Chinese restaurant in Koenji offer the best lunch deal in Tokyo?

• Krista Rogers
  May 7, 2026

The main dishes are already cheap to begin with–but the unlimited free side dishes could even be a meal by themselves!

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• (all-you-can-eat • Chinese • COK • Fukuryumon • Koenji • Mr. Sato • Restaurant • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo)

Eating cheap sushi in a narrow building in Tokyo is an adventure for bold diners

• SoraNews24
  May 4, 2026

We play culinary roulette at a cheap restaurant in Kabukicho.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • food • izakaya • Japanese restaurants • Kabukicho • Restaurant • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • sushi • Tokyo)

This upcycled Kyoto train cafe is the ultimate kawaii spring experience

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 28, 2026

Produced by Kawaii Monster Cafe creator, the Future Train diner serves up pink teriyaki burgers and wobbly pancakes aboard the Sakura Express.

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• Japan
• (cafe • cherry blossoms • cool • cute • diner • food and drinks • Future Train • Future Train Diner & Cafe • Japanese trains • Kyoto • pink • Restaurant • sakura • Sakura Express • seasonal menu • seasonal specials • Sebastian Masuda • themed restaurants • train • Umekoji Highline)

Is a snow day the perfect day to beat the crowds at a popular ramen restaurant? [Experiment]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2026

Restaurant known for numbingly spicy ramen and intimidatingly long lines lures us out in the Tokyo snow.

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• Japan
• (COK • cold • Kikanbo • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • snow)

We revisited Sweets Paradise after a decade to see if Japan’s dessert buffet still delivers

• Elliot Hale
  Jan 3, 2026

Can it make both your stomach and wallet happy?

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • buffet • chain restaurant • COK • desserts • food • food and drinks • Machida • Restaurant • SNJO • sweets • Sweets Paradise • tabehodai • Takuya Inaba • Tokyo)

We almost cried on our first visit to this under-the-radar budget Italian restaurant in Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 12, 2025

Was our Saizeriya-fan reporter on the verge of tears of happiness or despair as his world was been turned upside down?

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• Japan
• (Ahiruneko • chain • cheap • COK • dining • food • Italian • Olive Hill • Restaurant • Saizeriya • SNJO)

This beautiful Nara inn was once home to a Living National Treasure

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 9, 2025

Art, history, and high-end dining make for a unique Japanese getaway.

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• (accommodation • art • ceramics • COK • culture • hotel • Japanese pottery • Kenkichi Tomimoto • Living National Treasure • Nara • pottery • Restaurant • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Tokyo’s upcoming sumo dinner show matches powerful wrestlers with bilingual entertainment

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 25, 2025

It’s a clash of culture, comedy, and cuisine.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • dining • dinner • Ginza • Hirakuza • kaiseki • Restaurant • restaurants • sport • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • The Sumo Hall Hirakuza Osaka • The Sumo Live Restaurant Hirakuza Ginza Tokyo • Tokyo)

Japan’s new restaurant is reeling in customers with its all-you-can-eat sashimi experience

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 23, 2025

Unlimited fish and a menu that changes every day at an unbeatable price.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • bluefin tuna • COK • food and drinks • Gyoko Shokudo • Hadano • ikura • Kanagawa • Pacific Bluefin tuna • Restaurant • salmon roe • sashimi • Shrimp • SNJO • tabehodai • Takuya Inaba)

Japan’s original oyakodon restaurant reopens after three years in a newly renovated building

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 21, 2025

Who cares about which came first when Tamahide clearly knows that the chicken and the egg are a combo best served at the same time? 

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• Japan
• (chicken • egg • gourmet • Nihombashi • Ningyo-cho • original • oyakodon • Restaurant • Rice Bowl • shamonabe • specialty • Tokyo)

Green is the new color this autumn at Osaka hotel’s latest sweet buffet

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 13, 2025

Celebrate the fall season with chestnuts, grapes, and decadent matcha treats.

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• Japan
• (buffet • buffets • chestnuts • COK • food and drinks • grapes • Hotel New Otani • hotel restaurants • matcha • matcha sweets • Nagano Purple • Osaka • Restaurant • Shine Muscat • sweets buffet • Uji Matcha • Yamamasa Koyamaen)

Chiikawa Ramen Buta restaurant reopens in the basement floor of Tokyo’s Shibuya Parco

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 23, 2025

New menu items and more make for the perfect place to grab a kawaii bite after shopping in a major Tokyo department store.

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• Japan
• (character • Chiikawa • cute • Nagano • Parco • ramen • Restaurant • Shibuya • Tokyo • web manga)

One woman versus endless noodles in this Japanese restaurant’s all-you-can-eat event

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 2, 2025

With only 90 minutes on the clock, how much soba can one person eat?

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • buckwheat • catalana • chain restaurant • COK • dessert • eating challenge • food • food and drinks • Koguma-chan • Natsuno Futon • Restaurant • Sagami • SNJO • soba • sweets)

Japanese breakfast ramen for US$3.50 in Shinjuku is the morning meal you didn’t know you needed

• Oona McGee
  Apr 29, 2025

The best place to try the unique local custom of “asa-ra”.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • cheap eats • COK • food • Japanese breakfast • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurant • Restaurant • Sarusuberi • shinjuku • SNJO • soy sauce ramen • Tokyo)

Mega chashu ramen campaign is a delicious challenge for meat-eaters in Japan

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 10, 2025

Perhaps the dish should be called “pork slices with a side of ramen noodles” instead?

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• Japan
• (char siu • chashu • COK • food • food and drink • Kitakata ramen • Kitakata Ramen Bannai • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • ramen restaurant • Restaurant • SNJO • soy sauce ramen)

New tanuki soba specialty restaurant in Ikebukuro serves up soba with a unique taste and visuals

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 5, 2025

The noodles at Tanuki Soba wa Nomimono don’t look like any bowl of tanuki soba that we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining.

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• Japan
• (COK • dining • gourmet • Ikebukuro • nomimono • Noodles • Restaurant • SNJO • tanuki soba • Tokyo)

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