Japanese Good Restaurants for Good Value

Hi all,

I'm Kaz from Tokyo, Japan. I would like to introduce various useful (I hope) information for tourists to Japan, about restaurant, food, drinks, transport, medicines and etc... Please, leave a comment if you have any questions, requests, advice etc… I will help you as much as I can.

Today, I would like to introduce you about the good restaurants at good value in Japan. Basically, I take up franchise restaurants in this time because they are easier for you to find in the places, where you visit.

The first restaurant is Japanese set meal restaurant called “Ootoya” (http://www.ootoya.com/). Ootoya offers very basic Japanese dishes (homemade), costs around 800 yen per person. The atmosphere of Ootoya is fairly quiet, very clean and light. Especially, many Japanese business people (rather than students) visit Ootoya for their lunches. The good thing especially for foreigners is that they offer meal without rice and miso soup in cheaper price. If you cannot eat or do not like Japanese rice so much, you can choose not to have it. It will reduce the price by about 180 yen.

My recommendation are “Flavoured Fried Chicken meal set” (Koumi karaage teishoku) and “Yongen Pork Loin Cutlet meal set” (Yongenton no roosu katsu teishoku). The English names are my original translation, so show Japanese Name in alphabet to the waiters, if you want make an order for either of them.

“Flavoured Fried Chicken meal set” (Koumi karaage teishoku) 

The English names are my original translation, so show Japanese Name in alphabet to the waiters.

“Yongen Pork Loin Cutlet meal set” (Yongenton no roosu katsu teishoku)

The English names are my original translation, so show Japanese Name in alphabet to the waiters.

The next restaurant is “Ten-ya”（http://www.tenya.co.jp/）. You can have Tempura or Ten-don (Tempura on rice bowl) in this restaurant. The cost is around 500 - 900 yen. You can choose various Tempuras and make your own Tempura Baskets. You can also ask for takeaway the Ten-don Lunch boxes. My recommendations are normal “Tempura basket” (Tempura Moriawase) (take away, 410 yen) or “Good value Tempura basket” (Otoku Tempura Moriawase) (take away, 800 yen for 2 people).

“Tempura basket” (Tempura Moriawase) 

The English names are my original translation, so show Japanese Name in alphabet to the waiters.

“Good value Tempura basket” (Otoku Tempura Moriawase) 

 The English names are my original translation, so show Japanese Name in alphabet to the waiters.

The last restaurant is a Italian restaurant called “Saizeriya” （http://www.saizeriya.co.jp/）. This is western style restaurant so you cannot have Japanese-ish dishes but maybe you find it easier to eat if you stay in Japan for quite a long time. Also Saizeriya is one of the Best “Good restaurants at Good value”, I think, so the quality of food is very high compared to its price. They offer pasta from 299 yen and Milano Doria also from 299 yen. Other foods are also at very good value and you can even have a glass of wine for 100 yen. You can also have meat, chicken dishes from 400 yen (with no rice).

These are the very popular restaurants for local Japanese. It would be worth trying in your next visit to Japan.

If you have any questions, comments, requests, advice etc... please, let me know.

Bye!