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Eating Cheap in Tokyo/Japan
Eat Cheap at Restaurants
 Family Restaurants
Family restaurants in Japan offer a variety of Western, Japanese and
Chinese dishes, and soft drinks and cakes in order to please all
of family members at reasonable price.
You can save your money by eating at family restaurant for your
breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is possible to find such restaurants
maintained by chain restaurant companies at central parts of Tokyo.
Many family restaurants open for 24 hours and provide late dinner
and breakfast. Alcoholic drinks are available.
You can also find family restaurants along the major roads.They have
ample parking lots.
Popular Family Restaurants in Japan are:
Saizeria: Breakfast set: 399yen/ Cheap and good taste
Denny's : Breakfast menu: 580yen-, Lunch menu: 680yen-/JPN site
SKYLARK: Breakfast menu: 580yen-, Lunch menu: 580yen-
Jonathan's: Breakfast menu: 350yen-,
Anna Miller's: 24 hours open
Royal Host: Breakfast menu: 680yen-, Lunch menu: 780yen-
Fast Food Shops
McDonald's:
Open: 7:00am-10:30pm
Regular hamburger: 80yen, Cheese hamburger: 120yen
Hamburger set: 410yen
KFC:
Open:10:00-22:00
Original Fried Chicken: one piece 200yen, five pieces 950yen
SUBWAY:
Open: 7:00am-10:00pm
Prices: Veggies & Cheese Sandwich: 290yen, Subway Club Sandwich:
490yen, Egg Sandwich: 320yen, French Fry: 150yen, Coffee: 180yen
Curry Shops
Curry Shops offer curry and rice dishes and you can find it in or
around stations. Curry and rice costs 500-700 yen. It will be served
with a glass of water. This is a kind of quick meal in Japan.
Kaiten Sushi Restaurants
At kaiten sushi restaurants, you can choose whatever sushi dish you
want to take from the continually replenished conveyor belt.
A sushi plate is priced at 100-120yen. Green tea is free.
You can order beer or sake there. The charge will be calculated
by the number of plates.
Noodle Restaurants
Noodle dishes are cheap and quick meal in Japan. They include
Soba noodle, Udon noodle and Ramen noodle.
You can find eat-standing Soba/Udon noodle restaurants in
station/around station and major shopping streets.
At the eat-standing restaurants, a bowel of Soba noodle and
Udon noodle may cost 350-500yen. Ramen noodles will be
offered at Ramen restaurants, costing 600-900yen.
As for noodle dishes, convenience stores sell precooked noodle
contained in paper/platics cup. To eat it, you have to get boiled water.
They cost 120-250yen.
Coffee Shops
Traditional Japanese coffee shops provide coffee or tea at 400-500yen
and it is expensive. You may visit new coffee shops, such as Doutor
and STARBUCKS. They serve coffee or tea at 200-300yen.
STARBUCKS COFFEE
Doutor
Pronto
Buy Foods at Reasonable Price
At Bento Shops
You can buy box lunch(Bento) at Bento shops.
They are cheaper than those of Bento available at convenience
stores and department stores.
The prices are ranging from 350-800yen.
At Covenience Stores
Box lunch:
Convenience stores offer various types of box lunch.
Box lunch includes roll type of sushi set ,noodle and pasta.
It is possible to buy prepared box lunch and bring it back to your
home,office or hotel.
Many workers in Japan use the convenience stores to have their
box lunch.
Price: 350-600yen
You can ask to overheat it with electronic oven at convenience store
at free of charge.
Buy soft drinks/bottled water together with box lunch,
costing 120-140yen.
Soft Drinks:
Convenience stores sell cold/warm soft drinks, including canned and
bottled coffee, water, milk.
Prices:
Soft drinks: 120-140yen
Milk: 195-210yen
With Vending Machines
Soft drinks
Alcoholic drinks
In Japan, there are lot of vending machines on the roadside.
Even alcoholic drinks, beer and sake, can be bought with vending
machines.
Find out the vending machines around your hotel or home.
To use vending machines, you have to carry with you small coins
and 1000yen paper money.
Price:
Soft drinks: 120-140yen
Beer: 200yen
On the Basement Floor of Department Stores
The Department Stores in Japan have food section on its basement
floor.
There are many types of foods available there, such as Japanese foods(
tempra, yakitori, sushi), Chinese foods and western foods.
They sell box lunches and take-to-home foods at reasonable prices.
Foods shops in the Department Stores are well known and
highly rated shops.
Department Stores in Japan open at 10:00 am and close at
around 7:00-8:00 pm.
Price:
Box lunches: 500-1000yen
Sushi: 500-1000yen
Tempra set: 600-800yen
Sushi Take-to-home Shops
You can find sushi take-to-home shops which have showcase of prepared
sushi at reasonable price. They also offer party size sushi sets for
3, 4 or 5 persons and they cost 3500-5600yen.
Price:
Roll sushi: 250-350yen
Sushi set: 500-800yen
At supermarket
It is usual for supermarkets to sell box luch(Bento).
They also offer the precooked foods at reasonable price.
Breads
You can buy breads at the following places.
A piece of sweet bread costs 100-180yen.
At convenience stores, it is possible to have it for 24 hours and
costing 100-120yen. You do find bakeries in the shopping buildings
around/in station building and on the basement floor of department
stores. Major shopping streets in downtown have at least one bakery.
Convenience Stores
Supermarkets
Bakeries
Foods Section (Basement Floor) of Department Stores
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