Hi guys, I will travel to Japan soon and I need tips for foods and / or restaurants located in the following places:>TokyoUeno and Kagurazaka mostly.>Hakone>KyotoGion mostly.I need to know essential local foods and restaurants to try on a medium budget, so I'm searching for nothing too expensive, but I'm also not broke at all. Thanks for any suggestions!
>>2854237Go to Sapporo if you want the best food in Japan. I'm tired of pretending it's not. Tokyo is entirely overrated, especially for food and don't even get me started o n the Osaka fags that claim they are the foodies.
>>2854237I have had great success with doing this:>wander around and do cool shit until you get hungry>go to conbini, buy a couple chuhai>find somewhere to chill, get a decent buzz, and browse a few places in the area on maps, find something with good reviewsI did this and found tons of awesome places to eat.
>>2854247>>2854249Thanks, guys.
there's a tonkatsu chain in Kyoto I like called katsukurayou can have the volcano curry at owakudani station in hakone. in hakone, a lot of the hotels offer keiseki meals to guests and so lots of the restaurants around close early, atleast it was like that when I stayed in hakone-yumoto
>>2854237Japanese pussy?
>>2854352Nice, thanks.>>2854400If God gives.
>>2854237Try to look for Soup Curry. That's probably my favorite thing to eat in Japan. Its mostly Sapporo food but you can find it in tokyo. Also try okinomiyaki
>>2854428I fucking love okonomiyaki.>>2854237Dont over think which restaurants to go to and think about what dishes you want OP. Hundreds of good places in every city. Just google a dish, pick somewhere nearby with 4.5 stars or more, check reviews for language of reviewers and gravitate towards japanese reviewed restaurants.Avoid hotel adjacent restaurants, especially hotel attached restaurants. if you see a lineup of japanese business men, or just japanese people in general, its going to be either cheap and good, or a normal price and delicious. and dont completely avoid japanese food chains, they all slap, but obviously there are better choices. They usually open a lot earlier than most places in japan so if you're an early riser dont think you're wasting a meal by going to one, you'll usually have to wait until 8 or 9 am (or later) for most places to open.
>>2854247yep, sapporo food is good and hearty and inspired by euros and slavs. tokyo feels like a food desert, everything either has a long line, requires a res, or is "members only" - so if you just want to walk into a resto and eat something you're left with slop nobody else wants.
>>2854400That's a wasian lol
>>2854582I live in Tokyo and I have never in my life encountered a member's only restaurant. And agreed, the lines are fucking ridiculous since covid ended, but there's one secret: almost no place with a line is worth eating at. If there are a lot of visible tourists lined up (white people are obvious. Koreans without exception all have the same bowl cut, so if you see a bunch of Asian guys with bowl cuts, they're also tourists), then you know it's an absolutely shitty place that's been shilled on instagram. If there are loads of Japanese people lined up, then it's a shitty place that was featured on TV a week ago.Best method for finding good restaurants: look for places with google reviews around 3.9-4.4. Sort reviews by new. If they're 90% Japanese names, you're probably fine. If they're foreigners, the food sucks. If the reviews are above 4.5, the food sucks. It's either tourists giving their first meal in Japan a 5.0 (because everybody loves their first meal), or it's a restaurant giving out a free dessert or small discount for leaving a 5 star review. It's a common thing these days.And tabelog is worthless now. Companies pay for higher reviews and tourists all know about it, so it's gamed even harder than google.A lot of the best restaurants are far from tourist areas and on the second or third floor of what looks like a tiny office building in the middle of nowhere.
>>2854582>everything either has a long line, requires a res, or is "members only"this is a retarded take, I never once had to line up for food. some places have lines, sure, but Tokyo has a billion places to eat without lines. shit, even in Akiba where there is crowds everywhere I always climb to the top of yodobashi camera and order karaage and a strong zero on a machine and can immediately sit down and have my food in like ten minutes.
>>2854680i live in tokyo too and you're just not tapped in, a lot of the best sushi, teppanyaki, and sukiyaki places(you know, the ones where the wagyu isn't some fatty slop they sell tourists) are members only. same with a lot of the best bars that offer a discreet place to hang out and drink. but overall good post and good advice im just bitching about central tokyo when i say this - you can still find great food maybe just 30 minutes off the beaten path without crowds and annoyances. >>2854694>karaage and strong zero on a machinenigga you're eating slop
>>2854712>nigga you're eating slopsorry, my post was written poorly. also I meant lemon sour, not strong zero, my brain mixes the two up a lot. I want to clarify that I go to a machine to order that prints off a ticket and then they make your food and you wait, it is not from a vending machine.that said though, strong zero is not slop and is a staple of my diet in Japan.
>>2854635It’s a latina. You’re one of the people who’ll stand in a crowd of Filipinos and say >wow! There are no tourists here!
I'm planning on doing a week trip at Sapporo this summer. I heard outside of Sapporo, the public transport is not up to par with Tokyo or Osaka. >furano lavender field>biei>asahikawaIs any of these places difficult to reach and get around without renting a car?
>>2854920There are lots of half day/full day bus tours that locals do for Furano and other spots. There are trains and buses within Asahikawa that'll get you to stuff around the city.
>>2854927I saw that they have the Sapporo-Furano 4 days pass that covers pretty much where I wanted to go.
>>2854967It's probably worth doing that. I joined a bus tour for Furano nearly 10 years ago and it was fine. There were no stops at gift shops and there was sufficient time for all I wanted to see. Though I joined one geared towards Japanese people; not sure if things geared towards foreigners would be different.
>>2854635>That's a wasian>>2854777>It’s a latinaIs that one of those re-imported Brazilian Japs?
Thanks for all the tips, guys, really useful.
>>2855123You can do a reverse image search yourself and see that it's a Mexican. You're fucking stupid, christ.
>>2854247>Go to Sapporo if you want the best food in Japan.Went to Japan last month and visited Sapporo on a recommendation from a friend. The food is good, but be prepared, like in Tokyo, to make reservations or stand in long lines.
>>2854712>you can still find great food maybe just 30 minutes off the beaten path without crowds and annoyances.What are some must-eat places in Tokyo?
>>2854237>What to eat in Japan.That fat asian ass.
>>2854920Lots of lavender fields in Hungary (especially at Balaton, close to Tihany) you don't need to go as far as Japan to see them
>>2854680Bummer about Tabelog, I'll be in Toyko in ten days and all of the restaurants I was planning on going to I found on Tabelog and got reservations for. I was thinking something was fucky when western travel influences started talking about Tabelog as the best resource for finding food.
>>2855438That poster is overly critical of tabelog and I do not recommend his advice of trusting Google Reviews over tabelog. The only time I rely on Google Reviews, is checking for any recent food poisoning cases
>>2855438You should not cancel your restaurant reservations over an anonymous 4chan poster who will not be able to compensate your time and money, if he is wrong. Also, there is nothing wrong about the increase in foreigners recognizing that Japanese people regularly use tabelog, since nobody in Japan uses yelp.
>>2855475The first piece of advice you see for restaurants these days is always "no bro tabelog reviews are better always trust them." While half the reviews on tabelog are now posted by people with names like Timmy, Jimmy, and Tyrone. When every western "influencer" is talking about something, you know it's long past its glory days.For what it's worth, Japanese people today just use google reviews. Tabelog reviews are the equivalent of Yelp, mostly old people who started using it 20 years ago and just haven't stopped. If you trust Yelp reviews more than others, then maybe Tabelog is good for you. But I'm not sure that's the case. Especially since Tabelog does limit reviews to a low score if owners don't pay, and they raise scores if they do. Same as Yelp.
