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hanjam · Joined: 09 May 2006 Location: manchester, UK

Could anyone recommend any cheap eat or drink spots in Tokyo.

And on the whole is the city as expensive as everyone says it is?

Thanks

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

There are cheap places literally everywhere. No, it is not as expensive as everybody says it is, unless you want it to be.

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

Buy your lunch at convenience stores.
Unlike Korea, 7/11, Family Mart, etc., have a GREAT selection of ready-made meals that are well-priced. Always changing, too.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Yeah, Lawson's made a huge deal out of how all their bentos were fresh (made with fresh ingredients). I can't say if it was true, but I am pretty sure it was. Their stuff was usually pretty good (a bit better than Family Mart).

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Usually when i travel across japan I eat breakie at any of the bakeries, lunch at lwason or family mart and dinner at a sushi stand, similar..

Family Mart in japan kicks ass.....why is it so bad in Korea???

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Tokyo on the cheap

A few good tips in an SF chronicle article this weekend.

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

Cheap food can be found anywhere. As mentioned, you can get by just by eating at Lawsons. The food is okay and reasonably priced with good choices.

And yes, there seems to be the myth that Tokyo can only be possible if you spend a ton of coin to do it. I disagree.

Not only Lawsons meals, but You can also eat "tachi-gyuu" or the udon noodle stands in the stations for quite cheap. There are lots of little ramen noodle and gyoza dumpling shops that are also reasonably priced.

Trumpcard · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

Family Mart friedo chickin! best fried chicken in town, 2 pieces of that and a tall can of Suntory Malts, ahhh the memories..... For very resonably priced bbq, head to a Gyu-Kaku restaurant. Roppongi is a sleazy sh*thole. Great bars in Shinjuku and Ikebukuro. Pick up a Metropolis magazine when you're there.

Neil · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo

Japanese fast food is the best I've come across.

Yoshinoyo, Mos Burger and Beard Papas are excellent and affordable.

Japanese beer is marked up in the bars (from memory it was about 250 yen from familymart but 700 yen in the pub) but it's quality, Yebisu is one of the best beers I've had, haven't been able to come across outside of Japan alas.

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003