Well as I said in previous posts, the food in Tokyo was really very cheap. Now I’m going to talk about places, foods, price…
The most of the days we took the breakfast at the Hostel because it’s very cheap. Moreover, while we’re taking it we’re conected to Internet to check the mail or look for information about the places we’re going to. There you could take all coffee & toasts that you want for 315 yens (2 euros more or less).
To lunch & dinner, one of the most important discoveries we did along the travel was the Yoshinoya restaurants. A very cheap restaurant. We find one of its restaurants in every district. There’s one next to Apple Store in Ginza.
Yoshinoya restaurants are very famous. There’re a lot of groups and pages on Facebook about it. Even there’s a group with more of 900 members. I met two spanish people in Tokyo that they said to me that they ate in a Yoshinoya restaurant in Los Angeles.
There, I used to take a big bowl with rice and a salad with mashed potatoes. It cost to me 270 yens (2 euros more or less). You could take another things as liquid egg to mix with the rice or a Miso soup. Each one costs 50 yens (0,40 euros more or less). Also, there’s fish or meat menus for less of 500 yens (less of 4 euros).
The Odaiba’s day we ate in La Pausa, an italian restaurant inside Aqua City Shopping Center. While we’re eating we could see the Tokyo bay. The menu: Margarita Pizza with mozarella and four cheese gnocchi for 700 yens (5 euros more or less).
Saizeriya, another italian restaurant in Asakusa. Gratin spinach, mozarella pizza, garlic bread and you could take all the soft drinks, water, coffee… you want for 800 yens (6 euros more or less).
Jonathan’s coffee & restaurant. Pasta with vegetables 829 yens (more than 6 euros).
I’d lunch in a very small restaurant in Nikko. It only had three tables and the menu was in many languages. Every wall in the restaurant was covered with post-it, polaroid photos, subway tickets… of people that were been there! I took a great vegetable tempura and a bowl with rice. It cost to me 800 yens (6 euros more or less).
I think the more expensive restaurant that we went was Tokyo Bellini Café in Shibuya. Spaguetti al pomodoro con melanzane e mozzarella cost to me 1.650 yens (less than 12 euros) but you could take all that you want on a buffet salad… and water, soft drinks, juices, coffee, teas…
In Tokyo, you take free water in every restaurant.
Other things:
- Mcdonnals’s sundae ice only costs 100 yenes (0,70 euros more or less). We took two every days.
- You can find vending machines in every street. I took a lot of ice coffees for 120 yens (0,90 euros more or less).
- I saw 400gr. of Tofu for 39 yens (0,30 euros more or less) at supermarket.
- Starbucks’s prices was cheaper than here.