Affordable way to eat in Tokyo

I found an article that says that Tokyo is affordable. Yes I think so. I am gathering information about affordable Tokyo part 2 for my theme writing too.

I will write about the "affordable way to eat in " in Tokyo.
You can use some coupons like Tokyo Coupon or Gourmet Navigato on the internet. If you can read Japanese Hot Pepper is the big coupon site. They will give you 10% off or so. 

"Tabehodai =All-you-can-eat buffet" is a good place for people who can eat a lot. I like this Shabu Shabu restaurant "mo mo paradise" in Shinjuku, you can eat Shabu shabu as much as you can for 1700yen or so. This is Kushiage (fried meat and vegetable) tabehodai, this is sushi tabehodai. Many restaurant have a tabehodai menu for lunch and they are 900-1200yen or so, very reasonable.

If you want to save on price, how about Standing Japanese noodle (soba) shops inside train stations or near train stations? They serve soba for 250yen to 400yen (2-3 USD). And C&C Curry chain is a standing curry shop and they serve Japanese curries for less than 500yen. Even though Yoshinoya doesn't have beef bowl, they and other beef bowl chain shops have a reasonable less than 500 yen bowl menu. And there are many Obento shops on the street. (Hoka Hoka Bento is the big chain shop) People get these for their lunch or single people eat them for dinner. They serve hot rice from rice cooker, you can get hot food anytime. I like Origin Bento shop, the price is less than 500 yen. Since they are a kind of deli too, you can pick some dishes by yourself. Of course if you want to save more money on food, convenience stores have various obento, and barkely's bread and sandwich would be enough good for lunch.

For a night life in Tokyo, standing style is a kind of boom in Tokyo. This standing sushi shop has retro mood interior, they serve sushi for 100yen each. This is a Yakitori place. This is a Shochu place in Nishiazabu, they have over 170 kinds of shoshu.  You may find affordable food in Tokyo.

Comments

[hooka]

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[Mari]

Hi there
My all american friend are angry with small portion of food. Especially bergur is small they said. For them, it is one bite size :-)

[I am]

i have a friend from tokyo. she knows i have a huge appetite, and i usually complain about food prices here in the town where i live. (we go to university here.)

she warned me never to try eating in tokyo, because the prices and portions would give me a nervous breakdown.

soba for 300 yen sounds good to me, though. unless it's tiny.... o_o

[Trejkaz]

The falling cost of airfares is probably the most noticeable thing from where I stand, as I'm planning a trip over there. Their quoted round-trip from Australia to Japan for $400 per person is too good to be true. So far, I've seen it fall to $1000 per person, which is still about $800 less than it was when I first started looking.

If I can really find a $400 fare, that moves heaps of spare money to the budget, which greatly increases the options for accommodation and/or food and/or Akihabara spending frenzy. :-D

Or maybe it just absorbs the surcharge we'll incur by travelling in April.