Ichibankan — Restaurant in Beppu

If your primary goal for a meal is to eat a lot of meat, then this is a good place to go.

If you want a relaxing atmosphere, sushi, or vegetables, this is a bad place to go.

I've been at both lunch and dinner, and during busy hours, the place is pretty packed and quite loud. Dinner kinda hurts the pocket book, but lunch is very reasonable for all you can eat. The tables are clean, and the grills work well.

The food is so-so. I have no complaints about the meat, it's pretty good. There are usually no more than four vegetables out at any given time. I've seen onion, carrot, sweet pepper, squash, and mushrooms. The sushi is pretty low quality. There is also an udon bar and a salad bar, both of which are fairly small. Desserts include a plethora of store bought cake slices and jello, as well as ice cream and soft serve. There are also three or so drink dispensers for coffee, soda, and tea.

Pros: Lunch is reasonably priced. The meat is good and there are lots of options. The squid was really good, and the potato salad was amazing.

Cons: noisy, expensive dinner, disappointing non-meat options, the coffee machine is either empty or non-functional...

Dinner:

Meat will become jerky in seconds, toughest meat ive had in the country. Other reviews claiming its what is expected at the price, hard disagree. For a fraction more(300¥) ive had all you can eat with drastically better quality, and an equal assortment. If you want ice cream and beer, i suppose it's fine, if you want any meat go elsewhere. Good desert claims are pretty questionable, i sure didnt find any. Went to...

Good food! All you can eat for an hour or 90 minutes. Good variety of foods (yakiniku, sushi, salad, udon, desserts) for a decent price. Only concern is that the waitstaff never came by to pick up our used plates or change out the grill surface (which got pretty blackened and gnarly) in the 90 minutes we were there. But other than that, everything was great, and I did appreciate the...