Tonkatsu Masachan Niigata Station — Restaurant in Niigata

On the 2nd floor of a multistory building with several restaurants. There is a name sheet at the front to queue, but if the restaurant has open seats you can just walk in. I arrived around 5:30pm Friday night and it was mostly empty.

Staff was very friendly and proactively offered me an English menu when they heard me speaking English to another person.

I ordered the 3 piece filet rice bowl, and it was probably the most tender pork I’ve had outside of buttery chiasiu in ramen. They were also perfectly crispy, and the sauce that comes with it was a nice mixture of sweet and saltiness. While it felt filling at first, I think it was a bit small to last the rest of the night, so I would recommend others to order the set meal or a bowl with more...

You should try the thin cut tonkatsu. It’s full of flavour and sauce, and mixes well with the rice which is easy to handle with the chopstick. We did have a bunch of hiccups with the service here, we waited thirty minutes even though most of the seats were empty, no hints of reservation. You need to ask the staff for an English menu. Overall the food tastes good, though quality of service is close...

Very poor experience in first Niigata dining, the shop had so many vacant table inside the restaurant but let us travellers waited outside for almost half hour! The cuisine we had already finished but one of order had wait long long times until most of the customers had finished to eat. The management of resturant should be a huge room for...