Yayoiken Nipponbashi — Restaurant in Osaka

￥700-1200 / person, delicious and balanced meals, great service.

Yayoiken is a chain restaurant that prepares traditional Japanese set meals. VERY affordable, as most meals will cost less than 1000 yen. (Free refills on rice, if you need it.)

You order at one of two kiosks at the door, available in Japanese or English. Take the ticket and sit down at any table. They'll bring you your meal in a few minutes.

I've gone to 3 different Yayoiken shops, and they have consistently good food. You get rice, soup, main dish, and sides, so it has great variety.

Would I come back? Yes, many more times.

Should you go? Yes, it's affordable, easy to...

After a long day of walking and aimlessly in search of comfortable food to warm up my empty stomach, I was rescued by this place. It offers good value food set that comes with an appetizer, a bowl of rice with selection of white or mixed rice and soup, costing only 1100 yen ish. There’s also a lots of adds on options. I personally enjoyed the ginger chicken set with fried fish. I recommend this place to people who want a break from BBQ, sushi, yakitori. Service is mostly self serve, you pour your own water and such but staffs are friendly and welcoming. Good...

I found this place after the place I wanted to try unfortunately changed their operation hours. And I'm so glad google map recommended me this place. 5am, where do you expect to find a good place to eat? They had varieties of choices but I tried the Japanese authentic breakfast and my son tried the Western breakfast, both cost us $10000 yen. So cheap with unlimited rice refill. When I was there, I noticed lots of Japanese went there, that told me it was a truly Japanese cuisine.

Highly recommend it as the food is so good and the price is...