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Where to eat well in Japan without spending like it's a special occasion: chains, counters, and convenience store finds.
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An evening in West Shinjuku: a playground, a crab dinner with bright green melon soda, a walk through Kabukicho's neon. No receipt, but real pricing for both the drink and the crab.
Tiger Gyoza Hall in Asakusa serves an oversized Banana Gyoza that isn't banana flavored. Real history on how recent gyoza is in Japan, and what a meal costs.
A small cardboard nameplate wedged into a Sanrio-themed birthday cake in Katsushika led us into Japan's real two-tier cake culture, 500 yen to 4,000 yen apart.
Ueno's famous Ameyoko market is usually explained as 'America Alley.' The real history is more disputed than that, plus what a seafood bowl costs there today.
HOKUHOKU, a real teppan restaurant a minute from Keisei Takasago Station, with real current menu prices. What a casual family dinner away from the tourist spots really costs.
A real gyoza coaster from Chausuyama, Tennoji, matched to a real chain menu. What the cheap gyoza order costs versus loading the table up.
Two real Osaka dinners at opposite ends of the scale: a casual izakaya night with beer and grilled skewers, and an A5 wagyu yakiniku feast.
Two real Osaka meals, same trip: a family restaurant chain lunch under 800 yen a head, and the $300 teppanyaki dinner on the other end of the scale.
What one cold-drink shelf at a neighborhood Tokyo supermarket charges, item by item, and how those prices compare to a vending machine or a convenience store.
