WCosplay restaurants are theme restaurants and pubs that originated in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, around the late 1990s and early 2000s. They include maid cafés and butler cafés , where the service staff dress as elegant maids, or as butlers. The staff treat the customers as masters and mistresses in a private home rather than merely as café customers. Such restaurants and cafés have quickly become a staple of Japanese otaku culture.
WThe Coto Coto Train is a touristic train service in the Fukuoka Prefecture region of Kyushu, southern Japan.
WDin Tai Fung is a Taiwanese restaurant chain that specializes in Chinese Huaiyang cuisine. Outside Taiwan, Din Tai Fung also has branches in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.
WFreshness Burger, often referred to simply as Freshness, is a fast food restaurant from Japan. Founded in 1992, it sells hamburgers, sandwiches, salads, and coffee drinks. It advertises itself as "Fresh and Organic," operating under the slogan "Freshness Food, Freshness Serving, Freshness People, Freshness Planet," which is displayed in English. There are several vegetarian items on the menu. It presently operates 189 locations in Japan.
WFujiya Co. Ltd. is a nationwide chain of confectionery stores and restaurants in Japan. Its first shop was founded in 1910 in Yokohama.
WGyu-Kaku is a chain of Japanese yakiniku restaurants specializing in Japanese barbecue.
WHeichinrou, is a Chinese restaurant located in the Chinatown of Yokohama, Japan. It is privately held and is the oldest operating Chinese restaurant in Japan. The Zhang (張) family first started the restaurant and operated for it for two generations, then the Bao (鮑) family for three generations until Tatsuo Hayashi (林達雄) took over. Today his son, Yasuhiro Hayashi (林康弘) operates as the seventh president. Heichinrou Japan and Heichinrou Hong Kong are separate entities with no financial association but both represented by Yasuhiro Hayashi.
WItalian Tomato Co., Ltd is a Japanese restaurant and cafe chain headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
WKFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, United States (US). It is the world's second largest restaurant chain after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains.
WA kissaten (喫茶店), literally a "tea-drinking shop", is a Japanese-style tearoom that is also a coffee shop. They developed in the early 20th century as a distinction from a café, as cafés had become places also serving alcohol with noise and celebration. A kissaten was a quiet place to drink coffee and gathering places for writers and intellectuals.
WKomatsu (小松) is a Japanese restaurant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. It is known as the "Navy Restaurant Komatsu" and was a preferred eating location for Japanese naval officers prior to, and following, the Second World War; American Navy personnel and those related to the Japanese navy have also patronized the establishment in significant numbers.
WMarugame Seimen (丸亀製麺), also known as Marugame Udon, is a Japanese fast-food chain specializing in udon. The chain is operated by Toridoll Holdings Corporation based in Kobe.
WMOS Food Services, Inc. , doing business as MOS Burger , is an international fast-food restaurant chain (fast-casual) from Japan. Its headquarters are in the ThinkPark Tower in Ōsaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo. At one time its headquarters were located in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
WNihonryori Ryugin is a Michelin 3-star fusion cuisine restaurant located in Hibiya, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The chef is Seiji Yamamoto.
WOkonomi-mura is a Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki food theme park located at 5-13 Shintenchi in Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is near the east end of Hondōri and has over 25 okonomiyaki restaurants, each with a slightly different style and set of ingredients. The restaurants there use a specialty okonomiyaki sauce created especially for Okonomi-mura by Sun Foods.
WThe Old Spaghetti Factory is an Italian-American-style chain restaurant in the United States and Canada. The U.S. restaurants are owned by OSF International, based in Portland, Oregon, while the Canadian restaurants are owned by The Old Spaghetti Factory Canada Ltd. In 2003, the U.S. company alone had 45 restaurants, in 14 states and Japan, and sales of $105 million. The U.S. firm also operated an Old Spaghetti Factory in Hamburg, Germany, from 1983 to 1993, but that was its only European location.
WOwariya or Honke Owariya is the oldest restaurant in Kyoto, Japan; it was founded in 1465. The specialty are traditional buckwheat noodles - called soba - and even the royal family eats here when they come to Kyoto. The restaurant uses the "freshest" Kyoto spring well water to make its delicious soup broth.
WPecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe, located in Magic Kingdom's Frontierland (Florida) and in Tokyo Disneyland's Westernland, is a quick-service Tex-Mex-style restaurant based on Disney's short film Pecos Bill from Disney's animated film Melody Time.
WPizza-La is the second highest-grossing pizza chain in Japan after Domino's Pizza. The company has its headquarters in the Zenkaren Building in Minami Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo.
WQuintessence is a Michelin 3-star Japanese French fusion restaurant in Shinagawa, Japan. It is difficult to reserve a table in the restaurant and has been listed as among the 50 best restaurants in Asia by CNN.
WRamen Jiro is a Japanese chain of ramen shops founded by Takumi Yamada. Yamada opened the first Ramen Jiro in Meguro, Tokyo in 1968. As of 2018, there are approximately 40 locations across Japan, over 30 of which are in the greater Tokyo area. Ramen Jiro is known for its large portions and its distinctly flavored broth, which enthusiasts call "Jirolian style." In 2009, The Guardian included Ramen Jiro on its list of "The 50 best things to eat in the world".
WA ryōtei (料亭) is a type of traditional Japanese restaurant. Traditionally, ryōtei only accept new customers by referral and feature entertainment by geisha, but in modern times this is not always the case. Ryōtei are typically a place where high-level business or political meetings can take place discreetly.
WSaizeriya (サイゼリヤ) is a Japanese chain of family-style Italian yōshoku restaurants. It is managed by Saizeriya Co. . Its headquarters are in Yoshikawa, Saitama.
WShichimiya Honpo is one of the oldest spice manufacturers in Japan founded in 1655 under the name Kawachiya (河内屋) and located near the famous Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. Its current name was established in 1951.
WShima Tamura is a traditional Japanese ryokan founded in 1563 and located near the Shima Onsen in Nakanojō town, Gunma Prefecture.
WThe Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum is a food court which opened in 1994, located in the Shin-Yokohama district of Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
WThe Yokohama Curry Museum was a restaurant and historic museum of curry in the Isezakichō district of the port city of Yokohama, Japan, between 2001 and 2007. Different types of curry were available from a selection or restaurants, ranging from a full meal to a quick taste option.
WYoshinoya is a Japanese multinational fast food chain, and the second-largest chain of gyūdon restaurants. The chain was established in Japan in 1899. Its motto is "Tasty, low-priced, and quick".