Kyoto, Japan｜Yayoi Ken - Karasuma Oike Branch

I absolutely adored eating at Yayoi. This Teishoku set-meal restaurant is definitely dominated by locals, and offers very inexpensive but still great quality food. They have a vending machine at the door where you order first (takes a variety of payments and is fully digital so it has an English option). You get the tickets, wait in line until they find a place for you to sit. We went for lunch and it was just full of local office workers grabbing their lunch. Silence other than the sound of happy eaters. It was wonderful. I highly recommend the stir-fried pork as well as the hamburg steak. You can refill as much rice as you want from their machine, though it comes with so many side dishes and soup that you probably won’t need to. Amazing value for money and amazing food. If I lived in Kyoto, I would eat here daily.

Very good food, service and atmosphere. The set meals are filling and you can have rice refills.

Great place for comfort food. Order from vending machine. Price is fairly cheap for this quality and big portion too. Rice may refill for free. Recommended to try barley rice. Didnt expect it would be this good. Definitely worth it.