Five Select Restaurants with Lunch for 1,000 JPY or Less in Ueno

This is a restaurant on the second floor of atre, which is directly connected to Ueno Station, and serves creative Japanese cuisine made with seasonal ingredients. They are particular about the fresh seafood they get from Tsukiji every day. A lunch item here that is less than 1,000 JPY, and using such seafood, is the Seasonal Grilled Fish Set (980 JPY (incl. tax)). Grilled fish, which is a standard home cooked dish in Japan, is a simple item that brings out the flavors of the ingredients. The set includes the fish, rice and miso soup. The fish differs by the time of year, so enjoy Japan's seasonal flavors.

This is an izakaya that keeps seafood caught in the morning in a tank so the customers can cook super fresh seafood on a tabletop stove themselves. A lunch under 1,000 JPY here is a seafood rice bowl with fresh fish that is only available at lunchtime. The Tricolor Tuna Rice Bowl in the photograph is just 676 JPY (excl. tax). Most of the rice bowl dishes are reasonably priced at around 700 JPY. If you want more volume, you can add udon noodles (176 JPY (excl. tax) and up) or potato salad (97 JPY (excl. tax)) to the rice bowl. Enjoy the high quality, fresh seafood rice bowls.

This is an izakaya where you can enjoy juicy charcoal grilled yakitori chicken skewers and carefully selected sake. It prides itself in the yakitori, so the lunch at 1,000 JPY and under also consists primarily of items made with chicken. The Mitsukuni-don (1,000 JPY (excl. tax)) is a popular item with which you can enjoy a variety of different parts of the chicken in one bowl. The izakaya is located within Sakura Terrace, right by the Shinobazu Exit of Ueno Station and is in a great location, close to both the entrance of Ueno Onshi Park and Ameya-Yokocho. The lunches here are a great way to enjoy the yakitori cooked at a specialty restaurant on a budget.