Gyudon beef bowl with pickled ginger (temporary image)

Donburi (rice bowls)

A bowl of rice with a topping: beef, egg and chicken, cutlet.

丼もの

Donburi is a bowl of rice with a topping cooked in a sweet soy sauce: gyudon (beef and onion), oyakodon (chicken and egg), katsudon (pork cutlet and egg) or tendon (tempura).

Beef bowl chains are open late or all night and are among the cheapest hot meals in Japan.

Good to know

  • At beef bowl chains, the size names are usually nami (regular) and oomori (large).

Where to try it

We have not added a place for this yet. We only list places we have actually been to, so check back soon.

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