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When you're in the mood to throw dietary caution to the winds, Tokyo has plenty of choices. Here's a sampling of some of the better buffet and "Viking" restaurants. (Note that some of these all-you-can-eat restaurants don't have an actual buffet, they simply bring unlimited quantities of food to your table.)

Weekend buffet brunches are listed separately in the Tokyo Food Page Brunch guide.
When you're in the mood to throw dietary caution to the winds, Tokyo has plenty of choices. Here's a sampling of some of the better buffet and "Viking" restaurants. (Note that some of these all-you-can-eat restaurants don't have an actual buffet, they simply bring unlimited quantities of food to your table.)

Weekend buffet brunches are listed separately in the Tokyo Food Page Brunch guide.
Harvest - Japanese/health food: Ikebukuro
Open 11am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Harvest provides a natural-foods buffet with more than sixty different mostly Japanese-style dishes, including lots of vegetables. The price is Y1888 at dinnertime and Y1573 at lunchtime.
Open 11am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Kushiya Monogatari - Kushiage: Ikebukuro
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
This popular Osaka-based shop lets you cook your own kushiage skewers in a deep-fryer right at your table. It's all you can eat, including various side dishes and a big variety of skewered tidbits. ...
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Ruby - Burmese: Takadanobaba
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5pm-midnight daily.
Ruby is a friendly place that attracts a lively crowd of drinkers and eaters. They have a complete Japanese-language menu, listing some Malaysian-style dishes like satay in addition to a full range...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5pm-midnight daily.
Papera - Indian: Shinjuku Gyoen-mae
Open 11am-4:30, 5-11pm (LO) daily.
The lunchtime buffet offers four curries and a few side dishes, but the lunch sets might be a better deal if you know what you want. Lunch sets include one or two curries, salad, drinks and nan or...
Open 11am-4:30, 5-11pm (LO) daily.
Hina - Sushi: Shinjuku
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
The Hina chain is known for their good-quality, all-you-can-eat sushi meals, starting at around Y5,000 per person.
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Hina - Sushi: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11am-10pm. Closed Sundays.
The reliable Hina chain has claimed for themselves the niche of decent-quality all-you-can-eat sushi. It's priced from around Y5,000 at lunchtime or dinnertime.
Open 11am-10pm. Closed Sundays.
Sizzler - American: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
If you have a sudden craving for baby corn, sliced beets and Green Goddess dressing, Sizzler still runs one of Tokyo's best-stocked salad bars.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Sukhumvit Soi 55 - Thai: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11am-2:30, 5:30-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Part of the Tinun group of Thai restaurants, Sukhumvit Soi 55 is worth knowing about for their reasonably priced weekday lunch buffet if you happen to be in the neighborhood and hungry. In addition...
Open 11am-2:30, 5:30-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
New York Grill - International: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10:30pm (LO) daily.
There's a popular Sunday brunch for Y6,900, but you can get the same lunch on weekdays for Y5,000 (minus the flute of champagne). Full-course dinners are Y11,000-21,000, but people come here just as...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Spice Heaven - Indian: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
The Y1000 lunch buffet has only four curries, but they're above average in quality. Mondays are all vegetable curries at this branch of the Maharaja chain.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Mango Tree Cafe - Thai: Nishi-Shinjuku
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
The dining room is pleasantly decorated and the food here is very well prepared - including some excellent grilled chicken - but the dinner menu is too small and limited to get excited about. Lunch...
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Barbacoa Grill - Brazilian: Omotesando
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-10pm (LO) daily.
Brazilian-style all-you-can-eat churrasco grilled beef and other meats, along with one of Tokyo's best salad bars. Dinner is Y4500, weekday lunch Y3000.
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-10pm (LO) daily.
Terrace (Westin Hotel) - International: Ebisu
Open 6:30am-11:30pm daily.
The Westin's lobby restaurant is known for their lavish lunch and weekend brunch buffets, with frequent special events featuring food from various regions of the world. They also offer an appetizer...
Open 6:30am-11:30pm daily.
Cosme Kitchen Adaptation - Deli salads: Ebisu
Open 10am-10.30pm (LO) daily.
The organic salad bar here includes a selection of vegetable-centered deli items, and is priced at Y1980 per person for all you can eat. Other menu choices include burgers and sandwiches, pastas and...
Open 10am-10.30pm (LO) daily.
French Kitchen - French: Roppongi Hills
Open 6:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
This flagship restaurant of the Grand Hyatt bills itself as a French brasserie, with a very spacious setting and a dramatic open kitchen. Their all-day service includes breakfast and a popular...
Open 6:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
šChinaroom - Dim sum: Roppongi Hills
Open 11:30am-2:30, 6-10pm daily.
The Grand Hyatt's Chinese restaurant offers a dim sum buffet at lunchtime every day for Y4200. Budget around Y10,000 per person in the evening for food and drink.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 6-10pm daily.
Que Bom - Brazilian: Shimbashi
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO; Sat, Sun -9pm) daily.
Among Brazilian churrasco restaurants in Tokyo, Que Bom's lunchtime Brazilian buffet is an especially good deal. A churrasco plate with three kinds of meat plus the buffet is just Y1280, and you can...
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO; Sat, Sun -9pm) daily.
šMango Tree - Thai: Marunouchi
Open 11am-3, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
This flagship of a Bangkok-based chain is one of the more upscale Thai restaurants in town, with a large lunchtime buffet (Y3,500) and a prix-fixe evening menu (budget around Y9,000). The buffet...
Open 11am-3, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
ššSiam Heritage - Thai: Marunouchi
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Siam Heritage serves excellent traditional Thai cuisine in a gorgeous dining room overlooking Tokyo Station. The spicy dishes here are complex and well-balanced rather than just fiery, with a...
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Ventaglio - Italian: Mitsukoshimae
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9pm daily.
Lunch and dinner buffets of modern Italian cuisine in a beautiful open-atrium dining space. The weekday lunch buffet is Y2900; weekend lunch is Y4200, dinner is Y5000, and the weekend dessert buffet...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9pm daily.
La Boqueria - Spanish: Yotsuya 3-chome
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
The main draw at La Boqueria is the "wine buffet," an open bar with over a dozen different wines, not top-end but still very drinkable, priced at Y1980 for two hours. The dining room is attractively...
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
Sizzler - American: Suidobashi
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
The well-stocked salad bar is the main draw here, including all the beets and baby corn you could possibly want.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Daichi no Okurimono - Japanese: Ueno
Open 11am-4, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
There's something self-indulgent and luxurious about an all-you-can-eat buffet, but a natural-foods buffet on the other hand seems positively virtuous - "Eat what you want - it's all good for you." ...
Open 11am-4, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Que Bom - Brazilian: Asakusa
Open 5pm-midnight (LO). Closed Mondays.
The Y3000 churrasco buffet at this lively music bar features fifteen different Brazilian delicacies - grilled beef, pork and chicken, linguica sausage, and feijoada black-bean stew among them. Wash...
Open 5pm-midnight (LO). Closed Mondays.
šVenu's - Indian: Kinshicho
Open 11am-2:30, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Run by a chef from Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, Venu's specializes in South Indian cuisine and does an excellent job of it. The lunchtime buffet is a very good deal at Y1000 - it features...
Open 11am-2:30, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Khazana - Indian: Daiba
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Reliable Indian fare and terrace seating overlooking the Rainbow Bridge from the popular Maharaja chain. A buffet lunch (Y980) is served until 3pm (LO).
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Sizzler - American: Daiba
Open 11:30am-10pm daily.
The all-you-can-eat salad bar is surprisingly varied, and still one of the better ones in town.
Open 11:30am-10pm daily.
Kushiya Monogatari - Kushiage: Aomi
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
This popular Osaka-based shop lets you cook your own kushiage skewers in a deep-fryer right at your table. It's all you can eat, including various side dishes, and a big variety of skewered...
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Kushiya Monogatari - Kushiage: Kichijoji
Open 4-11pm daily.
Good, all-you-can-eat kushiage from this very popular Osaka-based chain. Pick your own skewers of fish, meat and vegetables from the counter and deep-fry them yourself at your table. Y2500 for two...
Open 4-11pm daily.
Harvest - Japanese/health food: Tachikawa
Open 11am-8:30pm (LO) daily.
The well-balanced, mostly Japanese buffet at this all-you-can-eat restaurant features a good number of healthy vegetable dishes among the sixty or so different buffet choices.. There are also ...
Open 11am-8:30pm (LO) daily.
Shamaim - Israeli: Ekoda
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Mondays.
An Israeli restaurant and pub, one minute from Ekoda south exit. They serve falafel, humus, salads, stuffed pastries and soups, plus shish kebab and one or two other meat dishes. 50 seats;...
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Mondays.
Kushiya Monogatari - Kushiage: Kawasaki
Open 11:30am-3, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Good, all-you-can-eat kushiage from this very popular Osaka-based chain. Pick your own skewers of fish, meat and vegetables from the counter and deep-fry them yourself at your table. Y2500 for two...
Open 11:30am-3, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Fukueimon - Dim sum: Kawasaki
Open 11am-2, 6-11pm daily.
Some thirty varieties of Hong Kong-style dim sum are served here, and there's an all-you-can-eat deal for Y2580 (two-hour limit, not available weekday lunchtime). There are several other set meals...
Open 11am-2, 6-11pm daily.
Kushiya Monogatari - Kushiage: Yokohama Sta.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
This popular Osaka-based shop lets you cook your own kushiage skewers in a deep-fryer right at your table. It's all you can eat, including various side dishes and a big variety of skewered tidbits,...
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Rio Grande Grill - Brazilian: Yokohama Sta.
Open 11am-2, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Brazilian churrasco grilled beef, other meats, seafood, and salad-bar selections will set you back around Y6,000 for all you can eat, with open-bar plans available for a bit more. There's plenty of...
Open 11am-2, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Sizzler - American: Yokohama Minato-mirai
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Sizzler offers a decent salad bar to go with your grilled meat or seafood main dish, stocked with seasonal fruits and vegetables, soups, DIY taco ingredients and desserts.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Weekend buffet brunches are listed separately in the Tokyo Food Page Brunch guide.
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Updated 2024-10-17