{"id":4115,"date":"2020-04-30T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/the-best-burgers-in-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:34:38","slug":"the-best-burgers-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/the-best-burgers-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Burgers in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list is not exhaustive; the sheer size and amount of places opening, closing, and existing in Greater Tokyo demands an army of greasy, cheesy, burger-loving writers to file addendums weekly to keep the list accurate. With all that on offer, I can only humbly offer my own opinion of good burger haunts. As such, this means I can\u2019t profess how good chains like Shake Shack, Fatburger, Wendy\u2019s, and the others are (they are pretty good though!), and will be limiting myself to the one-offs, \u201conly in Tokyo\u201d burger joints I\u2019ve personally experienced first hand. <i>Yoroshiku onegaishimasu<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3>Grill Burger Club SASA<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m not entirely sure why this happened, but the Daikanyama\/Naka Meguro area has become \u201cburger central\u201d in the last 2-3 years somehow. The first of these shops I visited was the Grill Burger Club SASA, located right next to Daikanyama station. I had no idea what to expect until entering the shop. That\u2019s when I saw the rotund manager\/grill master doing his thing while wearing a broad smile and a copious amount of grease on his apron\u2014 this is always a sign that the food is going to be epic! You can get anything from a standard cheese double to a gourmet mozzarella portobello with artisanal bread. And the chef above is very accommodating if you want to mix and match toppings and ideas from the menu. Go crazy all you want, remember you will pay a bit more for the creativity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Address: 2-21-15 Ebisunishi, Shibuya, Tokyo<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Weekdays: 11 AM\u20139:30 PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Weekends: 11 AM\u20138:30 PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Phone: 03-3770-1951<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijiriya.co.jp\/\">http:\/\/hijiriya.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>BLACOWS<\/h3>\n<p>Japan\u2019s most famous cuisine is sushi and ramen, but there\u2019s also \u201cwagyu \u548c\u725b,\u201d the fatty, marbled cuts of beef that comes from places like Kobe, Matsuzaka, and Hida. Ever wondered what these tasty cuts would taste like in a burger? Wonder no more because you can head over to Ebisu and try it out at BLACOWS. The name is synonymous with the fact that they hand grind 100% \u201ckuroge \u9ed2\u6bdb\u201d beef, literally black cows. All burgers here are custom; you select the toppings deli-style, right down to whether you want lettuce, tomato, or onion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Address: 2-11-9 Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuroge-wagyu.com\/bc\/\">http:\/\/www.kuroge-wagyu.com\/bc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Homework\u2019s<\/h3>\n<p>My first time eating an honest-to-goodness-for-real-American-style-in-Japan burger was way back in 2001 when I was brought to this shop in Hiroo by my coworkers. I ordered a double bacon cheeseburger that had my cheeks glistening with oil and mustard by the time I was halfway through it. To this day, if my travels carry me close to the area. It\u2019s a given that I\u2019m making a run over to Homeworks. The place has been around since 1985, and they haven\u2019t done anything but continue to make juicy burgers out of 100% Aussie beef. Well, that and open a branch up in Azabu, so you now have two places to enjoy doing your hamburger homework!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Address: 5-1-20 Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeworks-1.com\/\">http:\/\/www.homeworks-1.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 By <a href=\"http:\/\/jlgatewood.com\">Jason L. Gatewood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breakofdawn\/33849962162\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Bomb wagyu burger from Blacows in Shibuya<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/breakofdawn\/\">Break of Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list is not exhaustive; the sheer size and amount of places opening, closing, and existing in Greater Tok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,37],"tags":[47,48,45],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-tokyo-2","tag-tokyo-city-2","tag-tokyo-dining-2","tag-tokyo-metropolis-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50332,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/50332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}