Jump to Navigation

Tokyo's burger 'vending machine'

Tateishi Burger in Katsushika-ku serves customers burgers through a home-made contraption
 

Tateishi Burger was featured on TV Asahi's Nanikore Chin Hakkei. (Video from YouTube user fyoudolphin.)

Tateishi Burger (Horikiri 3-17-15, Katsushika-ku, tel. 03 3695 9133) is an old-school hamburger joint with a faux-modern twist: Patrons can order burgers through a coin-operated 'vending machine.' In a country obsessed with vending machines this one takes the love affair to a new, albeit technically inferior level. Pop in ¥100 and out drops the Tateishi Burger. Plop in ¥300 to the orange vending machine nearby, and a Tateishi Royal Burger with pickles and bacon rises from the bottom.

Just don't try to order two at a time. The machine is automatic -- and not really a machine. It's more like the 18th century chess-playing Mechanical Turk. The chef cooks the burgers in his kitchen and manually operates the machine with a piece of string.

The burger vending machine gimmick is fun, but maybe not fun enough to take a trip all the way out to Katsushika-ku.

Check the Tabelog for some customers' reviews of Tateishi Burger's cooking before heading to Horikiri Shobunen station.

User Comments and Reviews

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Interesting!

What do you think?

Leave a comment or submit a review. You have to be logged in to comment.

Post

CNNGo Comment Policy: CNN encourages you to add a comment to this discussion. You may not post any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate the law. All comments should be relevant to the topic and remain respectful of other authors and commenters. You are solely responsible for your own comments, the consequences of posting those comments, and the consequences of any reliance by you on the comments of others. By submitting your comment, you hereby give CNN the right, but not the obligation, to post, air, edit, exhibit, telecast, cablecast, webcast, re-use, publish, reproduce, use, license, print, distribute or otherwise use your comment(s) and accompanying personal identifying and other information you provide via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity. CNNGo Privacy Statement.

Comments are moderated by CNNGo, in accordance with the CNNGo Comment Policy above, and may not appear on this blog until they have been reviewed and deemed appropriate for posting. Also, due to the volume of comments we receive, not all comments will be posted.

Listings

  1. Eat
    TokyoPrice $$
    Village Vanguard Diner: Authentically heart-stopping burgers
    Bookstore and junk shop Village Vanguard's spin-off burger joint is the hot spot for juicy burgers and tasty international beer...more
  2. Eat / Splurge
    OmotesandoPrice $$$
    Two Rooms: With a view
    Two Rooms is the latest trendy gathering spot in Omotesando for food and drink -- for very good reason...more
  3. Eat / Trendy
    AoyamaPrice $$
    Dragonfly Cafe: For the Aoyama creative elite
    This trendy café space acts as clubhouse for Tokyo's creative cognoscenti -- and dainty well-dressed shoppers...more
Know an amazing Bar or Club?
Be first to let us know. Just fill the information below and we'll be sure to feature it on our site.
Tell Us