Where to eat in Tokyo Disneyland

It is important to know where you eat in the Tokyo Disney Resort(TDR). In this post, I will introduce the restaurants I often go to in Tokyo Disneyland(TDL). Restaurants that serve delicious traditional Japanese food, restaurants with high-cost performances, and restaurants that are popular with children.

Priority seating system

TDR’s restaurants have a priority seating system. If you have a reservation in advance and go there at the time you have booked, you can be seated as soon as they are available. I recommend to use this system for guests with children (especially with a short temper).

Serving Style

There are four types of restaurants, classified by serving style.

• Counter Service
• Table Service
• Buffet terrier service
• Buffet Service

At counter service restaurants, you order the food you want and receive the food at the counter after paying for it. In table service restaurants, you order at your table, and food will be served there. In Buffet terrier service restaurants you put your favorite food on the tray and check out at the cash register.  In Buffet service restaurants you can eat as much food as you like and then check out at the cash register.

Note; Water are served for free. Ask a nearby staff.

Restaurant Hokusai

• World Bazaar
• Priority Seating
• Table Service
• Japanese Food
• Children’s Menus available, Special Dietary Menus available
• From 1,200 yen to 2,200 yen

Restaurant Hokusai is the only Japanese restaurant in Tokyo Disneyland. Crabmeat, Salmon, and Ikura Don is delicious.

You can get a placemat for an additional fee(¥600) at this restaurant. This should be a very wonderful souvenir from Japan.

Grandma Sara’s Kitchen

• Critter Country
• Counter Service
• Children’s Menus available, Special Dietary Menus available
• From 1,200 yen to 2,200 yen

Recommended menus are omelet over rice and Doria with chicken and mushroom. This restaurant is relatively less crowded compared to other restaurants in the park. Even at lunchtime in the busy seasons, I can often manage to find a table. 

Camp Woodchuck Kitchen

• Westernland
• Counter Service
• Children’s Menus available, Special Dietary Menus available
• 1,200 yen or less

The “Onigiri sandwiches” is something you can buy only in this restaurant, and it is so delicious! It sandwiches an addictively spicy-sweet beef ribs with a charming Mickey-shaped rice ball. I’ve never seen anything like it in Tokyo. “Fried chicken with waffle sandwiches” also tastes great so try both if you have a big appetite. The balcony of this restaurant has a great view. From the balcony you can see the American River, Tom Sawyer Island, and the steamboat Mark Twain.

The seats on the second floor are often empty.

Hungry Bear Restaurant

• Westernland
• Counter Service
• Children’s Menus available, Special Dietary Menus available
• 1,200 yen or less

This restaurant has a lot of seating (710 seats), so the rotation rate is fast and waiting time short.

The sponsor of this restaurant, House Foods Group, is a food manufacturer famous for its retortable curries. And the curry you can eat at this restaurant is TDL’s original. The restaurant offers both sweet and dry curry options for children. You can also choose between regular and large portions.

I haven’t written about all the restaurants yet, so I’ll add more about some other restaurants in the future.