Restaurant Akaoni

Restaurant Akaoni is an all you can eat Yakiniku and shabu shabu place just a few blocks from Womble gate, located right above a 100 Yen Sushi restaurant which is pretty popular itself.  I suspect many have walked by the signs and not even noticed it because it's located on the 6th floor and it has to compete with the kaiten sushi place. Through some advertising I've seen in the base newspaper though, and a well placed English sign, the owner is getting the word out. On a recent night a good part of the restaurant was filled with sailors from a visiting ship I presume.  Others in the restaurant were Japanese singles, families and other American families. It's family friendly and smoke free.
 

Akaoni is open for lunch too with a cheaper version of the all you can eat - all the same items, but only 60 minutes instead of the 90 minutes allowed for dinner. 

Akaoni　赤おに　means red horned demon - which you can see on their sign above. A few other Kanji insights from their sign above... see the Key Food Kanji tab on my site and you'll be able to pick some out on the sign quite easily.  First one the top left you'll see 100 品　which means they have 100 items to choose from. On the key food Kanji page this symbol was introduced with a "-" before it which is the symbol for one. On a menu this will mean individual side items. These "3 boxes" are easy to remember and pick out. It means "goods" or "items." Same as in Shinagawa - 品川

To the right of that you'll see 食べ放題　which is tabehoudai. It's best not to get used to Romaji, so in Hiragana it is たべほうだい　which happens to be the first entry on the Key Food Kanji tab. This means all you can eat.  Tabe means to eat. Hou means "set free" and dai means "topic" or "subject" - Put together - houdai - 放題 - means as much as you like, which lines up well with the individual Kanji for "set free" 放.  
 

Veggies and some fruit

 You'll grab a tray, get a bunch of raw food, and then take it back to your table to cook. 

Selections include all kinds of vegetables for the shabu shabu, pork, beef, chicken, shrimp and even crab legs. 

For those who love all you can eat crab leg buffets from the U.S. you'll find this just slightly less satisfying because there is no hot butter, or even cold butter to be had. But you can't complain about all you can eat crab legs - cooked in the shabu shabu pot they are good just by themselves. Also included is sushi, salads, soup, ramen, and dessert.


 There are "instructions" at the table in English to guide you through the cooking process if you're new to shabu shabu or yakiniku cooking.

 
 Prices for dinner (see picture also) are 2480 Yen for men, 2380 Yen for women, 1280 for elementary school kids, and 680 for kids 3 years old up to elementary school.

Lunch prices are cheaper and for 60 minutes - they are on the bottom of the price menu shown below. 

For an additional 980 Yen, you can get all you can drink.

Take the elevator to get there. If you visit often I believe they have a point card, but if you're like me you never have it when you need it. Enjoy!

Yakiniku

The food is good quality

Shabu Shabu

 

Meat and seafood

More meat and chicken

Shabu shabu guide

Yakiniku guide

all you can drink menu

Pricing - dinner on top, lunch on bottom