Is Hikiniku to Come Worth the Queue? Japan's Bluntest Food Reviewer Finally Cracked — and Japanese Diners Piled On

What Japanese visitors said — picked from the top 70 of 859 comments

• If the honest-review guy is saying all this, it must be seriously good.

  正直レビューさんがこんなに言ってるってことは相当うまいんだろうな

  — @IIポケモン11,018 likes

• Under ¥2,000 for this is basically a bug.

  これで2000円切るのバグすぎる

  — @しゆちかもしれないMost liked12,743 likes

• This place was stupidly good. It kept showing up on my TikTok so I'd written it off as all looks. I was wrong lol

  ここまじでえぐい美味すぎた、TikTokとかでよく流れてきたから見た目だけだろって舐めてた笑

  — @yamato762212 likes

• This place has appeared a record three times on Yonino Channel — celebrities who eat extremely well keep going back. I'd wondered how good it could really be, and now even the honest reviewer is raving… I want to go more than ever.

  ここよにのちゃんねるで過去最多の3回登場してて、しこたま美味いものを食ってきたであろう芸能人が動画で何度も来店するほど美味いてどんなもんやって思ってたんですが正直レビューさんまで大絶賛とは……もっと行ってみたくなりました。

  — @もどき-p1t2,386 likes

• I love this place. Honestly, the rice alone is good enough that I could eat bowls of just that.

  この店好きだから嬉しい ご飯自体もまじで美味くて正直お米だけでもめっちゃ食べれる程美味い

  — @saeki_pop218 likes

• I go to the Kichijoji branch now and then — the hamburg is great, obviously, but the iron-pot rice is unreal. Staff are kind and attentive too. Lovely shop.

  吉祥寺の方にたまに行くけどハンバーグはもちろん美味しいし、羽釜のご飯がめちゃくちゃ美味しい！ 店員さんも親切丁寧で素敵なお店です。

  — @ririririchan293 likes

• Ex-employee here. The patties really are kneaded fresh twice a day, morning and afternoon, and we even ran monthly tasting contests for the rice — so this rating makes me genuinely happy. Thank you.

  元社員です。 本当に毎日その日の前半後半で捏ねたてですし、米も毎月品評会してやってるくらいなので評価して貰えて凄く嬉しいです。 ありがとうございます。

  — @k_hmk009451 likes

• It was ridiculously good here. But I lined up at 8 a.m. for a numbered ticket and didn't eat until 1 p.m. — "just open more branches" is exactly right.

  ここめちゃくちゃ美味しかったなあ ただ朝8時にならんで整理券もらって13時から食べられるとかだったから、店舗増やしては本当にそれ

  — @alcali404_ch330 likes

• I go to the Kichijoji one a lot — you seriously have to line up in the morning to sign the book or you won't eat by lunch lol. But it's genuinely delicious, so everyone should absolutely go.

  ここの吉祥寺店よく行ってるけどまじで朝から記帳に並ばないとお昼には食べれません笑けど本当に美味しいから皆んな絶対行って欲しい

  — @ぱる-s8j22 likes

• Truly delicious. You can also book online in advance (slots sometimes open the same morning), which is easy. But in summer it's hot inside, and the street out front smells like garbage. Please open more branches!!

  ここ本当においしい。ネットで事前に予約出来るのも楽(当日の朝取れたりする) ただ夏は店内も暑いし、外は生ゴミの匂いがするくらい汚い。店舗を増やしてほしい！！

  — @ここ-t3d3l5 likes

• Staff here! The "pass-out-level" rating makes us so happy ✨ The Shibuya branch will be closed for a while from September, so please come to Kichijoji 😊 By the way — if you line up at Kichijoji around 9:30 a.m. (about 8:30 on weekends), you have a good chance of booking whatever time slot you like!!

  店員です！悶絶レベルとの評価、本当に嬉しいです✨ 渋谷店は9月からしばらくお休みになるので、ぜひ吉祥寺店にお越しください😊 ちなみに吉祥寺店は9時半（休日だと8時半）頃に並んでいただければ、お好きな時間に予約できる可能性が高いかと思います！！

  — @ああ-x6k1g3,591 likes

• We have four branches in Japan — Kichijoji, Shibuya, Kyoto and Fukuoka — so do come 🙌🙌

  @marly1731日本には吉祥寺、渋谷、京都、福岡の4店舗がございますので是非🙌🙌

  — @ああ-x6k1g278 likes

• There's a Kyoto branch too — I went once, it was so good I went again on my second Kyoto trip. At first I thought "this price for meat, rice and miso soup?" — but you leave completely full and every flavor delivers. Huge recommend! Now I want to go again!!

  ここ京都にも店舗あって、1回目京都行った時美味しくて感動したから2回目行った。まじで美味い、最初値段的にお米とお味噌汁とお肉でこの値段か〜と思ったけど、普通にお腹いっぱいになるし、どの味も大満足だから超オススメ！行きたくなってきた！！

  — @アイスの実-g9e22 likes

• SaveHikiniku to Come (Kichijoji)↗挽肉と米 吉祥寺Kichijoji, Tokyo

  The original — staff say lining up ~9:30 a.m. (8:30 weekends) lets you pick your slot (3,591 likes). As of the comments.

• SaveHikiniku to Come (Shibuya)↗挽肉と米 渋谷Shibuya, Tokyo

  Closed for a while from September 2025 per a staff comment in the thread, which sent visitors to Kichijoji instead. Check its current status before you go.

• SaveHikiniku to Come (Kyoto)↗挽肉と米 京都Kyoto

  A commenter went on two separate Kyoto trips: "you leave completely full and every flavor delivers" (22 likes).

Named in the source comments. Where a note gives a price, opening status or rule, we checked it against the linked source on the date shown — everything else is what the comments said. All of it can change; check the map listing before you go.

Is Hikiniku to Come worth the queue?

The Japanese comments say yes, emphatically. A reviewer famous for harsh verdicts rated it "pass-out-level" good, and the top comment says "I've never seen him praise anything this hard" (9,957 likes). Even skeptics who assumed it was TikTok hype admitted they were wrong. The price sealed the consensus: "Under ¥2,000 for this is basically a bug" (12,743 likes).

How do you get into Hikiniku to Come without losing a whole day?

A staff member posted the hack in the comments (3,591 likes): at Kichijoji, join the sign-up line around 9:30 a.m. on weekdays — 8:30 on weekends — and you can usually book the time slot you want. One commenter also reserved online the same morning. Others who showed up without a plan queued at 8 a.m. and ate at 1 p.m. As of the comments.

What do you actually get, and how much does it cost?

Per commenters: three small charcoal-grilled hamburg steaks served one at a time, iron-pot rice diners rave about on its own ("the rice alone is good enough that I could eat bowls of just that"), miso soup, and a table of condiments for flavor changes, for just under ¥2,000 as of the comments. One reply puts each patty at about 90 grams.

Which branches does Hikiniku to Come have?

Four in Japan, per a staff comment in the thread: Kichijoji, Shibuya, Kyoto, and Fukuoka. The same staffer wrote that the Shibuya branch would close for a while from September 2025 and pointed everyone to Kichijoji, so check which branches are open before you plan around one. A Kyoto visitor in the comments vouched for that branch on two separate trips.