The basement food floor “Hoppetown” has a 60-meter long bento street, where about 1,000 different kinds of bento are sold each year. Since it is located next to Tokyo Station, many travelers and business travelers buy bento as “ekiben” (station bento). In order to help customers decide which bento to buy within a limited time frame, the number of bento sold over a one-year period (January to December 2025) in the main price range of 1,000 yen to 1,700 yen is tabulated.
Daimaru Tokyo Store “Annual Bento Ranking Top 10
No. 1: “Dream Pretty Millefeuille” at Sosaku Sushi Restaurant Takimoto (1,795 yen)
No. 2: Heijima “Kaisen Chirashi” (1,380 yen)
No. 3: Ishon “Hamburger steak & beef saggeri with garlic rice set” (1,380 yen)
No. 4: Kakiyasu Gyumeshi “Kuroge Wagyu Beef Gyumeshi – Nita Rice Use” (1,598 yen)
No. 5: Seiyo Ginza “Beef fillet cutlet sandwich” (1,598 yen)
No. 6: Sumidagawa Asari Meshi (Sumidagawa Asari Rice), Masumoto Kameido (1,458 yen)
No. 7: Maizumi “Yawaraka Hire Katsu Bento” (1,382 yen)
No. 8: Kaneko Hannosuke “Kamitendon bento” (1,450 yen)
No. 9: Beef tongue Kanesaki “Yawaraka-ni simmered beef tongue stacked” (1200 yen)
No. 10: Nihonbashi Benmatsu Sohonten “Nami 6 with white sauce” (1,458 yen)
First place went to Sosaku Sushi Restaurant Takimoto’s “Dream Pretty Millefeuille” (1,795 yen). This mille-feuille sushi dish, which includes abalone, salmon roe, crab, and other ingredients in a moderate portion, took first place for the fifth year in a row.
In second place was Heijima’s “Ingredient-packed Kaisen Chirashi” (1,380 yen). The dish is said to feature a generous serving of 10 different ingredients, including tuna, salmon, salmon roe, and negitoro (negitoro).
Western-style foods such as hamburger steak bento and beef fillet cutlet sandwiches appeared in third place and below. Also popular were Japanese bento such as Kamitendon bento and asari rice, which are unique to Tokyo.
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