Tasty hamburger joints in Japan are quite elusive. As anybody who has made the mistake of typing in the word “hamburger” and their local address into a google map search will vouch (yes, all you get are a bunch of McDonalds), there doesn’t seem to be a particularly easy way to find them. Come and read article number 4 in our series of “The Quest for Japan’s Best Hamburger”. How many stippies does Yokoji Hamburger Utsubo Koen score?

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The forth in our “Quest for Japan’s best hamburger” series. Pocke Farm in Okinawa, is like one of those little huts run by Filipinos that you’d expect to find in a Hawaiian parking lot. The shop itself is just a small box adjacent to American Depot but it does have quite a spacious deck “out the back” for customers to sit down and enjoy their hamburgers so it actually pulls off a high score when it comes to atmosphere points. As for how the burger actually tasted, come and read the full article.

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Contrary to popular belief, I believe the best hamburgers are definitely a slow food. Just because McDonald’s made hamburgers into the archetypal fast food, it doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice the concept of a real high quality burger. While it’s rare to find a burger joint that is willing to keep their customers waiting 15 minutes or more after ordering, T’s Star Diner (Takatsuki, Osaka) is, and is proud of it.

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This is part two of our series on Japan’s best hamburger. This time, we took a trip down south to Okinawa, to sample of of the (locally) famous Jef Goya Burgers. We rate the burger place with our system of “stippies”. Take a look to find out if you should or shouldn’t put it on the menu for your next trip to Okinawa!

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I don’t take my burgers lightly. As a big fan of hardcore burgers and an unforgiving critic of cheap imitations, I am on a seemingly endless search for Japan’s perfect burger, and have been for more than a decade.

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