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Hokkyokusei began in 1922 as Panya no Shokudō at Shiomibashi. About three years later the cook wrapped ketchup rice in a thin omelette for a regular with a weak stomach and called it "omu-rice". The Shinsaibashi main restaurant is a 1950 sukiya-style house with a garden.
Why it's unique
Tokyo's Rengatei also claims omurice, so the honest framing is that this is one of the two claimed origins, and the one that named it.
The setting is the other half: you eat a diner dish in a 1950 sukiya-style house, in tatami rooms round a garden.
Before you go
Ask for a tatami room overlooking the garden; most visitors get the table seats and never see it. Order the plain chicken omurice first.
