Recently, an increasing number of companies that started as hamburger shops have been expanding their businesses. Yakiniku Daishogun, a yakiniku restaurant, has also ventured into the hamburger business. They use Wagyu beef for their burgers! Although they currently have only a few branches, they are highly popular, especially after winning first place at the Japan Burger Championship in 2022. One of their branches is in Akihabara, so I decided to visit. The shop is called SHOGUN BURGER and is located on the 2nd floor of the UDX building.
There’s a ticket vending machine at the entrance.
At the entrance of the shop, there’s an order counter. After purchasing a ticket, I handed it to the staff. The food takes some time to prepare, so I waited for a while—about 10 minutes, I think. I picked up my order at the counter after my number was called. On the right side, there is a drink machine offering free refills (Drink Bar).
However, the drink selection is limited to cold drinks only.
The shop has only 20 seats. If no tables are available, they ask customers not to buy a ticket and to wait until the staff says, “Please buy a ticket.”
I ordered a lemon sour since the Drink Bar doesn’t offer warm drinks. It was sweet and sour, and it paired well with the burger. They also offer beer, but it’s canned beer produced by Daishogun, called SHOGUN BEER, priced at about 1000 yen, which I felt was a bit expensive.
I ordered the cheese hamburger. All hamburgers come with French fries.
This is the paper used for wrapping the hamburger. It’s cute!
Of course, the patty contains Wagyu beef, which gives it a crunchy texture and a delicious taste. I would say it’s somewhere between fast food (like MOS Burger) and premium hamburgers (like Shake Tree). The sauce is similar to a steak sauce.
It wasn’t heavily seasoned, which I think was intentional to let the flavor of the Wagyu beef shine. I added some mustard and ketchup from the condiment bar for extra flavor. Have you heard of HAI-SAI sauce? It’s a spicy chili sauce, similar to Tabasco, and both the hamburger and fries went really well with it.
To be honest, I also ordered mentaiko sauce for the French fries, but it didn’t taste very strong, and the flavor of the mentaiko was quite weak. It was more like regular mayonnaise. The HAI-SAI sauce was far better.
About
Name Shogun
Open Day through night
Reservation Available after 2:30 p.m. only (Tabelog)
Credit card Available
URL Website
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