Ticket To Tokyo

This place is the best. It is cash only and has a limited menu but that is fine by me. The food is excellent and is of very good value. The folks that work here make you enjoy coming — everyone that I bring here comes back again and again!!!

A cheap little out of the way place off Public Square to eat. My food (Tempura Shirmp) was good and you got a decent amount for the price. My wife, however, had the chicken teriyaki. She said there was more fat on the chicken cut then meat and found the rice horrible. They provide free tea. It was ok.

LOVE THIS PLACE. The food is awesome (I get the #2). The people are great. You cannot beat the price. Cash only!!! Check it out.

People in there are very nice, the food was okay, but the service was great. The prices are great but I felt the food could have been a little better tasting. Ah well, I don’t work in downtown Cleveland anymore so maybe next time I am in downtown I will give it another try.

Love this place and love the operators. A coworker introduced me to this pocket lunch place when we had a meeting at Key Tower. I’m hooked and only eat here when I work downtown. I’m Filipino and the food is the closest to home comfort food. For the price, $ 5 – 6, more than worth it. No sushi, but an awesome character. Be sure to dine in the executive area.

Great food at a great price! Very friendly service, too. Used to eat here when they were located in the Old Arcade. Sixteen years later, still as good as I remembered!

Ticket To Tokyo is not fine dining by any means, but it is always a more than fine experience!
The menu is small, and I always order the same thing, but it is consistently delicious. It reminds me of plate lunches in Hawaii — steamed rice with a nice tempura sauce and crunchy sesame seeds, a honeymoon salad (with unbelievably delicious dressing that is sort of like the orange miso dressing at sushi places, only creamier), and chicken katsu on a stick. This, by the way, is under $ 5. Also, they have a solid selection of unique diet soda choices that are hard to find at restaurants, like Diet Sunkist!
The food is delicious — but honestly, I don’t go for just the food — the people here are probably my favorite restaurant owners in the world, and I always leave there feeling so much happier… I find that it’s hard to shake my smile for the whole day after visiting Ticket to Tokyo.
The married couple who own and operate the place should seriously be elected joint mayors of the city! They are fantastic! I have had tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard at the owner’s jokes, and I love that his wife just good-​naturedly rolls her eyes at his corniest jokes and then laughs anyway. It’s very sweet, and they are just the best!
I happen to LOVE the old Seinfeld tapes that are always on. It’s one thing to watch Seinfeld on TBS, it’s something else to watch it on VHS with the original 1990s commercial breaks. To borrow the name of one of their most popular meals, it’s «a little something» extra special.

When you’re paying $ 3.85 for a lunch, it’s hard to complain! I love this place! It’s my favorite, cheap, downtown eatery! For $ 3.85 I get a salad, rice, and a breaded chicken breast complete with dressing and tempura sauce. The best part of this place are the husband and wife duo that own and run the business. His personality is the best and I think it’s the main reason so many people continue coming back. Yes, it’s VERY much Americanized Asian cuisine, but I will continue coming back for years to come. I’m just disappointed that I just got a job outside of downtown. This will, most definitely, be a place I’ll miss.

This place is like an indoor take out stand. I had high hopes for this place, since I was hoping to find a good asian-​ish place right by my office. I was completely disappointed.
I ordered the «tempura vegetables» with a combo meal — which included rice and a lettuce salad. The «tempura vegetables» turned out to be fried battered sweet potatoes, soaked in oil and somewhat inedible bc it was so greasy. My friend got the teriyaki chicken combo plate, which I was sort of looking longingly at bc I was so hungry … but she said it tasted funny and was sort of discolored.
There is free hot and cold tea, and a jar of complimentary animal crackers at the cash register. I had 2 small styrofoam cups of tea, grabbed a handful of animal crackers on the way out, and headed back to the office still hungry.

This place opened in 1984 and hasn’t changed one bit since. This is a bad thing.
Ticket to Tokyo seems to specialize on serving meals just as if you were flying to Tokyo… in 1984. It seems like they just make one batch of food for the day and when you order slap it into a styrofoam container and you’re all set. The menu is actually kind of comical since it only has about 8 or 10 actual things to eat and then the other dozen listings are just some sort of combination of the other items.
If you want to try this place out, I suggest going before analog tv broadcasts cease to exist as the old tv in the corner still is running off of analog rabbit ears and I wouldn’t bet money anyone working there is capable of upgrading it. Lucky for them it’s a TV/​VCR combo! If that’s not working, there was strangely a pile of 5 or 6 Men’s Health magazines in the corner… doesn’t really fit with the 1980s theme or anything Japanese.
On that note you can be sure if you’re asian that you’ll likely be the only asian person in there, which includes the staff. You’d think with a over a billion out there they could find one just to try to give it some credibility…
Overall it gets 1 star… it’s worth trying out just to tell your friends about how weird it was. Make sure you talk back to the guy at the register too, some other think he’s an a-​hole but i think he’s just looking for you to be his friend…