What is CoCo Ichibanya? Founded in 1978, curry house CoCo Ichibanya is the largest restaurant chain in Japan to specialise in kare raisu dishes – curry and rice, to non Japanese speakers.

Today, there are more than 1,200 of the curry houses in Japan, as well as locations in China, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Coco Ichibanya World Location: 2−2−1 Kyobashi, Chuo city, Tokyo 104-0031 Hours: Open daily, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Prices: Expect to pay between 1,000 and 2,000 yen. Dress: Casual ...

By MAY CHIAM Eating Out Wednesday, 22 Apr 2015 12:04 PM MYT ...

Coco Ichi, also known as Coco Ichibanya, is Japan’s most popular chain of curry restaurants, and with good reason. Delicious and inexpensive, Coco Ichi’s curry rice has been the culinary savior of ...

Coco Ichi, as it's known to fans, is most famous for letting you customise your Japanese-style curry dish however you want. To order, you first have to pick a curry sauce: pork, beef, beef stew ...

CoCo Ichibanya, the largest chain of curry houses in Japan, is opening its first London restaurant this week. The hugely popular curry and rice restaurant, which has 1,777 branches in its native ...