Japanese restaurant near Deoksugung with free 60-minute parking: Tawa
Tawa is a Japanese restaurant on basement level 1 of Hansan Building near City Hall Station and Deoksugung in Jung-gu, Seoul. One table at Tawa covered kaisendon (sashimi rice bowl) at 25,000 won, topped with ankimo monkfish liver, and hitsumabushi (Nagoya-style grilled eel rice bowl) at 30,000 won, finished as eel ochazuke with green tea poured over the rice. With the first 60 minutes of parking free, Tawa is an easy pick for a group driving into central Seoul.