Seoul Station Japanese restaurant for Saturday night gyukatsu and

Today I visited Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch, a restaurant near Seoul Station. I had somewhere to be in Seoul, so I looked up good restaurants near Seoul Station, saw the photos, and went straight there as if hypnotized! haha

Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch

There are so many great restaurants near Seoul Station that it's hard to choose, but this place wins decisively on gyukatsu — you won't regret it!

Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch location, 5-minute walk from Line 4 Exit 10

Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch is located on the basement floor of the LG Seoul Station Building, right next to Seoul Station. From Line 4 Exit 10, you can get there within a 5-minute walk!

The sign is in Japanese so I wandered around a bit before finding it haha, there's a small "이치규" written in Korean too

Saturday evening, 8pm — any wait?

There's a standing menu board in front of the store and a Catch Table waiting kiosk. I visited around 8pm on a Saturday, which was close to last order, so there weren't many customers, just so you know! It was nice being able to walk right in without waiting, but during peak hours I'd recommend checking Catch Table in advance.

The interior had more seats and felt bigger than I expected! It's good for a date near Seoul Station, for people looking for lunch near Seoul Station, and the seating didn't feel awkward for eating alone either.

Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch menu and prices

• Gyukatsu ₩19,500 / (Jumbo) ₩32,000
• Steak set ₩19,500 / (Jumbo) ₩32,000
• Hamburg omurice ₩17,000
• Steak rice bowl ₩19,500
• Hot plate chop steak ₩18,000
• Japanese curry ₩13,000

It's a Japanese restaurant where gyukatsu is the main dish! The prices were reasonable for a Japanese restaurant near Seoul Station, so it was easy to enjoy without worry.

Just a heads up, there's also an event where you get free fried shrimp for leaving a receipt review ><

I ordered the basic gyukatsu and a Kirin beer haha

Looks not-so-delicious visual...

Gyukatsu you grill yourself in melted butter

The gyukatsu set comes with rice, soup, salad, wasabi, salt, butter and more, and they give you a separate hot plate and burner so you melt the butter and grill it yourself. Since it's a grill-it-yourself style, first-timers might find it a bit unfamiliar, but that's exactly what makes it fresh and fun.

When you order gyukatsu, they set you up with a burner + hot plate like this

Once the hot plate heats up, they melt the butter for you

Then you grill it diligently on top of the butter. Grilling it where there's no butter made it stick to the plate ㅠㅠ! No time to look away...

Topping it with wasabi is pure bliss haha

Gyukatsu and Kirin beer, a perfect match

When things got rich and heavy, washing it down with Kirin beer was delicious — a dream combination with gyukatsu ㅜ Definitely order a beer and drink it together, I recommend it!

Why I'd recommend this as a gyukatsu spot near Seoul Station

If you're looking for a great gyukatsu place near Seoul Station, I highly recommend Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch. It's easy to access and has plenty of seats, so it's comfortable for dates, eating alone, or lunch appointments. The grill-it-yourself style makes it fun, and the combination of butter-grilled gyukatsu and Kirin beer was an unforgettable taste.

Near Seoul Station, you often end up just grabbing a quick bite while passing through, but Ichigyu Seoul Station Branch felt different from those places. With both the fun of grilling it yourself and the taste to back it up, I think I'll remember it next time I'm passing through Seoul Station. It's also a perfect location to visit when you have some awkward time to kill before your train, so I'd especially recommend it to anyone using Seoul Station.