Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo (Namba)

Namba’s Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo serves up a gourmet buffet with a great variety of food styles on offer.

Biken Gochisou is located on the 6th floor of Namba Parks © Angelino Donnachaidh

Located in the Namba Parks shopping center, Biken Gochisou Buffet is the second buffet on our Best Osaka Restaurants For Families With Young Children And Babies list, and an increasingly rare eatery find – one offering a diverse range of high-quality gourmet food at a midrange budget price point.

Biken Gochisou’s buffet area packs a surprising amount of variety – and quality – into a compact space © Angelino Donnachaidh

The Space

As a shopping center restaurant, Biken Gochisou’s dining room and buffet area are both standard and comfortable in a way that will be immediately familiar to visitors from all around the world. Limited booth seating is available. The nearest set of bathrooms (including diaper changing support) are located a very short walk outside the entrance to the restaurant within Namba Parks.

The Biken Gochisou Buffet Dining Room © Angelino Donnachaidh

Although the dining room is one large contiguous space, some partitions were used to break up the flow of traffic and noise, and the staff seemed to be placing all families with kids in the same area of the partitions. This is one of those little touches that speaks to attentive service and makes life easier for everyone.

The Service and Amenities

With high chairs, child cutlery, thoughtful seating, a great lineup of child-friendly food, and nearby bathrooms with diaper changing stations, Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo doesn’t leave diners with small children wanting for anything.

Two “main dishes” – from right to left, katsuo tataki (seated bonito sashimi) and grilled chicken © Angelino Donnachaidh

The buffet price comes with a single-serving “main dish” – a small meat or fish entree ordered immediately upon arrival and served at the table. Everything else is gotten at the buffet.

A bear-shaped monaka, filled with matcha-flavored adzuki sweet bean paste © Angelino Donnachaidh

The freedom to concoct your own specialty desserts is sure to be a crowd-pleaser for families with kids. Options include character-shaped monaka (Japanese wagashi confections made of crispy mochi wafers sandwiching a sweet filling) with a variety of flavored adzuki sweet bean pastes, and ice cream sundaes with all the traditional trimmings plus some Japan-specific options like matcha syrup, kuromitsu, and warabimochi.

Just one of the endless personalized dessert combinations available © Angelino Donnachaidh

The Food

Biken Gochisou Buffet has an impressive variety of food on offer, and some real standout dishes with high-quality flavor and mouthfeel that really surprise for a buffet at this price point.

Biken Gochisou has a nice assortment of hearty premade house salads © Angelino Donnachaidh

Of course, if you’re the parent of a small child, you’re probably just as interested to know whether that gourmet angle translates into anything your tot would actually eat without resistance. And luckily it does. To name some recommendations: crispy fried chicken or vegetable fritters, bean curry, sausages, candied sweet potato, various kinds of rice, an assortment of bread options, udon noodles in broth, and chicken pho noodles. All of these were surprisingly good, even by adult standards.

The buffet meal assembled entirely from a toddler’s choices left this parent wishing for a little more green on the plate © Angelino Donnachaidh

The buffet’s age-dashi-dofu was also unexpectedly impressive, and better than lots of traditional restaurants and izakaya pubs. Though my little one isn’t a big fan of the eggplant in the dish, the fried and broth-marinated tofu chunks from which it gets its name were a hit with her.

Fried chicken, age-dashi-dofu, fritters, and rice with tsukemono pickles © Angelino Donnachaidh

As with all buffets, the food at Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo is at its best when it is first served. This means the best time to go is as close as possible to the beginning of each meal service period (11:00am for lunch, 5:00pm for dinner) for the most reliably fresh and tasty eats. This doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy your meal if you go later – only that you will be at the mercy of the timing of the depletion/replacement cycle.

About Angelino Donnachaidh
Angelino Donnachaidh is a Mexican-American father, author, Japanese-English translator, and longtime resident of Osaka, Japan. His works include the middle grade (pre-)historical fiction novel Tamiu: A Cat’s Tale (Winner of the North Street Prize and CWA Muse Medallion), the YA post-cyberpunk heist adventure screenplay Brother (Winner of the HollywoodGenre 2025 Scifi Screenplay Competition), and the upcoming samurai scifi-fantasy action-thriller novel The Mayhem Protocols.

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Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo Information

Name in English:
Beauty and Health Feast Buffet Flowers and Fruits (Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo)

Name in Japanese:
美健ごちそうビュッフェ花も実も

English address:
〒Osaka, Naniwa Ward, Nanbanaka, 2 Chome−10−70 Namba Parks 6F

Japanese address:
〒556-0011 大阪府大阪市浪速区難波中２丁目１０−７０ なんばパークス店 6F

Opening hours:
11:00am-3:00pm (lunch)
5:00pm-9:30pm (dinner)

Non-smoking area: All non-smoking

Price:
¥2680 adults
¥1280 for kids aged 6-12
¥830 for kids aged 4-5
¥100 kids 3 and under
¥240 additional for soft drink bar including coffee, a massive selection of teas including fresh mixable herb-and-spice blends, and vinegar health drinks

Nearest transport:
5-minute walk from Namba Station (exit #11) on the Osaka Metro (Subway) Midosuji, Sennichimae, and Yotsubashi Lines
5-minute walk from Osaka-Namba Station (exit #B9) on the Kintetsu Hanshin-Namba, Kintetsu-Nara, and Kintetsu Limited Express Lines
5-minute walk from Namba Station on the Nankai and Nankai-Koya Lines

Website: Official website (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean)

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Biken Gochisou Buffet Hanamomimo is located in Osaka’s Minami district. See our complete list of things to do in the Minami district, including places to eat, nightlife and places to stay.

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