Originally Posted by
JapanFlyerT
The restaurant option is certainly much better than the lounges, given the normal domestic lounges just provide soft drinks and maybe a candy or senbei if you are lucky.
KIX also has landside lounge access that is PP. Just two beers and a dish of food, but better than nothing.
Narita has a couple options. At least one is landside and offers a decent okonomiyaki set.
I was on the fence as to whether to renew my Rakuten Gold card, as the only real benefit is the PP access. Just cardmember (guest is ¥3,300 and rarely worth it), and starting in January it will be limited to 5 visits a year. I consider a domestic lounge visit worth about ¥500, but the restaurant visits are decent meals, so getting 4 or more makes it worthwhile.
True, the majority of domestic airport lounges, especially outside Tokyo and Osaka, only offer small bags of
senbei as food. I've visited the PP Lounge (actually, the KAL Lounge) at Fukuoka Airport. Though small, even they offer more food than you'll get at a standard ANA Lounge. BTW, the Osaka Airport Winery shows up in PP app, but under its condition, you cannot bring a guest with you, which you can at most PP restaurants in the U.S.