Teppan (てっぱん) is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto,^[1] in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant.^[2] The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating (in the Kanto region), making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.^[3]

• Miori Takimoto, as Akari Murakami, the heroine
• Narumi Yasuda, as Michiko Murakami, Akari's adoptive mother
• Ken'ichi Endō, as Jō Murakami, Akari's adoptive father
• Kaname Endo as Kinya Murakami
• Naoyuki Morita as Teppei Murakami
• Aki Asakura as Kana Shinomiya, Akari's friend
• Shingo Yanagisawa as Kyuta Shinomiya, Kana's father
• Toshinori Omi as Ryuen Yokoyama
• Seiya Osada as Kaoru Takizawa, a marathon runner
• Satoshi Matsuda as Takashi Nemoto, Kaoru's coach
• Shūji Kashiwabara as Jun Iwasaki
• Tamiyasu Cho as Hajime Hamano
• Miyuki Kawanaka as Sayoko Matsushita
• Hidekazu Akai as Eiji Kanda
• Rie Tomosaka as Fuyumi Nishino
• Hiroshi Kanbe as Takuro Sasai, an artist
• Satoru Matsuo as Toru Nakaoka
• Koki Maeda as Tamio Nakaoka, Toru's son
• Kotomi Kyono as Nozomi Kobayakawa
• Raita Ryu as Den Hasegawa
• Sumiko Fuji, as Hatsune Tanaka, Akari's real grandmother
• Tamao Nakamura (narrator)
• Haruka Kinami, as Tanaka Chiharu

• The broadcast rights for the drama were sold to Sri Lanka with the intention of dubbing it into Sinhalese.^[4]

• Teppan at IMDb