Tsukiji Market

My first order of the day was to get some sushi(!) for breakfast at Tsukiji. T-CAT is linked by an underground tunnel to Suitengomae subway station, and from there it was a quick subway ride with one change of trains to get to Tsukiji.

Unfortunately, most of the wholesale seafood action was over by the time I got to Tsukiji and most of the crowds were now milling around the outer market. This is where I committed an amateur traveler fail. I thought the two most popular sushi outlets - Sushi Dai and Daiwa Sushi - would be fairly obvious to spot as they would have the longest lines. Well, there were dozens of sushi outlets but none had long lines by the time I got there. I should have thought to find out the Japanese characters for these two outlets so I could identify them.

After some wandering around, I settled on the one that appeared busiest. There, I ordered a rice bowl with maguro (tuna), crab, uni (sea urchin) and ikura (salmon roe). It was odd eating sushi this early in the day but it was good stuff and it hit the spot.

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