On one of the winter nights back in Tokyo, our friends took us out to a great dinner at Uosou Tsukiji.
We started with a couple appetizers, the ikura below was really tasty!
Then we started with the fish dishes.
The sashimi and sushi were both really fresh!
And because we are staying away from meat, we had a fish nabe with tofu, mushrooms, and veggies that warmed us up nicely.
Nabe with ponzu dipping sauce, my favorite!
A couple blocks away from the Japanese doll shop, down in a basement level restaurant, was our destination for lunch. Earlier our friends had researched lunch places for us and came up with this restaurant that specializes in maguro! For the lunch special you could choose either maguro-don or sashimi.
Then on top of that you could have all you could eat of the side dishes. This included miso soup, rice, salad, fruits, the fish katsu you see below and several other filling options.
Everything was delicious and with the all you can eat side dishes, it was a great deal!
For lunch after our trek around Nokogiriyama, we stopped at a nearby place called The Fish. It has a large restaurant with floor to ceiling windows right next to the water (Tokyo Bay). We were able to snag a table right by the windows so we had great views with lunch!
At the Fish, there is also an area between the parking lot and restaurant where you can buy all kinds of omiyage like tsukemono, wakame, manju, and of course fish. We bought some tsukemono and three boxes of a very delicious yaki manju.
For lunch I had the chirashi you see above. I loved the sprinkling of ikura all around! He had the tendon you see below. Both were good, very tasty!
Last year through our Tokyo friends we met another group of Tokyoites. We had a barbecue in Waikiki and had a great time!
One person that I made friends with that day is a restaurant owner from Tokyo who sent me a very nice gift after his return to Japan. He also said that when we were in Tokyo again, to come by his restaurant for dinner. So here we were at his restaurant in Asakusa…Kazusaya.
Almost the whole group that we met last summer was there taking up pretty much the whole downstairs area of this cozy restaurant.
On this night we were enjoying massive quantities of sashimi, seafood nabe, tamagoyaki, many different appetizers…
We also had this unusual cut of tuna that was so juicy and delicious!
To get here, after visiting Sensoji Temple we headed east until we hit the Sumida River. We walked north for about five minutes until Kototoi bashi (bridge). Crossing this blue bridge, you can see Tokyo Sky Tree ahead. It was on our left about a block after the end of the bridge.
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