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June 27, 2026

Last Breakfast & Lunch in Tokyo

Our hotel had a thrilling umbrella dryer!! It also had the elevator where you first had to go to the 14th floor, then transfer to a different elevator to take you down to the seventh floor, hoping no one had pressed every single button in that elevator just before you got on 😀 Hah this is also the hotel with the motion-detector light in the bathroom… you want to sneak in silently at 2:00AM and the second it notices you, 200 watts of light hits the entire room at full blast

OK so it’s Sunday, we have a plane to catch, but before that we still have two amazing meals in Japan to enjoy! First order of business: fish market for breakfast. We wanted to try a new one, so alarms were set for seven AM and we were out the door by 7:30. We went two stops on the metro, then a crazy change to a different line, like a Monty Python-style insane change, then two more stops, then up a bunch of stairs, down a bunch of stairs, then finally:

Then it turned into a comedy of errors, trying to retrace our incredibly confusing steps. Back in the subway, I pulled out my hotel room key by mistake to pay, which shut down my entire lane for a bit lol but we managed the really intricate subway line change again in reverse and then took the subway in the wrong direction haha had to retrace four entire stops. But we eventually did make it, and even better: the old fish market was open today!!

Changing subway lines… honestly you’d be surprised at how a lot of Tokyo looks like this, open & airy with a lot of greenery

I was sad not to experience the new place, but OTOH it felt pretty nice to be back here again

We headed back to our old haunt, UniToro, but it’s closed on Sundays (I guess the sea-urchins are off celebrating). The second option, just next door, had completely changed into some other style restaurant, I think maybe a skewer place or something like that. What was that book, “You Can’t Go Home Again”? Well this wasn’t quite as bad as all that lol, but it was oddly jarring to return here to find things had changed, especially after our triumphant visit to the immortal shabu-shabu place!

Luckily, in a Japanese fish market, there are many many restaurants to choose from, this was ours today

As per usual we brought up the idea of the boy’s mother sitting down to breakfast with us, these conversations typically ended with a lot of laughter and/or mimed vomiting 😀

We three were seated all around that corner

The entire rest of the restaurant… I love how they serve you breakfast beers without batting an eye

This was a building I remember admiring on the 2023 trip

Hah this is what my twitter feed looks like these days lol

Our hotel had some sort of strange oasis outside the fourteenth-floor lobby

We checked out of the hotel, grabbed our bags, and hiked to the final gourmet destination of the entire trip: a Michelin-starred eel place, where they begin by introducing your eel to you (and yes it is very much alive, lol I have video). They later serve the eel to you prepared in two different ways.

If I were Arnold I would have said “I’ll make a belt out of you!!”

Maybe you have to be a food nerd but I thought this was so cool, you get to grind out your own wasabi!!!!

Well obviously you have to have eel-liver soup!!

lol this was actually a rather fitting end to the gourmet portion of the trip: a writhing eel in a basket, a disembodied liver floating around in a soup: kind of sums it all up 😀

Breakfast, Fish Markets, Food, Japan, Tokyo, Travel, Uni

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Last Breakfast & Lunch in Tokyo

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