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One Perfect Day of Eating in Tokyo - Eater

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How does any one person navigate such endless abundance and variety? You demarcate the boundaries of your life with your regular spots; you become an expert in what you want and what you don't; and you push yourself. But as you fill in your own map, the city endlessly shifts with openings and closings and good shops that become bad. A long-neglected area begins to blossom, and popularity and foot traffic erodes another. If you want to keep up, you have to keep eating. Since so much of the city's food comes from Tsukiji, this is a good place to start. In the Outer Market, tourists outnumber the locals by a ratio of ten to one. Mandarin and English are more commonly overheard than Japanese, and you have to spend a lot of time ducking the gawk of everyone's DSLRs. Deeper inside, everything is for sale: Wasabi roots and strawberries by the case, eels on sticks, and a small menagerie of tamagoyaki (rolled omelets). Whale bacon is a popular temptation, but there are better ways to sin than t

Japan › Tokyo › The Eater Guide to Tokyo One Perfect Day of Eating in Tokyo No reservations required by Kee Byung-keun Photography by Kee Byung-keun Feb 21, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC How does any one person navigate such endless abundance and variety? You demarcate the boundaries of your life with your regular spots; you become an expert in what you want and what you don’t; and you push yourself. But as you fill in your own map, the city endlessly shifts with openings and closings and good shops that become bad. A long-neglected area begins to blossom, and popularity and foot traffic erodes another. I

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