Due to jet lag, we woke up at around 4am in the morning. To take advantage of this, I suggested to pay an early visit to the wholesale fish market at Tsukiji, one of Tokyo's most memorable sights. The Oedo subway line entrance to the market is immediately next to the hotel via a lift.
Our first ride on the Tokyo metro. With no surprise, the train arrived on time to the seconds(Actually, it was late by 1 second, too bad). Japanese transport systems are universally well known for their efficiency. We didn't experience a single delay in our entire trip. To us, who are from London where delays on the underground are happening almost every day, this is just a luxury.
We noticed that every time we ride on a train, almost half of the Japanese there were dozing off. I remember seeing an article on a newspaper saying that dozing is so common among Japanese that even the Prime Minister dozed off while having a cabinet meeting. They say dozing means they work hard. Not sure if that's true.
Arrived at the fish market. we first walked through the inner market and managed to catch the last bits of the famous Tuna Auction.
I don't understand why the Tuna's heads and tails get chopped off.
We wandered around the inner market and saw many kinds of fish that we have never seen before.
We then moved on to the outer market. A trip to Tsukiji Market is not complete without a fresh sushi breakfast in one of the stalls: expensive but the freshest in Tokyo. The two stalls that are mostly talked about on the web and usually with massive queues are Sushi Dai and Daiwa Sushi. People usually queue up for 1 hours. It was still very early when we got there and we got the last 2 seats at Daiwa Sushi. People behind us started to queue. How lucky!
We had the set menu that everybody was having. These were just a few pieces to start with. The chef brought out more as we kept on eating. Unfortunately there was only one picture as we were too busy eating to take any more pictures. Plus the spaces in the restaurant were too small for us to make any movement.
Simon tried the raw fish for the first time and he absolutely loved it. The Uni(Sea Urchin) was incredible. It cost about 3600 yen per person(£50 for 2) and was undoubtedly the most expensive breakfast I had ever had. But they were absolutely worth while.
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