Tsukiji Market

Not Kitsune ya ! They don'T serve foreigners....<BR><BR>I'd go out of the markets towards Harumi dori.<BR>Plenty of places there.<BR>I prefer yakizakana - not so many places that do it though.<BR><BR>I don't get the appeal of the very popular maguro don.<BR>

Check http://www.tsukiji-market.or.jp/etc/calendar/2007.html<a href="http://www.tsukiji-market.or.jp/etc/calendar/2007.html">here</a> to make sure it will be open, it is closed a lot throughout GW.

Thanks. I went to the Tsukiji Market website, and understood that the red boxes with circles are when its closed. However what is the blue box with a triangle for Friday 4th May?

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Why don't they serve foreigners? is it language thing or racial thing?

Easy way to find out the best restraunts in Tsukiji, they have the line out front. I went there and some places are deserted other places it is standing room only. Have no idea what the difference was.

Just went over to a modrately crowded place and had my breakfast sushi. Can't say it was different from any other sushi I've had.

Racial<BR><BR>She told me she doesn't serve foreigners....<BR>A definite rarity in Japan but not illegal.

I went with the tried-and-true method of avoiding the empty sushi places advertising their English speaking sushi chefs and going into a relatively full place with all Japanese patrons. And I was underwhelmed. Particularly by the tuna, as Tokyo Girl says, I've had at least as good plain-old maguro in rather average places in New York. The aki (horse mackerel) was delicious, I've never had as good since, but overall I wasn't impressed, certainly don't remember where exactly I went. The market is very intersting to see though.

Assuming yakizakana means a place with a sit down bar that has a bunch of fresh fish on a bed of ice where you choose one (or more) for the chef to grill for you, I also have to agree that can make for some great eating. I haven't been to such a place in Tokyo, but to a couple in smaller cities. A yellowtail collar (buri kamayaki) in one such place was just about the best thing I ever ate...

yaki zakana is grilled fish.<BR><BR>After walking around looking at cold wet dead fish, I prefer to eat yakizakana...<BR>Saba as yakizakana Yum!<BR><BR>I am so often disappointed by tuna that I rarely order it.<BR>Salmon is also very often disappointing ( not really a sushi /sashimi fish anyway)<BR>Aji, saba, sanma, squid (ika), kanpachi, buri, suzuki, are much more likely to be good IMVHO.<BR><BR>http://www.sea-ex.com/fish/names1.htm

Some restaurants don't serve foreigners? I didn't know that but it's maybe because they experienced something bad by unmannered travelers.

As Tsukiji is a popular "Must see"point for now, foreign traveler's behavior is becoming problem.
This marcket is dealing space for professional fishery peoples, rather than some kind of theme park.

I heard the stories from Tsukiji employees complaining about travelers, they say'They are bloking dealing flow line at the busiest time in morning, and touching raw fishes whitch sometimes become thousands or h‚¤ndred thousands Yen each.'

In this kind of fish marcket in japan, workers and dealers tend to be aggressive and short temper in verry busy time in morning.
I'm not trying to scare you, but if you enjoy Tsukiji with care, you can avoid unnecessary bad scene.

At Tsukiji, you must have SUHI breakfast, or maybe lunch. Basically following lines will be the simple way to find good restaurants, but I can offer you some recomends

Daiwa-sushi
Sushi-bun
Sushi-maru

They all have some reputation, and maybe lined and crowded, sorry.

In Japanese Sushi restaurants, there are unique order system called"OMAKASE". This means just "As you wish" so sushi chef will decide what you eat, sometimes it could be expensive but chefs will serve their recomends and delicacies of the season, you can try.

click here

srry for my bad English, ENJOY!!