Quick trip to Toyko for a presentation. Not much time for tourist things but had Tsukemen at Yasube near Shinjuku. Yasube is a version of an apparently prevalent style of Japanese noodle bar where you order from a vending machine, someone takes the ticket from the machine and hands it to the chefs, and a couple min later you get some noodles on the side of some great broth. Went here twice for quick food and was happy for 720 or 820 yen.
Used jet lag to my advantage and visited Daiwa Sushi at the Tsukiji FIsh Market around 5:45am. 8 pieces of sushi, 3 tuna maki, and 3 salmon roe maki for 3,500 yen. Very good and very fresh fish. Will definitely plan for more time and have a beef bowl and two or three other meals next time in that area.
~78 yen to $1. The Hyatt Regency Shinjuku was fine near the station for the NRT express train. United Airlines was pretty weak SFO-NRT on a 744 but pretty decent, outside of the food, on a new 772 on the return.
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