The best advice anyone can give you about a visit to Japan is to go to the basement of the train station. The big stations are usually home to large department stores which have an amazing breadth of extraordinary prepared foods on the basement level. Forget Andronico's, Whole Foods and Macy's Cellar - this place makes them look like a 7-11. Not only is the range of foods (and drinks) mind-boggling, but each beautifully packaged offering looks better than the next.
Today, we never made it to a restaurant for a meal, but rather assembled and enjoyed a late breakfast, mid-day snack and dinner from the cornucopia of treats in the market. These included: sesame-chili chicken wings, yakitori (skewered roasted meats), maguro sushi (tuna), three kinds of gyoza, fried rice in a minuteman-hat-shaped paper bag, tonkatsu (pork cutlet), roast chicken, and a range of breakfast and dessert pastries to satisfy even our sweetest of sweet tooths. The star of the pastry set was Taryn's strawberry mousse confection decorated to look like a pig. And that doesn't begin to capture what's available - it just captures what we managed to eat!
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