mmmm sushi

I actually left my local area today and went to Shinjuku. Normally I don't leave my house, let alone go anywhere more than 1 station away on Sundays. This of course leads to just lazing around all day and getting nothing done. Today I wanted to go and look at a new pole for our closet (the current one is pushing the sides out of the closet and is falling down), so we wandered up to Shinjuku.

We browsed through Tokyu Hands which has a wide assortment of goods. It is kind of like a cross between a department and a craft store. Lots of consumer goods combined with some easy DIY stuff. Unfortunately, there aren't many options for poles in Japanese style closets. In fact they pretty much all consist of a pole that is held up by pressure against the side walls. So I don't know what I am going to do. We also looked at a shelving unit to put over the washing machine (and therefore clean all the junk off the top of it) but as the cost around 10,000 yen, the top of the washing machine will remain messy.

After browsing, because we didn't really do any shopping per se, we headed up to the top of the building to find a sushi shop my student had recommended to me. We eventually found it and had to wait in a queue that was about 30 minutes long. This is good because it means the restaurant is popular. The restaurant (on the 13th floor of Takashimaya Times Square for those in the area) is a bit expensive - 7000 yen for a couple - but it is tabe-hodai (all you can eat). So you just order whatever sushi you want to eat.

It was great actually! Normally we order delivery sushi so we are stuck with the set that most appeals to us. At the sushi restaurant we could get whatever we wanted, including otoro (fatty tuna belly). We tried a bunch of new things and ordered some repeats of the ones we enjoyed the most. Overall a very enjoyable experience. We sat at the counter, so we got to ask the sushi master for recommendations and watch as he made sushi for all the other customers. Watching him put the different sushi together was half the fun. Anyway, this place was great. So if you are looking for sushi in large quantities, this is an option I'd recommend.