First Morning in Tokyo

We started our first day in Tokyo by having the breakfast buffet in the hotel. It was a bit pricey but we did not feel like spending time to scout for breakfast places and wanted to try the special Chanko breakfast.

The restaurant was very nice, rather quiet with not many people around. There were prints of sumo wrestlers all around the walls. The Chanko (above) was a soup with vegetables and fishballs, tofu, etc. already cooked and mixed. It was quite tasty.

There were a lot of little dishes, mostly vegetables, tofu and soft poached eggs, small portions of smoked fish and chicken; all very healthy. I tried the fermented soybean (on the right) for the first and last time ever, I could not get past the texture nor the smell. I knew then why it was covered with plastic wrap on the buffet! I did not feel bad at all for leaving all of it on the tray. In general the food was somewhat underwhelming, subsequent Japanese breakfasts later in our vacation were much better. We went to MacDonalds the following day and enjoyed our breakfast there.