This place came highly recommended by my favorite bay area sushi chef(Chef Yoshizumi in San Mateo). Our hotel concierge helped us book lunch, and we were able to get a weekday spot for 2 booking about 10 days in advance. The building is in a small alley and was a little hard to find(it’s on the second floor). It’s a very small, intimate place with 8 or 9 seats. It was our first sushi meal in Japan, and it was great that chef Taichi speaks pretty impressive English. This made it a lot easier for us to order sake, etc. He started us with warm ginkgo, and we opted for the 15 piece omakase(there were 11 and 8 course options, as well). In 50 minutes, we had: 1. Hirame(flounder) 2. Maguro(tuna): beautifully red 3. Kohada(gizzard shad) 4. Chu toro: melts in your mouth, super rich and smooth 5. Squid with lime and salt: not my favorite for texture, but the lime and salt helped 6. Sawa 7. Clam: super sweet, great flavor 8. Ebi: with the head chopped up and placed between the body and the rice — very flavorful 9. Abalone: warm, surprisingly good, not rubbery at all 10. Ikura: not as salty as in the US and with a thinner skin on the outside, so it didn’t pop quite as much 11. Saba 12. Uni(roll): their nori had a wonderful roasted flavor to it 13. Anago(salt water eel): served slightly warm, and it melts in your mouth 14. Tuna rolls(3) 15. Tamago: sweet, almost like a pound cake We had no idea what the price would be since we didn’t pay attention to the Japanese signs downstairs. Later on I read the Kanji and figured out that the 15 piece was Y9720, 11 piece was Y5400, 8 piece was 2592. Since we didn’t know the prices, we were happily surprised at the total bill at the end. It ended up being Y20900 for two 15-piece omakases, water, sake, and tea(including the service fee), which is ridiculously cheap by US standards for this kind of stuff. This was definitely a great recommendation!
