Tokyo – first evening food tour

Tokyo, Japan, March 27th 2026

In Japan for Easter this year, flew in via Copenhagen and got a warm welcome from the iconic Mount Fuji flying in to my first stop Tokyo.

Tokyo is a BIG city – over 30 million and counting, it is also noisy and is quite a culture shock coming fram calm Norway.

Landed in the morning so had a stroll around Shibuya, with the famous crossing – will try to get a better shot another day.

Something I will NOT do is dressing up as Pikachu and sightseeing around in Mario karts – looks both stupid and dangerous at the same time.

Looking for a lunch spot, this bear themed café came up as an alternative, but was dismissed due to demographic misfit.

Instead, the choice was a good bbq restaurant, including a snack of wagyu beef. Tender stuff.

I had booked a food tour in the evening, to get the tastebuds going, while trying to stay awake.

Our guide Michael gave a great presentation of the culinary scene around Shinjuku. the Omoide Yokocho was a narrow passage where old market stalls had been changed to food stalls.

Our first stop was at a Seafood restaurant where we started with maki, edamam, chicken karaage and torched mackerel.

The surprise box was a beautiful presentation of various seasonal sashimi.

The first sitting ended with a tofu dish with a lot of spices.

Shinjuku station is the busiest station in the world, with more than 2,8 million passagers daily. No wonder the district surrounding it is quite busy as well.