Five dishes closely tied to Tokyo:
- Nigiri-zushi: a slice of seafood on a small ball of rice. Once Tokyo fast food, now the most popular type of sushi.
- Tempura: battered and fried vegetables and seafood, dating back to the Edo period.
- Soba: buckwheat noodles, especially popular and good in Tokyo since the Edo period.
- Chankonabe: the sumo wrestlers' hotpot, mainly chicken or fish with vegetables.
- Monjayaki: a runny pancake of flour batter, cabbage and small pieces of seafood and meat, cooked on a griddle.
Casual eating: Omoide Yokocho (Shinjuku), Yurakucho, Asakusa. Upscale dining: around Tokyo Station, Shiodome, Shinjuku, Azabu, Ginza.