Sumo food

While we're on the subject of eating in Tokyo, I might as well recommend a really interesting local cuisine. Chanko-nabe is a hot pot that's cooked at your table and is favoured by sumo wrestlers bulking up. First meats, mushrooms and vegetables are cooked in the hot, flavoured broth, then after they've all been eaten rice of noodles are mixed in with the remaining liquid to finish off the meal - any finish off anyone with a less than sumo sized appetite.

It's far more delicious and interesting than that sounds and a Japanese culinary experience that's not travelled as widely as sushi, okonomiyaki et al.

The one I went to is: http://www.dreamark.co.jp/waka/e_index.html. I tried the Yokohama one, which was excellent, but they have outlets in Tokyo proper too. It is a chain, but it really doesn't feel like one; happily recommended.