Tokyo: Midori Sushi, Shibuya Mark City

We've always loved this sushi restaurant which is right in the middle of Shibuya, and such good value for money. It's at Shibuya Mark City, just above the JR station and right next to the crazy junction where everyone crosses in every direction imaginable.


If you're keen to go just print this photo out.


Cos you should get there before everyone else does. I've drawn a blue arrow to indicate where the husband was.

Entrance to the restaurant


Not so hard to remember the name of the shop


We waited for one whole hour. But when you see the Japanese queue, you know it has to be something really good.

The restaurant isn't very large inside, plus we had 6 persons. So we were really fortunate not to have to watch smaller groups go in front of us.

The specials for the week. The curly things on the top right corner are cod sperm. Should have ordered some for the husband.

They have a really nice house sake. Order the cold Midori sake - absolutely no regrets.

Their sets are super good value for money, with the 1680Y (or approx $28) basic set being already very filling.

Good stuff.

Their crab liver salad is very yummy - with crab milt over crab meat. It was worth licking up the bowl for.

We ordered a serve of sashimi for 840Y (approx $14). I forgot to find out what fish this was (hamachi or kanpachi?) but it really didn't matter since it was so fresh. It was rich, smooth, buttery - almost like otoro, but a lot less fatty.

This was the 1680Y set, which was very substantial on its own. It came with uni, ikura, a huge ama ebi (I'm not even sure it's called that since it's a prawn not a shrimp), hotate, hamachi, tamago and chutoro.

The california roll was a sight to behold.

This was the 2100Y (approx $36) set. Came with lots of exciting stuff too.
Chutoro, hamachi, ikura and uni

Hotate, kani and some shellfish which I didn't know the name of. Plus the super duper large prawn, and a negi toro handroll.

Close up of the anago (freshwater eel)

Our table in its entire glory : )

One last point to highlight - if you look at the scale of the sushi piece carefully, you'll notice that the fish is almost twice as long as the rice, making it so different from other places in that there's more fish than rice.

We spent around 12000Y, or $190 for 6 people including drinks. Extremely good value for money considering that we were all stuffed, and getting a meal of similar quality in Singapore would have cost twice the price. Highly highly recommended.