We probably had the best dinner in a long time yesterday, in this friendly neighbourhood sushi place, where they serve fish killed on the spot for maximum freshness. At one point the chef takes a tied up octopus out of the basin, unties it at which point it starts flapping wildly (it was pretty big, probably 3ft in stretch), chops off one of its tentacles and puts the rest of the octopus back in the basin. The tentacle gets quickly skinned, and then the internal part of the tentacle keeps flopping around as it gets chopped to pieces... pretty crazy to watch. The fish at this place was some of the most amazing I have ever tasted, suprisingly, the most amazing was the shrimp which tasted nothing like any shrimp I have ever tasted before.
The japanese are generally amazingly helpful beyond expectations, but they are not much into randomly socializing with foreigners... not so the people at this sushi place, which went to great lengths to make we got to taste every crazy type of fish/vegetable we had never heard of. Oh, and the sake...
We are off to the architecture museum right now, followed by a seaside drive towards mount fuji..
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