Tokyo｜Eating breakfast can be full of ritual

Tsumugi, located next to the main hall of Tsukiji Honganji Temple, is a popular restaurant. It is especially hard to get a seat during breakfast. As soon as the reservation is opened, it is usually snapped up. In order to try the 18 limited breakfast items sold daily, it is also a great pleasure to savor the food while gazing at Honganji Temple through the floor-to-ceiling windows. There is also an allusion to the 18-course breakfast. It is said that before becoming a Buddha, Amitabha Tathagata made forty-eight vows and began to practice, and became a Buddha after enlightenment. The eighteenth vow means "never abandon any sentient being", which is also the most important vow among the forty-eight vows. The restaurant hopes to let everyone feel the compassion of Amitabha Tathagata through delicious food. The 18-course breakfast starts with tea tasting. You can choose deep-steamed cold tea from Kagoshima, or hot tea from Fukuoka Yame. The 18 dishes are neatly arranged in small plates, which is visually pleasing and also saves you from the happy worry of "which one to try next". One of the concepts of the restaurant is "using ingredients that are closely connected to the local area", and there are many famous shops in Tsukiji, such as "Truffle Tamagoyaki", "Yoshioka-ya's pickled radish", "Edo-ichi's sweet kelp tsukudani", "Kifu's fish tofu", etc. In addition to the famous stores with stable quality, the carefully selected local ingredients are also amazing, including the appetizing Nanko plum, the fresh bean curd with rich bean fragrance, the smooth texture of the taro field, the refreshing yuzu tofu, the sour and sweet soybean eggplant, the slightly spicy seaweed mentaiko, the sauce-flavored duck breast sansho, the crispy salt-koji octopus, etc. Each one is exquisite and full of surprises, and even the unlimited refillable white porridge is smooth and easy to eat. In just a short breakfast, you can taste all kinds of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy, as if you have experienced a journey in life. 💸18 items of breakfast / 2200 yen including tax 📍Tsukiji Honganji Temple Tsumugi Food 3.59 〒104-0045 15-1, Tsukiji 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Painting in the building, Kofuji Ward, Honganji Temple Temple 🏦Business hours: 08:00-18:00 #TokyoAttractions #FoodGuide #foodphotography