A famous Toyosu Market sushi counter (relocated from old Tsukiji) serving a chef's-selection omakase noted for its premium tuna. Pure seafood-and-rice sushi makes it naturally pescatarian; early market hours and not gluten-free (soy sauce contains wheat).
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Pescatarian
肉と鶏肉は食べませんが、魚介は大丈夫です。
Niku to toriniku wa tabemasen ga, gyokai wa daijōbu desu.
Daiwa Sushi is the faster-moving of Toyosu Market's two famous sushi counters, a 26-seat bar inside the market's produce building where the nigiri is built from that morning's tuna auction.
The omakase set — seven pieces of nigiri, a hand-rolled gunkan, tamago, and a bowl of miso soup for roughly ¥6,000–8,000 — is built around whatever came in that day, and the run of toro is the reason people queue before dawn; recent visits have turned up fatty cuts from as far as Shiogama in Miyagi, cut in front of you rather than pre-plated. What sets it apart from its more famous neighbor, Sushi Dai, is pace: Daiwa seats roughly twice as many diners and moves them through in fifteen to thirty minutes rather than the hour Sushi Dai is known for, so even though both draw the same market crowd, the line here tends to shrink faster. Seats are separated by short curtain partitions — a small, practical touch that keeps the counter feeling private despite the volume of people passing through.
A few things worth knowing before you go: it's open Monday through Saturday, 6:00am–1:00pm, and closed Sundays and market holidays, with no phone reservations — you either queue on arrival (before 6am if you want to skip the worst of it) or book one of the narrow online slots via TableCheck, which only takes parties of one or two. Credit cards, IC cards, and PayPay are all accepted at the counter. There's no English menu, though the omakase format means there's not much to read anyway — the chef decides, you eat. It's pure fish-and-rice sushi, so it's naturally pescatarian, but not vegetarian-adaptable, and the soy sauce on the counter contains wheat, so it isn't a safe stop for strictly gluten-free travelers.
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