Maguro lovers get precisely 50 minutes to feast to their heart’s content at Taiko Chaya’s sumptuous tuna spread. Aside from bottomless tuna sashimi, you can also make a dent in a mountain of negi toro (minced tuna with green onion), marinated tuna and – for a little variety – non-tuna items such as shrimp, mentaiko mayo (cod roe with mayonnaise), shirasu (whitebait) and some veggies. Both plain white rice and sushi rice are served – though we’d stay off the carbs to get more bang for your buck.
To enjoy the ¥1,500 buffet, line up for a ticket before the opening time (from 10am). Otherwise, you can reserve a guaranteed seat for ¥1,700 per person. While the buffet is only available at lunch, there’s still plenty of tuna on the a la carte menu come dinner, along with a live show where a tuna from Toyosu market is cut and its parts are auctioned off to be eaten then and there.