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Yakizakana is salt-grilled fish over charcoal, served as the protein anchor of a Japanese breakfast set with rice, miso soup and pickles; in Japan we have verified places to eat it in Tokyo. Start with where to eat Yakizakana (grilled fish breakfast) in Tokyo.
Yakizakana is salt-grilled fish over charcoal, served as the protein anchor of a Japanese breakfast set with rice, miso soup and pickles. Mackerel, salmon or saury, skin crisp, flesh just-set.
Salt-grilled fish has been Japan's breakfast staple since the Edo era, when Tokyo's wholesale fish trade at Nihonbashi (1603) and later Tsukiji (1935) put fresh catch on the city's counters before dawn. The teishoku (set meal) form was codified by the 1930s, and Tsukiji's outer-market eateries opened breakfast counters serving auction workers from 5am. After Tsukiji's wholesale operations moved to Toyosu in 2018, the outer market kept the grilled-fish-breakfast tradition alive for tourists and locals; Toyosu's market-side restaurants run the same form.
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Where to eat Yakizakana (grilled fish breakfast) in Tokyo: the editor picks
Day trip · 3 hours
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