On the shinkansen train from Kanazawa to Joetsu (then continue on to Tokyo).
We could see the Sea of Japan out of the window.

Vincent's Ekiben, he loves Japanese bento rice.
 

MC bought mochi (大福) and youkan (羊羹) as her lunch.
She loves those sweets with red beans, but did not have a chance to eat any
on this trip until now. Today's lunch was reserved for these sweets.
 

Our hotel, Mitsui Garden Hotel Ueno,
which is just across the street from the east side of the Ueno station.
(But it was a challenge to cross that multi-lane streets with luggage to reach our hotel.
Climbing stairs with luggage to walk on the overhead pass was not easy either. )
 

Our room was on the highest floor and offered a nice view of the Ueno Park.
 

On the afternoon of arrival, under a cloudy sky, we walked 15 minutes
from our hotel to Kappabashi Kitchenware street (合羽橋 道具街).
At the southern end of the street you can see a chef's head on top of the left hand side building.

There were only two or three stores selling plastic food models.
Some were made into key chains, some were made into magnets.
But the really pretty ones like these in the photo cost more than US$20 per piece.

Plastic model of ice cream cones.
 

So real you can eat it, right?
 

A Tendon Tenya was just diagonally across the street from our hotel.
Since a traveler on Fodor's Japanese board recommended this chain, we went there for dinner.

MC ordered an "All Star Tendon" and added 190 yen to change it
into a set meal with miso soup and a side dish of spinach.
 

Vincent ordered a different set meal that came with soba noodle.
(The portion was too small for Vincent. Therefore, needed to order extra dishes in the beginning.)
 

The breakfast served at our hotel in the morning.
The space was narrow and tight, the food was only OK, but
it cost 1600Yen/pp, same price as our Kanazawa hotel's fabulous breakfast.
 

World Series Game 1, broadcasted live in Japan.
The TV commentators spoke Japanese.
 

World Series game 1, as seen on TV in our hotel room.
 

World Series game 1.
We had to leave to go sightseeing, so Vincent took the hotel's loaner
smart phone with 4G to check on scores while we were out and about.
 

The famous Shibuya Crossing.
 

Shibuya Crossing,
the world's busiest pedestrian crossing.

Where did we go for lunch? We stumbled upon a
kaiten sushi restaurant on the 8th floor of the Seibu Department Store.
This restaurant's name was Katsu-Midori (活 美登利),
a popular sushi restaurant chain with several locations in Tokyo.
(Conveyer belt sushi is called kaitenzushi or mawashizushi in Japanese. Kaiten=rotation, mawashi=turning.)
 

We placed our orders via a touch-screen pad in front of us. 

Quite a large piece of Unagi sushi.
This restaurant's sushi were good, but not as outstanding as Mori Mori's,
because we did not have a "WOW!" feeling afterwards.
May be we were spoiled after having eaten in Mori Mori twice?
(In year 2020, after watching many youtube travelers' videos, we learned that
this Katsu-Midori (活 美登利) chain is one of the top rated conveyer-belt sushi in Tokyo,
for its good quality, good service, and reasonable price.
In another word, it is considered high CP value, high Cost-Performance.)

The hotel's loaner smart phone with 4G.
It let Vincent keep up with the game while in the restaurant.

We emailed Philip to help find Unagi restaurants near our hotel.
He found two. One was a 4-min walk from our hotel called Unatoto (宇奈とと), the other
was a higher-end restaurant called Izuei Honten (伊豆榮 本店 blog) and was 10-min walk.
We chose the shorter walk to Unatoto, located on the south side of the Ueno station.
(It was only in year 2020 that we learned the 270-year-old Izuei Honten, the one we did not go,
is one of the most famous unagi restaurant in Tokyo.)
The walk to Unatoto lead us to the discovery that the south side of the Ueno station
was very bustling in the evening - full of shops and small eateries.
This area is adjacent to the Ameya Yokocho (Ameyoko 橫町 market), a huge food market during the day.
 

From reading Yelp reviews, we knew Unatoto was a small place and smoky,
with smoke from grilling eels on charcoal.
 

Unatoto's menu posted on the walls outside the restaurant.
We ordered the most-popular(一番人氣) 1000 Yen Unadon.
う な 丼 (鰻丼, Unadon) is eel rice served in a bowl.
う な 重 (鰻重, Unajū) is eel rice serviced in a box.
鰻魚, eel, is pronounced as unagi, う な ぎ.
 

We ordered them "To Go", to take back to our hotel.
They were very tasty!!!
But the portions were smaller than what the pictures on the wall led us to believe.
We should have ordered the largest-sized dinner.
 

The departure day in Narita airport, we had time to eat dinner before boarding.
MC's ramen with pork and egg. (This was the only ramen on this trip.)
The soup was very salty.

Vincent ordered sushi.