Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan｜Sumiyaki Unafuji Yūrakuchō

One of the best unagi rice bowl I have ever had, the skin is so crispy, the portion is great (we ordered a set and shared for 2 people), there is an option to add soup for different style of taste. The queue is not too bad there are a bunch of seating.

Made a reservation for group of 6, and we were given a private room. We tried their original hitsumabushi and shirayaki (salt grilled without sauce). Both were good, personally preferred the one with sauce as it’s more flavourful. Also tried the eel liver, it had a bitterness to it as it was slightly burnt, but otherwise it tasted like oyster/chicken liver. Felt it was a bit pricey but portions are huge. Food took a while to arrive but it was peak lunch hour. Service was friendly.

a great unagi (eel) bowl restaurant! i booked here since it was award in tabelog as unagi restaurant top 100. i came at lunch but i think there's no different on the set that they offer. before going into the food, i'd like to callout the place first. it's located inside a tunnel. the tunnel was renovated so it's bright and modern. that's an interesting place to visit. the restaurant itself is quite spacious, but the design sticks with the tunnel architect that it's like eating in a cave! we ordered 1 white eel bowl, and one usual one with the sauce, so 1 with and 1 without, and we can compare them. the plain one is great! can taste the natural flavour and texture that eel should have, it's a little muddy and earthy. i like the rawness of it. then the one with sauce is also good, it's not too heavily sauced to cover up all the flavour that eel should have. on top of both we can still smell the charcoal. both set came with wasabi and seaweed and there's a card to teach how to enjoy the bowl in 3 stage - solely the rice bow, 2nd with wasabi and seaweed, 3rd with added soup. but no matter how we think it's very tasty. in addition we also ordered the eel liver. it's completed sauced and grilled very well. overall a very nice meal and i do recommend it.