Sushi Taichi

This place came highly recommended by my favorite bay area sushi chef (Chef Yoshizumi in San Mateo).
Our hotel concierge helped us book lunch, and we were able to get a weekday spot for 2 booking about 10 days in advance. The building is in a small alley and was a little hard to find (it’s on the second floor).
It’s a very small, intimate place with 8 or 9 seats. It was our first sushi meal in Japan, and it was great that chef Taichi speaks pretty impressive English. This made it a lot easier for us to order sake, etc.
He started us with warm ginkgo, and we opted for the 15 piece omakase (there were 11 and 8 course options, as well).
In 50 minutes, we had:
1. Hirame (flounder)
2. Maguro (tuna): beautifully red
3. Kohada (gizzard shad)
4. Chu toro: melts in your mouth, super rich and smooth
5. Squid with lime and salt: not my favorite for texture, but the lime and salt helped
6. Sawa
7. Clam: super sweet, great flavor
8. Ebi: with the head chopped up and placed between the body and the rice — very flavorful
9. Abalone: warm, surprisingly good, not rubbery at all
10. Ikura: not as salty as in the US and with a thinner skin on the outside, so it didn’t pop quite as much
11. Saba
12. Uni (roll): their nori had a wonderful roasted flavor to it
13. Anago (salt water eel): served slightly warm, and it melts in your mouth
14. Tuna rolls (3)
15. Tamago: sweet, almost like a pound cake
We had no idea what the price would be since we didn’t pay attention to the Japanese signs downstairs. Later on I read the Kanji and figured out that the 15 piece was Y9720, 11 piece was Y5400, 8 piece was 2592. Since we didn’t know the prices, we were happily surprised at the total bill at the end. It ended up being Y20900 for two 15-​piece omakases, water, sake, and tea (including the service fee), which is ridiculously cheap by US standards for this kind of stuff.
This was definitely a great recommendation!