12:30 p.m. Eat a fresh lunch
The best Japanese set lunches allow you to try multiple tastes without feeling overstuffed. At Lakan-ka, on the edge of the Aoyama neighborhood, the obanzai lunch tray offers several small vegetable and seafood dishes with multigrain rice, a miso soup and an omelet whorled like a shell. Complement the meal with one of a selection of teas infused with monk fruit, a fruit native to China and the restaurant’s namesake in Japanese (1,500 yen for the lunch set; teas from 750 yen). If the line for a table is too long, amble over to Toraya-An Stand, a cafe offshoot of Toraya, the
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