Today we went to a place famous for tonkatsu (pork cutlets) located in the Ueno district of Tokyo .  It was quite a filling meal so I didn't eat anything else all day.

The tonkatsu was good - the best I've had.  So many different kinds of pork to try!


This was the standard tonkatsu.  It is the one they make the most so the are very good at it.  It was one of my favorites.

These were the fillets which were supposed to be the best quality pork.  I found them a bit dry but the taste was phenomenal.


This is the Black Pork.  I wish I had a better picture to show the really dark color of the meat.  This was my favorite one by far.  The meat was not only delicious but very juicy with some nice fat in there.  There was a distinct uniqueness to the pork that I was unfamiliar with but I really enjoyed. 


While there we also enjoyed some breaded whole shrimp.  These suckers were so crispy that you could just bite the head off and eat it.  The head was a little crunchy but tasted great.  I ended up eating several heads that my dining companions weren't as eager to eat.

This was a delicious meal!  It was definitely the heaviest meal I ate in Japan and I was full all day.  Most of the food I tasted in Tokyo was much healthier/lighter then food served in the U.S. but this was fairly greasy what with the pork fat and the fact that it's fried in fat.  In fact I would say that was the biggest difference between the tonkatsu I've had in the U.S. - most of the tonkatsu I've eaten stateside has had less fat and in turn it's been drier and less tasty.