December 17, 2025

TOKYO: Maguro Mart マグロマート @ Nakano

Gatekeeping this restaurant for almost… a year and a half or so… and now I am finally talking about it. That’s because I managed to score another round of visit last November, visited and savoured it again! LOL. Sorry, have to be kiasu a bit because everything is getting harder and harderrrr and harderrrrrr to secure a table!

Maguro Mart マグロマート

Situated in Nakano, Maguro Mart is indeed a tuna paradise for the tuna lovers, specializing in everything Tuna from bones to rare parts of tuna! And they are famous for the “Nakaochi”; the tender, rich and flavourful meats scraped from along the tuna’s backbone/ spine, and make your own tuna temaki with the given nori and sushi rice!

This visit was dated back in March 2024. We managed to get the reservation online and also booked the course Luxurious 8 Dishes Course that is priced at ¥3,980 per person (March 2024; price has changed now and it should be already ¥4,280 per person). Each diner must order a drink.

I must say this place is very value for money! You get to savour everything about tuna, eight courses, from first to last course at this price; with all the creamy fatty and melt-in-your-mouth tuna! Reservation is highly recommended as the place is very popular and booked out very fast. Their reservation opens one month in advance.

Draft Beer (¥ 680), in the very cute logo mug!

Maguro Dashi Sake (¥ 680)
Tuna Katsuo and Japanese sake, served hot and it was quite umami.

Highball for me!

The encyclopaedia of tuna

Comes with really cute plates with tuna fish motif.

And different parts of the tuna fish.

Luxurious 8 Dishes Course

Seasonal Seafood with Tuna Dashi

Tuna “Yukhoe”
Or tuna Tartare; with finely diced tuna dressed in the spicy Korean sauce and topped with a raw egg yolk and garnished with lots of chopped spring onions. A mix of everything gave a beautiful medley of flavours. A perfect starter and it was so good I wish I could have more!

“Maguro Mart” Assortment
Slices of domestic bluefin tuna that included some rare parts whereby each slices was different from one another in terms of texture and flavours! The more marbling it went, the creamier it was! We were advised to enjoy the raw slices with wasabi while the torched one (?) to go with the salt. The later one was smokey, bursting with creaminess, fatty and love the hint of salt that brought out the flavour of the fish!

Simmered Tuna – Maguro no Kama
A warm dish with the pectoral fin of tuna simmered in soy sauce based sauce, topped with chopped ginger and scallions. Soft, tender and rich creamy meat.

“Uni-sho”
Raw Bluefin tuna dressed with sea urchin sauce. A double the happiness to us! Soo delicious and this is not in the 7-course meal set.

Rare Tuna Tempura
Tuna was coated in the tempura batter, deep fried into perfection, preserving the inner juicy red rawness while the outer part was in crisp! Served with vegetable tempura too!

Mushroom Tempura (as I recalled)

Here came the star – “Nakaochi” . The tender, rich and flavourful meats scraped from along the tuna’s backbone/ spine, and make your own tuna temaki with the given nori and sushi rice!

The rice was vinegared, nori was very aromatic. I was super stuffed from earlier dishes, but I still couldn’t resist chewing on the chewy fat sourish sushi rice. It was so good to have it with the aromatic nori! If only I wasn’t stuffed, I would try my best to finish ‘em up!