Yes, FINALLY made it to Japango after reading about it for years. I met up with a friend for lunch today. She suggested to meet at 11:45 to beat the lunch crowd. I got there at 11:45 and there were two tables taken. By the time 12 rolled around, almost all tables were taken. It doesn't take much seeing as they have so little space! You have just enough space to fit your bag in between yourself and the person at the next table and for us people sitting on the bench, it was like those sliding puzzle games where you move the blocks to get a piece out. Didn't mind it, but found it amusing :D
On to the food... I ordered chirashi because I figured it would give me a good assortment of fish and so I could gauge the quality. It came beautifully adorned with some greens, a dandelion flower (which I ate... bitter!), blob of wasabi and generous serving of pickled ginger. The rice on the bottom was served with bits of seaweed sprinkled over it. The fish looked really good and I liked how instead of just being plain raw fish served on plain rice as some other places do, they were more creative! They lightly pan-seared the tuna, they blowtorched a few items which brought out a great flavour, and they added small bits of deep-fried garlic (it may be shallots) The whole dish tasted amazing. No complaints about any of the raw fish.. the one comment I'll make is that the cold cooked shrimp was the low point of the meal.
Service was great ~
5 min walk from work = i will definitely come back here!