Oh hey, I just found this thread! I love Japanese food!
^ I was thinking of trying to get into "Jiro's" and a couple of other restaurants when I was planning my trip to Tokyo, but ran into all these problems trying to get reservations while I was overseas. I now know I just need to get my hotel concierge to confirm that I'm staying there
Next time I will definitely at least get out to at least one or two of Nihonryouri Ryuugin, Sushi Mizutani, Ginza Kyubey (and no I don't want to be a mahou shoujo
) and Les Créations de Narisawa!
As for "Jiro's" .. when I was doing my research about potentially going there I ran across repeated allegations of racism by the owner, so it's made me feel somewhat mixed about it.. Hard to know the truth from tens of thousands of miles away..