I live in the UK
But I was on holiday in Japan a few years ago, and my family are always up for trying new foods.
The first meal my sister and mother had when they got there was in a restaurant that specialised in horse, since they'd just got off the plane, and couldn't be bothered to look around, and it sounded interesting. (I had to come out a couple days later due to term finishing, since I was still in school at the time).

Might be going there for a trip again in a couple years once uni is done with (and avoiding the summer due to not wanting to melt), but probably towards the south end of Honshu, though may well get the bullet train up to Tokyo for a day or two (I've done it before, but the friends I'm going with will want the experience).

My only rules with food is that I won't eat anything that can look back (no eyes), or that has a chance of getting away (nothing alive). Anything else is to be tried at least once, and the only (edible) things on the definite no list are sea urchin, peas, and most beans (if served alone as a side vegetable, baked beans are fine, as is anything used to add to a dish, not as a dish itself).

I don't find the concept of eating most body parts any stranger than blood, muscle, kidney or liver, and will eat those quite happily, so why not the rest?
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Mon 30 May 2011, 22:24, 1 reply)

I reckon there will be a lot of Japanese foods showing up in this QTOW
I've been here a long time, so nothing really bothers me.
But, I just thought of something that the wife eats which I don't:
Chirimenjako and shirasu.
They are little baby sardines and anchovies.
I've eaten them on occasion, but I find them vaguely unsettling.
So many eyes...
looks like this:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ja/c/ce/Chirimenjako.jpg

Certainly, get in touch when you come to Tokyo. I'd be glad to meet up and maybe show you and your friends some sights.
(Colonel Panic, Tue 31 May 2011, 6:02, closed)