TYLER: I just adore anything taiyaki.

What about restaurants in general? Where do you like to go?
TYLER: We stopped at a place called Serina Honten for sukiyaki and stone-grilled steaks. The raw meat comes on a plate and you take your chopsticks and lay the meat on top of some hot rocks that are brought to your table. You cook the meat right there on the rocks.

PERRY: Steak House Hama is a classic Japa­nese restaurant. They cook everything in front of you. There are a few of them around the country, but the one in Tokyo is a classic. The shrimp is usually still moving when they throw it on the griddle. Obviously, you can get sushi there, but their main focus is steak and seafood.

TYLER: For Chinese noodles, it's Kohien, and the Korean barbecue place we ate at every day is Yugentei. We ate a lot of lunches in the Chinese noodle place because you get a big bowl of steaming noodles with tempura or vegetables or raw egg, whatever you want in it. That makes a great lunch. The Korean barbecue is more of a dinner. It's just a meat feast. They also have the Kobe beef, which is very expensive. You get up from the table and it's like $400 a person.

What part of town would you say has the most energy?
TYLER: Roppongi is where we found most of the great restaurants. Big fashion. Big nightlife. It's where you go if you're an artist or celebrity. It's the biggest wow for the buck. Shabuya is in west Tokyo. It's where the movie Lost In Translation was filmed.

Where do you most like to perform, and where do you go to hear other bands?
TYLER: The venues we have been playing are like the Osaka Dome, Fukuoka Dome, Tokyo Dome, Yokohama Arena, Nagoya Dome. They're huge. They hold 46,000, stacked to the max. The Budakan is one of the best places because it's so small.

Speaking of performing, you're on the road con­stantly. Do you have any great travel tips?