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Inside Canal City Hakata there’s a conveyor belt sushi restaurant where I ate a late lunch. The restaurant is called Heishirou and it’s on the top level of the shopping mall. When I first passed by it at noon there was a line out of the door so I decided to come back to it later in the day. At around 2:00pm I returned and at that point the lunch crowd was gone and there were only a few other people remaining inside. This was actually my first time at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Japan, or anywhere for that matter. In Japanese these restaurants are called “kaizen sushi” and they’re common in cities all across the country. The basic idea of kaizen sushi is that you take a seat and plates with various kinds of sushi pass by you on a conveyor belt. You take the plates you want but you can also special order sushi from a tablet computer that’s at your seat. When you’re done the restaurant staff will add up all the plates you took (different plates cost different amounts of money and are distinguished by their color) and then charge you accordingly. Since hardly anyone else was in the restaurant I didn’t get to experience the vibe of kaizen sushi during peak hours but on the plus side I didn’t have to worry about anybody snagging a good plate that was coming my way. My time at Heishirou allowed me to ease into the whole kaizen sushi experience and over the course of the rest of my trip I’d get many more meals from similar sushi restaurants.
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This is on our list of things to do when we finally get to go Japan. Admittedly, it scares me a bit that I will grab something I totally don’t like. I definitely don’t want to offend anyone!
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The good thing is that each individual plate cost very little (around 100-200 yen) so if you try something out and you don’t like it then you’ve not lost much money. In big cities like Tokyo the conveyor belt sushi restaurants get lots of foreign visitors and they very often have English signs/labels to help people who don’t speak/read Japanese. You can also just use the tablet computers to see the entire menu and order individual plates. The restaurant staff would always ask me what language I spoke and then they’d change the language on the tablet accordingly.
I’m a fairly picky eater but I tried lots of different kinds of sushi while I was in Japan. One thing that helped me was that I would save one or two pieces of sushi that I liked, so that if I tried something and it turned out not to taste good I would immediately follow it up with something that tasted better.
As for restaurant recommendations I’m not the best person to ask but in Tokyo there was a really good conveyor belt sushi restaurant just north of Shibuya Station called Katsumidori Seibu Shibuya. It’s on the 6th floor of a shopping mall and the sushi was great. The only downside is that it’s a really popular restaurant, so you might have to wait a while to get it if you come during the busy hours.
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