conveyor belt sushi

We went to our 1st conveyor belt sushi restaurant today.  Actually, believe it or not, it was the 1st time we've had sushi since we've been here.  The sushi was so good tonight that I'm sure it won't be the last time we eat it while were here.  Never heard of conveyor belt sushi? It's a restaurant where fresh sushi is placed on a conveyor belt that goes around the restaurant and people sitting at a bar or tables around the conveyor belt just pick the plate that they want to eat.  All the sushi is placed on color coated plates based on the price (for example, all sushi on the yellow plates were 200 Yen) and when you're done eating,  a waitress comes by and adds up all of your empty plates and brings you a bill.  The best part is, you don't have to be able to speak the language at all!  I was super excited to find out there is one of these restaurants just a 10 minute walk from base.

 our price chart (right now, it's about 85 Yen to the dollar, so the plates ranged from about $1.15 to $3.25.  We didn't even ever see any gold or silver plates.)

 here comes what would turn out to be my favorite

 my FAVORITE!  I almost didn't try anything else, this was so good! (salmon)

the evil shrimp...it had wasabi hidden between the shrimp and rice...so not cool!

some kind of yummy tuna that was just a bit too spicy for me to finish

people in the restaurant watching the food

we didn't try this one, but it was funny to me...corn and what looked like tuna salad

some scary stuff

that Jason actually tried and liked!

this was was scary too...Horse Mackerel and sardine..YUCK!

showing off some fish to the camera

if this isn't fresh sushi, I don't know what is!

cooking some of that FRESH fish with a blow torch

part of the damage

After it was all said and done, we paid 4,299 yen for about 17 plates of sushi for 3 people.  I'd consider a $50 dinner for 3 people a success!