We Had Conveyer-Belt Sushi! (Again!)

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When my husband and I went on our honeymoon in Japan, one of the fun things we did was go to a restaurant in Tokyo where you would sit at a bar facing a conveyer belt. Sushi chefs would make individual servings of sushi on little plates, load them onto the belt, and when you saw something you liked, you would just grab it as it went past you. You would create a little stack of plates beside you, and at the end, you were charged per plate. That was a long, long time ago, in a country far, far away (we live in the United States). We have plenty of places in our city to get sushi, but not conveyer-belt sushi. Until NOW! Yesterday (Saturday), we went out to a brand-new place that does it. It's called Shinjuku Station, which is the name of a very busy subway station in Tokyo. The restaurant has subway signs and a map of the Tokyo subway line, as well as a large screen that shows Japanese "anime" (animated films). Besides getting your sushi off a conveyer belt, you can also place an order for specific items, which can be brought to you by your server, or by an adorable robot (pictured), or by a mini subway train that has its own track above the conveyer belt (one of our orders was delivered that way)! Since orders can come from the kitchen as well as on the conveyer belt, the restaurant just charges one "all-you-can-eat" price. We had a VERY long wait to get seated (about an hour and a half), but overall, it was a very fun experience!