Sushi Spots in Japan

Area

Japan
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Otaru Tatsumi Sushi

4.0

32 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 3-15

A sushi restaurant operating in the city of Otaru. There's seating on the first and second floor and both floors have counter seating where you can watch sushi chefs crafting your sushi. Dedicated to the concept of serving fresh Otaru sushi at reasonable prices, the restaurant offers a selection of reasonably-priced set meals. Particularly popular is the Otaru Set, which comes with five pieces of sushi, tempura, chawanmushi savory egg custard, soup, and a mini donburi rice bowl. Tatsumi also has a children's set for families with children.

Like most place along this tourist strip, you will be paying more, for less. While the sushi and kids meals were fine, it was not at all remarkable. We find the Clam Mso soup was a bit odd and...
Masazushi Zenan

4.0

110 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Ironai 1-2-1

One of the branches of a long-standing sushi restaurant. Zenan is notable for its open and modern interior. The restaurant's huge windows offer a view of Otaru Canal. Zenan stocks its seafood from the company's own fish dealer, including whole tuna. Particularly recommended is the 11 piece sushi set. The restaurant also has a full menu of side dishes like tempura. There's a seven piece set of sushi selected by the head chef for those with smaller appetites. Zenan also stocks 80 varieties of awamori liquor from Okinawa which go great with sushi.

First visit was in winter 2013, we had a booking, no queue & wait list. And this is our 2nd visit in summer 2018, we waited 20 minutes because we had no booking. Staff are very friendly and helpful...
Sushi no Kamata

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporoshi Chuou-ku Minamiyonjounishi 5-10-1 Tsumugi Building 1F

A sushi restaurant located at the Minami 4 Nishi 5 intersection in the Susukino nightlife district. Here the owner uses his masterful skills to turn fresh Hokkaido seafood into delicious sushi. The owner perfected his craft working for many years in the renowned Sushizen in Susukino. Dazzled by the wonderful sushi served here, the restaurant has many regulars. A small establishment, the restaurant has just nine counter seats and four tables. It has a quiet atmosphere, however, perfect for enjoying a meal and some sake.
Takechan Sushi

4.0

31 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Rebungunrebunchou Kafukamura Shinoni Kaoru Ferry Terminal 2F

Located in the Kafuka Ferry Terminal on Rebun Island, this is Japan's northernmost sushi restaurant. Despite primarily being a sushi restaurant, the restaurant also serves ramen, set meals, and a variety of other dishes. The restaurant also serves as a diner where local families like to relax. The sea urchin is a Rebun Island specialty and has a rich flavor. During fishing season, many people come here to order the sea urchin rice bowl. The restaurant also offers a variety of renowned dishes made with Hokkaido seafood, like the thick cut broiled arabesque greenling rice bowl.

利尻島から礼文島へ移動した際にランチで利用しました。と言ってもツアーに組み込まれた食事です。荷物は入り口の脇にネットを掛けて預かってもらえるので空身で席に座れます。メニューは海鮮丼でしたが、添乗員さんはアレルギーなどについては対応していました。ツアーの食事と思っていましたが、ボリュームもなるなかなかの海鮮丼でとても美味しかったです。岩海苔の味噌汁や氷頭なますも美味しかったです。ツアーの場合は添乗員...
Otaru Takeno Sushi

4.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 2-22

This sushi restaurant in Otaru City, Hokkaido is a 10-minute walk from JR Otaru Station. They offer sushi made from meticulously selected Hokkaido ingredients at reasonable prices. This includes their seafood as well as the Hokkaido grown rice blend used for their sushi. They also offer donburi rice bowls. The most popular is their Ainori Bowl where guests choose four toppings from a list of 20. Their sushi menu features nigiri-zushi with Hokkaido place names, a nigiri-zushi of the day, and seasonal varieties. They also sell Japanese sake and shochu.

I always thought Tsukiji had the best sushi...but this is on a whole other level. You’re getting it in the absolute shortest timeframe possible. This particular place is in a convenient location...
Boo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Kushiroshi Nishikichou 2-4 Kushiro Fisherman's Wharf MOO Mu 2F

On the second floor of MOO at Kushiro Fisherman's Wharf, this stall-like stand in the Kushiro harbor stalls area provides sushi and sashimi of the local fresh shellfish. The Minato no Yatai food stalls offer a variety of fresh seafood and the famous zangi chicken, only to be found in this harbor town, Kushiro. One can hop from stand to stand and casually share tables while enjoying all your favorite foods. The popular lunch specialty is the fruit of the sea-laden Kaisen Nama Chirashi Sushi Donburi bowl.
Natsume (Akarenga Terrace Branch)

4.0

33 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporoshi Chuou-ku Kitanijounishi 4-1 Red brick terrace 3F

A branch of a sushi restaurant whose primary location is in Sapporo's Susukino entertainment district situated on the third floor of Akarenga Terrace mall a five minute walk from JR Sapporo Station. Based on the motto of high goals and low thresholds, the restaurant serves sushi crafted by skilled artisans using select seasonal ingredients together with sincere hospitality. The restaurant's nigiri sushi and maki sushi rolls can be ordered starting from just a single piece. The restaurant's money-saving lunch sets, such as a nigiri sushi set with a mini salad, miso soup, and chawanmushi savory custard, are also popular. The restaurant has a large selection of sakes as well as wines, and diners are encouraged to experience the marriage of sushi and wine. Takeout available.

I had lunch here completely by chance and I was very grateful for the experience. The sushi is excellent, I had the charashi lunch set. The staff were very very friendly and very kind, you could tell...
Sushi Yashiro

3.5

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporoshi Chuou-ku Kitaichijounishi 23-2-1 Clio Omotesando 1F

This sushi restaurant moved to Maruyama in 2012 after operating inside a hotel in Sapporo for 10 years. One of the popular ala carte menu items is the defatted Whale Bacon with a slightly salty taste that brings out the meat flavor. Here, sushi with a little more care and effort is served with carefully prepared pieces such as the northern shrimp and flounder marinated in konbu kelp. The lunch menu includes set-menu dishes that come with salad, soup, and dessert.

普段は平日に食べに行くのですが、初めて日曜日に伺うと、1人は髪の毛を結んでいるし、清潔感なし。お吸い物はお寿司が食べ終わってからでてきた。いつも平日にいる感じがいいお姉さんもいなく、忙しいのか新人さんなのか、わからないが日曜日にはもう行かないです平日をおすすめします
Kukizen

4.5

45 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Shinonomechou 2-4 Vista Shinkansen 1F

A sushi restaurant awarded two Michelin stars located on the first floor of Vesta Shinonome building in Otaru City. Here you can enjoy delicious, seasonal seafood from the abundant seas off Hokkaido served on cool glass tableware made in Otaru. The restaurant's large glass windows let in plenty of light, and the establishment has clean and neat counter seating as well as private seating, ensuring even families with small children can have a relaxing meal here. The owner particularly recommends the Kukizen Omakase Nigiri chef's choice nigiri sushi course. The chef will prepare tasty sushi gems using select seafood and other ingredients stocked that day; it's so tasty, just this course alone will satisfy you. The restaurant also stocks an original refined sake bearing its name as well as an abundant selection of local Otaru alcoholic beverages.

Had lunch Omakase for 6600 yen. Very worth it for 2 Michelin stars lunch. The sushi were amazing and must try their own sake.
Fuji Zushi (Shakotan Main Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Shakotangunshakotanchou Bikunichou Funama 120-6

A sushi restaurant where you can have your fill of the seafood of Hokkaido's Shakotan area. The spacious restaurant is able to seat 200 and has a variety of large and small dining rooms. The restaurant also has private dining rooms, making it easy for families with children to enjoy themselves here as well. The restaurant's sushi menu is made with fresh fish brought in at Maehama. The restaurant also offers seasonal sushi based on the fishing season; fans around the country wait impatiently for the period from June to August when sea urchin fishing is allowed so they can enjoy the sweet, creamy flavor of the restaurant's Shakotan raw sea urchin chirashi sushi.
Machi no Sushiya Shiki Hanamaru (Tokeidai Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporoshi Chuou-ku Kitaichijounishi 2-1 Clock Tower Building 1F

This sushi restaurant is on the first floor of the Sapporo Clock Tower Building. In addition to counter seats that young people, women and those returning from work can feel free to use to enjoy sushi, there are also convenient table seats and horigotatsu (dug out) seats where you can relax. Also, they purchase fresh fish every day from the port in order to prevent price increases, and their sushi uses good portions of ingredients that take advantage of their flavor. The two-tiered lunch boxes, only available at the Tokeidai store, is highly recommended. It is a bargain set menu item with eight pieces of sushi, a mini side of soba and chirashi scattered sushi, onion salad and three kinds of amuse bouche. Their homemade fried fish balls go great with alcohol.
Otaru Nihombashi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Inaho 1-1-4

A sushi restaurant located in the Otaru Sushi Street area in Otaru City, Hokkaido. Here you can eat fresh seafood delicacies caught in the waters off of Otaru. The restaurant is famous for its big pieces of sushi topping and is frequented by many locals as well as tourists. The restaurant also has a large banquet hall and is frequently used for parties and other events.
AWOMB

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Ubayanagichou 189

A sushi restaurant located in the Ubayanagi-cho neighborhood of Nakagyo Ward. The restaurant is famed for its obanzai, a type of Kyoto cuisine in which numerous bite-sized dishes are served together; and its hand rolled sushi, in which diners are provided with the ingredients and condiments to roll their own sushi combinations as they like. Located inside a renovated old Kyoto townhouse, lines form outside the door even before the restaurant opens.
Renaissance Okinawa Resort Sushi Bar LOY’S

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Yamada 3425-2 Renaissance Resort Okinawa

This sushi restaurant is where you can enjoy sushi with seasonal ingredients and also umi-budou (sea grapes) and goya bitter gourd. At the dinnertime family sushi buffet, besides eating your favorite sushi using local fish and fresh ingredients, you can also have shabu-shabu or dessert using tropical fruits.
Yoshino Sushi Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Awajimachi 3-4-14

This old sushi restaurant established in 1841 is famous for its “Hakozushi,” conceived by its third generation chef. The “Hakozushi” box is loved as a beautiful, representative type of Osaka sushi that remains delicious even after some time has passed, filled with premium toppings including conger eel cooked in a sauce that has been passed down since the restaurant’s founding, thick fried egg, small sea bream and shrimp, as well as nori seaweed and shiitake mushrooms over a bed of sushi rice. The second floor is an elegant eating space where one can enjoy an Osaka sushi course menu. The nearest station is Yodoyabashi Station.
Uohachi Sushi

4.0

16 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Kamogunhigashizuchou Inatori 371-4

This sushi shop located approximately seven minutes on foot from Izu-Inatori Station is a famous shop that has been serving up kinmedai (red bream) nigiri sushi for over 30 years. Starting with the local Inatori kinmedai which is said to be particularly high quality even among Izu kinmedai, they also source wild local fish such as buri (yellowtail), hirame (flounder) and madai (another type of red sea bream) from a fishmarket that is within close walking distance. When the surface of the kinmedai is quickly seared, it takes on an exquisite taste that allows one to experience both the sweetness of the fat and the umami flavor. Enjoying sushi as a set with arajiru (fishhead soup made with kinmedai) is also popular.

稲取といえば金目。最近金目にはまっている身としては聖地のような場所の伊豆稲取。前泊した宿でも金目尽くしを堪能し稲取の金目のレベルの高さに言葉を失う場面も。今回お寿司も食べたくなりこちらの魚八寿しの暖簾をくぐりました。ネタはどれも肉厚で新鮮なのでしょう。輝いて見えました。お目当ての金目を口に含むと自然と目を数秒間つむってしまいました。瞼の裏には金目が泳ぐ姿が浮かぶよう。金目のあら汁も美...
Sushi Chu

3.5

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Atamishi Ginzachou 7-11

Founded in 1933, Sushi Chu is a well-established sushi restaurant located in Ginza Town, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The restaurant is famous for using the freshest seafood caught from the nearby sea as well as its succulent conger eel sushi and homemade rolled omelet. The popular local fish platter is a selection of fish local to Atami such as the firm sea bream and delicately flavored mackerel. Their local seafood on rice and special seafood on rice dishes, limited to only 30 per day, are also very popular. The restaurant also has a wide variety of sake including local sake from Shizuoka. Seating is available at the counter, at tables or on tatami mats, making it an easy place to bring the kids.

カウンター席はにぎり注文専用席とのことでした。テーブル席で刺身定食やすこし握り寿司をいただきました。どれも新鮮で美味しかったです。店内は家族連れで賑わっていました。現金決済のみです。
Hakone Sushi

4.5

28 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Sengokuhara 817

This sushi restaurant located in Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo County, Kanagawa has received recognition from the All Japan Great Tasting Food Association and has regularly appeared on TV and in magazines. Every morning the restaurant owner travels down to Numazu himself to buy the seafood which will be used for the sushi. The seafood is so fresh it’s easy to forget that the restaurant is located up in the mountains. The most popular dishes are the conger eel sushi with a light yuzu flavor, and mackerel sushi using thick, meaty mackerel. The restaurant has a very relaxed feel and children are welcome.

Without a doubt this is the best sashimi I have ever had in my life. This is a must if staying in hakone and well worth the trip. It’s a small family run operation and they take great pride in the...
Matsunoya

3.0

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Izushi Toi 412-6

This sushi and local fish restaurant located close to Toi fishing port in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture is popular with tourists. The restaurant uses fresh fish from Suruga Bay, offering a variety of dishes such as sushi and sashimi, simmered and fried fish. Their signature dish of sushi rice in a box topped with countless varieties of fish is popular with the ladies. The nizakana set meal with two to three kinds of fish simmered in soy sauce and served with other side dishes in small bowls is also popular. And if you’ve been fishing for sea bream or mackerel in the adjacent Toi Fishing Park they’ll even prepare this for you in the restaurant.

海沿いの釣りを体験した後、ちょっと移動してこの店でさばいてくれて、ちょっとした料金が必要ですが、焼き魚と寿司ができてとっても嬉しい。
Hyoutan Sushi Izu Nagaoka Restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Izunokuni-shi Nagaoka 124-1

This sushi restaurant is in Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture and was founded in 1960. The fish it uses as sushi toppings are mainly caught locally in Suruga Bay and obtained from Numazu Port, and many other select ingredients from the Izu region are used as well. The establishment has a high-class feel to it, like a high-end Japanese restaurant, yet the fresh seafood sushi can be enjoyed at a reasonable price. There are also popular courses such as the “takesushi” and “matsushi” courses, which feature popular items such as ikeaji rolls and rolled egg.