{"id":7246,"date":"2016-01-18T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2016-01-18T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T05:01:05","slug":"how-to-eat-at-a-bullet-train-sushi-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2016\/01\/how-to-eat-at-a-bullet-train-sushi-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Eat at a Bullet Train Sushi Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

(apparently this is old hat to some people, but it was an on-the-spot learning experience for me! thanks to everyone on twitter who warned me about the button [see below]!)<\/em><\/p>\n

on a whim (like, last-minute-had-to-run-to-the-gate) i did a same-day change on my return flight from Manila so i could have a day trip to Tokyo (oh, the beauty of time zones!). if you know me, you know i love to eat, and by the time i got to Shibuya, i was hongrayyy. and while it was the third or fourth time i’d been to that part of town, i wanted to see if there were any new-to-me cool places around to stuff my face.<\/p>\n

i went to my usual source, Foursquare<\/a>, and lo and behold, supposedly the #1 place for sushi in Tokyo? AND it looked gadgety? AND<\/strong> only a couple blocks away?<\/p>\n

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what were they talking about bullet train\/shinkansen sushi? robot sushi? touchscreen?<\/p>\n

so, the place is actually a chain called Genki Sushi Uobei<\/a> (\u9b5a\u3079\u3044 \u6e0b\u8c37\u9053\u7384\u5742\u5e97, Foursquare<\/a>), and the deal is, instead of a conveyor belt slowly parading who-knows-how-old sushi in circles, you order the sushi you want from a tablet and it gets delivered to you by a speedy tra{y,in}.<\/p>\n

if only i had discovered this video beforehand: (i don’t think it has sound, nothing is wrong with your speakers.)<\/p>\n