Kaitenzushi at Kantaro

During the last week I was in Hakodate, my friends and I finally made our way to Kantaro, the best sushi place in town. Kantaro is a kaitenzushi restaurant -- the sushi chefs stand in the middle of a circular bar, and there's a conveyer belt going around the outside. They make the sushi, and then set it on the conveyer belt, and guests can grab what they want as it goes around.

Kantaro is a popular place, so we had to wait first.

Meagan and I have both resorted to picture taking while waiting


Cool window next to the waiting room


An antique tea set

The wait wasn't too bad (it helps to have company) and then we got to head in.

Here you can see the bar-style side, and on the far side are booths

Sitting at our booth

The green tea and the mugs for it were already at the table. There was a little box with the powdered green tea that you could put in your mug and then fill up with hot water at the tap on the side of the bar. And of course there were ginger, soy sauce, and chopsticks. :)

A look down the conveyor belt

A melon goes by

Here's some of the stuff my friends and I grabbed.



You can tell how much something costs because the plates are color coded. The green rimmed/flowery plates, for example, were 125 yen each, whereas the dark green with gold squiggles was one of the more expensive plates at about 300 yen. (However, there were also 400 and 500 yen plates. These five college students did not partake in those particular plates.)

Once you're done, the waitress/waiter comes by, counts up your plates, writes down how many you had of each, and then you bring it to the cashier to ring out.


Unfortunately the only sushi place with kaitenzushi that I know of here in the Boston area is Fugakyu up in Brookline, which is about an hour drive. :(