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This Japanese restaurant chain’s triple-decker sushi bowls are a crazy feast for the eyes/stomach
- Casey Baseel
Nov 3, 2025 - Tweet
Scaling the tower-don is a food experience you won’t soon forget.
Japan’s new restaurant is reeling in customers with its all-you-can-eat sashimi experience
- Elliot Hale
Oct 23, 2025
Unlimited fish and a menu that changes every day at an unbeatable price.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • bluefin tuna • COK • food and drinks • Gyoko Shokudo • Hadano • ikura • Kanagawa • Pacific Bluefin tuna • Restaurant • salmon roe • sashimi • Shrimp • SNJO • tabehodai • Takuya Inaba)
Yakiniku without the niku? New Tokyo restaurant applies yakiniku concepts to sashimi-grade fish
- Casey Baseel
Oct 20, 2025
Yakiuo Ishikawa Ginza Rinkaro serves up a very unique crossover of meat and seafood traditions.
Japan now has fish-shaped soy sauce bottle hand cream
- Oona McGee
Dec 18, 2024
Still serves up soy, but in a different way.
- Japan
- (beauty • bento • COK • cool • crazy • cute • food • hand cream • Heso • Heso Productions • Japanese food • LOL • Osaka • sashimi • shopping • souvenir • soy • soy sauce • soy sauce bottle • sushi • weird)
Dynamic, delicious sashimi searing lesson will show you the true flavor of katsuo tataki【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 26, 2024
Shizuoka shop serves up some of the best bonito we’ve ever had, and lets you be part of making it.
- Japan
- (bonito • COK • cooking • cool • fish • food • katsuo • katsuo tataki • sashimi • SNJO • sushi)
Non-tourist trap fish market in northeastern Japan captures our hearts with amazing sashimi
- Casey Baseel
Oct 25, 2024
We get off the beaten path and get awesome maguro in Shiogama.
- Japan
- (COK • fish • fish markets • food • maguro • Miyagi • sashimi • seafood • Shiogama • Shiogama Marine Products Wholesale Market • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel • tuna)
No train, no hotel – How to do an overnight bus trip to Kanazawa from Tokyo – Part 1【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2024
Catching some Zs as we ride though the night lets us hit the ground running in Ishikawa Prefecture.
- Japan
- (buses • Busta Shinjuku • COK • food • highway buses • Ishikawa • kaisendon • Kanazawa • KB Liner • Masanuki Sunakoma • Omicho Market • overnight bus • sashimi • shinjuku • Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel)
This market is the birthplace of the “selfish” sashimi bowl, and it’s awesome【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 13, 2024
Let’s head to Hokkaido’s Washo Market for the original kattedon experience.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • cool • donburi • fish market • food • Hokkaido • kattedon • Kushiro • sashimi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel • Washo Market)
Hot spring facility’s beautiful views and all-you-can-eat sushi leave us clean, full, and happy
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2024
Onsen and kaitai show make for a supremely satisfying combination.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • COK • food • hot springs • kaitai show • maguro • Manyo Club • Minato Mirai • onsen • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • tuna • Yokohama)
Matsushima restaurant offers all-you-can-eat sashimi in as many ways as you can dream it【Photos】
- Krista Rogers
Sep 6, 2024
We indulge in some of the freshest fish from Japan’s northeastern coast in a gloriously colorful seafood buffet.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • buffet • COK • fish • food • Matsushima • Miyagi • restaurants • sashimi • Saya Togashi • SNJO • sushi)
Headed to the beautiful island under two hours from Tokyo? This sashimi restaurant is the first place you should go
- Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2024
Before you do anything else on Hatsushima, treat yourself to an amazing lunch at this fisherman-run restaurant.
- Japan
- (Atami • COK • food • Hatsushima • island • restaurants • sashimi • Shizuoka • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel)
Japan’s biggest ham company is making “tuna” that contains neither ham nor fish
- Casey Baseel
Jan 20, 2024
Nippon Ham is getting ready to debut a new tuna sashimi alternative.
- Japan
- (food • konnyaku • Nippon Ham • plant-based food • sashimi • sushi • vegetarian)
Tokyo’s super-secret-location sushi restaurant has a stand-up sister shop that’s open to all
- Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2024
Miko Sushi’s location is a closely guarded secret, but Miko Shokudo is easy to find and amazing to eat at.
- Japan
- (COK • food • kaisen-don • restaurants • sashimi • SNJO • sushi)
We try out a pricier revolving sushi chain only available close to the sea in Fukui prefecture
- Dale Roll
Oct 19, 2023
The restaurant’s gourmet image and proximity to the ocean gave us high expectations for freshness and flavor.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Fukui • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Mr. Sato • restaurants • revolving sushi • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • taste test • travel • Tsuruga)
Landlocked Japanese prefecture creates a new kind of fish, so how does it taste as sashimi?
- Casey Baseel
Oct 11, 2023
That might look like salmon, but it’s actually Fujinosuke.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fujinosuke • Otsuki • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • taste test • travel • Yamanashi)
What it’s like to eat dancing squid in Japan for the first time
- SoraNews24
Oct 10, 2023
Seafood so fresh it “dances”.
- Japan
- (COK • dancing squid • ika • raw fish • restaurants • salmon • sashimi • seafood • Seiji Nakazawa • shinjuku • SNJO • squid • sushi • taste test)
Late-night vending machine find in Japan leads to a midnight party
- Oona McGee
Sep 23, 2023
Unusual glow draws us in like moths to a flame.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • COK • fish • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • taste test • tuna • vending machine)
All-you-can-eat sashimi from Tokyo’s fish market, convenient location make this budget hotel great
- Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2023
And the free ochazuke makes it even better.
- Japan
- (breakfast • business hotels • COK • food • hotels • negitoro • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • Tokyo • tourism • Toyosu fish market • travel)
We try Keiji, an incredibly rare and expensive one-in-ten-thousand salmon sushi 【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2023
With only one of these caught for every 10,000 salmon, this rare fish comes with a super high price tag.
- Japan
- (57 Tokyo • COK • fish • food • Japanese food • keiji • raw fish • review • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi restaurant • taste test • Tokyo Station • unusual food • weird food • Yuuichiro Wasai)
Sushi store makes waves in Japan for meal with a surprising 14-character katakana name
- Oona McGee
Jul 31, 2023
A sushi bowl by any other name wouldn’t sound as sweet.
- Japan
- (cakes • chirashizushi • COK • cool • cute • Daimaru Department Store • Daimaru Tokyo • depachika • eating • food • Japanese food • mille-feuille • sashimi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • Sushi Cake • taste test • Tokyo • unusual • weird)
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