Japan had been a dream destination for me ever since I was a kid obsessed with Japanese food and culture. Finally visiting in 2019 blew me away, the food, the people, the traditions, everything was beyond my expectations. On my first night in Kyoto, I linked up with my friend Javier, a fellow Miamian now living in Japan, to explore one of Japan’s coolest dining experiences, conveyor belt sushi at Karazushi! We started our adventure near Kyoto Tower and Station, took in the incredible skyline views, and then headed to Nijō Station for some mouthwatering sushi. From salmon with melted cheese to eel, tuna, and inarizushi, every bite was unreal, and the best part, each plate was only about a dollar! If you’re a sushi lover or planning a trip to Japan, this is one experience you can’t miss.
So right here we have some nice salmon, nice sticky rice, make that nice wasabi. I can eat this all day.
Oh my god
Too good
What's up guys David Hoffman here from David's been here in beautiful Kyoto, Japan
I'm here with my boy Javier from Miami who lives in Japan and tonight
We're gonna go eat some delicious conveyor belt sushi in this country
There's many different chains and which one we're going to tonight. We're going to a place called Kura Sushi
And why do you like this one? It's just my favorite one fresh sushi
Not not really expensive. Yeah, it's a good place
So basically each little roll or like it's comes with two rolls. It's a plate with two rolls
It costs like a hundred yen each which is one dollar
So it's very cheap and you can either get the one that's on the conveyor belt or you can order from a tablet
Like and people do that here because they think it's more fresh or fresher and what's behind us right behind us
We've got beautiful Kyoto Tower. I get a nice view. You can go
There's an observatory get to the top and get a nice view of Kyoto
They've also got some light up displays here with some lights and water and some music
Nice a nice little atmosphere ambience and behind me. We actually have Kyoto station the biggest station here in Kyoto
It's one of the biggest stations in Japan
And we have to go into here right now and take the train or the subway and go to the restaurant because I'm now we're
Gonna walk 40 minutes in the cold. I don't want to do that
So we're gonna go all the way to the top of Kyoto
Kyoto station and then it's got some really nice views that you can see the rest of the city and stuff like that
He's saying basically we walk on a platform on top of the entire station and then cross this whole thing
So that's the platform that thing right there
Wow, does it cost money or no? No, it's free. It's free. Yeah. Awesome. Wow, that's amazing
So it's like a light show on these on this huge stairway. Yes
There's huge right huge. This is a massive station really is a lot of people miss these things because they don't really know about it
They're just like getting to wherever they need to go. They get here. They leave like I did this morning. Exactly. So Wow. Yeah, that's beautiful
Station is massive as well. Though. It's got like a huge population
So a lot of people there at any given time is a million people there
Yeah, but here there's also a lot of people but it's interconnecting. It's really really cold. Yeah, like it's getting colder every second
Sacrifices you make for these videos. Oh, wow, and the view. Yep. Holy I
Don't know if it'll come out on the camera because it's tinted
Go right
Cool, and then there's a bunch of restaurants in here as well
Wow, so a lot of people think of like a station is just trains
But it's usually mixed in with some kind of shopping. It has to be like commercial, right? Right, right
So this level is basically like restaurant row
Two floors with different
Restaurants, so you got here
Noodles tonkatsu, which is pork cutlet. You got some more like ramen and different kinds of things here
But this is where the bridge connects us and we're gonna walk across the the whole station the skyway
Skyway, here we go
So, you know basically drink anywhere in Japan, yeah, there's no problem
Yeah, even on the trains just can't be belittling drunk
You got you got to control yourself
Like you shouldn't get to that extreme but people do get really really drunk to the point that they pass on the streets
All right. So basically what we see here is
Kyoto Tower the view from up there is gonna be amazing, but this is really nice and right here
We have a little interactive map one on an interactive map
But it's basically just a map and shows you what everything is, but it's all in Japanese. So
That's not good
So next time you visit Kyoto definitely check out Kyoto station go up to the skyway and get some incredible views
I'm sure during a day you have a better view because you know, it's lit up right now
All you can see is basically Kyoto Tower. Look at this guys
Okay, dude, are you ready for sushi? Let's go. Let's go. I'm too hungry
So we came to Niho station
There's like a whole bunch of stuff you got a gold gym there some coffee shops are pretty good and a bunch of little like
Smaller eateries around here. It's a shopping mall around here as well, dude. I am beyond hungry. I am like so hungry
There's gonna be like my second time having sushi on this trip, I can't believe how much food there is in Japan
That's not sushi. Yeah, there's a crazy variety. That's never
Like showcased in any Japanese restaurant in the States like never you can gain weight if you know where to go
So right now it's the option if you want a counter or if you want a table
We need a table
Well, so it's a long wait if you want to sit down at a table, it's gonna be an hour and a half
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna set the counter and that's like 30 40 minutes. The count is great
It's gonna be hard to film, but it's fine
40 minutes later. Let's go
So we got a table that's great it's actually way better man
Also, I'm so happy oh
Let's do this thing. Oh
It's amazing. Yes
And the way this thing works actually, so these are the common ones right and each one's like 100 yen
And it's just like regular sushi. So basically sushi what it is in case you guys don't know
It's just like sticky rice sushi rice with a piece of sashimi. So, you know eel
Salmon, what else tuna?
Shrimp those are the types of sushi, right and then we also have a tablet up here and there we could select
There's like a hundred different ones
If you see one of these that you like and it's not here just order it on the tablet and then they'll ship it out
to you on the top
Ready, bro. I am hungry. Let's eat some sushi. You got anything you wanna grab something this one for sure that one for sure
So basically, they've got a little number on the top of each little bubble casket thing and that belongs to each individual table
So if you try to grab it, it's not gonna open you grab up here
You got your little cups for tea so you can drink beer if you want
But usually the thing that's gonna go really well with sushi is green tea. So you're going you've got your
green tea
Powder mix right here. Take that. You got your little scooper here. Mm-hmm
Nice little healthy servings and you got the really hot water that comes out of there
Cheers cheers, it's really hot. Oh
My god, it's dizzy. Oh too much
Clean our hands, right? I love this. I love this brand
You always have this to clean your hands every single time you eat they give you something to clean your hands a little wet towel
Okay, how do we start?
Here we have salmon with melted cheese on top
I'm so buttery and delicious
Super soft. Whoa, he's going nuts here. So salmon with onions
No, I go nuts and then I mix it right, okay
Mix it in. Oh, that's the best. Oh my god. It's a salmon mayonnaise. You got some onions
Hmm very delicious got some nice tuna some soy sabi
That's probably one of the best ones phenomenal
Minced tuna, look how good that looks. Oh and then the bottom you have the rice. I love doing this
Good
So right here, we have some nice salmon nice sticky rice
make that
Nice wasabi. Oh this you can put a lot of wasabi in this bro. I can eat this all day
Oh my god
And this one's like a egg right egg wasabi soy
It's almost like a tofu
Love that one. How many?
We're up to
six six six bucks
Dude, bring them all on
No, no, they actually have bottles, okay different suckers, this is okay
Let's get beer. Yep, two beers
You can either get the you know bottle beer
So it's basically self-service go back get the bottle or you can go pour it
They have a nice machine that like tilts the glass and it pours. I'm going this way for now
I
Think it's like hard to push
Okay, that one's the one with the cheese you want
So this is the regular sashimi ones with the rice on the bottom and just like a slice of fish on top
I'm game for everything like I'm game
Row a cucumber is that cucumber?
Very nice
That's a sea urchin. Oh, yeah
Cheers to Miami come by come by
Yeah, just super like
And then it's here get it yummy, what's this? Oh, it's so good
Look at that. We're just having a nice spread of sushi, dude. Thank you so much. This is amazing
Open it a little rose hair rolls because I'm not yeah, I think it's called my compu both new games. Oh
my god
Whoa, okay, what do you want to eat grab this one first that looks amazing seaweed
rice
Yeah, so right there soy sauce we do the wasabi right discover a lot of wasabi just dump it in there like a boss
This is how I always do it. I've been doing like this is how they years old just mixing it
There's the one that's all you. I won't I don't really care much for the salmon roast drop it in there like that
So what I love about this is that the row literally pops in your mouth. I
Love the heel wasabi nice little crunch with the seaweed
Really good stuff. It's always been my favorite. That's why I came here. I need some drink
So next up we have like a mix of salad salad, this is so good
Got shrimp avocado mayonnaise and onions. Look at that
I've never had anything in my life. First time I had was
Anago it's like very similar to an eel. This is conger eel with no bones
I love having a sticky rice mixed with all this wasabi and soy
That was incredible no different I've never had it before
So that was just the same one we had before it's a salmon, but they melted some cheese on it. Oh, yeah
Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah right there
Hmm
Everybody love this place
There you go
What is that tofu sushi sweet tofu
One of my favorite ones is called you not easy
So it's fried tofu and in the middle is rice, oh my god, look at that. Oh
Wow, it looks very sweet. Like you like it has honey or maple syrup sure does have maple syrup though. Let's try this bad boy
Don't know is right my honey rice and dough. Hmm this one Wow
So we got egg with tuna the scallions we have rice and then we have nice seaweed and this one I'm gonna dip into here
Nice
Make this nice and yummy
Here we go. Here we go
The best one yoga explodes in your mouth, mr. Tuna, I love that here in Kyoto
People love to have breakfast like rice with an egg straight up an egg the cracker on top and that's it. All right
We have 19 right here. Whoa
Look at that
You still
I'm good. I can do one more
So I'm gonna finish this off we have one more to go we had 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
19 so basically we had
Like 38 different pieces of sushi in America that would have cost me one sushi roll 20 bucks
amazing
No one is freaking delicious
So you have to come back to that sushi when you come to Japan is a chain and you can find it all throughout
The country it's pretty amazing. You have the sushi coming in the bottom. I'm very about you can order from the tablet
Anything else you want it comes up here
and then you just stack them like this and
Then there's something else that's gonna happen. We're gonna do here
You told me we put it in and we got a toy or something
So we're gonna put all the plates in here. Look very nice all my one ready
You lost
No, why do I get another chance you get 10
Again
So basically, there's no way to win at this game. It's rigged. It's rigged
So you if once you've done with 10, you can stack them in there and that's it. Each one was a dollar pretty cheap
Fear was also cheap. I think it was like 300. Yeah, if you guys come to Japan definitely come to conveyor belt sushi
It's amazing. If you love this video, give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment below and subscribe to my channel
So I think I'm done. I think I'm gonna head
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