Bancho Sushi — Restaurant in Aso

We arrived on the 31st of December 2024, the day the restaurant closed for eat-in and only accepted delivery order. We didn't know that when we went there and was initially rejected. While we we considering other restaurants, which was really hard to find at the time because many restaurants in Japan would usually close during the last and the first day of the year, the chief changed his mind and accepted us. We were very grateful for that, and the food was very delicious. The restaurant was fairly generous since we also got 2 extra deep-fried oysters since the restaurant was closing, and they were gonna be leftover anyway. We have never eaten deep-fried oysters before, and they were very delicious. One female employee speaks very good english as well, making the place foreigners friendly. Further down the street, there are huge free parking spaces, making dining here very convenient. Anyone should...

This restaurant is my savior! I went their hoping that I have some food to eat at the coldest day and quietest day at Aso.

At the entrance, there were plenty of seats and only a single customer at the counter bar, this might because it was a Sunday night.

I got a warmed welcome by the female server, which I think she was also a co-owner, and her English is good! She describes all the food and provided the useful information. So this is the foreigner-friendly restaurant, which is very rare to find anywhere in Japan!

Their food are affordable and delicious!

For the parking, please set your Google Maps to Uchimaki Parking Lot, which is very close to this place. It is a free parking space, but please choose a parking spot with no sign, the sign indicates that it is a private...

This place is under new management as of very recently. What was a high quality sushi restaurant has turned into a nightmare of small portions, low quality food, and astronomical prices. I can full heartedly state that this was the worst sushi I have ever eaten. The selection of sushi was subpar. And what you did order had so little fish or meat inside that you were left wondering if they forgot to include it. The seaweed was so tough and stale that not even a knife would cut through jt. What made this worse is that after 180 dollars we left stunned, hungry and wondering how we...