Kaitenzushi Rikimaru himejiekiten — Restaurant in Himeji

It's a really nice sushi place with some unique creations. The 150 yen plates are really limited in selection so if you're thinking that this is a cheap place just because you see the 150 yen signage at the front of the store, you'd be mistaken.

Most of the best tasting sushis are in the 250-450 yen range. I especially enjoyed the fried cream cheese sushi, the cheese tamagoyaki and the fresh tuna salad. Despite the tiny portion, the tuna salad packs a punch with the ponzu dressing and sweet tomatoes. The tuna chunks were really fresh as well. The tamagoyaki was one of the most unique I've tasted with the cheese sauce torched on top and the savouriness of the ebiko. All dairy products seemed to have this jersey milk quality of powdered sweetness to it and it was nice to capture it in an omelette. The cream cheese tempura sushi was freshly fried, the cheese was piping hot and melts in your mouth.

The rest of the dishes were pretty standard and were of decent quality. The wait staff was attentive and did a lengthy introduction in Japanese before pointing us to the ordering tablet at our seat.

Special mention to the rice flour churros. The churros was salty, not sweet, which was a really pleasant surprise! It was really light and crispy except for the core of it, which was densely chewy like mochi pon de ring. I'm not sure if it's even gluten-free but it sure makes me feel better that I'm ingesting less wheat.

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Sign in at the front entrance to get your reservation number. They will call your number or you can Qr code a notification. At the table, there is help yourself tea, pickled ginger and shoyu condiments. Grab your delights right off the conveyer belt. Order other plates and drinks from the iPad. It has many languages. Great options, too if you want less rice or no wasabi in your sushi. I like that they have more than just sushi, such as chicken wings, tempura and desserts. A great place to take a risk and try something new. When finished eating, request bill from the iPad and a server will scan your plates and give you your paper bill. Take it to the cashier at the entrance/exit. Credit card or cash...

Sushi was good, the atmosphere was OK and staff was very kind and helpful. However, most of the dishes you usually order (the good ones) are all between 250-500 yen, not the 100 or 150 yen they lure you in with (which is fine, most of these restaurants have similar pricing, but the amount of 150 yen dishes is very limited).

If you come here for the conveyer belt experience you may get disappointed, as we visited during 5PM and the belt was as good as empty. We ordered all of our dishes (which then got delivered by a JR train, very cute).

Overall good sushi, fair pricing but we didn't feel the conveyer belt experience like we had in Tokyo...