Sushi no Musashi - Kyoto Station Hachijo Entrance — Restaurant in Kyoto

The sushi itself is quite nice. The fatty salmon was especially tasty. It was not that fresh, the tempura shrimp was a bit chewy, since the system is an actual rotating conveyor belt with sushi on it that you can take. A better system is one where you order a certain item, which is then freshly prepared, and brought to you by the conveyor belt.

The restaurant is a bit pricier than other kaitensushi: it appears to be quite affordable, because it has some plates that are, but many sushi that are cheaper in other places were on pricier plates here. The choice was a bit limited and wanting to try different/new things was also less appealing because of the pricier plates.

Also an important detail: all nigiri sushi had wasabi on them. This is fine, but the amount of wasabi varied a lot; I like wasabi, but some sushi had so much wasabi on them that it was the only thing you could taste. They stated that you could request sushi without wasabi (or generally any sushi you liked), but apparently they did not actually pass it on to the chefs, since I never got mine.

The wait was awfully long though: the place is not that big, which in itself is not an issue, but they were painfully slow when cleaning up after someone left. We saw this happen multiple times: people left and paid, but it took quite some time before the staff even started the "cleaning process". When they did, the only thing they actually did was taking away the plates and wiping the table with a cloth. However, this took so long every time, even though there was a long line of people waiting.

All in all, the food was good, but the rest of our experience made it so that we did not love this place; we have been to many better sushi spots,...

Amazing sushi for amazing prices!

Sort of hard to find, go out the West Gate in Kyoto Station.

They serve all sorts of sushi!

From horse meat to grilled corn, tempura, akanishi shell fish, raw squid legs, seaweed sour soup, ark shell fish, crab salad, lobster salad, Ivory shell fish, miso crab, raw horse meat (yes.) pickled mackerel, raw ham and cheese, and also the normal sushi like fatty tuna, salmon, etc.

Be prepared to wait a couple minutes to be seated if you go around lunch time.

Plates are ¥146 +tax or ¥346 + tax.

Stack them up and keep stacking them until you get full and the let the waiter know so that they can tally up your bill. Pay at the front. Credit cards accepted.

Delicious draft beer!

Make your own green tea at the table. There's a spout for hot water and tea bags located in a container on the table. It helps to use the back of your chopstick to press on the tea bag, lets more steeping occur for a stronger brew.

If you want something you don't see (like fatty toro) simply ask the waiter or the chefs and they will make your request super quickly.

Ask for water if you need it, not served...

We are in Japan and we are sushi fans so we were searching for famous Sushi Musashi for 30 minutes in the Kyoto Station and we have arrived in front of the restaurant at 20h ! It is written on the door that the restaurant in open till 21h and the last order is till 20h45! After 25 minutes of waiting we were close to the door and waiting our chance to eat! Then the person from restaurant came outside and he told us; 3 persons in front of you can eat tonight and you can make your order for take out! We were dissapointed but we have accepted his offer. 2 minutes later his college told us that we cannot order for take out and that we can chose from few boxes they had outside, even if last order was till 20h45??? No reactions, no merci and then he have accepted to take 4 more persons for restaurant ??? So after 30 min of waiting we were without anything ! First bad experience of our trip in Japan and really dissapointed with service of this restaurant. I can accept that there is no more place but i cannot accept to be declined for restaurant and takeout 25 minutes before closing time for orders. Not getting...