Kura Sushi Global Flagship Store Namba Parks South — Restaurant in Osaka

The kids always enjoy a visit to Kura. The menu that you find in the US is different than the one you'll find in Japan. Not the best, most fresh items like you strangely find in the US stores, but I suppose with all the other superb sushi places around this is just a run of the mill conveyor belt sushi restaurant used to entertain a million children even at 9 pm on a Monday night.

The shop is a little hard to find if you use Google and a cab. They'll just drop you anywhere and you need to find your way up to the second floor somehow. We went through some strange building corridors, but finally made it in. Reception is a tablet check in. It said 8:50 for a table and 12 mins for counter, so we chose counter. There's another machine right by the waiting area that flashes your number from check-in. If you press the button, it prints out a new ticket with your table number. All the tables have their numbers on them. You sit order, and like all Kura, you put your plates in the hole until you get some gachapon.

Easy to use if you only speak English and really bad, tourist Japanese.

Cheaper than US Kura, but not letting the children talk me...

This Self Service Sushi restaurant is great for introverts. You can experience your whole dinner without communicating with a human at all as all the ordering is digital, the food is served on conveyer belts, and checkout is on pads. The place is very clean and the young staff are very friendly. The food is affordable.

The menu isn't very large and could be better. There definitely isn't anything special about the menu. No sashimi, no specialty rolls, no gyoza.

The checkout process was more confusing than it should be, but that seems to be a normal thing in Japan; to over complicate things that should not be complicated. The atmosphere was a metamorphosis of eating at a restaurant in a Disneyland resort and an introverts; leave me the hell alone cubical. I know that that sounds odd, but......yah.

It was kinda fun and different and a great place for an introvert to eat and watch their phone in peace. (Well.......you'd...

I've been to kura sushi in other places and my kids like it but this flagship store is my worst experience. If you are assigned to table 14 in winter, please request another straight away. But since the reception is automated and you won't be able to get their attention, you could decide to eat elsewhere. Cos every time the door facing the table opens, freezing air rushes in, freezing your fingers and face and flapping the flags in your hair. And since the place continues to be crowded at 3pm on weekends, though you get up to shut the door repeatedly, it will keep opening with guests entering and leaving. The staff will pretend they can't see your predicament. So please, shut down this table in the winter or build a vestibule at...