Sushi Kurita — Restaurant in Tokyo

I overcome my shyness and ventured into this restaurant for my first sushi meal in Tokyo; hoping I won’t be unwelcome at a place that’s frequented by locals.

Am glad I did because the customers seated beside me in the small restaurant were friendly towards an awkward solo traveller and struck up conversations with me. There were Chinese, English and then there were my feeble attempts at broken Japanese. Friendly elderly couple on my right were regulars and the bond of a lovely sister-brother couple was sweet to witness.

At some point, there was a three-way conversation. Husband of elderly couple spoke Japanese to brother of sibling couple and he then passed back the message to me in excellent Chinese and I replied in Chinese/English/googled Japanese with lots of awkward smiles and nods. Thank you for a lovely moment there. To those old enough to know the film, it felt like my own private “lost in translation” moment. Here I am, an awkward foreigner leaving the place a little less alienated and fuzzy inside. Leaving a review here to remind myself of this tiny connection and a night to revisit in my memory when I think of Japan.

Food was also excellent. I couldn’t help myself but ordered an extra item beyond my omakase set. I hoped that wasn’t considered an out-of-norm thing to do.

If you are a tourist and a solo one, I would consider this a lovely place to be foreign in with and may you then have all the luck to leave feeling a...

We went to this place thinking it was an Izakaya (Google maps said this was the place) so that was our mistake but they were very rude because we are foreigners. There was no menu at all, and we had already eaten but just wanted some drinks. They did not want to engage with me in Japanese even though I can speak enough to order, etc., and they wanted us to buy a ¥3,000+ sushi set meal just to stay. We had already ordered drinks when they explained this. We told them we were sorry, but we already ate and don't want food and plus I personally don't eat meat or fish and they just told us to drink our drinks and leave. We sat there a few minutes trying to drink our sake and the woman kept motioning for us to hurry. It was very rude and we were all shocked. It's not like they had a line of people waiting or anything but we felt so uncomfortable we decided to leave without even finishing our drinks. We were charged 3,000 yen for two sakes and an Orange juice and I'm pretty sure the lady just made up a price because our bill was hand written with no itemization. It was not a good experience and made us all pretty sad to be discriminated against for no reason. Don't come here if you are...

¡Españoles no entréis aquí! Trato pésimo a los no japoneses.

Worst dining experience we’ve ever had in Japan. We went in without reading reviews (big mistake). We wanted maki, they forced us to order sashimi — minimum 16 pieces for ¥10,000 (~€50) — even though we had already eaten.

We were seated at the counter next to a loud regular customer and the owner, who openly laughed at us talking loudly and stared at us while we ate, making us very uncomfortable. The chef handled the sashimi with bare hands on a counter where we saw insects.

They told us how to eat (stop using chopsticks, use hands, less soy sauce, etc.) in a very intrusive way. The owner even came right up to our faces asking if there was a “problem.”

We couldn’t finish the food (we ate 6 of 16pieces), but they charged us for the full 16 pieces and didn’t offer the rest to take away. When we left, the owner ran outside asking for a photo with us — incredibly cynical.

Everywhere else in Japan we were treated kindly, but here we felt humiliated. Do not go unless you want a very...