Originally Posted by Kreth

That'd be a tie between a bunch of little hole-in-the-wall places around Tokyo. I took a couple of trips with my martial arts instructor, who had lived in Japan for over 10 years. He knew a lot a places like that. The rest of our group would want to eat at Shakey's or Mickey D's. He knew I loved sushi, so he'd take me to a sushi place he knew (and he seemed to know one in every section of Tokyo). Quite often we'd be the only gaijin (foreigners) in the place.
I got a kick out of the "conveyor-belt" places. The sushi bar was an island with a conveyor belt running around. They would put sushi and sashimi on different color plates (for cost) on the belt. When you saw something you liked, you grabbed the plate. When you were done, you took your stack of plates to the cashier and paid.
Also in Japan, I got to try some types of sushi you just can't get here, like whale and flying fish.
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