Food and Drinks: Kaiten-sushi serves fresh and high quality of seafood

Conveyor belt sushi, also known as Kaiten-sushi is a semi-self-service type, inexpensive sushi restaurant where small plates bringing various types of sushi on them are continuously circulated on chain conveyors installed along the seats. 

Fresh and well-made sushi can be enjoyed for relatively cheap prices there. Plates typically come with one or two sushi pieces each and customers pick up plates they like. Customers can also place orders through a touch screen at each table when sushi they like is not available on conveyor belts. 

Those Sushi are usually served on plates with several colors showing their prices ranging from 100 yen to around 500 yen. Some restaurants set the same price for all plates. The lowest price for a plate is usually 100 yen. That is why Kaiten-sushi is often called "100 yen sushi" and very popular among Japanese. Customers are given their bills from a staff who counts plates when they finish eating.

Kaiten-sushi has grown thanks to technologies of companies in the Chubu region

Until the advent of Conveyor belt sushi, sushi was an expensive cuisine for Japanese people, but nowadays the Kaiten-sushi is found all over Japan and offers sushi at prices that the ordinary people can easily afford. 

Like karaoke, it has become one of the largest restaurant industries and grown into a newly created culture that represents Japan. The menu usually features seasonal ingredients in addition to standard items like maguro (tuna), shrimp, salmon and kappamaki (cucumber roll). Besides sushi, they also offer drinks, ice cream, cakes, etc., so that children can also enjoy. 

The fact that very few Japanese know is almost 100% of conveyors for Kaiten-sushi are manufactured in Ishikawa prefecture in the Chubu region. A company located in Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture has almost 60% of the market share and is said to export conveyers to 20 countries around the world.