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What does a Japanese local think of the Uobei conveyor belt sushi restaurant?

First visit leaves our reporter with one surprising regret. 

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Japanese restaurant serves up the biggest sushi we’ve ever seen!

Conveyor belt sushi chain goes big with its servings.

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Genki Sushi now has a range of sushi…that isn’t really sushi

Vegetarian? Vegan? Or just plain weird? This conveyor belt restaurant chain serves up a taste of all three.

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Japan’s oldest sushi train serves up unorthodox Blueberry Cream Sushi

Around the internet there is a Japanese term, majikichi, which is short for “Maji de kichigai jimiteru kara yamero” or “Stop because you seriously seem to be losing your mind”. Needless to say it’s a convenient word.

Perhaps a good example of majikichi is in the sushi world. With all of Japan’s less traditional sushi restaurants known as “sushi trains” competing for people’s attention, they often come out with some eye-catching toppings, and sometimes things go too far.

In the true spirit of journalism, our reporter Nakano has been out and about finding the most majikichi sushi in the land from bacon sushi to rice omelet sushi. Now his travels bring him to Japan’s first ever sushi train chain Genki Sushi and their latest offering: Blueberry Cream Sushi.

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