Kura Sushi (Nijo)

After doing some research, we settled for our dinner at Kura Sushi. At ¥100 a plate the branch we visited was located near the JR-Nijo station. While getting to the place was easy, trying to get a seat was another matter all together. Upon arrival, there was already quite a crowd of locals waiting. The outlet has a self-service kiosk for you to get your queue ticket and no surprise, it was only available in Japanese. In between trying to Google Translate the kiosk (thank god for the image translation feature), we managed to push enough buttons to get a queue number from the kiosk. We found a seat at the waiting area and sat down wondering how are we doing to know if our number has been called as the staff was calling out the queue numbers in Japanese. And we weren’t even certain that we got the correct queue number. Soon after, a pair of tourist walked in, and they too after fiddling with the kiosk for a while managed to get a queue number. They approached the staff and there was a staff who was able to converse in basic english who told them that she will call out for them when it is their turn. Taking cue from them, I approached the same staff. After looking lost and showing her my queue ticket, she asked me to take a seat and said that she will call out for me when it is my turn.

It does seem that Kura Sushi has quite a number of foreign customers as when it was our turn to be seated, we were presented with a english instruction sheet on how we should take the plate out from the conveyer belt so as not to spoil the mechanism.