Musashimaru is a conveyor-belt sushi place, but unlike the cheap sushi spots with a budget of around 15,000 yen that are trendy in Japan these days, what sets it apart is that it is a touch pricier and the cuts are big and high-grade. It seems to come to around 3,000 yen a person, but eating out anywhere tends to run about that much. When I was young there was a time when I thought a proper counter place, where they hand you each piece, was far better than conveyor-belt sushi, but now I find myself thinking, is it really worth the fuss? It is not a question of taste; being able to eat what I actually feel like eating matters more to me now.

A place like this

Quite spacious.

Inside

Nice and tidy.

Uni

It had melted a little, but it was fine to eat.

Tempura

Negitoro

It costs a bit, but there is a lot of it.

Winter special

Ankimo, crab miso and shirako.. you could call it a gout set, but there was no way I was not going to order it..

Asparagus

So there is sushi like this too..

A drink

Tuna set

There really was a lot of it.

Raw shirasu gunkan roll

I love things like this. There is shirasu sushi you only get in this area.

Corn

They even have this..

Anago

It brought Sushi Zanmai to mind, somehow.

Crab miso soup

This one was a bit of a struggle to eat.

Winter set

Winter really is my season. Crab and uni and ikura all in one set..

Kinmedai

Lovely.

Buri

Maybe because it is winter, it was nicely fatty.

Saba

Delicious.

Miso soup

Dashimaki

This dashimaki is the shop’s signature, and it is about the size of a slice of fresh-cream shortcake. It tastes good too.

Edamame

Kyuri

The maki with nothing but cucumber in it was tasty too.

Ikura

It tastes good, but ordering one more at the very end here was a bad call, I think.

Big cuts are nice, but I fill up so quickly now. It would have been just right to eat a few of the winter sets and leave, but it had been a while since I was at a sushi place and there was so much I wanted, so I ordered this and that and ended up stuffed. Thinking about it that way, going somewhere like Sushiro now and then and eating a bit of everything with lighter, smaller cuts does not seem bad either.

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