Whenever (if ever…) tourism opens back up again, one must-visit place for many foreigners is a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, so this survey from goo Ranking into Japan’s most favourite conveyor-belt sushi chain may be useful for ideas of where to go. This video might also give you tips on how to behave whilst there:

Note that in Japanese, the “conveyor belt” part of the name is pronunced as “kaiten” (or sometimes “mawashi” or “mawaru”), so I have kept the original Japanese rendering in this translation.

Despite having been in Japan more years than I care to remember, I’ve only once been to a sushi place and I stayed clear of the whole raw fish section…

Ranking result

Rank	Sushi chain	Votes
1	Sushiro	340
2	Kura Sushi	238
3	Hamazushi	165
4	Kappa Sushi	81
5	Gatten sushi	51
6	Kaiten Sushi Triton	33
7	Sushi Choushimaru	32
8	Morimori Sushi	16
9	Kaisen Misakiko	14
10	Himi Kitokito Sushi	13
10	Kaiten Sushi Nemuro Hanamaru	13
12	Nigiri Tokubei	11
12	Kaiten Sushi Nagoyakatei	11
14	Umai Sushi Kan	10
14	Kanazawa Maimon Sushi	10
14	Daiki Suisan Kaiten Sushi	10
17	Nigiri Chojiro	9
18	Mawashi Sushi Katsu Katsumi Tori	7
18	Kaiten Sushi Yamato	7
18	Kaiten Sushi Hokkaido	7
18	Kaisen Atom	7
22	Gourmet Kaiten Zushi Hakotaro	6
22	Maguro Wholesaler Miura Misaki Port	6
24	Dokuraku Sushi	5
24	Edomae Sushi Totomaru	5
24	Kaiten Sushi Matsuriya	5
27	Heiroku Sushi	4
27	Kaiten Sushi Numazuko	4
29	Magurobito	3
29	Mawaru Sushi Zanmai	3
29	Tomizushi	3
29	Gansozushi	3
29	Tenka Sushi	3
29	Sushi Tora	3
35	Kaito	2
35	Nihonkai	2
35	Sushi Daijin	2
35	Edo-mae Kaiten Sushi Moriichi	2
35	Edo-mae Kaiten Sushi Gyoshin	2
40	Kaiten Sushi Taisei	1
40	Sushi Ikkan	1
40	Shijakku	1
40	Kaiten Sushi Kaneki	1
40	Oedo	1
40	Kaiten Sushi Sushiemon	1

Demographics

Between the 25th of November and the 9th of December 2020 1,154 visitors to goo Ranking services completed a public questionnaire. No further demographics were given.