Yokosuka Food Corner - Blue Street and Beyond: Restaurant Nigiri

- updated 2/25/13 with full menu and additional pictures -
Restaurant Nigiri - Icho is located just kiddy corner from Kabli House and has a large free parking lot that has plenty of attendants when it's crowded.

This restaurant is a sushi-go-round or kaiten sushi place. It has about 25 counter seats and 7 booths. So how does this compare to the three other hundred yen sushi places in town? Well, this place is a step up. If you want a little more personalized service, larger portions, and higher quality sushi you should come here. In general we spend about the same or just slightly more here than we do at the 100 Yen places.

Crab Salad

If all the seating is full there is a sign up sheet with instructions in English - your name and how many in your group. There is a place to sit while you wait.

Once seated you can see a team of 4 or 5 sushi chefs working behind the oval shaped seating area. Each plate is a different value and they'll add it all up at the end. Grab the tea and cups from the lower belt that travels around. If you'd like some extra wasabi then translate to Japanese and ask for "wasabi."

There are several different ways to order here and feel free to use any or all of them.

Call the waitress over and point to the nice picture menu (there is also an english menu too, but the picture menu usually suffices and you'll almost blend in with the Japanese).
Call out straight to the chef behind the counter after you get his attention with a good "sumi-masen"
or write down your order on the order chits with the pencils provided. Just write what you want in English and how many orders. My daughter doesn't like wasabi on her sushi so she adds "no wasabi" and they make it perfect every time.

If you're not big on sushi then there are plenty of other items on the menu to fill you up. They have about 4 different soups here to go along with your sushi. The soups here are quite substantial and cost about 320 Yen.
They also have deep fried chicken, octopus, and squid - all are good. These are some good menu items that you should learn in Japanese as many restaurants have these staples. In order they are: Tori karaage, Tako karaage, and eki karaage. You guessed it, karaage (ka-ra-a-gay) means deep fried or fried. The kanji for deep fried is 空揚げ　or sometimes you just see 空揚. Other non-sushi plates include boiled crab sushi, salads (roll style), and several desserts. Total for 3 people here on a recent visit was just shy of 4000 Yen.

Their website and part of their menu can be found here - just use the page translator.
Tel: 046-822-6566