Sushi Japan

My wife my favorite quick to go sushi joint. All you can eat and still holds good quality. The key to this place is to order your original order and while your waiting for that to be made, make your second order on the paper. When they bring out your original turn in your second order and it will be ready around the time your done with round one.

I was surprised how good this restaurant is. It is one of my favorites. Everything is delicious.

Nice and wide selection of sushi and fish was pretty fresh. All you can eat also include appetizers for few dollars more you can also include deluxe sushi and appetizers.
Dinner 19.99 and 24.99 for add on for more variety of sushi per person
Also order as much as you want but make sure eat all that food order because they have a rule you have to pay for all the food that you don’t eat.

We ordered take out before and thought this place was really good! However, my bf and I went to dine in and the service was awful. It took forever to get refills on our water, 15 minutes

This is an exceptional sushi option. I was blown away at the quality and freshness from an all you can eat option. Full menu outside if all you can eat, but the AYCE option was absolutely amazing! Our first time here, but we will be back, SOON!

Out of all the places in west county, this has become our favorite sushi restaurant. We really like sushi, so I wouldn’t say it’s perfect… But we may be more picky than most. There’s a few things I would change but overall the flavor is great. It can fall apart and the masago is extremely small… But we still really enjoy it.

Hidden gem. Best sushi in stl. They have an amazing all you can eat that is cheap and made to order. Everything is fresh and delicious. The only negative is that the service isnt the best. However the food is so good that i keep coming back

Sushi Japan in Lafayette Center just turned away a friend of ours with a service dog. He is a Marine vet of the War in Afghanistan. Totally against the Americans with Disabilities Act. They actually shut the door in his face. The police told them they couldn’t refuse him. Totally disgusting. Please don’t give them your business.
As a military member myself, this greatly upsets me.

The meal was TERRIBLE! I’m usually a big fan of sushi but everything here was horrible! It’s an all you can eat that’s overpriced for one thing. When my original order arrived the veggies making up the rolls were off tasting and the fish smelled horrid and out of date. I tried again and ordered some nigiri but that fish too smelled out of date. When I went to pay it turns out that they charge EXTRA for every piece of sushi you don’t eat even if it’s horrid tasting! I will never be returning again and I encourage everyone else to stay away.

I was a little hesitant about going inside because of the way the restaurant looked outside and where it was located, but I’m so glad I did! I did the all you can eat dinner special for $ 20 and it was well worth it! The sushi was great and the restaurant was clean and classy. I loved all the sushi rolls that I ordered and there are plenty to choose from on the menu. I also liked how I could watch the chef make my sushi right in front of me. The ingredients were fresh (which is a must when you are eating raw fish) and the staff were very pleasant! I’ll be back for more in the near future.

The food here was mediocre even by stl standards. Had the dinner buffet.
The staff was nice but that’s not why I go out to eat.

My only other experience with conveyor belt sushi was a bad one. However, my best friend has had good experiences with it, at least in Arizona. She and her husband were super excited to try Sushi Japan when it opened, and finally made it there a few weeks ago. They enjoyed their sushi and overall had a good experience. So she recommended it for happy hour especially since she had some coupons. I can’t say I was overly excited but I thought I would try it.
We went at about 4pm because my friend had said that happy for lasted until about 5. Well… that’s not the case anymore. Happy hour is from 2 – 3 and 8:30 — 9:30. As I said, it’s not like they are Steak ‘N Shake. As my friend said, it’s so they can get rid of their leftover sushi from lunch and dinner. It’s really the most ridiculous «happy hour» I’ve ever seen. Needless to say, we were disappointed.
The first thing we pulled from the belt was crab rangoon which was cold. We asked the waitress if she could get some that were hot and fortunately she was kind enough to. It was great fresh out. I also pulled the gyoza, also cold, but still good. Since we weren’t convinced that the items on the belts were fresh, we ordered the crazy crab roll off the menu. It was decent too. however, looking over the menu I felt that many items were overpriced ($ 15 – 18 for a specialty roll). Compare that to my favorite sushi place Wasabi where they are more reasonably priced for great sushi and service.

I have been here several times, and the quality has continually decreased over time.
The latest — got the all you can eat for dinner. I ordered 6 pieces of nigiri and a roll. When I got the nigiri, I immediately noticed there was three times the amount of rice per piece along with the tiniest sliver of fish imaginable. It probably took him more time to cut the fish that thin.
So here is what I did — I combined the six slivers if fish, which literally equated to one ‘normal’ ngiri in other restaurants. I cut one of the rice balls in half and ate it that way.
I pushed all the rice to the side — I’m not over exaggerating, there was literally ½ cup of rice sitting on my plate. For six pieces of ngiri, it takes talent to screw over the plate like that.
And here’s the issue. You have to eat all of the rice — which is normal in all you can eat.
Now to the roll. Everything but the fish.
Ordered a Philadelphia Roll just out of curiosity. Received — as I expected. There was a GIANT piece of cream cheese in the middle, and maybe ¹⁄₈ inch slice of fish.
In a frugal attempt by the chef to save money, they literally screwed up the entire meal. It’s hard to screw up sushi if you are experienced. The plates sell themselves usually.
I’ve been here before as I said, and it’s usually hit or miss. But this time, they successfully lost me as a customer.

Great food specials fish and unlimited sushi is the best!

Really disappointed in this place. Ordered sushi and chicken katsu for pick up. When I got there, I asked if the katsu sauce was packed. The guy said yes. Got home, nope, no katsu sauce. Now, if you know what chicken katsu is, you know it cant be eaten without katsu sauce. I mean the whole point of pick up was because I was too lazy to change out of my pjs! Had to go back and get it, they did apologize and gave me coupons for next time (which I will never use, continue reading)
SO, the chicken itself was super thin. It was mainly batter and a sliver of chicken. No hint of a chicken taste, all I tasted was grease ugh. Even the katsu sauce couldn’t save it, made that second trip nothin’. Next
I usually get simple rolls without any of that fried crap or all those fatty sauces. That way I can actually taste the fish. We ordered about 5 rolls like that. And I really could not taste the difference. Do you know why? Because it was all CUCUMBER! Seriously, the amount of cucumber in each roll was ridiculous! I basically ordered 5 huge cucumber rolls with extra cucumber!!! Sushi Japan, you tried to skimp on fish and substitute with all that cucumber to make the roll bigger. Shame on you! You can keep your coupon. And your damn cucumbers

I have eaten here several times, always for the conveyor sushi and have always enjoyed the visit, with a couple of the visits taking someone new to conveyor sushi.
This was Thursday’s snow day and few places were open and someone wanted to get out so out we went. As the conveyor was not on this day (makes sense given few people coming in) I had the chance to try the regular menu, which I was glad I did.
I have seen quite a few times people get Bento boxes (not knowing what they were at the time) so I ordered one on this visit and I really liked it. I got the Hibachi chicken which came with a California roll, shrimp dumplings, crab rangoon, rice and the chicken stir fry. The dumplings here are very good, the rice and stir fry were cooked just right and the crab rangoon must have been good because I didn’t get any (someone else ate it all). Also were a few pieces of tempura. I would definitely get this again.
Service was excellent and pretty much always is. While the food is very good, not sure it’s 5 star level but very worthy of the 4.

Very clean with good portions. One of the best I’ve been to in STL. Used to go to others but they down sized their portions so this is a new favorite place.

… one of those places that get slap happy with the sweet sweet mayo… and I have a particular aversion to it due to my experiences with my time at Taiwan… I hate the stuff.
It needs to be noted that this place does do the conveyor belt sushi and the service is pretty decent.
However two things in particular make me not want to check this place out anytime soon — their fried calamari — I was hoping was just dusted in corn starch, which I’m used to at Japanese restaurants, but was with this ridiculously hard oily breadcrumb coating. That and instead of a light ponzu sauce or something it came with said disgusting mayo sauce.
The other was that there was a fish bone in one of my fish… which I have to say I’ve never experienced at a Japanese restaurant before. Ever. The only thing that would have kept this place from being a 1 was that the taste of the rolls were pretty decent.

I happened into Sushi Japan for lunch and I was not impressed.
Located in a west county strip mall that is chock full of restaurants, they have lots to compete with. The conveyor belt concept is good, but it isn’t working here.
Conveyor belt sushi bars usually have a sushi chef actively working the conveyor belt replacing old with new, keeping an eye on the customers and and making sure that things are rotated. This was not the case here.
I came late lunch and everything on the conveyor belt tasted very old. I’m not even sure if it was made that day. Usually, the conveyor belt sushi experience is a social experience, but there was no one in the place. I was there by myself. The waitstaff seemed wrapped up in each other. Then, when I was getting ready to leave, I was approached by a guy who may have been a manager or owner. He wouldn’t leave me alone talking about his personal life and seemed intoxicated. Overall, a very strange experience. I won’t be back.

I am a HUGE fan of sushi, so I’m a pretty tough critic when it comes to any sushi restaurant reviews! We received a few coupons in the mail for Sushi Japan so we decided to give it a shot on a rainy Friday night. I have to say that I was super excited to try this place, we need more good sushi restaurants in the counties!
The restaurant is in a plaza with a few shops and Dierbergs, they have a very large sign in front so we knew exactly where to go. The windows are all covered with thin paper, so we weren’t sure what to expect until we walked in. The place was nice inside, it was a lot bigger than I expected and there were quite a few people there. There is a bar on the left, the conveyor belt seating area in the middle and larger traditional Japanese seating on the right. We sat in the bar seating area in front of the conveyor belt, thought it was a cool concept to see all the sushi go by and pick and choose as we pleased!
We weren’t sure how the pricing of the conveyor belt items worked out until we looked around and saw that there are different colored plates that are associated with different listed prices, all very reasonable. Most of the sushi that passes around are only 2 pieces on a plate, so it is nice to be able to choose lots of different items without getting too full. There are also traditional Japanese drinks, salads and appetizers such as edamame and crab rangoon on the belt. We kept picking up more items and tried lots of different things: hawaiian roll, spicy tuna, Alaska (not our favorite), crab rangoon, daily special, edamame and shrimp dumplings (yum) among others. What I did like about the conveyor was that you had lots of options in smaller portions so you could try a lot, what I didn’t like was that sometimes the items might sit for a while before they are picked up; our edamame was lukewarm so it probably rotated for a while.
We also decided to order a few rolls off the menu: spicy tuna, spicy salmon (both I think tasted almost identical), salmon and yellowtail roll (yum!).
All around, I think the conveyor belt brings a cool factor to the place that brings people in; we will probably be back with friends for drinks and small bites. The service was good and the restaurant was nice. However, Sapporo sushi is still our favorite in the area, they have the best tasting sushi around. I did enjoy coming here and to most people that aren’t obsessed with sushi like me, this place will probably be a hit.