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Kura Sushi's famous ¥115 plate is real, but almost none of the stores tourists actually walk into charge it — Asakusa, Shibuya, Ginza, Dotonbori and Kyoto are all a higher tier. Here's the price by store, the booking that needs no Japanese phone number, and what five plates in the slot actually wins you.

Seven Shibuya ramen shops with every hour and rule checked against official pages: 24-hour Ichiran, cashless-only AFURI with real vegan ramen, a 3AM tsukemen bar, and the lunch-only counter locals guard.

Kaiten sushi in Tokyo runs from ¥110 plates to premium chef-made belts. The chains compared — Sushiro, Kura, Hama, Uobei, Katsumidori, Nemuro Hanamaru — with the app-queue systems and payment traps explained.

The Kirby Café in Japan is reservation-only and books out in minutes on a Japanese-language site. Here's how the monthly reservation battle works, how foreign visitors book it (and the passport rule that gets people turned away), which branch is easiest, the 85-minute rules, and the food. Compiled from Japanese visitor reports.