Did you know that in Japan, they have café restaurants with a Kirby theme?  You can get Kirby themed food, get Kirby souvenirs at the gift shop, and even the music in the background is remixed music from the game!  I would totally go to one of those if I ever went to Japan, but I don’t think I could afford to go there in the foreseeable future.  So it’s lucky that Kura Sushi is doing a promotion as of this writing with Kirby!  Kura Sushi is a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants.  When you go there, if you eat enough sushi plates, you can get little prizes!  Most of the time, the prizes are anime related, so I’m usually not interested in that.  But a few years ago, they had Pac-Man prizes so you know I had to go to that and I even wrote an article about it here.  A little while later they had Tetris prizes, but I didn’t like any of those so I didn’t go then.  But a couple of years later they did have Pikmin prizes so I wrote an article about that, too.  So now let’s take a look at the Kirby stuff they have this time.  The promotion lasts until the end of January, so depending on when you read this, you might be able to check it out yourself, too!

So when you first walk into the restaurant, they had this display with the prizes you could get and other promotions.

When you get your sushi, you place your empty plates into a chute.  Each table has a monitor that counts how many plates you’ve turned in, and when you get enough, a prize comes out from the top.  So here’s a picture of that.

Sometimes the touch screen where you could special order sushi and drinks (served by robots) would have Kirby stuff on it, too.

The table also had an ad with the other Kirby prizes you could get at certain times.  But you had to download the app and spend a lot of money so I probably won’t get those.  Don’t get me wrong, I still think they’re cool.  It’s just very expensive for a cup set or a blanket the size of a dishtowel.

The banner near the kitchen also had Kirby decorations.

And there were wall hangings, too.

Here’s a closer picture of the wall hangings.  I’d like to bring those home with me!

When the sushi comes out on the conveyor belt, they have little covers on them.  Some of the covers had Kirby!

And here’s a closer shot of one.  I’d like to take one of those, too!

They even had special Kirby sushi you could get.  The Kirby Dream Roll had a pinkish sauce on top and the bottom had little pieces of egg (called tamago) on the bottom.

The Waddle Dee Feisty Feast Roll was pretty much the same thing except the sauce was a little redder, it had some crunchy stuff on top, and was a little spicier.

So the prizes you could get were either a key chain charm, cord pullers, or a microfiber cleaning cloth.  I wish I could’ve bought all of them separately but they didn’t let you do that.  Here’s a picture taken from the site that shows all the stuff you could get.

I got the little cord puller.  The paper shows which ones you can get and how they work.

And here’s the one I got.

And the back of it, too.

And I think that’s pretty much everything they had there.  I’d love to go back, but I may not since it’s pretty expensive.  If they ever did Animal Crossing or Mega Man prizes, I may have to go back for those, though!  Later!  –Cary

PS: Don’t forget to check out my other articles about Kura Sushi!  And if you want to see the official Kirby Kura Sushi site, click here.

Pac-Man at Kura Sushi

Pikmin Sprouts Up at Kura Sushi

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