Sushi Midori

Ordered a 1600JPY set. Super valued for its fresh and huge sushis. You’d be ask if you wanted your rice to be small, medium of large portion. I should’ve chosen small, this set is definitely very fulfilling for an average girl’s appetite. Make you you take a queue in advance (possibly via their website) to avoid such a long wait. Expect 30min to be your average wait.

Great sushi at a surprising location. Usually around one hour wait during lunch hours.

Cuisine: ⁶⁄₁₀
Service: ⁵⁄₁₀
Décor: ⁵⁄₁₀
Value: ⁹⁄₁₀
Overall: ⁶⁄₁₀
Sushi in Tokyo, Japan — hopefully first of many times over the span of my life. Let’s dig into the good and the bad.
As others have mentioned, the wait can be daunting (especially if you want a counter seat like me). After taking a number, we ate an hour long snack at Bikini downstairs in the BizTower Atrium, the wait was still another 45+ minutes. Anyway, was it worth it?
Yes and no. For the price of $ 25 per person including tax (no tip — considered rude), we left the joint stuffed to our gills. If this is the average quality of sushi in Japan for such a low price, then we’re on the right track. However, being the critical food snob that I am, the pieces were huge with way too much rice. It felt like déjà vu eating at Yama in NYC back during college. Not too shabby if you’re on a budget, but certainly not the standards I was looking for.
In conclusion, I would come here (if it was in my own neighborhood) on a very hungry day and gorge on inexpensive sushi, but only with a reasonable (30 mins) line. Otherwise, don’t waste precious time on your trip checking out this place and go find that 9 or 10. Unfortunately, I had to find out myself what a popular local joint tasted like in Tokyo. Luckily I have time to try some other sushi bars.

Food and price are reasonable, better come early to get an early queue, and of course good service

It was only OK. Huge line. Can’t say that it was worth the wait though. Plenty of good sushi in Tokyo that don’t have lines.

There’s so many places to eat in Tokyo it is often difficult to choose. Sushi Midori is in a building that contains many restaurants. Why this matters? We came here knowing there’d be a wait. And a wait it was. Almost an hour and a half wait. The sushi is good. They have a double sided English menu that is English on one side but the back side only has titles in English. Actually, to even check in to this place you have to know a bit of Japanese. Otherwise, you’re best off asking the waitress for help with the computer system you need to use to get a ticket. A few tips:
1. The ticket machine will start you off with some English but you will have to guess how to finish to get your ticket. Trial and error or ask for help.
2. You get a choice of counter or table. If it’s crowded, state either. Counter takes a long time to open up.
3. If there’s more than ten groups in front of you, your wait time will most likely pass an hour. Get your ticket, go downstairs to the underground and find a book to read it get a snack.
4. You can check in by cellphone.
5. Know what you want before you sit. They’ll first take your drink order and then if you’re not ready you’re going to have to flag them down. Be willing to flag them down. Order appetizers first. Then you can order sushi. They give you miso soup at the end. Don’t wonder why they brought it to you. It’s in the house.
6. Bring a Japanese reading person.
7. The computer will show you how close you are to being seated. They skip some numbers due to table size so if you’re close, do t wander off too far.
8. If you don’t want to wait but have to eat their sushi, you can order take out. They call this «omiyage». Then you can explore the rest of the place (mostly food establishments) then return to pick up your food.
9. Read until you get to tip 10.
10. If you’ve read this far, you really must want to go. Hurry up and get your ticket so you don’t have to wait so long.

Well worth the small wait. Staff was friendly and attentive. Sushi was fantastic and reasonably priced. This is a definite go to place if you are nearby.

Honestly, Sushi Midori is ONLY worth if if you can sit by the bar, across from that handsome sushi chef. Otherwise, the food comes out cold and meh. Plus, you dont get the full experience of Japanese man trying to speak to you in English!
According to my Japanese friends, Japanese people do NOT eat here. Only tourists. Why? Because Japanese people do not queue for food – they make reservations. Sushi Midori requires a queue, not to mentioned, is listed as a ‘go to’ spot for sushi in Lonely Planet, etc. Hence, spotting a Japanese diner here is rare. With that sad, my Japanese friends do think the sushi at Sushi Midori is fantastic!
I came here twice during my 10 day Japan trip. My only advice is to sit by the bar. We didn’t time and it just wasn’t as good. Almost, mediocre for Japan. Hence, my four star as opposed to five star rating.

This is a delicious sushi place in the mall atop Akasaka station. When you first get here, you need to add your party to the waiting list using the kiosk. Assuming nobody in your party speaks Japanese, I recommend standing in front of the cashier station and asking any staff around/​behind the desk to help. Not only does this reduce the chance of making a mistake on the waiting list kiosk (some of the screens are pure Kanji), but it let’s them know they have a gaijin who needs a bit of extra help. Otherwise they will just call out the numbers in Japanese and you won’t know when your ticket (printed by the machine) is called. Also, the English skills of the staff are extremely limited.
Be prepared for a long wait. I thought I’d be able to avoid a bad line by arriving on a rainy Thursday evening and with the smallest possible party (1). Nope — I still waited an hour.
The good news is that they have a picture menu with English names available. I ordered their chef’s choice sushi special (¥2800) which also came with soup and desert. I ordered a small variety of a la carte sushi as well since I’m a big eater. I think the waitress said that takeout is not allowed, so be careful not to order too much. The sushi was excellent. It was a bit more adventurous than my California tastes are used to, but I was glad for that. I ordered a ton of sushi and my total came to about ¥4130, which is quite reasonable for the quality and quantity of sushi and the ambiance. I’d go back, but preferably either right at opening so I’m seated quickly or I’d bring someone along that I’d enjoy hanging out with for an hour. In fact, during the hour I waited, I was the only party of 1.

If you are new to tokyo and sushi and dont want to spend few hours waiting at tsukiji market, this is the place for you.
I find quality of sushi at midori is equally as good as those in tsukiji market. Price is more reasonable.

Line was long but it went trough fast in about 25′ we were seated and were ready to order.
Yum yum yum order everything but jumbo shrimp :) it wasn’t bad but not to my test.
With premium gold asahi beer it was perfect.
Price is very reasonable for two of us we paid around $ 80, that included drinks as well :)