A note on the words: toro is the fatty belly of tuna and chutoro its medium grade; negitoro is minced fatty tuna with spring onion; engawa is the frilled muscle along the fin of a flatfish; gunkan, “battleship”, is a sushi rice base wrapped in a nori collar so a loose topping can be piled on; and tare is the seasoning sauce brushed over grilled items. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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Kappa Sushi Itabashi on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
I want to eat something good today as well. This is Hangover Meshi.
The third visit already. How many times am I going to go to Kappa Sushi? — but it is so easy to use.
The menu shifts a little with the seasons, you can drop in casually, and it is never very busy.
What more could one want. So: Kappa Sushi again today.
I have been so often that I have rather had my fill of the standard menu, so this time I went at the seasonal items.
At this point the miso soup may as well count as the tea.
This is from the campaign — the Toro Festival.
Negitoro made with southern bluefin, and this is 110 yen. Cheap.
An interesting idea for sushi, made without nori. Frankly you could do without the rice as well.
Grated yam over tuna is about the best thing there is. A little soy over the top is the way to eat it.
It is funny that a Toro Festival includes pork jowl — the “toro” of the pig.
It is good, but it is cut quite thin, so as value I am not sure. The premium negitoro may be the better buy.
The same seared pork jowl with salt tare, but with a little grated yam on it.
The price is the same, so take whichever you prefer — though it is still a bit thin. The flavour is good.
This is the fatty salmon. It arrived in a rather pitiful state, but once eaten it is all the same.
The salmon is cut narrow, which is presumably why it would not balance, and it feels a little insufficient.
The flavour is good, so I would rather they cut it generously and charged 200 yen.
Another Toro Festival item, chutoro cut in the shop. At 140 yen it may be cheaper than usual.
Properly chutoro tuna, delicious, and good value.
Another piece of very high value.
Sushi loaded with as much chopped engawa as they can get on it. I think this may be the best value item at Kappa Sushi so far. For 160 yen! Honestly I would happily eat it on its own as a drinking snack. The rice is not needed.
The Toro Festival will take anything. This is unagi — una-toro nigiri.
Well, yes, it is eel if you call it eel. If you are going to order this, have the chutoro instead.
Good if you like asparagus. Kappa’s tempura is good.
I had never ordered them before, so I thought I would try the cucumber-wrapped series.
Chopped seafood is forgivable, but there is almost no crunchy chilli oil on it, so this one is a miss.
This one is good. Crab and mayonnaise cannot fail.
It is called “moving” sweetcorn, and the name does not lie!
Sweetcorn and mayonnaise, delicious! Genuinely near the top of the list. Fattening, no doubt.
Yes, I see it now. It is the mayonnaise. The mayonnaise is what is good.
As an adult one stops eating things this direct, so when you do, the deliciousness soaks right in.
So: I ordered mainly things I had never ordered before, and seasonal items aside, about three more visits should see the entire menu conquered. Whether I will go that far, I do not know.
I suspect I shall end up going again anyway, so if I am going, let us aim at the complete conquest of Kappa!
Kappa Sushi Itabashi (conveyor-belt sushi / Tokiwadai Station, Kami-Itabashi Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.3
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
