First sushi

After a pretty uneventful day at work my boss took me out to eat some sushi. We went to a new place that she wanted to visit for some time, but didn't have a chance to. It turned out to be a type of a very modern kaiten sushi -the one where the trays are rotating around the room and you can pick whatever you like.We ate about a ton of it (at least that's how I felt when leaving the place). This sushiya was very modern, because not only the trays were rotating, but you could also make an order by pushing the buttons on your presonal LCD screen (beer, udon, miso, desserts...) and your order was also delivered to you by a machine. In spite of all that, there was a lot of staff running around.
This place had also one very important trait - it was very cheap. For two people, with desserts, beer, chawanmushi (a type of... soup? I'm not sure), and a mountain of sushi we paid (or rather, the boss paid) only about 1500 yen. And it's only 5 minutes by foot from Tondaya! I think I will go back to this place quite soon...

I promised some better pictures of Tondaya and here they are.
This is the inner garden:
This is the engawa (veranda) between the "official" and "private" part of the house. In the official part there was a shop and a few storage rooms in the old days, and the private part consisted mainly of a chashitsu (a room for tea ceremony) and a big laquered kamidana (shinto altar). The family lived upstairs (where I live now).