Tokyo Restaurant Sushi Zanmai Is Opening Its First U.S. Location in Los Angeles

Japan-based restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai is opening its first U.S. location in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Kiyoshi Kimura opened the primary location of Sushi Zanmai in Tokyo’s well-known Tsukiji fish market in 2001 in response to falling visitors out there. When the restaurant opened, it shortly set itself aside by working 24 hours, feeding hungry locals and vacationers on the lookout for sushi in any respect hours of the day and night time.

Within the years for the reason that first restaurant, Sushi Zanmai has expanded to dozens of places throughout Japan, changing into well-known for its cheap sushi and a smiling statue of Kimura that welcomes visitors on the entrance door. Kimura is named the “tuna king” in Japan and paid a document 333.6 million yen (greater than $2 million USD) for a single bluefin tuna at a New 12 months’s public sale in 2019.

Sushi Zanmai will open in Koreatown’s Chapman Market, within the former Sake Home by Hikari area on the nook of Sixth Avenue and Alexandria Avenue. Preliminary signage for the restaurant went up in late Might 2025, and a liquor license was filed in February 2025. A gap date has not been shared but and brown paper stays up within the home windows, obscuring the inside.

If the choices on the Los Angeles location mirror these in Japan, visitors can anticipate reasonably priced nigiri, hand rolls, tempura, sashimi, chawanmushi, and extra in a energetic eating room. When Sushi Zanmai opens in Los Angeles, it’s going to enter an already aggressive area of sushi eating places, however coming from Japan, that shouldn’t be out of the norm. Hopefully, the statue of Kimura will make the journey over as nicely.

Sushi Zanmai will likely be positioned at 3465 W. Sixth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020.

Rebecca Roland