Sushi Bus is heading to Tokyo in October 2026. Sushi Bus Co. says it is pairing an open-top double-decker with a conveyor-belt sushi lane on the upper deck, and it is building the project with WILLER ACROSS.
The company posted the plan in a PR TIMES release on August 20. It calls the ride a running conveyor-belt sushi shop. Meanwhile, the first bus is aimed at visitors who want a Japan-only food tour, not a ride from A to B.
Kitchen downstairs, sushi upstairs
The setup is simple. Chefs work in a kitchen on the first floor. Then an in-bus elevator lifts plates to the second deck. After that, a cast member loads the conveyor. Riders eat as much as they want during a run of about 70 minutes.
The lane itself is the hard part. Sushi Bus spent about two and a half years on the idea. It also worked with Kitanihon Kako, a conveyor maker, to keep plates on the belt during sudden stops. WILLER ACROSS is supplying a restaurant bus that already has a kitchen, which the company is renovating rather than building from scratch.
A loop from Kajibashi, not a destination
Sushi Bus will start and end at Kajibashi Parking Lot near Tokyo Station. There is no final stop. The company is selling the loop as an entertainment-style food activity, not a way to get somewhere. It even teases stares at spots such as Shibuya Scramble Crossing, Ginza, and Asakusa’s Kaminarimon gate. However, that is presentation copy, not a locked timetable.
The first fleet is tiny. One bus. Twenty seats. Five loops a day, if the schedule holds. Still, Sushi Bus says that scarcity is the point. It also claims a world-first open-top conveyor ride based on its own August 2026 web survey. WILLER GROUP, for its part, already owns Japan’s handful of kitchen-equipped restaurant buses.
If the Tokyo loop works, the company wants more buses and later runs in Osaka and Kyoto. As a result, the related site is still a coming-soon page at sushi-bus.com. Tokyo has tried other unusual buses before, including Toyota’s fuel-cell city buses. Travel booking is also moving into apps, as TikTok GO’s in-app hotel and tour checkout showed earlier this year.
