The Japan Centre is a combination of a restaurant, take away sushi joint, grocery store and travel agent and book store (all focussing upon Japan obviously).

The restaurant food is good, reasonably cheap (for Piccadilly Circus) but the takeaway is the best value (sushi rolls and sashimi for around £3 for a tray).

It is almost always busy, but never dull.

The grocery store stocks lots of Japanese products and meats so good to pick up your green tea ice cream powder

I looooove this place, it’s cheap, central, great food, quick and decent portions. Staff seems a bit confused sometime but not unfriendly. Great is the shop just next door, you can get real stuff for extremely good prices!!! Whoever is into cooking and would like to try making sushi at home, you’ll find everything you could possibly need from ingredients to cook books:)

This shop and café is located in Piccadilly between Eros and The Royal Academy of Arts. Downstairs is a good sized Japanese supermarket, and you can also buy ready made sashimi/sushi if you are on the move. Upstairs (well at ground level) is a sort of Japanese knick-knack shop and a travel centre, plus a very good Japanese café where the sushi is hand made before being delivered to your table. The portion sizes are quite large which is great!

The Japanese Centre just off Picadilly Circus is teaming at lunchtimes, and for good reason. The takeaway section in the downstairs basement offers some of the best value sushi I have found in London and is made authentically before your eyes. They have an excellent sushi selection as well as Miso soup for bargainous prices. I would recommend coming here with a few friends or workmates as they don't mix up the sushi packets, so if you are after variety buy a selection amongst friends and mix and match. My only negative comment is that sometimes the Sushi can be a little warm in the summer but otherwise highly recommend it.

The Japan centre is a very authentic choice for sushi in central London. Possibly a bit too authentic for newly converted sushi eaters like myself. My friend and I ordered a board of mixed sushi. By the end we were left with the two most undesirable pieces - a squid thing and eel. We chose one each and sat an chewed what had a consistency of rubber for what seemed like an eternity before swallowing! Still, I'm sure a lot of people would really enjoy it! You get a loyalty card type thing when paying which is a good incentive to come back!

Having fallen in love with SUshi a while back, I was recommended The Japan Centre by a friend (also an avid lover!). Upon entering, it will first appear that you have entered a restaurant but look around and you will see some stairs that lead to the Sushi counter and supermarket downstairs. The sushi itself is amazing value for money £2.50 for Califorian Rolls containg about six and slightly more for Sashimi, all freshly produced on the day (you only need to look around at the amount of japanese shopping there to realise it's authenticity) If you are at all interested in Japanese cooking this is the place to buy your ingredients, they have everything from miso paste, and pickles for a home made batch of soup to the actual powdered miso soup sachets for convenience. This place is certainly worth a visit and for the more adventurous a perfect place to pick up all you need for an authentic japanese meal!

This is one of my favourite places to eat when i am in central London.

Not only does the Japan Centre do exceptional Japanese food, the Korean cuisine is also fantastic. If you are looking to take away some sushi, visit the sushi counter downstairs. The prices are good and the sushi is extremely high quality. Good luck getting a table at lunch time! This places is (rightly so) extremely popular.

We went to the restaurant at the Japan Centre for the first time last night (normally I just go to the shop downstairs) and I must say it was some of the best sushi I've had in London. Their take California Roll (futomaki) was phenomenal - a regular California roll wrapped in a complete sushi assortment: tuna, salmon, octopus, snapper, mmmm. And the miso soup was also head and shoulders above any other I've had here.

Of course, it didn't come cheap - expect to pay £30 apiece if you have a full meal of sushi and sashimi. There are also noodle and teriyaki dishes at completely reasonable prices, though, so don't let that put you off.

It may not be the cheapest sushi in town, but it certainly is delicious. Which only makes the takeaway prices downstairs all the more remarkable.

Great for light Japanese eating; if you want to spend no more than £10 and have less than 20 min for lunch, this is the place for you (near Piccadilly).
Great ramen.
Interesting cultural centre that combines a Japanese supermarket, restaurant and publications.

The Japan centre hosts a food department downstairs. Here you can find probably London's best value sushi. Customers are mostly Japanese. Turnover is fast which guarantees freshness. But also if you are looking for ingredients for Japanese home cooking: go here.