Toyama Bay boasts some of the very best seafood in Japan. Thanks to its unique geology — it's one of the deepest bays in the country and is fed with snowmelt flowing directly from some of Japan's highest peaks — it is home to an abundance of marine life forms, some of them rarely found elsewhere.

Just because the city of Toyama lies on the edge of this remarkable ecosystem with its ready supply of the finest, freshest fish, that doesn't mean you are bound to find superlative sushi there. But you will at Sushi Jin.

Owner-chef Izumi Kimura has been here since 2005, slowly building up a reputation and devoted clientele in his hometown. These days, especially since the arrival of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, word has spread and customers are finding their way to him from much further afield.