Hanami Japanese restaurant is the best sushi restaurant in town. This restaurant is located at the Campus Village Shopping Center, in front of the building “University View”. The address is 8145-M Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20740. Open seven days a week, Hanami Japanese restaurant is small but lovely and offers home-style Japanese dishes. I first heard about Hanami from my friend who delivers for Hanami. Despite this, my first visit was not until October 11. Judging from the outside, I could immediately tell that this was a fairly small restaurant. The size of the main dining area is around twenty feet times forty-two feet. Upon walking in, customers are greeted with a hallway, where a waiting line can form if there are too many customers. The dining area is located to the right of the hallway. At the end of the hallway, I found the register and sushi bar on the right. Lighting in the restaurant is dark, and with no background music, the only sound comes from the chatter of customers.
The main dining area is filled with a lot of Japanese decorations, giving the restaurant a traditional Asian ambience, though some western influences are also apparent. The hallway and dining area are divided by a Japanese style wall made out of wooden frames with Japanese patterns engraved on the upper segments. All of the tables and chairs in the dining area are also wooden. Cherry blossoms and Japanese dolls hang on the walls. In addition to the Asian décor, it is clear that the decorators included some western traditions as well. The Japanese style lanterns that hang on the ceiling of the sushi bar are joined with Christmas bulbs. Furthermore, Halloween props such as figurines made of straw also decorate the walls.
Hanami primarily offers sushi, sashimi, udon, tempura, hi ...