Shinjuku Station is launching its first Long Island restaurant in Westbury, offering an all-you-can-eat experience delivered via automated bullet trains and robots. The 5,800-square-foot venue in the Roosevelt Raceway Center will feature a high-tech conveyor system and a diverse menu.
The Blueprint:
Shinjuku Station leased 5,800-square-foot space in Roosevelt Raceway Center
Automated sushi delivered by miniature bullet trains and robots
All-you-can-eat menu with over 50 sushi rolls and diverse entrees
Westbury site was formerly occupied by T-Mobile
Long Island foodies will soon be able to catch an all-you-can-eat sushi train, when Shinjuku Station Revolving Sushi Bar brings its automated concept here later this year.
Shinjuku will open in this 5,800-square-foot building in the Roosevelt Raceway Center. / Courtesy of Mattone Investors
The chain has leased a freestanding, 5,800-square-foot retail building on 1.5 acres in the Roosevelt Raceway Center at 1230 Corporate Drive in Westbury, where it hopes to open its first Long Island location by the end of November. The building was formerly occupied by a T-Mobile store.
Shinjuku Station, named after one of Tokyo’s busiest railway stations, employs miniature bullet trains on a rotating conveyor belt to deliver sushi and other fare to customers throughout the restaurant. Each table has a tablet to order meals that once prepared by chefs is placed on a bullet train that carries the food from the kitchen to the table.
If the order is too big to fit on the Shinjuku Station train, a four-and-a-half-foot tall robot delivers the meals instead. To add to its advanced technology, the conveyor belt has computer chips that time how long each dish has been on it, and if a dish has been out for 45 minutes, it’s removed from the belt.
Another conveyor-belt sushi concept, Kura Sushi, previously opened restaurants in Carle Place and Lake Grove. However, Shinjuku Station is different because it‘s an all-you-can-eat experience.
The Shinjuku Station train travels on a track that takes food from kitchen to table. / Courtesy of Mattone Investors
The menu includes more than 50 classic and specialty sushi rolls, as well as appetizers like rock shrimp, soft-shell crab, chicken wings, gyoza, tempura platter, cajun fries and more. The restaurant’s entree selection features chicken hibachi, poke bowl, salmon teriyaki, miso ramen, shrimp yakisoba, steak yaki udon and many more.
Shinjuku Station opened its first U.S. restaurant in High Point, N.C. in Jan. 2025, and has since added locations in Winston Salem, N.C., South Plainfield, N.J., and Harrisburg, Pa. Besides the Westbury restaurant, the chain has several other locations in the pipeline, including new spots in New Jersey and North Carolina, and in Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Texas, according to its website.
Shinjuku Station joins a tenant roster at the Roosevelt Raceway Center that includes Home Depot, Michael’s, Food Bazaar, PGA Superstore, Applebee’s, AMC Theaters, Chili’s and a Tesla service center.
The Westbury center is owned by Mattone Group Raceway LLC, an affiliate of Queens-based Mattone Investors. The 427,000-square-foot retail complex was once part of the Roosevelt Raceway harness track property, with some of the remainder of that site developed into the sprawling Meadowbrook Pointe condo community by Jericho-based Beechwood Organization.
Yuki Dong of ReMax Real Estate Professionals represented Shinjuku Station, while the landlord, Mattone Investors, was self-represented in the Westbury lease transaction.
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