Hakone

I LOVE Hakone. It's my favorite in the area for quick, take-out sushi. Cheap, fast, and good quality.

Key word for me with Hakone is take-out. This place isn't a place you really want to hang out for a long-term meal. They have a bar set up inside and a few tables outside but it's really, really small. It kind of reminds me more of a food stand than a sit-down sushi place.

But anyway, the sushi itself is pretty fresh and delicious. It's not the best sushi you're ever gonna have but it's pretty damn good. Rice is fresh, fish is fresh, everything made to order.  

I would stay pretty basic here though, I don't know if I would opt for anything that seems too complicated. I could be wrong though. But I think I ordered like a fried tuna something roll one time and I wasn't a big fan. Avocado roll, California roll, and rainbow roll all the way. Rings in at about $15 total. You can stay pretty cheap here. Do it!

Ordered a baked scallop roll, got a tuna roll with pan fried bay shrimp on top. Like the kind of shrimp you buy in the grocery store. It was just a cold tuna roll with some warm scrimps on top. Ridiculous.
Also ordered the "go-go roll". They put just straight imitation krab in it, big chunks, again like what you buy at the grocery store.
Really really bad quality. I basically just paid $20 for $5 worth of sushi. The sushi at Ralph's supermarket is better quality and better priced. Will never ever go back.

This place only has 7 seats. Very nice owners, very nice sushi chef.  I would definitely come back. They write everything on the menu and really mean it.  They didn't try to say that they had "albacore" but served seared albacore only.  They wrote on the menu "seared albacore" which is rare for japanese places because they always try to pass on seared as raw.  I ordered two rolls which was plenty of food for myself.