Izakaya Masa

The place is small and situated inside a business area.
Despite it's hiddeness, it's a very popular spot. We arrived at 830pm on a Saturday night and had about an hours wait. Once in, you get to see why the long wait.
The place is small but they make do by being space savvy.
I saw one booth for large parties and many small seating and bar seating. The place's decor is cute.
Some of it looks hand drawn! The food was good.
Not the best or really worth the wait but it was good and reasonably priced. We ordered 2 specialty rolls, 2 different Ramens and a Katsu Curry all for $75. The Shoyu Ramen broth has a rich fatty taste, it was nicely garnished with green onions and seaweed and Naruto.
I didn't exactly enjoy the texture of the noodles, felt a little hard maybe under cooked or maybe it was the brand they used. The Hakatu Ramen has a nicer creamy taste to it, with heavily marinated mushrooms.
I'd recommend that one. The curry was not exciting, but actually bland in taste. My favorite was the Rainbow roll.
It tasted very fresh and sweet! The Sandiego Dream was alright. Despite the averageness of most of the food, the standout was the staff.
They were very quick and attentive.
Withing 2 minutes if our ordering they already started bring out out our Rolls, then the Katsu then the Ramens. The staff and the cooks really have speed nailed down especially during dinner peak hours!

We had an excellent meal here.
The Gyoza was great and we all adored our sushi rolls.
They were affordable and very well-made.
The ramen was delicious.
Pretty standard but well-made and would definitely come back for it.
The only thing that was a bit off was the timing of the meal.
We wanted to enjoy our appetizers and drinks before getting the meal ending ramen.
The icing was more like dim sum.
The wait it was about a half hour and there are a lot of great places to go have a drink to pass the time.
Or you can just wait on the patio.

This is VERY authentic rural, hole in the wall Japanese! The place was bustling and I was fortunate to get the last available seat.
The menu is found off a QR Code at your seat, so bring your phone. Even as busy as they were, I had water within 1 minute of being seated. My order was taken within two minutes of that and I received the first of three dishes before I had time to finish looking at the small menu. No frills or overpriced items here. Just delicious food & great service. Brought me back to the first few trips to Japan where I would ride my bike in search of places just like this. I'll definitely be back to try a few more of the dishes!