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Jun’s Japanese Restaurant is, by IN Kansas City’s reckoning, “may just be the oldest sushi restaurant in Kansas City”: it opened in 1978 “out south,” moved in 1994 to the State Line Center at 7660 State Line Road in Prairie Village, and has run a long sushi counter and tatami-floored private rooms there ever since. Its founder, Jun — a trained sushi chef — retired and trained the current owner to carry on; a generation of local sushi chefs, including Tora Zushi’s Brett DeHart, apprenticed at his bar. Today it is dinner-only, Monday through Saturday, reservations by phone only, with a Monday–Thursday happy hour. It was a Best Japanese finalist in the Johnson County Post’s Best of Johnson County 2024 and a Best Sushi finalist in The Pitch’s Best of KC 2025.

Description

Jun’s occupies a unit in the State Line Center strip on the Kansas side of State Line Road at about 77th Street, on Prairie Village’s eastern edge.12 Inside is the layout IN Kansas City described in its 2024 survey of the metro’s sushi: “a full sushi bar and private rooms with tatami mat floors for larger parties.”3 The Johnson County Post’s readers called it “an upscale, fine-dining experience” and pointed to the lunch sushi-and-sashimi combos, the chicken teriyaki and red snapper dinners, and the hibachi-grill menu — though lunch service, suspended in the pandemic, has not returned: the restaurant’s own hours page lists dinner only, 4 to 9, Monday through Saturday, with a Monday–Thursday happy hour.14

The house style is old-school. IN KC’s advice: “Keep it simple here, start with baked green mussels, then get a variety of nigiri, and treat yourself to a Japanese beer.”3 The restaurant’s published sushi list runs to raw-fish rolls (a rainbow, a cucumber-wrapped dragon of tuna, yellowtail and salmon, a scallop roll, spicy tuna and salmon, an “Ocean” and a “Pacific”), cooked rolls with local names — a Chiefs roll of snow crab in soy paper lightly tempura-fried, a Jayhawk of crab and shrimp in a cucumber sheet, the eponymous Jun roll of eel and avocado over shrimp and asparagus, a Las Vegas, a lobster tempura roll — and a short vegetable list including ume shiso and oshinko maki.5 Omakase is available on request at the counter.6

Ownership and history

The restaurant is named for its founder, Jun, “a trained sushi chef known for his quality selection of fresh fish,” who “would gladly suggest new things to try”; his surname does not appear in any accessible source.3 He opened the restaurant in 1978 at an unidentified location “out south” and moved it in 1994 to the State Line Road center it still occupies; by 2024 IN KC counted 46 years of continuous operation and judged it likely the oldest sushi restaurant in Kansas City.3 “When he retired, he trained the new owner, who continues Jun’s legacy” — the new owner is likewise unnamed.3

Jun’s counter has been a training ground. Brett DeHart, who went on to be executive chef at Nara and to found Fénix and Tora Zushi at Strang Hall, apprenticed at Jun’s in Prairie Village in the early 2000s.7 The restaurant’s site today carries a 2026 copyright as “Jun’s Sushi Restaurant,” a menu split into sushi, dinner, drink and “happy menu” pages, phone-only reservations, and a holiday-hours list.849

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own sushi menu page (kansascityjuns.com/menu/sushi) · Confidence: High for the sushi rolls below; the dinner, drink and happy-hour pages exist on the site but rendered empty on retrieval, hence partial. Nigiri and sashimi by the piece are not listed on the roll page.5

Raw fish rolls

  • Hamachi (8) — yellowtail ($11.00) · Spicy Tuna (8) ($11.00) · Spicy Salmon (8) ($11.00) · Scallop (8) — scallop, mayo, green onion, masago ($14.00) · Crazy (6) — shrimp tempura and spicy tuna in soy paper ($14.00) · Rainbow (8) — six kinds of fish over California roll ($17.00) · Dragon (6) — tuna, yellowtail, salmon in cucumber sheet ($17.00) · Ocean (8) — spicy crab and avocado topped with tuna, salmon, honey-wasabi and eel sauce ($17.00) · Firecracker (8) — spicy tuna and avocado topped with spicy crab and jalapeño ($17.00) · Pacific (8) — shrimp tempura and avocado topped with tuna, salmon, honey-wasabi/eel sauce ($17.00)

Cooked rolls

  • California (8) ($8.00) · Dynamite (6) — four-fish tempura with spicy masago sauce ($9.00) · Philadelphia (8) ($9.00) · Salmon Skin (8) ($9.00) · Tiger Eye (6) — smoked salmon, cream cheese, jalapeño in soy paper ($10.00) · Shrimp Tempura (8) ($10.00) · Crunchy Crab (8) ($13.00) · Spider (6) — fried soft-shell crab ($14.00) · Unagi (8) — freshwater eel and cucumber ($14.00) · Chiefs (8) — snow crab, avocado, cucumber in soy paper, lightly tempura’d ($16.00) · Las Vegas (6) — eel, smoked salmon, crab, cream cheese, avocado, flash-fried ($17.00) · Fire Shrimp (8) ($17.00) · Jayhawk (6) — crab, shrimp, vegetables in cucumber sheet ($17.00) · Jun (8) — eel and avocado over shrimp-asparagus roll ($17.00) · Rock-n-Roll (8) ($17.00) · Paradise (8) — spicy tuna, crab, cream cheese, avocado, flash-fried, sweet chili ($17.00) · Lobster (6) — lobster tempura, vegetable, tobiko, soy paper ($20.00)

Vegetable rolls ($6.50 each)

  • Avocado (6) · Kappa Maki (6) · Oshinko Maki (6) · Ume Shiso Maki (6) — plum paste, cucumber, shiso · Vegetable Roll (6) — cucumber, avocado, carrot, marinated squash, asparagus

Sources

Footnotes

  1. “5 to Try: Post readers’ picks for best sushi in Johnson County,” Johnson County Post, 2022-01-14 — Confirms: “long-standing sushi bar in Prairie Village’s State Line Center … four decades”; “upscale, fine-dining experience”; lunch sushi/sashimi combos, chicken teriyaki and red snapper dinners, hibachi grill menu; 7660 State Line Road; regular hours 11:30–2 and 4:30–10 Mon–Sat, COVID hours 4–9. ↩ ↩2

  2. Jun’s — official website, “Our Location.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “Jun’s Japanese Restaurant, 7660 State Line Rd, Prairie Village, KS 66208”; embedded Google rating 4.6. ↩

  3. “The State of Sushi: Kansas Citians have Fully Embraced the Japanese Cuisine, as Sushi Bars and Restaurants are Thriving Across the Metro,” IN Kansas City Magazine, January 2024 — Confirms: “Jun’s Japanese Restaurant | Opened in 1978, 7660 State Line Road, Prairie Village”; “may just be the oldest sushi restaurant in Kansas City … operating for 46 years”; original location “out south” 1978, moved 1994 to State Line Road; full sushi bar and tatami private rooms; Jun a trained sushi chef; “When he retired, he trained the new owner, who continues Jun’s legacy”; baked green mussels, nigiri, Japanese beer. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. Jun’s — official website, “Contact Us & Hours.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “Phone Only | (913)-341-4924”; “Reservations are only by phone”; happy hours Mon–Thu 4–6:30 excluding holidays; hours Mon–Sat 4–9, “Closed on Sunday!”; holiday hours (closed Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day; open New Year’s Eve/Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day 4–9). ↩ ↩2

  5. Jun’s — official website, sushi menu. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: every roll and price in the Menu section (Raw Fish Rolls, Cooked Rolls, Vegetable Rolls). ↩ ↩2

  6. Search-engine summary of Jun’s listings (“occasional omakase by request, and a tatami-style room”), corroborating IN KC. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: omakase on request; tatami room. Provisional (directory). ↩

  7. “Strang Hall sushi bar Tora Zushi officially launches,” Johnson County Post, 2021-04-20 — Confirms: chef Brett DeHart apprenticed at Jun’s in Prairie Village before becoming executive chef at Nara. ↩

  8. Jun’s Japanese Restaurant — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “Welcome to Jun’s Japanese Restaurant!”; menu and hours/reservations links; site footer ”© 2026 Jun’s Sushi Restaurant.” ↩

  9. Jun’s — official website, “Menu Options.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: menu split into Sushi, Happy Menu, Drink and Dinner pages. ↩

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