First off, let me start by saying I'm not a veteran Las Vegas'er, so the prices at all the restaurants on the strip gave me a little sticker shock at first.  but I've been to Japan and had the same thing happen to me upon landing but you do adjust.  With Chef Takayama's reputation and fine menu in NY, we were expecting a similar culinary experience, well, I'd have to say bluntly, Not Here.  \n\nThe space is large with high ceilings reminiscent of an airplane hanger with modern-ish light fixtures.  I could care less what the place looks like as long as the food is good.  \n\nThe menu is written such that most plates are almost tapas like (not priced that way though) until you get to the slightly larger plates in the rice and noodle sections.  A few items we had were the Foie Gras/ duck which were like 4 tiny tacos.  Very good but pricey.  We had the Victoria beef which was their Wagyu, which came with a bowl of rice and a soy dipping sauce.  In short, I've had better flat iron.  This cut should almost melt in your mouth and I had to bite hard to split the pieces.  For $68 you get 6 small slices which were approx 1.5 x 1.5 inches.  NOT worth the price even if it was 3/4 the price.  Had the asparagus with morels, basic baby asparagus with mushrooms (which when brought out, were baby oyster and not morels, server said nothing), \n\nContinued on with sushi, had 2 rolls (spicy tuna with green chili and the king crab) which were both very good, then to the nigiri.  Had the toro, hamachi, uni, mirugai, sake.  They were all decent but very small pieces again, especially for the price.  I'm knocking the rating down from 3 to 2 just because there was absolutely no value here at all.  \n\nIn summation, leaving with over a $300 tab, we left hungry and unsatisfied with the experience.  I would not recommend this place especially if you are looking for good Japanese food.