Blame tourist for all your countries problems
Refuse tourist into many Izakayas for decades
Fail to capture the tourist market for decades
Prices rise and force out much of the native population
Try to pivot to the same tourist you told to GTFO and never marketed to
???
FORECLOSURE!
Literal pottery.
Not a smart marketing decision to gatekeep Izakayas from people with money. Many tourist out earn even the most skilled of salarymen by a wide margin. Not marketing to this group has been a massive mistake, foolish.
Weirdly enough i was never turned away from any establishment. I was in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Himeji. Maybe I was lucky, maybe its more of a rural issue?
I think so. I was going to small places on Hokkaido in the dead of winter. I never had problems in bigger places. Osaka was the only place I got “foreigner taxed,” but you know, shady place despite being so cool.
“Shady place despite being so cool” is Osaka in a nutshell.
And that goes double for the foreigner/tourist facing areas of the city.