Restaurant customs like compulsory appetizers are suddenly being challenged
Overseas visitors take a crack at making sushi at the Minato, Tokyo, branch of Nippon Maguro Gyogyoudan, which has found a new daytime use for taverns that are not getting as many nighttime drinkers as they used to.
TOKYO -- Izakaya Japanese-style pubs are bringing in a new kind of customer, foreign tourists.
Food tours for travelers are helping Japan's major izakaya chains as they adjust to the waning popularity of drinking among young Japanese and to a falloff in the number of big group outings.
