The Covid-19’s theme was inescapable. It followed us everywhere. Seeing everywhere disinfecting dispensers, social distance posters/markers, posters with generic COVID information and more huge posters with enormous masks with an angry face saying ダメ！ (don’t do it) really makes it a stressful experience. |Imagine me sitting with my wife and kids having a meal and seeing a huge scary mask giving me obvious and subliminal dirty looks while eating. |Also I tried to remove the acrylic panel on our table separating me and a son from my wife and another son. The staff said I couldn’t and that other customers were abiding by it. |I don’t know about other customers but it seems weird that they would impose safety measures for my family trumping my own family’s wish. I mean we slept in the same bed and kiss each other good night and so on. We spent 2 hours in a car on the way to the hotel without acrylics or masks. |Anyway on top of that every individual knife, fork, pair of chopsticks were inside a transparent protective wrap that wasn’t always easy to unwrap. All this compounded … made a holiday trip that was meant to be enjoyable a reminder that we live in an apocalyptic world