筋湯温泉の焼き鳥 炭火焼鳥 匠 yakitori takumi — Restaurant in Kokonoe

DOES NOT ACCEPT FOREIGNERS. After driving in crazy fog and rain on barely recognisable roads for 30 minutes we were turned away. Second photo is of the "road" I got to drive back home for another 30 minutes.

Editing to reply to the reply from the owner:

As a tourist we are very time limited. So unlike your local clients, we can not come back another night. If you refuse us we have to move on. We don't speak your language, nor is it easy to have access to a Japanese phone, so we can't just call ahead. What we can usually do is wait until a table becomes available. Perhaps you could provide some chairs, or even ask people to stand on their feet and wait until a table becomes available. I have waited on plenty of restaurants in Japan and at home in this way.

My review is to warn other tourists that when you are understaffed you will just turn them away. This way they don't go out of their way just for...

For the first time in Japan I had a very bad experience in restaurant, I don’t write reviews often but I want to tell the fellow traveller, how my experience was!

The staff was really not interested at first place & they charged me 400¥ for water, which I felt was bit too much. Usually in Japan you don’t pay for water at all. After that, I ordered my food & then the staff comes & tells me there is table charge which was not written anywhere.

I really don’t think the reviews on Google is true!

Pls try to avoid this restaurant, i also felt he was racist.

I’m so sorry to write this, but that’s my...

Awesome! This place is great! It's the only restaurant in the area. Super happy it's there. The food is good. There is a really good selection of alcohol. I had lots of really good nihonshu (sake). Nice atmosphere inside. They have oden! The prices are reasonable. Did I mention it's the only restaurant in the area!! We walked from our inn down dark roads, which was a fun experience, and then this place was waiting in the...