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Old Aug 11, 2014 | 5:25 pm
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Originally Posted by AlwaysAisle
One insight I can give is that Grand Hyatt Tokyo is located at Roppongi, central area of Tokyo where more people commute to Roppongi for work than people who live at Roppongi area. Stereotype among local people in Tokyo is that middle class Japanese cannot afford to live around Roppongi. So people do not arrive to Roppongi area till 8 – 9 a.m. in the morning for work. If you go out to suburb of Tokyo then you will see many places open from 6 a.m. or before to cater to morning commuters heading into the city.
That makes sense. So do Japanese workers in general start later in the day than in the U.S.? I presume they work much later as a general rule.

I just found it interesting at the hours as many open up at 5:00 a.m. in the states. I didn't know whether it might be that Japanese just don't drink coffee in the morning.

Originally Posted by ainternational
Perhaps Almond Cafe at the crossing is open early, or 24 hours?
I haven't seen that place yet but I will look shortly since I'm about to go out for a run.
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