Originally Posted by Pickles

"Feeling of being in Japan" is the strange ritual that Honda-san, the 29 year-old chef of his own restaurant (called, with a flourish of originality, "Ristorante Honda"), two doors down from my apartment in Aoyama goes through every time we eat there. We are frequent patrons of his place, (which by the way, is excellent and very good value for money), and so every time we eat there, as soon as we ask for the check, one of the waiters will discreetly rush off into the kitchen to alert Honda-san that we are leaving. And then Honda-san will come out of the kitchen wearing his chef gear, and escort us to the door and bow multiple times thanking us for our continuous patronage. He doesn't do that for anybody else we've seen, and an "only in Japan" moment.