But there's one piece of tableware that seems both familiar yet unfamiliar — an oblong tatami coaster for a smartphone. This is the scene at Sushi Yatagarasu, a high-end omakase (chef’s choice ...

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Rooms feature tatami matting, futon beds with surprisingly soporific rice pillows, paper screens and low tables. Ryokans ...

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The house features custom tatami mats, elm flooring, a kotatsu table, a tokonoma, and storm, shoji, and fusuma doors. It also has sitka spruce floor panels, a glass sliding window and an entry ...

but by swerving peak hour we managed to score a table at Suishin Honten without much fuss. Sitting on tatami mats with our feet dangling through holes in the floor, we munched on pork hot pots ...