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Andocrates wrote:CoCo ichiban Curry house is non-smoking. (I love curry - I eat it like twice a day)
Now I think of it, most kaiten sushi places I know are non-smoking. The only exception I could think of is the one up there at Dogenzaka across the street from gaspanic #2
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Andocrates wrote:CoCo ichiban Curry house is non-smoking. (I love curry - I eat it like twice a day)
I like Curry too. But that shit they make in Japan ain't curry.
Although the Health Promotion Law enacted in 2003 calls for steps to prevent passive smoking in public places and facilities used by many people, there are still many restaurants at which diners have to put up with secondhand smoke due to a failure to provide adequate separation between nonsmoking and smoking areas. At the same time, though, some bars have banned smoking in their establishments by customers and staff. Among them is a Tokyo shot bar, Quay, a five-minute walk from Shinjuku Gyoenmae Station. Makoto Kobayashi, 54...opened the small 11-seat bar last year after he quit his job as a company employee. "I wanted people to savor the rich aroma of whiskey in an environment with clean air," he said. "Although we don't serve many varieties of wine, many wine lovers come here, saying that they've been wanting to taste wine without the smell of cigarettes."
...For those who want to search for information on nonsmoking eating and drinking establishments, there is a Web site, named Kin-en Style (Japanese) that provides information on about 1,600 restaurants and bars across the nation. Takuya Iwasaki, 25, a freelance Web engineer living in Osaka, launched the site in May last year. "I often had difficulty finding nonsmoking restaurants for lunch and dinner, so I decided to start the Web site," he said. At first, there were fewer than 100 establishments listed on the site. But Iwasaki later received information relating to more than 1,000 establishments from Bun-en Shakai o Mezasu Kai, a Tokyo-based civic group campaigning to promote the introduction of closed-off smoking spaces...more...
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