The yen is so weak that what was bound to happen, has happened: pricing by whether a person is a tourist or not. As a white guy lifer, I am so not looking forward to having to prove I’m a permanent resident, to not get charged JPY 3000 for ramen. 🍜
Today is gomu-no-hi or “rubber day” where the “gomu” is a goroawase word play on the date 5/6, “go” and “mu”, established as a PR day for rubber products. Did you know it takes ~5 yr to go from rubber tree to latex? Imagine a world without rubber… 🎈
