Today my wife and I moved hotels, out of the Disney bubble and into Shinjuku. While waiting for our room to be ready we wandered the streets for something to eat. She’s a picky eater (no fish or seafood), so I was letting her pick the place. We found an A-frame sign of food that interested her, but was a bit confused as to where it actually was, believing the place was in the basement but the name/Kanji didn’t seem to match up. An older man walked up and checked out the sign as well. I motioned to question if it was down the stairs and he confirmed, then he went down and looked to us to make sure we believed him. We went down and the place was fairly busy with salary men having lunch and he was about to be seated at the only open table. He saw us come in and motioned for us to take the table. We sat and motioned for him to join us (I was willing to buy his lunch, since he was nice to us). He sat for a moment ant then an empty seat opened up and he jumped to it. All was good and we ordered our food and as we were eating he came back over speaking Japanese and smiling. I thought he was saying goodbye so I thanked him again (arigato gozaimas) and smiled. A bit later, we go to leave. Expecting our bill to be about ¥2300, we were asked to pay about ¥300. The cashier conveyed through pantomime (and japanese that I didn’t understand) that the old man had paid. I smiled and started to well up. It was very sweet and I have no real way to thank him.
TL:DR Old man helped us locate the specific shop and paid for most of our meal.
by TheZuckuss
