Japanese restaurants running secret dual-menu scam charging tourists double while locals pay half price.

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It damages trust in Japan as a destination and makes visitors feel like walking wallets. The fact that it is spreading to smaller cities shows how normalized this exploitation is becoming. Real locals and honest businesses lose when scammy places pull this crap.

“A Korean YouTuber named Sohun exposed a major scandal in some Japanese restaurants 🇯🇵 that foreign tourists never expected from a country like Japan:

When he went to a sushi restaurant in Japan with his girlfriend, the waitress handed him an English-language menu, so he requested the Japanese-language menu. The waitress hesitated a lot before giving it to them and asked if they understood Japanese. It turned out the menus were very different in pricing.

The Japanese menu was much cheaper—down to half the price—and the restaurant follows a system of Menu A (for locals) and Menu B (for tourists). They considered it a huge rip-off for foreigners, and that this is starting to spread in big cities like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, and even in smaller towns.

And as soon as they hear your language, you’re given the appropriate menu. Any language other than Japanese gets you handed Menu B, which is exploiting tourists’ lack of knowledge about the real prices.”