There seems to be some sort of regulation regarding business hours out here in Japan. Restaurants close at the oddest time of day - like 7 o'clock for instance. They even have a last order time as well, so no sneaking in a big fish fry order at 6:55!
They also close places in the height of the vacation season, there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to it.
We think it has something to do with the lack of disposable income, the lack of foreign visitors - we have met no other Gauguin since our trip on the boat - and also that unions do not allow any expansion of working hours or shifts. So to operate a restaurant for lunch and also dinner you have to be open for eight hours and that means 11 to 7, and no later. Everyone seems to understand the rules and so they concur without a problem.
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