Breakfast at the media hotel in Ginza during the Tokyo Olympics of 2021 was a particularly interesting experience. We used the elevator marked for foreigners to get down to the lobby in the morning. The other elevator was reserved for Japanese guests.
When the elevator doors opened, the entrance to the breakfast room was only a few yards away across the lobby but foreigners were not allowed to use that entrance. We had to embark on a journey of our own.
We went out of a door at the back of the lobby and picked our way through a garage, out into an alleyway at the rear of the hotel.