✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Tokyo's dementia restaurant serves up joy and laughter

english.kyodonews.net · 20 words · saved by 1 readers

Imagine ordering a hamburger and getting served dumplings instead. Or being escorted to your seat by a waitress, only to end up having to take the order yourself. Chances are such mix-ups might leave a customer bewildered or even irked. But not so in this Tokyo pop-up restaurant, where waiters and waitresses, all of whom have dementia, have the customers' blessing to make mistakes. Instead of a frown or rant, the servers are greeted with smiles and laughter. "The Restaurant of Order Mistakes" is the brainchild of Shiro Oguni, a Japanese TV director, whose aim is to deepen awareness of dementia and change perceptions about the condition. The pop-up first opened in June, and had a second run for three days from Sept. 16. For Japan, with its rapidly aging population and a growing number of dementia sufferers, taking a leading role in confronting the problem seems only natural. In aging Japan, nursing care foods get tastier, more available Oguni said the idea behind the restaurant is for p

FEATURE: Japanese soldier who lost leg in Ukraine war vows to return to front line Jul 20, 2026 KYODO NEWS

Explore this link on the map →

related reading