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as someone who lived and worked in tokyo, granted in 2017, it is generally very helpful to speak Japanese, be polite and humble, explain yourself in a friendly manner, even restaurants, shops and bathhouses with "no tourists" designations let me in after I told them in rudimentary Japanese that I am not here to cause problems and just want to eat by myself or with a work colleague
Japanese people are very kind and welcoming if you treat them with respect, sadly a lot of people take advantage of that respect and it deteriorated over the last years.