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>>9038177
>From my experience higher class bars like these don't really exist in the west
That's because you are a flyover, as proven by the fact that you use terms like "nu-male" and have confused ideas about authenticity. Most Japanese men can't do beards. If they could, I can assure you they would. As for the tattoos there are cultural reasons why most Japanese bartenders are not sporting them as they do here in the West.

Those Japanese bars are literally the antithesis of authenticity. Japs are often severely autistic and study foreign ways so diligently that they become better at those foreign things than the inventors of said foreign things. See: Japanese single malt whisky, or the fact that Japanese tailors have created this bizarrely perfect fantasy version of American "trad" style that is far better than anything Americans ever did.

If being in Japan is an important part of the experience for you, that's a legitimate desire, but don't fool yourself into thinking that it's not an imitation.