Japanese cuisine after the meal and the restaurant staff when leaving. Before eating, most dining places provide either a hot or cold towel or a plastic-wrapped wet napkin ("o-shibori"). This is for cleaning hands before eating (and not after). It is rude to use them to wash the face or any part of the body other than the hands, though some Japanese men use their "o-shibori" to wipe their faces in less formal places. Accept "o-shibori" with both hands when handed the towel by a server. When finished, fold or roll up the oshibori and place it on the table. It is
Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan) a restaurant; the dome was returned to the top of the tower not long after. The restaurant was closed in 1994–1995. The graffiti-covered lighthouse was repainted in 2007. It was proposed to be the location of a visitor center for the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument in 2010. Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan) The Japanese Lighthouse is an abandoned lighthouse situated atop Navy Hill in Garapan, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The lighthouse is one of the few surviving pre-World War II, civilian structures built by the Japanese.