Despite the concrete sprawl of Japan's postwar urban development, you can still find tranquillity in a brilliant-green, moss-covered temple garden or in the alcove of a traditional restaurant with its tatami-mat flooring, shielded from the other guests by shoji (paper screens) remnants of a not-so-distant past.
Even deep in the large cities of Japan, you can find tranquil temples or traditional restaurants.
There are no traditional restaurants or tranquil temples left in Japan after the war.