When dining in a traditional tatami room, sitting upright on the floor is common.

Here there were no Western tables but rather a series of private tatami rooms.

He had to pass the tatami rooms to get there.

There is, however, an easy way to avoid both these problems: reserve a tatami room.

Private tatami rooms are available but should be reserved well in advance.

Private tatami rooms should be reserved several days in advance.

We were standing in a tiny tatami room with only one window, covered by a paper screen.

There he was, emerging from a tatami room in conversation with another man.

I followed him into a tatami room, feeling like a kite pulled by a string.

Five pretty, private tatami rooms on the second level can be reserved.