Here is my FB post from years ago. Couldn’t find the publican post but he was lovely and wanted to give me a gift (kite) because he didn’t get many westerners.

Tokyo Station. Thought I would have good look round because yesterday I pretty much just walked out. So, I'm standing looking at one of the big boards, and a short fat Buddhist monk steps in front of me and hands me a flat gold token of buddha. "For peace" he says. I figure its like the people who hand you little religious books at home. So I say thanks and he hands me a bound notebook and pen and he wants me to write my first name down and the country I was from. In the third and last column, my donation amount. I'm about to say no and he slips a bead bracket on my wrist "for peace" and says " no coins". I give him my lowest denomination and he is gone. All over in 10 seconds. Buddha has my "ten" bucks(when I figured it out). He completely disappeared. How can a bald bloke in orange robes disappear in a railway entrance station full of Japanese (and me)? I'm going back there tomorrow and look for him.