Who serves salad with loose corn kernels in it when you just
have chopsticks to eat with? Who thought that was a good idea?
The 5 yen coin is the only piece of currency I’ve gotten
hear that didn’t have an Arabic numeral on it, just the Japanese numeral. Wonder
why…
The rail on the escalator at my metro stop is purple.
They say to prepare yourself for how culturally homogenous
Japan is (the country’s only something like 1-2% non-Japanese), but that didn’t
really sink in until this morning on the metro. It’s really weird to be packed
into a 75 foot long metro car crammed full of people and be the only
non-Japanese (or at least non-east-asian) person on the car. Then you hit a
major hub, the car empties, and an entire new car’s worth of people get on. And
you’re STILL the only non-Japanese person on the car O__o
I’m beginning to miss having conversations where I actually
understand what’s going on >__<
At fancy Japanese restaurants, the staff welcome you the
entire way to the table, then thank you all the way to the door. Coming in, I
heard ‘Irasshaimasse!’ from the maitre’d, my waitress, another waitress, and
three sushi chefs. Repeat on the way out with ‘Arigato gozaimashta!’ and with
the owner bowing and saying it three times in a row as I walked away from the
restaurant.
I passed a woman on the subway wearing a peach kimono and a
pink sash—with an iPod tucked in it.
Note to self: I apparently wear an XL in Japanese sizes.
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