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 Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:13 pm
Ok. So, this thread is to post things that have blown your mind about Japan or things that you didn't expect to see when you got here.
I have heaps of these but for now just a couple.
In Australia (where I'm from) its not unusual to see multilevel parking places, but a multilevel bicycle parking place! eek
And while on the subject of parking places the area I'm living in is full of car parking buildings that are 10 storeys high and three cars wide! eek How do they get these cars in there I hear you ask. By either a lift that will put the whole tray the car is sitting on into a slot or by a gigantic car ferris wheel. And then when the person comes to collect their car it is reversed onto a turntable and spun around so the customer can just drive straight off!
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:47 am
that's crazy, the only place I've seen anything like that is manhatten, they have these parking lift thing that stack 4 or 5 cars on top of each other.
I watch this travel channel special thing on japan, and the host said he would describe Japan as extreme, when they make something small (like personal electronics) they make it tiny, but when they make something big like stadiums and shopping centers, they make it huge. And of course, even their tiny parking area's are eXTREME to the max! (Sorry, all the extreme marketing in the states has gotten to me, to the max!)
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:19 pm
yeah, Its interesting seeing the cars come out of them place. What i thought was kinda freaky when I first got to japan was seeing women in elaborate traditional kimono shuffling along chatting on their state-of-the-art mobile phones. The picture just seemed wrong somehow. cross-context.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 8:59 pm
isukuremu yeah, Its interesting seeing the cars come out of them place. What i thought was kinda freaky when I first got to japan was seeing women in elaborate traditional kimono shuffling along chatting on their state-of-the-art mobile phones. The picture just seemed wrong somehow. cross-context. Hmm...reminds me of a PuPuRu ad.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:01 am
There are so many things here with bicycles that still amaze me, such us:
The bikes here are supposed to be registered (the same way many countries register cars). And in Australia you will only see kids or the health conscious riding around on bikes. But here everyone does (maybe that helps explain the longevity of Japanese people cause they eat healthy and stay so active).
A few weeks ago I saw an old man (must have been around 60) riding his bike, holding a cigarette and the handle bar in one hand and chatting onto his mobile while holding an umbrella with his other hand!!!
Im young (sort of) and fit (well, not really) and I would have a really hard time doing those things all at the same time, but he was doing it with ease.
While on the subject of bikes, there have been some streets that I have gone down and it has been hard to get through cause their has just been so many bikes parked everywhere! It might not sound like much but it was really mind blowing when I saw it. (I will post some pics of it once I get a chance to put them online)
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:04 am
Freakezette I watch this travel channel special thing on japan, and the host said he would describe Japan as extreme, when they make something small (like personal electronics) they make it tiny, but when they make something big like stadiums and shopping centers, they make it huge. And of course, even their tiny parking area's are eXTREME to the max! (Sorry, all the extreme marketing in the states has gotten to me, to the max!) Another example of seeing extremes here is that I see teenage girls whose skin looks orange leather because they have spent so long in the tanning salon, and now because it is heading into summer I see another type of people that will wear arm length gloves and use umbrella outside on a sunnyday to stop from getting tanned! What the!?! eek
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:30 am
Most of the orange ones (Gyaru and their male counterparts) use spray tans to make their skin that shade. Its that unnatural iodine stain color more than anything else.
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:34 am
I demand someone take me to japan so I can see for myself! I can pay for myself! gonk surprised
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:05 pm
I want to see! I want to see!
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:05 am
While they were visiting me, I took my friend and his girlfriend out to lunch in the city. They had never seen the plastic food replicas usually found showcased in Japanese family restaurants and found it completely unusual.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:11 pm
inuyasha_n_kagome_rox142 While they were visiting me, I took my friend and his girlfriend out to lunch in the city. They had never seen the plastic food replicas usually found showcased in Japanese family restaurants and found it completely unusual. Really? It's so common.. I know at the university I'm at, the cafeteria has plastic food in the case. blaugh
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:57 am
Saika_Kitera_Bejiita inuyasha_n_kagome_rox142 While they were visiting me, I took my friend and his girlfriend out to lunch in the city. They had never seen the plastic food replicas usually found showcased in Japanese family restaurants and found it completely unusual. Really? It's so common.. I know at the university I'm at, the cafeteria has plastic food in the case. blaugh I guess some people just haven't seen em. xD
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:18 pm
Porn in Japan! Where else on the face of the planet is it socially acceptable to read pornagraphic mags on a crowded train? (although I have only seen in done on the Saikyo line which is notorious for train molesters) Speaking of the Saikyo line last week when there was a 40+ business man rubbing himself up against a teenage girl. She was clearly upset but not doing anything about it. So when the train stopped at Jujo I pushed him out and said quite loudly "Chikaan". As much as I love Japan it is not somewhere I would want to raise kids. The sex industry here is huge and just walking down my street you see pictures in stores of semi-naked girls. And walking down the same street alone much later in the night will have you propositioned by about 5 people, offering to take to you a place with girls. The worst so far that I have found is in the roppongi, there are nigerians everywhere that will try there hardest to get you to go to there club or brothel. One night I had said that I wasn't interested to one guy and he continued to follow me, I kept on saying that Im not the type to pay for sex and I didnt care how good his girls were. I was stopped at a set of traffic lights and decided to make conversation with this guy. the conversation went like this: TrickYMickY So then where do you come from? Man with very heavy Nigerian Accent TrickYMickY Ummm.... Ok what part of the States are you from? Man with very heavy Nigerian Accent He could of at least said New York or L.A which Im sure he had heard of but saying you were from Wall Street?
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:16 am
Wow. Just....wow. domokun
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:31 pm
I liked seeing obaasans in their kimono but it did seem odd to see them on the trains and stuff.
just gothered the cheese out of me to be told all my life not to stick anything in my ear and then to go to Japan and see all the little ear cleaners.... i had male co-workers who would clean their ears and clip their toenails in the teachers' office. eek
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