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Yakitori chicken stand in Japan at street food vendor market

Little differences, part 3

So many little surprises that keep popping up, almost every day. It’s a delight. (Continued from last time…)

  • Japanese people are exceedingly polite. You will hear arigato gozaimasu (which, to my untrained ear, typically sounds more like “are-EE-gah-toh-DYE-mass-soo”) many times daily. I still need to learn how to say “I’m sorry”/”excuse me” since my copious and corpulent Western body is certain to cause some disasters that have yet to occur.
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Sukiyabashi intersection

Little differences, part 2

I am going to have to be a lot more disciplined to make sure that I adequately document my time abroad, but as I need to get to bed after a good (but long) day of classes and other tasks, here are more little differences I’ve noticed, continued from last time…

  • Keep to the left… most of the time. Actually, it’s better to look for directional arrows that will show you which side of the path or stairs to stay on. It’ll also keep you from accidentally colliding with someone coming from the opposite direction.
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