Nothing happened on Christmas Eve. I just paid a short visit to Mom and my brother and brought them some baked goods and other stuff, chatted a little bit and went back home. I stayed home on Christmas Day did some home chores, some cooking and rested. So I thought I would post my last story about my recent trip to Japan, today.
Travelling alone is not so good especially if you are originally from where I am. I did not have any problems anywhere particularly in this recent trip to Japan but people always look at you differently. Do I care? No! I just got my ticket for the next year and I'm planning for a week of trip to Europe as well, although the latter might not be easy considering I need to take unpaid leave. When you travel alone some think of you as a Lone Wolf, if you know what that means.
That aside I'm going to write about some of the Japanese habits and cultural norms and such that I experienced during my 15-day trip to the country. Perhaps this, as well as the other posts, helps the travelers, These have not been referred to in the previous twenty posts:
1) Respectful and Peaceful people.
2) Still deeply traditional in many ways while becoming modern. Emperor Meiji gets all the credit for this. You still can see traditional fruit and vegetable stands in major cities run by old men and women.
3) Wearing sunglasses is not considered acceptable, socially! Japan gets lots of rain, that's why most of the hills and mountains are covered in green but it gets lots of sunshine but the entire time that I was there I barely saw anyone wearing shades and people were looking at me like I'm hiding something! Don't ask me why!
4) Law abiding people. There is a sort of unwritten law about not talking on cellphones while in the public, particularly while on trains and everyone sticks to that. I only saw a filthy, nasty disgusting pig on the phone the entire time I was there. No need to mention who he was! He certainly was from the society and culture who has " Laws are made to be broken! ".
5) I hate fast food. I hope it does not bother you, Happily this culture is still not sickened Japanese! Corporations such as McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks are seen and Japanese and tourists go there but they are not spread as much as you see in North America and I hope it remains the same.
(Photo: This was bizarre. I saw a grave or at least this is what I think was a grave as a tombstone can be seen, at the side of a road in Hiroshima. It's possible that the person asked to be buried there but why and why the authorities accepted, are both questions)
Travelling alone is not so good especially if you are originally from where I am. I did not have any problems anywhere particularly in this recent trip to Japan but people always look at you differently. Do I care? No! I just got my ticket for the next year and I'm planning for a week of trip to Europe as well, although the latter might not be easy considering I need to take unpaid leave. When you travel alone some think of you as a Lone Wolf, if you know what that means.
That aside I'm going to write about some of the Japanese habits and cultural norms and such that I experienced during my 15-day trip to the country. Perhaps this, as well as the other posts, helps the travelers, These have not been referred to in the previous twenty posts:
1) Respectful and Peaceful people.
2) Still deeply traditional in many ways while becoming modern. Emperor Meiji gets all the credit for this. You still can see traditional fruit and vegetable stands in major cities run by old men and women.
3) Wearing sunglasses is not considered acceptable, socially! Japan gets lots of rain, that's why most of the hills and mountains are covered in green but it gets lots of sunshine but the entire time that I was there I barely saw anyone wearing shades and people were looking at me like I'm hiding something! Don't ask me why!
4) Law abiding people. There is a sort of unwritten law about not talking on cellphones while in the public, particularly while on trains and everyone sticks to that. I only saw a filthy, nasty disgusting pig on the phone the entire time I was there. No need to mention who he was! He certainly was from the society and culture who has " Laws are made to be broken! ".
5) I hate fast food. I hope it does not bother you, Happily this culture is still not sickened Japanese! Corporations such as McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks are seen and Japanese and tourists go there but they are not spread as much as you see in North America and I hope it remains the same.
(Photo: This was bizarre. I saw a grave or at least this is what I think was a grave as a tombstone can be seen, at the side of a road in Hiroshima. It's possible that the person asked to be buried there but why and why the authorities accepted, are both questions)
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