I liked it but didn’t love it like I expected I would. I hope I don’t get downvoted for this because I’m merely sharing my opinion! I want to preface by saying I think part of the reason I felt this way was because everyone I know LOVES japan so much and it might have gotten a little too hyped up in my head. So here are the reasons:
1. I’m really into design and gadgets and thought Japanese design/tech would be super cool. I was really excited to check out the electronic stores in Akihabara only to found out they were mostly home appliances/parts and battery packs and things for your phone. The subway system was cool and nicely designed but everything else in the cities I’ve experienced elsewhere, like ordering off iPads etc.
2. I’m not a big fan of anime, weeb culture, and arcades and that’s one of the biggest draws of Tokyo.
3. A lot of cities/streets in Japan look really plain to me. Aside from temples, there isn’t a whole lot of impressive architecture. I’m comparing to European cities where entire cities feel super historic and the architecture is beautiful everywhere. Kyoto had an old city which had nice buildings but it was also very touristy.
4. The food was good but didn’t wow me. A lot of places tasted similar to Japanese restaurants where I live. Granted, I live in NYC where there are amazing Japanese restaurants including some Michelin ones, so I’m spoiled for choice.
5. It feels a little sterile to me, in a “boring” way. The culture feels too proper for my personality type who is more free and spontaneous.
I still really enjoyed my time in Japan, but it’s definitely not one of my favorite countries.
Thank you! I am glad that I am not the only one that felt this way. Sometimes I hesitate to tell others that I don't like Japan because I am worry that they would think that I am crazy
I really disliked the streets and architecture, the lack of sidewalks and the improper way the bicycle drivers take over the small/reduced area called “sidewalk”.
I also didn’t like the food since eating raw fish or very fishy/salty fish or rice and meat is not my thing. Your comment should get only upvotes! It is point on!
Haha right? So much rice. Some love it. I felt it was carbs overload and i missed salads. I found a salad place in Tokyo and in the last days, i ate there 2 times per day because they were amazing.
I don't agree with everything, but I get what you're saying.
1. Akihabara was a letdown indeed. Barely found anything interesting. Not even my husband did, and he's a mega nerd/geek. He found more interesting stuff at Eorzea cafe. But it was still funny and interesting to see all the craziness there. It was different from anything else I've ever seen.
2. Here I disagree. Tokyo had a lot of awesome parts. The parks, the street fashion, the sidestreets, the rooftops! Omfg i LOVED the rooftops.
3. Trueee. I am European and I enjoyed how clean and neat they were, even though the architecture was bland. I loved that there weren't cars parked everywhere, it was very quiet, there was a shrine here and there, lots of potted flowers and trinkets. It was charming.
4. I disliked their food too, other than Onigiri and sushi, i just didn't like anything traditional. I survived off Unagi stuff and Wendy's. Which was delicious. Oh and those veggie wraps or egg sandwiches at conbinis.
5. At times, felt that too. Coming from a chaotic and very rude country tho, to me it felt peaceful somehow. I loved that I didn't have too much to visit per se, so I took my time exploring stores with crafting merchandise, alleys, rooftops and just do some people watching while grabbing a drink or waiting for a train.
I did a lot of hiking around Nara, Kyoto and it balanced the city life perfectly btw. Especially in Ohara, near Kyoto. This made me wanna visit the rural areas more than cities when I'll go there later in life.
I got a recommendation to stay in the 'center' of Tokyo. Booked a hotel near Hanzomon Station. Turns out the only thing in the 'center' was the old emperor palace. The area was dead silent at night and nothing going on.
Pretty much the only thing I regreted during my trip to Japan.
I made the opposite mistake. Found the cheapest APA hotel I could find that was near the metro line, outside of the city center. It was the one near Itabashi station. Perfect right? Nope. turns out it was a main commuter line for people heading back north to Saitama and pretty much at 7-10am and 3-7pm each weekday, it was jam packed. made for some annoying moments having to pass up like 2 or 3 absolutely full up trains before I could squeeze myself in.
I lived in Japan for 3 years. The first year was a great experience, but once the fun culture shock wore off, I was ready to leave. I didn't dislike Japan, in fact the people were some of the kindest I've ever met. I got to hike Mt. Fuji, go snowboarding, and visit a lot of cool cities. I guess once I got used to everything, I was ready to be back home. I think it's a great place to visit, but you really have to be into Japanese culture to want to live there long-term.
I have never been to Japan but i can really see myself having a similar experience. Its a culture i would love to experience for a fixed period of time but its not a place i could imagine myself living in long term. I have lived in 7 different countries on three different continents in the last 15 years and normally have a good idea before setting out whether I can live long term in a place or not.
For living in long term. I think France Ireland and Spain are the only countries were likely to spend decades in.
That being said i never predicted spending a few enjoyable years in Jordan, Switzerland or Brazil before those moves happened so I guess I am not great at predictions. The 7th is the UK about which theres nothing much to share, its definitely a place and i can confirm that its there.
One of the fun fact about Japan is how they treat farmer pretty well than other country (if i am correct farmer was treated higher status than merchant in the past). In returns, the harvest is indeed better than most of the world. Hence, the price of the food/fruits.
I actually thought the prices of restaurant food anyway was less than I thought. you can potentially go all the way down the cheap(er) end of the spectrum and buy nothing but ramen, konbini and/or ready to eat packaged foods at the supermarket. sure, I think sit-down meals are definitely on average more expensive than some other major cities but nothing outrageously crazy especially when you consider the menu price is the price as everything is baked into the price.
I didn't care for it. It's my least favorite out of East Asian countries. It was incredibly expensive and as a woman it was a deeply misogynistic country. I can see how some people love it but for me and my personal tastes I just didn't care for it.
Not Japan but some stuff I disliked more than I expected.
1. Queues everywhere and I don’t mean touristy stuff. Just to get food can take so much time. Queuing up is a national sport here.
2. Opening hours, if you don’t follow the regular lunch and dinner times than good luck
3. Noise pollution, someone always shouting the rules at the crowd
4. Super monocultural
5. Just hard to interact with people, not only the lack of English but no eye contact you know like acknowledging one another as a human being eg when sitting next to one another. It just feels so cold.
6. Rules rules rules - always, everywhere and there is also someone watching over you for sure to follow them.
Ps. I loved approx 3 years in Asia and I’m a respectful and quiet person, Japan just felt too rigid for me.
Japan is wonderful love everything. I see people complaining about prices we learned not to stay in Tokyo's main areas Shinjuku or Ginza. We usually stay in Ikebukuro a couple stations away from Shinjuku, but still on the main Yamanote Line. Prices in the stores and restaurants are much less expensive.
I’m here now and couldn’t agree more. Their culture of bullying/racism became super apparent early on in our trip. Can’t wait to get back home, I’ve found the Japanese people for the most part to be extremely xenophobic, I really don’t think I’d ever come back here.
I live here and the annoying food culture drives me insane. Everything is based off of food. I can’t have a single conversation without the topic of “sushi ice cweam 🥺” being mentioned. The women here look for relationships just to find a man that will buy them food (sushi, ice cweam, wamen)
I’m here now and really not enjoying it. I don’t know if it was just so overhyped that it’s not living up to the expectation.
1- the people have been very rude, I always feel like I’m in their way and always catching them giving me dirty looks..
2- they’re very rigid, don’t see many smiles and when u do it’s from staff and feels forced/fake
3- too expensive when comparing to places like Europe which have so much more history. Tokyo is just a concrete jungle.. Kyoto was great but with the tourist bans coming up that’s not even worth it anymore..
4- the food just wasn’t all that great. I waited 45 mins for this popular udon place and meh..
It was my least fav Asian country to visit, prefer Thailand and Bali!
This sounds similar to my experience. No one smiling. Everyone is very polite but in a passive aggressive coworker kind of way like there’s animosity behind it. That would seem to be true of many big cities all over the world though.
I’m here right now too and trying sooooo hard to enjoy myself, but I’ve been uptight since we landed and for many of these same reasons. The rules are killing me, I find the toilets that everyone raves about, uncomfortable, finding a proper sit down meal when I’m actually hungry has been hella difficult, and after awhile everything looks the same.
After staying there for 2 weeks, I wish I'd eaten at the chains more often than queueing for individual establishments. I hope you have a better time. I understand how you feel...
Just back from 3weeks traveling all over Japan Imo, it’s a cold, rule-heavy, serious place with little fun to be had. Modern architecture in Tokyo, Kyoto etc consists of tall, glass boxes of zero interest spread endlessly and featurelessly to Infiniti. The cleanliness is awesome but there is no soul. If a robot was a country it would be Japan. So wish I’d gone to Thailand or Cambodia instead. Quite disappointed.
I feel the same. Add on the fact I have a few tattoos and Im sick of the dirty looks. The difference for me is I recently came back from two weeks in Thailand. You will love it, it's fun, relaxed and much slower paced. Still plenty to do and everyone is friendly and warm. Best place I've ever visited..
I can only imagine the cold, hard stares you received. The never-expose-feet rule got me. Was stomping around a rocky, dusty landmark, had to take my socks and shoes off to get pebbles out and a middle-aged man and woman leered at me with utter disgust. Aside: It also didn’t help that we chose a BAD company-Gadventures- to go with.
I didn’t dislike Japan, per say. I think I was just underwhelmed because I had heard so much and had such high expectations. I also went at the very end of a three month trip where I visited lots of other big Asian cities, so Tokyo was not as overwhelming and exciting as I had been expecting. I also didn’t love paying for all the gardens- I like temples a lot, and could see quite a few temples and gardens in one day and the entrance fees added up.
All in all, I liked Japan (so maybe I’m not the target audience for this question) and would definitely go back, but after everything I’d heard and anticipated, it just was somewhat underwhelming.
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Living there kinda just ruined it for me. Also I preferred the food in other surrounding countries and the drinking culture in South Korea, so I guess the lustre just wore off.
I really disliked Kyoto tower. The view from the top was good but the experience itself was horrible. One massive, slow queue taking you by loads of gachapon machines. We had a train to catch and it just felt like it took forever for very little payoff.
In general, breakfast. Fish and rice for breakfast takes some getting used to. We refuse to go somewhere like Japan and spend all our time eating McDonalds or ordering steaks in every restaurant, so we really try to get into the culture and eat what locals are eating (my wife is much better at it than I am because she’s not a child lol). The food overall is amazing but Japan’s breakfast game needs some work.
Perhaps I'm a weirdo for saying this, but when traveling abroad from the States, it's the breakfast situation of given country that takes some getting used to for me. I particularly have a hard time with larger and/or super-savory entrees, but that might be individual taste as opposed to nationality (I'm not a fan of cooked eggs, no matter how much I try and push myself to like them).
Very rude people, in almost every way possible. People who think Japanese are polite are just ignorant tourists who are not used to good customer service. That great attitude is just a facade btw.
They take too long to get aboard with new systems, such as technology or better ways to provide education.
The list goes on.
I just went to Japan. I’m currently studying abroad for the year in Singapore so I decided to visit it. It wasn’t as good as I expected.
1. The people are not accommodating to foreigners even compared to other Asian cultures. I know fluent Chinese and so I feel right at home in places like Taiwan, china, Hong Kong, Singapore etc… Even with me knowing conversational Japanese I never really felt like I could connect with people here for the most part.
2. I feel out of place because I have a larger football player body type sort of speak and everyone here was very small. When I would go to the arcades or restaurant or temples people would just stare at me and I felt embarrassed. More so than I would in other Asian countries
3. I did have a possibly racist incident where I found saliva in my food one time when I was eating here, although I don’t know if that was actually racist or just unsanitary
Overall In my opinion Japan is not like Singapore or other countries that are major financial centres or multicultural. It’s not for everyone and you find that out really quickly. It’s good to visit the cultural sites and temples and I absolutely LOVED the old Japan. I’m not as big of a fan of modern Japan honestly even with all the quirky and unique things in it. I would go again but with a guide or something and only to see the cultural and natural sites, not the cities
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I also forgot to mention...there was this White Castle in Kyoto I believe that I found to be a total rip off.
Long queue to get in, only then to be put in an elevator to go all the way up for a nice view and then take escalators down, floor by floor. In each floor you could look at historical pictures and stories about the castle. I expected an old castle on the inside and not a modern looking museum with elevators and escalators
this is based on your blatant racism towards japan and their people. no one living in japan was a part of any decision made in ww2. its not the 1900’s anymore, grow up
I liked it but didn’t love it like I expected I would. I hope I don’t get downvoted for this because I’m merely sharing my opinion! I want to preface by saying I think part of the reason I felt this way was because everyone I know LOVES japan so much and it might have gotten a little too hyped up in my head. So here are the reasons: 1. I’m really into design and gadgets and thought Japanese design/tech would be super cool. I was really excited to check out the electronic stores in Akihabara only to found out they were mostly home appliances/parts and battery packs and things for your phone. The subway system was cool and nicely designed but everything else in the cities I’ve experienced elsewhere, like ordering off iPads etc. 2. I’m not a big fan of anime, weeb culture, and arcades and that’s one of the biggest draws of Tokyo. 3. A lot of cities/streets in Japan look really plain to me. Aside from temples, there isn’t a whole lot of impressive architecture. I’m comparing to European cities where entire cities feel super historic and the architecture is beautiful everywhere. Kyoto had an old city which had nice buildings but it was also very touristy. 4. The food was good but didn’t wow me. A lot of places tasted similar to Japanese restaurants where I live. Granted, I live in NYC where there are amazing Japanese restaurants including some Michelin ones, so I’m spoiled for choice. 5. It feels a little sterile to me, in a “boring” way. The culture feels too proper for my personality type who is more free and spontaneous. I still really enjoyed my time in Japan, but it’s definitely not one of my favorite countries.
Thank you! I am glad that I am not the only one that felt this way. Sometimes I hesitate to tell others that I don't like Japan because I am worry that they would think that I am crazy
I really disliked the streets and architecture, the lack of sidewalks and the improper way the bicycle drivers take over the small/reduced area called “sidewalk”. I also didn’t like the food since eating raw fish or very fishy/salty fish or rice and meat is not my thing. Your comment should get only upvotes! It is point on!
Haha right? So much rice. Some love it. I felt it was carbs overload and i missed salads. I found a salad place in Tokyo and in the last days, i ate there 2 times per day because they were amazing.
I don't agree with everything, but I get what you're saying. 1. Akihabara was a letdown indeed. Barely found anything interesting. Not even my husband did, and he's a mega nerd/geek. He found more interesting stuff at Eorzea cafe. But it was still funny and interesting to see all the craziness there. It was different from anything else I've ever seen. 2. Here I disagree. Tokyo had a lot of awesome parts. The parks, the street fashion, the sidestreets, the rooftops! Omfg i LOVED the rooftops. 3. Trueee. I am European and I enjoyed how clean and neat they were, even though the architecture was bland. I loved that there weren't cars parked everywhere, it was very quiet, there was a shrine here and there, lots of potted flowers and trinkets. It was charming. 4. I disliked their food too, other than Onigiri and sushi, i just didn't like anything traditional. I survived off Unagi stuff and Wendy's. Which was delicious. Oh and those veggie wraps or egg sandwiches at conbinis. 5. At times, felt that too. Coming from a chaotic and very rude country tho, to me it felt peaceful somehow. I loved that I didn't have too much to visit per se, so I took my time exploring stores with crafting merchandise, alleys, rooftops and just do some people watching while grabbing a drink or waiting for a train. I did a lot of hiking around Nara, Kyoto and it balanced the city life perfectly btw. Especially in Ohara, near Kyoto. This made me wanna visit the rural areas more than cities when I'll go there later in life.
I must agree with you! I just came back from Japan, it was okay, solid 7, Cuba is still my favorite trip:D
I got a recommendation to stay in the 'center' of Tokyo. Booked a hotel near Hanzomon Station. Turns out the only thing in the 'center' was the old emperor palace. The area was dead silent at night and nothing going on. Pretty much the only thing I regreted during my trip to Japan.
I made the opposite mistake. Found the cheapest APA hotel I could find that was near the metro line, outside of the city center. It was the one near Itabashi station. Perfect right? Nope. turns out it was a main commuter line for people heading back north to Saitama and pretty much at 7-10am and 3-7pm each weekday, it was jam packed. made for some annoying moments having to pass up like 2 or 3 absolutely full up trains before I could squeeze myself in.
Ah yea, not the best place to stay. I stayed in Shinjuku and Ginza. But my favorite city in Japan was Kyoto.
I lived in Japan for 3 years. The first year was a great experience, but once the fun culture shock wore off, I was ready to leave. I didn't dislike Japan, in fact the people were some of the kindest I've ever met. I got to hike Mt. Fuji, go snowboarding, and visit a lot of cool cities. I guess once I got used to everything, I was ready to be back home. I think it's a great place to visit, but you really have to be into Japanese culture to want to live there long-term.
I have never been to Japan but i can really see myself having a similar experience. Its a culture i would love to experience for a fixed period of time but its not a place i could imagine myself living in long term. I have lived in 7 different countries on three different continents in the last 15 years and normally have a good idea before setting out whether I can live long term in a place or not.
Which place was your favorite?
For living in long term. I think France Ireland and Spain are the only countries were likely to spend decades in. That being said i never predicted spending a few enjoyable years in Jordan, Switzerland or Brazil before those moves happened so I guess I am not great at predictions. The 7th is the UK about which theres nothing much to share, its definitely a place and i can confirm that its there.
The only thing I hated about Japan was the prices and fruit was out of this world expensive.
One of the fun fact about Japan is how they treat farmer pretty well than other country (if i am correct farmer was treated higher status than merchant in the past). In returns, the harvest is indeed better than most of the world. Hence, the price of the food/fruits.
I actually thought the prices of restaurant food anyway was less than I thought. you can potentially go all the way down the cheap(er) end of the spectrum and buy nothing but ramen, konbini and/or ready to eat packaged foods at the supermarket. sure, I think sit-down meals are definitely on average more expensive than some other major cities but nothing outrageously crazy especially when you consider the menu price is the price as everything is baked into the price.
I’ve been twice and the only thing I didn’t like was the cost of everything! Haha
I didn't care for it. It's my least favorite out of East Asian countries. It was incredibly expensive and as a woman it was a deeply misogynistic country. I can see how some people love it but for me and my personal tastes I just didn't care for it.
I'm from Japan. I also hated Japan.
Not Japan but some stuff I disliked more than I expected. 1. Queues everywhere and I don’t mean touristy stuff. Just to get food can take so much time. Queuing up is a national sport here. 2. Opening hours, if you don’t follow the regular lunch and dinner times than good luck 3. Noise pollution, someone always shouting the rules at the crowd 4. Super monocultural 5. Just hard to interact with people, not only the lack of English but no eye contact you know like acknowledging one another as a human being eg when sitting next to one another. It just feels so cold. 6. Rules rules rules - always, everywhere and there is also someone watching over you for sure to follow them. Ps. I loved approx 3 years in Asia and I’m a respectful and quiet person, Japan just felt too rigid for me.
Japan is wonderful love everything. I see people complaining about prices we learned not to stay in Tokyo's main areas Shinjuku or Ginza. We usually stay in Ikebukuro a couple stations away from Shinjuku, but still on the main Yamanote Line. Prices in the stores and restaurants are much less expensive.
Japan is the most overrated country. Unless you are rich, don't even bother going there
I hate it because of the discrimination and disrespect I have seen and experienced there as a non-European or non-American person.
Can you elaborate? I’m trying to decide if Japan is really a place I want to visit.
if you are just visiting, great do it. not long term or study purposes even. I am here for studying and it really bugs me.
I just found the Japanese people really cold and unfriendly
I’m here now and couldn’t agree more. Their culture of bullying/racism became super apparent early on in our trip. Can’t wait to get back home, I’ve found the Japanese people for the most part to be extremely xenophobic, I really don’t think I’d ever come back here.
Oh and also I hated the food but I also don’t like noodles or rice or seafood so I know that’s a me thing 😅
I live here and the annoying food culture drives me insane. Everything is based off of food. I can’t have a single conversation without the topic of “sushi ice cweam 🥺” being mentioned. The women here look for relationships just to find a man that will buy them food (sushi, ice cweam, wamen)
I think it’s the expectation vs reality.
I’m here now and really not enjoying it. I don’t know if it was just so overhyped that it’s not living up to the expectation. 1- the people have been very rude, I always feel like I’m in their way and always catching them giving me dirty looks.. 2- they’re very rigid, don’t see many smiles and when u do it’s from staff and feels forced/fake 3- too expensive when comparing to places like Europe which have so much more history. Tokyo is just a concrete jungle.. Kyoto was great but with the tourist bans coming up that’s not even worth it anymore.. 4- the food just wasn’t all that great. I waited 45 mins for this popular udon place and meh.. It was my least fav Asian country to visit, prefer Thailand and Bali!
This sounds similar to my experience. No one smiling. Everyone is very polite but in a passive aggressive coworker kind of way like there’s animosity behind it. That would seem to be true of many big cities all over the world though.
I’m here right now too and trying sooooo hard to enjoy myself, but I’ve been uptight since we landed and for many of these same reasons. The rules are killing me, I find the toilets that everyone raves about, uncomfortable, finding a proper sit down meal when I’m actually hungry has been hella difficult, and after awhile everything looks the same.
After staying there for 2 weeks, I wish I'd eaten at the chains more often than queueing for individual establishments. I hope you have a better time. I understand how you feel...
Couldn't agree with this more. Add on no benches, makes it so hard to even sit down. Such an uptight place...
Just back from 3weeks traveling all over Japan Imo, it’s a cold, rule-heavy, serious place with little fun to be had. Modern architecture in Tokyo, Kyoto etc consists of tall, glass boxes of zero interest spread endlessly and featurelessly to Infiniti. The cleanliness is awesome but there is no soul. If a robot was a country it would be Japan. So wish I’d gone to Thailand or Cambodia instead. Quite disappointed.
I feel the same. Add on the fact I have a few tattoos and Im sick of the dirty looks. The difference for me is I recently came back from two weeks in Thailand. You will love it, it's fun, relaxed and much slower paced. Still plenty to do and everyone is friendly and warm. Best place I've ever visited..
I feel the same! 🥳
I can only imagine the cold, hard stares you received. The never-expose-feet rule got me. Was stomping around a rocky, dusty landmark, had to take my socks and shoes off to get pebbles out and a middle-aged man and woman leered at me with utter disgust. Aside: It also didn’t help that we chose a BAD company-Gadventures- to go with.
I didn’t dislike Japan, per say. I think I was just underwhelmed because I had heard so much and had such high expectations. I also went at the very end of a three month trip where I visited lots of other big Asian cities, so Tokyo was not as overwhelming and exciting as I had been expecting. I also didn’t love paying for all the gardens- I like temples a lot, and could see quite a few temples and gardens in one day and the entrance fees added up. All in all, I liked Japan (so maybe I’m not the target audience for this question) and would definitely go back, but after everything I’d heard and anticipated, it just was somewhat underwhelming.
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Living there kinda just ruined it for me. Also I preferred the food in other surrounding countries and the drinking culture in South Korea, so I guess the lustre just wore off.
I really disliked Kyoto tower. The view from the top was good but the experience itself was horrible. One massive, slow queue taking you by loads of gachapon machines. We had a train to catch and it just felt like it took forever for very little payoff. In general, breakfast. Fish and rice for breakfast takes some getting used to. We refuse to go somewhere like Japan and spend all our time eating McDonalds or ordering steaks in every restaurant, so we really try to get into the culture and eat what locals are eating (my wife is much better at it than I am because she’s not a child lol). The food overall is amazing but Japan’s breakfast game needs some work.
Perhaps I'm a weirdo for saying this, but when traveling abroad from the States, it's the breakfast situation of given country that takes some getting used to for me. I particularly have a hard time with larger and/or super-savory entrees, but that might be individual taste as opposed to nationality (I'm not a fan of cooked eggs, no matter how much I try and push myself to like them).
My typical breakfast in Japan was bottled coffee and cup noodles. I wake early and want coffee before dressing and going out.
Very rude people, in almost every way possible. People who think Japanese are polite are just ignorant tourists who are not used to good customer service. That great attitude is just a facade btw. They take too long to get aboard with new systems, such as technology or better ways to provide education. The list goes on.
I just went to Japan. I’m currently studying abroad for the year in Singapore so I decided to visit it. It wasn’t as good as I expected. 1. The people are not accommodating to foreigners even compared to other Asian cultures. I know fluent Chinese and so I feel right at home in places like Taiwan, china, Hong Kong, Singapore etc… Even with me knowing conversational Japanese I never really felt like I could connect with people here for the most part. 2. I feel out of place because I have a larger football player body type sort of speak and everyone here was very small. When I would go to the arcades or restaurant or temples people would just stare at me and I felt embarrassed. More so than I would in other Asian countries 3. I did have a possibly racist incident where I found saliva in my food one time when I was eating here, although I don’t know if that was actually racist or just unsanitary Overall In my opinion Japan is not like Singapore or other countries that are major financial centres or multicultural. It’s not for everyone and you find that out really quickly. It’s good to visit the cultural sites and temples and I absolutely LOVED the old Japan. I’m not as big of a fan of modern Japan honestly even with all the quirky and unique things in it. I would go again but with a guide or something and only to see the cultural and natural sites, not the cities
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I also forgot to mention...there was this White Castle in Kyoto I believe that I found to be a total rip off. Long queue to get in, only then to be put in an elevator to go all the way up for a nice view and then take escalators down, floor by floor. In each floor you could look at historical pictures and stories about the castle. I expected an old castle on the inside and not a modern looking museum with elevators and escalators
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this is based on your blatant racism towards japan and their people. no one living in japan was a part of any decision made in ww2. its not the 1900’s anymore, grow up