-Did you know there is a hotel in Tokyo almost the size of a coffin?
Tokyo is a fun place but no visit is complete without a stay at a capsule hotel. A capsule hotel is a hotel with a series of coffin sized cubicles that visitors rent for the night. Each capsule is stacked side by side and two high. They are covered with either a curtain or door. visitors share a bathrooms and most cubicles have a small TV and WiFi connections. This type of hotel is definitely not for the claustrophobic.
-Did you know that there is no tipping in Japan?
Yes, you heard me right, there is no tipping. The price that is there is the price you pay. Some times foreigners do not know this rule. Many waitress and waiters will take the tip anyway to avoid having to explain things to you in broken English. In some places tipping is considered to be very rude.
More things I bet you didn't know.
-Christianity comprises less than 10% of the Japanese population (Interesting 1)
-Normal Japanese kitchens don’t have ovens (Interesting 1)
-The bathroom is not where the toilet is found in a Japanese home (Interesting 1)
-You don’t wear shoes in the house, you wear slippers (Interesting 1
-There are special slippers for the toilet (Interesting 1)
-A traditional Japanese toilet looks like a urinal lying on the floor (Interesting 1)
(I just had to show you what it looked like)
-The “WALK” lights on Japanese street corners make a chirping sound so that the blind can know when to cross the street (Interesting 1)
-Japanese subways are very clean and safe (Interesting 1)
-Japanese cars are mostly the same size as American cars (Interesting 1)
-In Japan, fair skin is regarded as beautiful (Interesting 1)
-Refrigerators in Japan are tiny (Interesting 1)
- Did you know that I have never been to Japan?
I am very passionate about Japan and I do a lot of research to keep myself well informed but i have yet to take a trip to Japan. (Although that might(note that I say might) change in March of 2009 if im lucky!)
For more interesting facts see
http://www.tooter4kids.com/Japan/interesting_facts.htm
Works Cited
1) "Interesting Facts About Japan." Interesting Facts. 9 Dec. 2008
<http://www.tooter4kids.com/Japan/interesting_facts.htm>
5 comments:
Interesting.
I agree with "Bloodsweatnofear" that this is interesting. So do Japanese generally go to the bathroom by just standing over the porcelain inset on the floor (like we would if we were in the woods)? I'll have to ask my mom about this--she lived in Japan for many years and probably remembers.
Your post here is fun to read...but watch little things now. For example, I wonder how much would somebody pay to stay in the capsule hotel for the night? Why are they so small (probably because of space limitations in Tokyo, right?). And watch those mechanical things in your first big paragraph (should be: "Visitors share a bathroom...").
Maybe to reemphasise this, you could add some headers or other text to make your list of cool items stand out?
I actually went to a couple of Japanese houses while I was stationed in Okinawa, and it never really hit me that I never saw a toilet! I saw the "wash room" with the urinal in the floor, but no toilet.
I saw that you said that Christianity is only about 10% in Japan. During my own blog research, I found that the Japanese are really supersticious and will experement with different religions throughout their life. Do you have any insight on that? I know that they consider cats very luck, but it has been a while since I was there.
I was also wondering if you decide to keep this blog up if you could explore the differences between the Main Land Japanese vs the Okinawa (or other smaller islands) Japanese. From what I understand, the Okinawans use to have their own country, but now it is all considered Japan.
Wow, This is really interesting taht they have hotels big as coffin.Is it really a hotel for peopel to live or is it something where peopel are wiating for flights or just killing time. I think it would be nice if we have these kind of cubicals around airports where peopel can wait during the flight lap.
Nausheen
Those little hotel capsule things, I WISH we had those over here at the bigger airports. I was wishing that pretty hard the night I got stranded at LaGuardia in New York. All I wanted was a little space to call my own where I could have safely slept.
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