Impressions about Japan.
I have written this about Japan, Hope you like it.
Japan.
Actually it has been an incredible experience.
A so different country, plenty of people, rushing, transports, food, weird language, and different feelings. I’m having now, a love - hate for this country.
In one hand, I love the futuristic image of the country and its cities, with all those different buildings, never two equal architecture, triple floors highways in the middle of the city, super fast trains going everywhere and by anywhere crossing the country in two hours..., the lights in the cities, especially Tokyo, during the night... the lights are amazing and everywhere, like in a movie, electronic machines for anything, like the amazing toilets!, restaurants and shops on any floor of the skyscrapers, and the best thing for me, that I miss the most, the food. Anything you try is good, amazing for someone with a big stomach like me ;), all menus are in Japanese so, obviously you need menus with pictures or there is usually replicas of the dishes at the main door, but, if you don’t have a picture, you can choose something randomly and I’m sure it will be delicious!
The people are basically weird. But incredible polite and hospitalitary. All of them! They always are up to help you even when they don’t understand you! Sometimes they even don’t hesitate to go with you till the place you are looking for just to help! Plus they are SO honest! If you don’t like the price, they send you where is cheaper!!! If a monument of temple is being refurbished at the moment, they tell you at the door with pictures how it is inside and apologize!!! And do not forget that is the organized, safest and cleanest country I have seen in my life!
And the bad things on the other hand, people with you can’t communicate at all, it’s very difficult to find people that can speak English, they are rushing everywhere, the language is weird, everywhere and uncompressible, which make it exotic, but you get tired of no information in any moment and never understand anything... It’s a country not multicultural at all, you JUST see Japanese people all the time, and millions of them, no matter time or place, always lots, to walk can be sometimes a nightmare. Its super expensive, to get to any club, its minimum 20 Euros entrance plus drinks, hostels minimum 20 Euros a night, restaurants 20-30, you can get by, going to cheaper places that you can start to discover, but, takes time, and you have to walk a lot... there no much nature, with so many people and cars you have no much space, when you travel from one city to another, literally, there is no countryside, you just see houses and buildings all the time.... crazy. Overwhelming country.... They have an incredible organization for anything. I mean anything. There are queues for everything, transports, shops... This country with a size of half Spain and a 90% of mountains in its surface, there are 125 millions of people living, which makes sense why all the technology and organization that they have.
The first week in Japan I was in Tokyo, met my good Spanish friend Pablo there, and Paul from London after Pablo, he was travelling around Japan as well. Found a couch surfing host that, she did not want me to say to anyone, but, what the heck, you are my friend and I can tell you, she is the first geisha non Japanese ever. She is originally from Australia but she has been living all her life in Japan, most of it. One day I could see all the preparation for a geisha performance with the makeup, dress and so on. She wanted me to do things in exchange of the "hospitality", like moving furniture to a new flat, and some translation texts for her website. Was so difficult to find a couchsurfing host, Japanese people are not that "open" and flats are usually very small... so, not easy find couch in Japan. After the first week, of food, descovering walking Tokyo, party, and so on, I used my Japan Rail Pass to explore Japan (when I bought it I thought it was so expensive, but actually I used a lot and I saved lots of money, so if you guys want to come to more than 2 weeks to Japan and plan to see some cities, don’t hesitate in getting one). Close to Tokyo i visited Nakamura, which is a lovely town on the coast where you can see the japanese surfing beaches (not that great) and a big buda and Nikko, beautiful town too with old Japanese temples and feel the vibe of the Japanese little towns.
When i left Japan I just found couch in Osaka, which was kind of luck because it is in central Japan, and with the bullet trains was easy to go from there to everywhere, like if I was going to work every morning. I was going very early to Kobe, nice port, Kyoto, all japan culture with tons of temples, Hiroshima, famous because the first nuclear bomb and its peace museum, Miyayima, beautiful town with the shrine on the water, Nara, small lovely town with university nice lakes and the biggest wooden building inside with a huge Buda, Himeji, with a gorgeous castle micer outside than inside, and so on, many places of which I keep a great memory of the of Japanese culture. The last weekend I went back to Tokyo to meet again the people I meet there and the friends of my friend Pablo for a last weekend party and getting ready for Australia.
That’s briefly my impression about Japan.
Japan.
Actually it has been an incredible experience.
A so different country, plenty of people, rushing, transports, food, weird language, and different feelings. I’m having now, a love - hate for this country.
In one hand, I love the futuristic image of the country and its cities, with all those different buildings, never two equal architecture, triple floors highways in the middle of the city, super fast trains going everywhere and by anywhere crossing the country in two hours..., the lights in the cities, especially Tokyo, during the night... the lights are amazing and everywhere, like in a movie, electronic machines for anything, like the amazing toilets!, restaurants and shops on any floor of the skyscrapers, and the best thing for me, that I miss the most, the food. Anything you try is good, amazing for someone with a big stomach like me ;), all menus are in Japanese so, obviously you need menus with pictures or there is usually replicas of the dishes at the main door, but, if you don’t have a picture, you can choose something randomly and I’m sure it will be delicious!
The people are basically weird. But incredible polite and hospitalitary. All of them! They always are up to help you even when they don’t understand you! Sometimes they even don’t hesitate to go with you till the place you are looking for just to help! Plus they are SO honest! If you don’t like the price, they send you where is cheaper!!! If a monument of temple is being refurbished at the moment, they tell you at the door with pictures how it is inside and apologize!!! And do not forget that is the organized, safest and cleanest country I have seen in my life!
And the bad things on the other hand, people with you can’t communicate at all, it’s very difficult to find people that can speak English, they are rushing everywhere, the language is weird, everywhere and uncompressible, which make it exotic, but you get tired of no information in any moment and never understand anything... It’s a country not multicultural at all, you JUST see Japanese people all the time, and millions of them, no matter time or place, always lots, to walk can be sometimes a nightmare. Its super expensive, to get to any club, its minimum 20 Euros entrance plus drinks, hostels minimum 20 Euros a night, restaurants 20-30, you can get by, going to cheaper places that you can start to discover, but, takes time, and you have to walk a lot... there no much nature, with so many people and cars you have no much space, when you travel from one city to another, literally, there is no countryside, you just see houses and buildings all the time.... crazy. Overwhelming country.... They have an incredible organization for anything. I mean anything. There are queues for everything, transports, shops... This country with a size of half Spain and a 90% of mountains in its surface, there are 125 millions of people living, which makes sense why all the technology and organization that they have.
The first week in Japan I was in Tokyo, met my good Spanish friend Pablo there, and Paul from London after Pablo, he was travelling around Japan as well. Found a couch surfing host that, she did not want me to say to anyone, but, what the heck, you are my friend and I can tell you, she is the first geisha non Japanese ever. She is originally from Australia but she has been living all her life in Japan, most of it. One day I could see all the preparation for a geisha performance with the makeup, dress and so on. She wanted me to do things in exchange of the "hospitality", like moving furniture to a new flat, and some translation texts for her website. Was so difficult to find a couchsurfing host, Japanese people are not that "open" and flats are usually very small... so, not easy find couch in Japan. After the first week, of food, descovering walking Tokyo, party, and so on, I used my Japan Rail Pass to explore Japan (when I bought it I thought it was so expensive, but actually I used a lot and I saved lots of money, so if you guys want to come to more than 2 weeks to Japan and plan to see some cities, don’t hesitate in getting one). Close to Tokyo i visited Nakamura, which is a lovely town on the coast where you can see the japanese surfing beaches (not that great) and a big buda and Nikko, beautiful town too with old Japanese temples and feel the vibe of the Japanese little towns.
When i left Japan I just found couch in Osaka, which was kind of luck because it is in central Japan, and with the bullet trains was easy to go from there to everywhere, like if I was going to work every morning. I was going very early to Kobe, nice port, Kyoto, all japan culture with tons of temples, Hiroshima, famous because the first nuclear bomb and its peace museum, Miyayima, beautiful town with the shrine on the water, Nara, small lovely town with university nice lakes and the biggest wooden building inside with a huge Buda, Himeji, with a gorgeous castle micer outside than inside, and so on, many places of which I keep a great memory of the of Japanese culture. The last weekend I went back to Tokyo to meet again the people I meet there and the friends of my friend Pablo for a last weekend party and getting ready for Australia.
That’s briefly my impression about Japan.
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