13 Must-know Cultural Differences In Japan You'll Encounter!

Thank you for watching! Please feel free to ask me anything about Japanese culture here😎

You speak English language very well!!! Good job!

Dear Nao, thank you for sharing the Japanese Motto: “Keep it cleaner than what it was before.” Girl Scouts in America are taught the same thing when visiting parks, museums and camping in the Forrest. Girls Scouts are taught to make the area cleaner and neater than how you found it.

Quiet on the train, and no small talk. Japan is great!

Thank you for your great video! I'm going back to Japan for my second trip next month with my mum and my brother, very exciting! 😃

thank you nao for your efforts .. also here in my country ( kuwait ) we see the tattoos as a bad thing 😃

I’m traveling to Tokyo in March. I have lots of tattoos on my arms hands and legs. I recently watched a video saying if you have tattoos they will not let you into bars/ clubs. The club warp looks so amazingly fun so I hope this isn’t the case! Great video

Thank you for the insights. Your videos will be helpful for us on our forthcoming trip to Japan next month.

I always learn at least hello and thank you in the language of the country I am visiting. Btw sumimasen is one of my favorite words now. ( mataashita being an other one)

👋Hi Nao. I will try not to be a trouble tourist. I enjoy your videos. By the way, I still learning Japanese. As you may remember, for me the only difficult difference is small talk. ...I look forward to see a new video of you in about 4 weeks right? Romaji helps a little? See you😊

Hi, there, enjoy your video very much. May I ask you is it even a small tattoo (e.g. a butterfly on the neck) also can't enter hot spring? Thank you. Hope to see more video from you.

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That's a very good list, and if 外人 follow your suggestions, they will be less likely to 迷惑 Japanese people. Of your 13 points, there is one, about no small talk with strangers, that I've experienced differently. Men and women, young and old, have come up to me when I'm minding my own business to strike up chit-chat, or express curiosity about something. (Or once when a very sensible and concerned 御婆ちゃん wanted to ask me why I was riding my bike in the dark with 猪 all over the place!) I'm not special in any way, so I have no idea why Japanese people break your rule in my case. Of course, I'm always delighted if it happens. The people are always very friendly and these impromptu interactions are one of the many reasons I think Japanese people are very special. I hope it never stops.

Hi Nao. What about nose piercing?

Unfortunately with the flood of tourists, and the japanese government's over reliance on tourism, japan would become just like any other country and lose its special culture. I also visit japan as a tourist by i try not to bother anyone or ask for special treatment, like how many people expect to strike a conversation with locals as if japan is a disneyland where the whole country is there to serve them. I try to speak japanese and not be offended when they say nihongo jozu like many tourists, or when they're offended when some places have "Japanese only" sign because it's "racist". What's the point of visiting a country if we're trying to change it to make it like our own country. I'm not optimistic that japanese culture will last for beyond 2 or 3 more decades. After that it'd just be another westernised society.