Name: DOs and DON'Ts in Japan || My Tips for Visitors
Uploaded: 2020-01-31T07:56:48.000Z
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Hey guys, it's Mikan, and today I'm going to be basically doing a few chores

Future simple

I'm gonna get my hair roots redone, you know the straightening? After that, depending on if Hirokazu is done with his stuff-

We're gonna be meeting up and I'm gonna be getting some things for my meetup, which is this week.

This is probably gonna be uploaded after the meetup. But like that's where we're at right now..

So I thought I would take you along but then also kind of talk about some things that you should and should not do in Japan.

Just because I get a lot of people who ask me for advice.. like a lot of people want some tips and I guess

like traveling, it's kind of scary so I can understand like wanting to hear from someone who lives in Japan; what tips I have

So today's going to be kind of a do's and don'ts in Japan though i'm not gonna be saying like

Do this, don't do this. I'm kind of just going to be talking about things

you should and shouldn't do, while I take you out on my day. So let's go!

One thing I don't often see people speak about is backpacks.

And this is a mistake I often see people make.

When you get on a busy train, make sure that you take your backpack off your back and put it on your front-

This is because the busy trains are VERY, very busy

So if your bag is behind you, if you end up hitting someone, you don't know.

The best way to tell if the train is busy enough for you to put your backpack on your front-

Is to look around and notice that other people are doing it.

One thing about Japan, is that the train is a quiet place..

So be really careful when you're with your friends, that you don't speak too loudly and-

Definitely, definitely DO NOT talk on the phone. It is seen as very, very rude here.

Another thing is, and this is a really big pet peeve of mine, is if you see a pregnant person-

an old person, someone who has injured their leg, or something..

I don't know why it's so like.. I see so many people, not just foreigners by the way-

Japanese people as well, who just don't stand for old people!

Like they'll like pretend to be asleep and it's like so rude! It really bothers me if you've got two functional legs:

Of course, there are priority seats, but they're not always available

Like if a really really old lady's standing in front of you, STAND UP

There's just not a tipping culture in Japan

It's just not something that happens here

Just pay but you're asked to pay and that's it.

Now this is something that took me a really long time to get used to.

Just because we don't really have masks and stuff in the UK

I thought were kind of uncomfortable wearing them

But honestly think of it this way when you're in Japan

You'll packed all around people all of the time and if you sneeze and cover it with your hand

It's you're still gonna get the sneeze all over people. They sell them for super cheap

Literally anywhere you can find them so easily so there's no reason not to get them. I'm here today as usual with Natalie

Hey boys done an amazing job with my hair

I cut my own friendship, which is really annoying because once it gets too long

I get really irritated because it gets in my eyes and then I boys do a really bad job cutting it and that I missed

She also styled it a little bit at the end here curled it a better feels so good

But like it's all straight and it's all one color

My next tip is to try to learn just a little bit of Japanese before you come Japanese people really

Appreciate when foreign people speak any Japanese at all

Like amazed even though it feels really embarrassing even just saying like I think though as I'm asked the US and things like that people

Totally like appreciate that. Yeah, ya know

Behavior and stuff if you just like stretch to my son stuff people gonna people to really appreciate it

Like yeah, it's gonna look really good on you. Yeah, it's like yeah, it makes people very nice in

especially like if I say like oscillation was when I passed someone I mean the holiday pass salute when you when you

Pass someone. Yeah, I think so mass might be difficult for well people who don't know any Japanese. Oh, yeah sumimasen. It's funny

Yeah, nothing is fine, too. Yeah. Yeah like that

But if you if you want to go for a bit higher level than sedation mass is better. Yeah. Yeah

So one thing you have to know about Japanese people is they're really really punctual

So make sure you're always on time and by on time, I mean be like 10 minutes early

It's essentially something that I struggle with. I've really had to get used to being on time all the time

Japanese people are particularly strict about time. So take care about that

Okay, so while we're in Harajuku I want to talk about how does yuku modeling agents who come up to foreigners all the time don't

agency where like they charge you like a ridiculous amount for like lessons and then you never actually become a lot of anything even like

Totally down if you give in someone's business card look it up online

agency because they come up to you all the time and you know at first I used to be like

But I've come to realize they look for like foreigners or generally people who look like they would want to be one models

Yeah, and then they like go for them because they think they can stand up careful. They usually walking around against the street

so you'd better be careful if it was like it's hot like if they're like

So scary. Yeah, that's a scam to look out for

We're on the hunt for Simona's mr. Secondhand Fozzie these kinds of things

I like the black one, huh? Yeah, I mean - but I want to throw a ball. Okay, just let sees that he likes

Well, no. No, you should try them both on yeah

See what I want to get is a holiday this kind of cardigan looking things

Just kind of to wear on day to day life, but I'm not so sure about the patterns. I'm seeing here

So while he look at this trying goes on I want to bring up my next point which is to downplay compliments

Now this is a pretty big difference to the UK

I would say because in the UK if someone says like oh, you look so pretty then you'll be like, oh, thank you

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