The 3 weeks holiday in Japan passed very quickly. We had a lot things to do for our wedding, went shopping in Hamamatsu very often and spent many dinners with my wifes’ friends. The first week we spent some days in Nagoya and stayed two days in Kyoto. It was wonderful and very funny, please check pictures. Some interesting things I would like to tell you:

Mobile phone: Here they prefer to have flip phones. Some of them, you can turn the screen to watch TV. My wife said you pay monthly about 80 Euro for unlimited call, email und web. When you take metro, bus or train you see compared to Europe much more people using the mobile phone. Personally each mobile never worked longer than 2 years, maybe I’m just not soft enough. Her mobile phone is 7 years old. The idea of using internet in train or bus is to save time. Cool ne!

Friendliness: Janapese people are much more friendly and kind to you than any other country I visited. The service in restaurant and shop much more convenient. In good shops there’s always one or more employe standing around and welcome you, they don’t stand around and talk with each other. Of course they bow like typical in Japan. The same when you leave. In good shops they escort you to the exit with the stuff you bought and give it then. And bow again, until you are out of sight. Really, you feel like a king in Japan.

Kindness: I’ve never seen somebody shouting or getting angry. Especially in restaurant and shop, everybody is happy and smiling. Japanese people they hide their feelings which is not very good in my opinion, but definetly better for others. They don’t wanna bother other people and always respect your privacy. They also don’t like to stick together for a long time as we european do. For meeting friends you always make appointment at least few days before.

Foot position: Interesting is that men make like a \/, typical position and here in Japan, women should make /\ which is not good in my country, even for women.

Names: In japanese discussion it is normal to say always the name, even the person is attending. It’s more polite and also easier to remember the name if you say it several times.

Stress: Japanese people like to work hard and long and on the other side, they like to relax and enjoy life. If I compare european life with japanese I would say in Europe life doesn’t have peeks, you go working and enjoy life. In Japan you work double as hard but also enjoy and relax as double. Japanese know how to live better.