Even After X amount of years in Japan I'll never get used to____

[Hellotokyo69]

How painfully slow some people eat (if I’m going to dinner with Japanese girlfriends or even some guys, I’ll eat before)

 

[Lukes]

Here's one that always bothered me. The facemasks. I know the reasons why people wear them are many and varied. Some because they fear illness, some because they are themselves ill and others because they are poorly adjusted socially.

What really grinds my gears is when people have facemasks on, both earbuds in, music blasting into their ears and they're reading a fucking book and looking at their phone at the same time while standing in front of the door of a train.

 

[oLUXo]

Here's one that always bothered me. The facemasks. I know the reasons why people wear them are many and varied. Some because they fear illness, some because they are themselves ill and others because they are poorly adjusted socially.

What really grinds my gears is when people have facemasks on, both earbuds in, music blasting into their ears and they're reading a fucking book and looking at their phone at the same time while standing in front of the door of a train.

Or if you sneeze or cough once they move to an empty seat like you have a disease.

 

[SugoiBoy]

Here's one that always bothered me. The facemasks. I know the reasons why people wear them are many and varied. Some because they fear illness, some because they are themselves ill and others because they are poorly adjusted socially.

What really grinds my gears is when people have facemasks on, both earbuds in, music blasting into their ears and they're reading a fucking book and looking at their phone at the same time while standing in front of the door of a train.

Some escorts in Japan wear face masks to and from appointments. Perhaps they don’t want to be easily recognized?

 

[MikeH]

Some escorts in Japan wear face masks to and from appointments. Perhaps they don’t want to be easily recognized?

Also some girls wear them when they are too busy to do a proper make up before they go out.

 

[bergmann]

Also some girls wear them when they are too busy to do a proper make up before they go out.

In that case shouldn't they be applying while they're on the train?

 

[MikeH]

In that case shouldn't they be applying while they're on the train?

Now you are just being silly, of course they can't!

Too busy eating their breakfast onigiri.

 

[Lukes]

Or if you sneeze or cough once they move to an empty seat like you have a disease.

Especially if you're recognized as a foreigner.

Some escorts in Japan wear face masks to and from appointments. Perhaps they don’t want to be easily recognized?

I can see that being the case. It's easy for them to do that since so many people are also wearing them. I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to keep their identities hidden but I'm just not a fan of the mask thing on general.

 

[Desktop]

Some genius will start make designer face masks for young girls to wear around Shinjuku, Shibuya, & other areas.

 

[Ddddd]

No clothes dryers

Go to Yodobashi with ¥200.000 in your pocket and you will get a fantastic 12kg washing machine that dries your clothes as well.

 

[warubuta]

I actually really like that element of living here.

I do too, in balance. I think everybody in who stays here for a long time likes, or at least doesn't mind, not always being 100% in control, but sometimes it fucking wears me out.

 

[Goiter]

I’ve been here too long for most things to phase me too much but......

1. The number of Japanese people who don’t wear helmets on ski slopes or better yet the number of people I see out training (not riding to the supermarket) without a helmet on their bicycle

2. No one brings their own bags to the supermarket

3. The total absence of a decent middle eastern food scene (other than a few Turkish places)

4. The absoluteness shitiness of any website associated with a financial transaction

5. Old guys with old man smell

6. Narita airport

 

[Frenchy]

I’ve been here too long for most things to phase me too much but......

1. The number of Japanese people who don’t wear helmets on ski slopes or better yet the number of people I see out training (not riding to the supermarket) without a helmet on their bicycle

2. No one brings their own bags to the supermarket

3. The total absence of a decent middle eastern food scene (other than a few Turkish places)

4. The absoluteness shitiness of any website associated with a financial transaction

5. Old guys with old man smell

6. Narita airport

Ah ah, we should ski together. Not only I never wear a helmet, I usually do it drunk and while listening to hard rock very loud , so oblivious to any other sound around me...
What could go wrong?

 

[Goiter]

Ah ah, we should ski together. Not only I never wear a helmet, I usually do it drunk and while listening to hard rock very loud , so oblivious to any other sound around me...
What could go wrong?

All that and French too? Ugh

 

[Frenchy]

French and all that? Ugh

Oh come on I lost count on how many of the same sugar-coated locations we visited, why not a snow-coated one for a change?
(but please rest assured I don’t take as many stupid health-related risks in the former)

 

[DireWolf98]

Here's one that always bothered me. The facemasks. I know the reasons why people wear them are many and varied. Some because they fear illness, some because they are themselves ill and others because they are poorly adjusted socially.

What really grinds my gears is when people have facemasks on, both earbuds in, music blasting into their ears and they're reading a fucking book and looking at their phone at the same time while standing in front of the door of a train.

花粉症

 

[DireWolf98]

6. Narita airport

Narita is much better compared to its state in the 1990s ... much better X 1,000

 

[Frenchy]

花粉症

Ah yes, the obvious one...

 

[Ken1988]

3. The total absence of a decent middle eastern food scene (other than a few Turkish places)

There are some. Taim in Ebishu (Israeli) and Uchimura in Higashi-Kitazawa (Egyptian) are pretty much decent imo, but yes both shops are very small.

 

[Frenchy]

There are some. Taim in Ebishu (Israeli) and Uchimura in Higashi-Kitazawa (Egyptian) are pretty much decent imo, but yes both shops are very small.

Thanks for this!
I was on the same page as Goiter on this but wish to be proven wrong

 

[bergmann]

I’ve been here too long for most things to phase me too much but......
2. No one brings their own bags to the supermarket

They do where I live, since the supermarkets in question started charging for plastic bags.

6. Narita airport

I guess it sucks if you think you should be able to hop in a taxi and get to the airport in less than hour without paying the kind of money which would get you a decent shag with a genuine Japanese citizen, but from where I live (west of Shinjuku) it's only about 10 minutes further by train than Haneda, and I get to sit in a nice comfy express train for the last 30~40 minutes rather than be squashed on Keikyu or the monorail.

And like all Japanese airports it's nice and serene and you can do crazy stuff like buy a conbini beer for normal conbini prices and quaff it down on the observation deck and the security goons are polite and you can get to the gates without dodging through an offensively placed duty free zone and (unlike most) there's a house in the middle of the runway.

 

[Durg50]

They do where I live, since the supermarkets in question started charging for plastic bags.



I guess it sucks if you think you should be able to hop in a taxi and get to the airport in less than hour without paying the kind of money which would get you a decent shag with a genuine Japanese citizen, but from where I live (west of Shinjuku) it's only about 10 minutes further by train than Haneda, and I get to sit in a nice comfy express train for the last 30~40 minutes rather than be squashed on Keikyu or the monorail.

And like all Japanese airports it's nice and serene and you can do crazy stuff like buy a conbini beer for normal conbini prices and quaff it down on the observation deck and the security goons are polite and you can get to the gates without dodging through an offensively placed duty free zone and (unlike most) there's a house in the middle of the runway.

Narita isnt that bad but the air-side could be improved with a nicer bar/pub and maybe a more expensive restaurant or two. Right now the only options are those shitty bars and canteen style restaurants.

 

[Lukes]

花粉症

Eh, I say pop some pills and embrace the suck.

 

[Lukes]

Go to Yodobashi with ¥200.000 in your pocket and you will get a fantastic 12kg washing machine that dries your clothes as well.

Thanks for the tip. I have a machine that supposedly dries the clothes but really what it does is make them somewhat damp after a while. So I just hang my clothes in the bathroom and use the dry function in there.

 

[MikeH]

Thanks for the tip. I have a machine that supposedly dries the clothes but really what it does is make them somewhat damp after a while. So I just hang my clothes in the bathroom and use the dry function in there.

You need a gas dryer. They work like charm.