Notes for Gaijin (外人) #1

[bellinghman]

In Britain, we drive on the left, and overtake on the right. On escalators, we stand on the right, and overtake on the left.
In Japan, they drive on the left, and overtake on the right. On escalators, they stand on the left, and overtake on the right.

Comments

[bellinghwoman.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that they played music before the trains arrived in Kyoto too. What got me was standing on the shinkansen platform in Kyoto and realising that there was either a regular or a nozomi shinkansen to Tokyo every 3-4 minutes.

Last night, the bellinghman worked out that we had been through two thirds of all the shinkansen stations on the entire network, although of course we only stopped at a handful :-)