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today we are talking about the Top 10 Freaky Things that Exist Only In Japan.
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Okay, back to Japan!
I am all about the weird and wonderful, and Japan is filled with it!
What crazy things can there that pretty much don’t exist elsewhere?
10 - Horsemeat Flavour Ice Cream Riiiight.
Japan gives zero efss about the Horsemeat scandal, the Japanese are not above eating
horse.
In fact, they embrace tasty horse so much that they have even turned horsemeat into
an ice cream flavour.
I am not sure about meat ice cream flavours as a whole…
it’s pretty off putting to me, but horsemeat…ergh.
Each to their own though.
No judgement!
9 - Toilet Slippers So, these are slippers that are solely worn
in the toilet.
The Japanese culture is pretty different to western culture in many ways, including shoe
etiquette.
In Japanese homes, outdoor shoes are left in a special transitionary room, and indoor
slippers are worn, however the indoor slippers are different to the toilet slippers.
These are left out in homes, and household dwellers and guests alike are supposed to
wear them when entering the lav.
If you forget to take them off and walk around a Japanese home in toilet slippers, you will
be mercilessly mocked.
8 - Expensive, Funky Shaped Melons Ohhhh haaaai there 27 thousand dollar melon!
It had better be delicious!
Speciality fruit is hella expensive in Japan, with some fruits considered luxury items.
Fruit farmers in Japan spend many laborious hours cultivating fruits for consumption.
They aim to make crazy things like square watermelons or aesthetically totally perfect
pieces of fruit.
This strawberry is the size of a tennis ball and costs over 4 thousand dollars.
This bunch of bright red ruby grapes sells for 800 bucks a bunch, but in 2016, a pair
of premium Hokkaido Cantaloupe’s sold for 27 thousand 240 dollars.
That is insane.
I personally tend to by the misshapen fruit in the grocery store because I feel sorry
for it.
Still delicious, just much cheaper!
7 - Baby Mop Like, fair, I guess.
If honey is going to be crawling around the floor anyway, they may as well make themselves
useful, although a few people are up in arms about it.
Also….the commercial is genius.
6 - Arguably, this hare-brained Japanese invention creates as many problems as it solves….we
have an Armpit fan Thanko’s electric armpit clip on cooler
fan is a fan you clip on your shirt sleeves to cool your underarms on a hot day.
It is battery operated and quiet so that no one will hear the tiny fans at work.
Pit sweat, be gone!
The only problem is that, sure, people may not hear the fans, but they are likely to
see them clipped on to your apparel.
Plus… they only really work for short sleeved items…
Maybe just…wear black instead?
5 - Hello Kitty Contact Lenses There is something pretty sinister about these
Japanese Hello Kitty Contact Lenses!
Eyes are….well…eyes…so what is Hello Kitty doing there!
These 58 dollar lenses are popular with teenage girls in Japan…imagine looking a 14 year
old girl in the eye and seeing they were pink and filled with tiny cats.
Have you ever been on the subway and thought…like…I really need to rest my chin.
No, never, right?
None the less, the Subway Chin Rest is a thing and it is here at number 4
I guess the idea here is to allow you to sleep standing up on a long journey home.
The problem is, is that even though it is aimed to give you a place to rest when there
is no place to sit, it takes up a reasonable amount of room itself.
Also….trains are jerky, sleeping on the chin rest is all very well and good, until
the train gets bumpy or turns.
Also… like… what is the world coming to if we have to sleep using chin rests on the
subway.
Bed…people.
Bed bed bed.
Freaky, but I am all about this, we have a Lonely Persons Pillow at number three
Awwwah.
If you need a hug, but there is no one to give you a cuddle, you can buy this lonely
persons’ pillow… which…
ow.
It is basically a pillow in a shirt with an arm to put around yourself.
Some weirder and more expensive versions of these pillows come complete with a heartbeat.
That is kinda sad, but also kind of cute, however, the version for men is a lot freakier.
Men seem to have taken to buying a pair of disembodied thighs to sleep on…often called
the Lady Leg Pillow.
The leggy pillow comes complete with a miniskirt in black or red and flesh like kneely stumps
to lean on.
The inventor of the lady lap said what could be better than a pack-away lap to soothe those
occasional bouts of homesickness.
Taking a darker turn at number 2…..Japan has A Suicide Forest
In mount Fuji’s shadow, lays a dark, scary place.
Aokigahara forest is 13.5 square kilometres and home to a lot of sad stories, for this
is what is known as Japan’s Suicide forest.
This forest, for some reason, is the most popular suicide destination in the world.
Some say at least 100 people a year kill themselves here.
Freaky and very sad.
Okay, bringing it back up to freaky and kinda happy, we have the Japanese Penis Festival
at number 1 In April, Kawasaki celebrates The Festival
of the Steel Phallus.
It is a celebration of the penis and fertility, during which portable penis shrines are paraded
down streets and revellers wear pink wave penis memorabilia, people can even light Penis
Candles.
There also some pretty graphic Penis lollipops…and there is no age restriction on consuming them.
So…Japan!
Aside from the suicide forest, this list makes me really want to go there!
What do you think is the freakiest thing on this list?
Let me know in the comments section below.
For now, I am your host Rebecca Felgate.
I hope you liked this video…
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