there you go - did you get that?
all right wow okay yeah
in Japan they have lots of like formalities like KEIGO words like sonkeigo
where it's like you tried - I tried
oh what did they say?
they said no you can't um you can't change anything so - good point that's a very Japanese thing
Hey guys and girls on ask Japanese today we're asking the foreigners on the streets of Tokyo
cause they're a lot here right now, what made their eyes pop out of this skull in surprise when they came to Japan
so let's go and ask Foreigners in Japan
my love for Disneyland
I haven't been to Disneyland before I'm a bit of a Disney fan so this is incredible the most amazing place I've ever seen in my life
how was that how was she? - she loves it
she's million tears nearly yeah it was beautiful hey yeah it's really nice
I bought the wrong train ticket from the airport and ... I
this guy was so lovely and helped us he went he probably walked like 15 meters out of his way to direct us spoke to the station Master
grabbed the you know very fun right to get all this stuff and he is like "have a great you know Japan week"
and then just left and I was like "that guy was amazing"
I've seen that a lot being here a few times but that was like oh my God they're that nice I was like yeah yeah they're that nice
yeah so you do you have something funny?
so we were walking up before and in the distance
um we just saw something in the distance very quickly that it was orange and white but
I was just double back because we thought oh we were that close to Tokyo Tower we're not
I thought it was Tokyo Tower
But it was just a crane - Just an orange crane
You have a t-shirt that says "Japan Tattoo" what's your story there?
uh I just got a tattoo yesterday it's a bit leaky and fresh but yeah that was in Shinjuku
so I just grabbed the shirt it's a cool shirt
curious like with your art you got a lot of art done both of you, have you had any kind of funny reactions from people?
ah not too bad hey - nah I don't think so. nah
How about Onsen?
we're pretty... we know we can't go so we just unfortunately haven't tried yeah
you just gave up?
yeah we just we haven't really looked into it because we know that we probably can't at most of them so
some of them are fine if you look it up
yeah okay I have to do that for next time - yeah
you have a couple of Japanese style tattoos how many Japanese style tattoos do you have?
I think I've just got three so I've got the ONI I've got - one down?
that one it was in Adelaide South Australia uh I just like the design yeah I just kind of like the Japanese art style and the culture stuff
so um I got this done in Harajuku a long time ago it's a bit faded
What is that?
that uh it's just like a a knife through a dragon I don't know
the guy just drew it up he was like "you want something Japanese" I was like "yeah that'll be cool" and then yeah this was yesterday
which is really detailed and really really nice
yeah but it's still got plastic on it so it's still uh take a while to heal
Why did you take that one? Why did you choose that one?
actually it was an awkward spot so a fan would fit that shape really nicely yeah
and he drew it up it was amazing yeah that was from this place here - Tattoo Japan
Yeah in Shinjuku so
then for you what are your Japan themed tattoos?
can you get that? Alright. Ok wow.
That's a lot please tell us all ok.
um so I've got Zelda, Totoro, Spirited Away, a bit of got Pokemon and Sailor Moon
just things that I love so they're all from back home in Adelaide while
the same tattooist, very lucky to be amazing - wonderful looks amazing
They are so coloful oh my gosh
what made you choose to these tattoos?
just things that I love so and I found a really good tattoo artist who loves doing them so
just wanted to get lots of them
um shoe sizes shoe sizes?
yeah it's really hard for me to find shoes here - shoes? what?
I think I am 26cm and that's like really hard to find here at least outside of Harajuku and Shinjuku like
the Foreigner areas so it took me like a week to find shoes here
oh that's why you went with a foreign brand right you went Fila?
yeah they're more narrow
good point so wait generally that's one thing to warn people about too is like S M and L right?
and that's that's what's your size SML like where are all the small little sizes in between?!
yeah I have no I don't understand a lot of that stuff
no trash cans anywhere like you would have to go to like a convini or like or just bring it back to your hotel
oh how about a difference between the Japanese boys and girls and people back home?
I think people here dress nicer or trendier I guess but it kind of depends on what area you're in like in Tokyo I guess
I feel like the little tiny like like Sanrio characters we don't see that as much in the states
like Hello Kitty and like My Melody, she really likes those kind of things so we don't really
And Gatcha machines - Oh yeah
have you ever seen like a really funny gacha machine something that made you smile?
I seen like toilet ones with the POOP like eraser kind of thing yeah
there's a lot of strange things you can find in vending machines so yeah maybe you can find like panties or like this kind of strange
but don't think they have it lately though but maybe in the past yeah
have you seen the insect vending machine yet?
I don't know but I saw a hamburger vending machine like
I was like oh you can yeah I don't know how you eat it but is it frozen?
or I don't know... yeah so this kind of
something what was your surprise?
so um culture shock is more like a social kind of culture shock so like
in Japan they have lots of like formality like KEIGO SOKEIGO
so when I first came here and I had to make like a contract or something they would speak to me really really polite words
and I and I was like "what are you saying" like I didn't study this
the way that peopl;e approach you like in restaurants like it's almost like they say things that already decided by a contract
that they learn like "decided prhases" and so it feels like really distant
and I couldn't understand even though I studied Japanese the first time it was like oh my God like
what am I gonna do and so like having this really really different levels of formalities was a big culture shock for me
because in Italy we use formal words only to really old people or like teachers but like even for me... I studied with Japanese students
and they talked to me in KEIGO but we're just like four years difference and I feel so old like don't talk to me like that you know
so it's weird it takes time to get used to
and to explain for those who don't know there's like the normal KEIGO and the SONKEIGO
so you might have learned how to speak to your friends how to speak to your teachers but then the third (polite language)
is a whole different one that you use for gods or special people but that one - we're Gods
We're gods yeah
yeah customer is God in Japan
exactly it's a good thing it's a bad thing because you cannot understand what they're saying sometimes and you're like "uhm"
"ok ok?" - yeah
what was your big surprise moment in Japan something that made your eyes pop up go like "what"?
the heated toilets... I am still not used to it so
anything else that surprised you
um I think the food I think the food definitely surprised me
in what way? - I think back home like the sushi so like sushi places back home I think they're very westernized
um so obviously you know in Japan they're very authentic and that was ...that actually really shocked me to see
the drastic difference between the two
okay so you said the sushi was westernized how was it westernized?
obviously in sushi places here you can't customize a menu... back home you can get different things like
the sushi rolls with the seaweed on the outside, you can change what you get into that so you
could get salmon and cucumber you could get salmon and avocado you can get um a tuna a mashed tuna
things like that it's very different... they have a lot more options to customize things
Have you tried (customizing in Japan)? - I tried....
what did they say? - they said no you can't you can't change anything so yeah
Good point that's a Japanese things yeah
It's maybe not an eyes popping out of the skull scenario but maybe a blushing intensively and
wanting to run away moment that I had in Japan which is was when I went to a konyoku Onsen
konyoku means guys and girls are going into the Onsen ... now I thought everyone was wearing swimsuits
that was not the case the swimsuits were only worn by the ladies and all the other one came in their birthday suit
so that is a little bit um you need some time to get used to that but the video that came out of it was actually really really fun
it became a real cool travel video so if you actually want to travel in Japan it's great to check that one out because
also we tell you a lot about the area here in Gunma where we found the secret secret Onsen
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