...let them know that they shouldn't be touching the doors
NYA "magical train station wake up skill power beam boost", you start saying the traffic light
is blue instead of saying it's green... Hey guys and girls it's CathyCat your flashy fashion
reporter here from Tokyo and this time we're gonna talk about five things that people who've lived
in Japan for too long might do... might catch themselves out doing, that almost count as having
turned them a little bit Japanese what could it be let's go and find out together let's go
Number one when you ride a taxi or when you get out of a taxi in Japan here you
never touch the doors... the same way that the black caps are unique to the United Kingdom
so do Japanese caps have a very specific or special mechanism in the doors
and that mechanism lets the driver of the cab open the doors for you. You
don't have to touch it. He opens it for you to step in and he opens it for you
after you paid the bill to leave the cab. I must say a couple of foreigners get that wrong at the
start they open the door by themselves and they close it by themselves and it can make
the cab driver pretty angry because that mechanism isn't built for that... it can apparently also
break it if you really put a lot of force and effort into it so if you have friends and they're
new to Japan and they're just about to go with you on the cab maybe let them know that they shouldn't
be touching the doors because it's dangerous and it's not good... but once you've lived here for
a long time you kind of expect the driver to do it and you kind of get a little bit annoyed if
he's taking too much time opening the door for you so that's one of the things that you're realize.
So don't touch the doors just step out or into the cab like that that's one of the things if you live
here for long enough you do it automatically but when you're new here you might get confused about.
Number two when you enter someone's house without shoes you start feeling uncomfortable
NYA because generally you always are getting used to taking your shoes off NYA
when you enter someone's house NYA therefore NYANYA when you
enter someone's house with shoes on you're not happy and you feel like something's wrong
so when you go back to your family house in your own country you feel like you're
out of place NYA because you should have taken your shoes off NYA. Oh there is one more kitty
Number three you can do the "magical train station wake up skill power beam boost"
What do I mean by that now Japanese people generally if they get a seat on the train and if
they're going out of Tokyo to go where they live because it's cheaper out of Tokyo they sometimes
are on the train for an hour an hour and a half two hour or even longer and some people have it
down to a notch that the moment ... they sleep the whole journey but they wake up one minute before
their station I don't know how they do it it's a real skill I thought I could never do it but
when I started doing the full-on commute into work out of Tokyo two and a half hours commute
or similar things like that I started getting so tired that I learned to sleep on the train
that was step one and then step two I actually did the thing... I actually woke up just before
my stop or when my stop was announced and I don't know how I don't know why it's some kind of magic
voodoo thing and it's working, it's working you just wake up magically it's fascinating
Number four you start developing a taste for plain white rice
Japanese people will sooner or later say they miss rice and they just want the rice the way they're
used to it meaning the Japanese type of sticky rice which means it sticks together and it's
really tasty and you actually figure out you don't need much more so for example you can just have a
bowl of like hot steaming rice and then maybe a little bit of flavoring with it or maybe a bit
of salt with it or a bit of soy sauce with it and it's fine you don't even more so if you have just
a salted onigiri the ones that you can sometimes get in the supermarket and that's all you need
you're good... you don't need all the fancy stuff and I think that's interesting I never saw rice
the same way we had like different types of rice in Germany and with like wild rice and
dark rice and all kinds of rice flavors but when you come to Japan you start to love the "shokkan"
the way how there's a bite to the rice and the way the rice sticks together and you don't need
much more it's fascinating sometimes all I just want is a boil a bowl of steaming hot rice and
a raw egg on top and that's it... maybe a bit of soy sauce I tell you it's delish... it's so good
Number five you start saying the traffic light is "blue" instead of saying it's "green" now I
don't know why Japanese people say this usually "The traffic light turned blue"
meaning the traffic light has turned blue for us it's usually green but culture perception
can be different so the green light you can see here right now in Japanese you'd actually say
the light is blue and once you get used to telling that or hearing that
you might catch yourself out on actually also referring to this color as blue Hey I
don't know why but you have it just happens I tell you it happens cultural perceptions
Those were five things that you might catch yourself doing when you've lived in Japan for
a little bit too long another one that happened to me this morning was when I was getting ready
putting all of this on I was too lazy to check where my phone was, wanted to find out what time
it is and turned my water tab to hot water and there's a little display in my bathroom that then
told me the time. Is there anything we missed in this list let us know in the comments down below
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