-You tried it out, I assume then. -Yeah, I tried it out.
I am still not sure whether I am sold yet...
... junkies. So seeing all the makeup trends has been quite unreal.
but really cool as well.
I was really surprised because back home you kind of
keep your distance from strangers. So yeah, that was amazing.
Hey guys this is Cathy Cat! What's the thing that surprised you the most
when you came to Japan?! That's a question that I would like to ask
a couple of foreigners, so let's see what they have to tell us.
What's the thing that surprised you when you came here?
Something where you got a bit of a culture shock.
Probably the fashion, I think. It's been really interesting.
We work for L'oreal so we are big makeup junkies.
So we have seen all the makeup trends, it's been quite unreal but really cool.
Just a big culture shock. The city is just insane. It's awesome but yeah...
it's full on. Everyone has their own system or way of working things.
It's good though.
I guess just the look of the place.
The fact that there is so many buildings compared to where we are used to.
Where it's very much more spread out.
For me, I would say the subway, the train system is insane.
I can't believe how much you have to walk to get to the next stop but it's...
yeah it's amazing.
-Shoes, in fact. -Shoes?!
Because they don't have a lot of sizes that we have in France, Uk or US.
So most of the time they are too big...
That's a thing. That's the first thing that shocked me.
I have very small feet so that's ok but for people who are normal...
Shoes are hard to find.
It's kind of similar to back home in Melbourne.
Weather wise and the infrastructure and how people are.
But I was surprised how friendly everyone is, because people say the Japanese
really hospitable and friendly but ... they went out of their way. We went to
a concert last night. We were so confused about how the tickets worked.
how to get in and people kept on coming on to us. And I was really surprised.
because back home you kind of keep your distance from strangers.
So yeah... that was amazing.
So you were surprised about how friendly people were?
Yeah because I thought I would know...
because I met Japanese people back home but I was really surprised.
-How about you? -Definitely the toilets!
Because one of them shoots water at you and the other one is like
a hole in the ground. It's like "Make up your mind!" "Which one is it?!"
There is no in-between. It's either like the best or a hole in the ground.
So it's very confusing.
Specially train stations.
Yeah definitely not used to having water squirted at your butt but erm...
It's kind of cool.
-You tried it out, I assume then. -Yeah, I tried it out.
I am still not sure on whether I am sold yet...
Anything else you can think of?
The people, they are so nice!
I didn't expect them not to be nice, but they are a lot nicer than... yeah
They're just lovely. And very welcoming.
There is not much English around so it was quite hard when we came out of the
airport we just didn't have a clue what we were doing. Also the thing
that really shocked us is just that it just all so clean here.
And everyone is also so polite and they all sort of very in order are they?!
Very disciplined.
So that really shocked us. Because coming from China,
like the cues, you don't have a cue where as in Japan
like even just stopping at the red light at the road at the crossings
We were just like "Do we cross? Do we stop?!"
-There is no cars. -No Jaywalking!
Thank you very much!
Looks like actually there were quite a lot of things that foreigners were
quite surprised about when they came to Japan. Ranging from train systems,
to the busy cityscape, and so on and so on.
So what about you? Have you ever had a culture shock and if so
let us know in the box below. Thank you for watching. Bye!
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