I would usually say bring deodorant but... - yeah that's a good one
Where the flight number I had on my ticket wasn't the flight that I was getting on
it was very confusing Lufthansa I'm talking to you
Hey guys and girls on Japanese it's your bloody fashion reporter CathyCat and usually we do videos
here where I give you little hints and tips of how to live in Japan your best life right
and this time we're actually going to go and ask a couple of foreigners maybe they have
some more things they would like to add to the mix of advice once Japan reopens its borders and
let's go and Ask foreigners in Japan
Any advice to anyone coming to Japan soon once the borders open
Okay when you arrive in Japan you should go to like a nice shop and buy a like a hand towel
because there's no like hand dryers anywhere and you can get a lot of like it can also be a nice
souvenir for you there's little characters and stuff but yeah you or bring nice jeans
to you know wipe your your wet hands on - Do you have one with you right now?
Honestly I have a couple but I always forget to pack them so maybe remember to pack your towel
because yeah that's a very embarrassing moment when yeah I just do this
- wipe it on your trousers - true yeah that's fine
all Japanese people around you will have those little handkerchiefs
yeah yeah the little handkerchiefs yeah and maybe wear shoes that are easy to take off
yeah that's yeah because... - because
because you have to take off your shoes in unexpected places you know cafes
people's homes anywhere yeah
sometimes even just going for alcoholic drinks like an izakaya right there like "take off your shoes"
yeah and it's fine but it's annoying if you're wearing like doc martens or something and you have to unlace everything - yeah
or you have like odd socks - yeah yeah that's right yeah
Wear proper socks don't be embarrassed
that's really good advice what would you advise?
i'd say if you're moving to maybe purchase a phone before you leave your home country because
in Japan phones have like a shutter noise whenever you take the picture so if you're like someone that likes taking a lot of pictures
and you're just going to be (photo sound) it's probably better to bring a phone from your home country with the sim unlocked
Japanese phones all have a mandatory shutter sound that you cannot turn off
yeah so I had to buy a new phone in Japan because I didn't have a choice and going home right now is really difficult
and I already don't like having the shutter noise
it makes you want not to take pictures
yeah exactly which is maybe a good thing I need to get out of the habit of just taking like tons of pictures
If I saw your outfit from across the street I might be like oh take it - burst it - let's take pictures later!
Mandatory shutter sound do you know why it's there?
unfortunately because of
some people in this country maybe like to take pictures of girls in short skirts on escalators
and on trains and the like.... yeah up-skirting is a big problem here that's why there's mandatory shuttersound
in case you didn't know that so yes if you that's why they all have a sound
oh I mean I say you know if you're just a tourist like just enjoy yourself and don't be too worried about
you know don't run crazy and look up some "how to be polite in Japan" but don't stress too much about like
what people are thinking about you because most... a lot of people are pretty open so I think
Yeah yeah just some effort to be polite is enough you don't have to act Japanese if you come here
even if you live here don't feel the pressure to - yeah - do too much just - yeah - be respectful and - yeah
I think that's enough - yeah yeah - I think - yeah you'll enjoy it if you come 100% - all right
What advice would you give because right now it's a lot of people who want to come to Japan and they
can't yeah so what would you advise them before coming to Japan
um I will really recommend you to look for like train tickets like you know they're like a lot of uh like PASS like
Japan rail pass is what you mean right? yeah like also that one and there's like a lot of one day tickets
and they're really cheap so I yeah I highly recommend you to take advantage of that
and apply for those before you come here you can't do it from here - yeah yeah yeah -
We can't advantage of those
no I mean we're already being here for a long time so no we can't - nope nope
good point very good point
if you were to talk with anyone coming to Japan before they come here what one piece of advice would you give them?
Learn how the toilets work it's a little bit more complicated to use a toilet here
Good point, good point did you accidentally push the wrong button once?
yes and it makes lots of noises and but I like the heated seats - oh god yeah
make sure you do a lot of exploring because there's a lot to see in Japan - any kind of moment
we're like "oh my gosh the culture is different here I might have done a mistake" for a moment
like manners-wise or anything you're like oh - bowing is a lot different you know greeting
people is a lot and they say a lot more thank yous thank you thank you thank you
give someone who from now wants to come to Japan some advice before they come
I would usually say bring deodorant but
yeah that's a good one bring an empty bag so you can bring home a bunch of gifts
make sure the bag is big
As big as possible yeah of course you can fit as many gifts as possible
a camera ... that's uh that has been this guy's mission then we came so now he's bought one - yeah of course
you brought you bought a camera?
yeah yeah the camera market here is amazing you can find anything
you have any more advice you would give for example someone from your family before they come?
maybe you know look look up as we said before advice for how to behave because
the culture is so different so you don't want to mess up or make anyone angry or something like that
if you had to give an advice to someone who wants to come to Japan because the borders are hopefully going to open soon
What one advice would you give someone who wants to come to Japan?
Check all your flight numbers before you leave because I had a panic on one of my connecting
flights where the flight number I had on my ticket wasn't the flight that I was getting on
it was very confusing Lufthansa i'm talking to you
What you almost got on the wrong flight? - well I got to the I got to Frankfurt airport and
I was supposed to be on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Japan but it said it was like run by
ANA but I still had a Lufthansa flight number so I went to the desk and they were like "your flight doesn't exist"
and I was like "what do you mean by i doesn't exist?" but it turns out they just give me like a generic code
and then they they showed me the right way but it was stressful
oh my god oh that is a special thing with Lufthansa and ANA usually there is a combined flight yeah so
it's either ANA or Lufthansa who will take you there and around christmas it's both of them who fly
oh yeah - I know because I go on that flight all the time
Maybe ask somebody who already lives in Japan for like some advice because
all the paperwork and stuff that could be also like complicated - i'd say like get a really good
way of organizing your paperwork because there's just so much like you need to be able to like
get out what they want really quickly so that was paperwork did you need I wish I had a big phone
and like just stuff in case um you know if your phone stops working and stuff yeah - oh good point
Good point your battery goes and then you might not able to be able to enter the country
Bring a portable charger for your phone that's very important especially with the long flights
and everything right yeah and if you take so many photos like your battery like it just goes yeah -
all right advice advice advice
uh for me of all the I think just take it easy and Japanese is definitely kind to help you
yeah Japanese people are very kind and helpful right now one thing I was curious to that I think that's specific to your group right now
because I heard that a lot of people were really struggling coming in so how long were you guys like waiting
how long were you guys trying to get in that kind of stuff
um so our university emailed us and they were like "you can come to Japan on these dates"
and it was like last week was the dates
you have the next two weeks to sort your visa out, start your corona test out get all
your paperwork sorted, so it wasn't a long wait really for us it was really quick but
like luckily justine here had booked like an extra visa slot without that I would have had to
wait for like a month for the visa appointment but all in all it was quite quick
So that's your experience here and in the uk trying to get into Japan - yeah
so no that was your uk story how was your story from germany how did you manage to get into Japan?
well actually i'm like currently living in france but it was pretty simple to get the visa
and exchange some money like the visa had like in three days so it was pretty simple uh but like
you have to check also with your like telephone company and health insurance like to just tell them that you're going
and get things sorted out - getting everything prepped
was it hard for you to come to Japan or was it?
that's pretty easy from Taiwan to here yeah so it's not so difficult for me yeah
so those are some of the things that the foreigners mentioned but we have actually done
tons of videos on advice on manners of if you want to work in Japan if you want to live in
Japan if you just want to visit Japan we've done tons of videos we have already done all the hard
work for you so be sure to check out this video here if you're curious about coming to Japan
visiting Japan not actually making everyone angry about you when you come to Japan
be sure to check this one out thanks so much for hanging out this was CathyCat and i'll
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