jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Surprised at the proximity of souvenir vendors and street hawkers inside temple grounds. Felt tacky 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026No one wears rain jackets since it's too hot and humid. Foldable umbrellas, which double as parasols, are the way 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026The deer in Nara really do bow, and are more aggressive than you'd think 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Dotonburi does not feel like a real place. Like it's Disneyland or something 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026It's very silly, but I did miss having English tea, and it's very hard to find. Had to make do with the milk tea bottles they have everywhere 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Bus drivers have headset mics on with a PA and individually thank everyone when they pay. In Japan, the bus driver thanks you! 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026The way you use buses depends on the city. Kyoto and Nikko: enter from the back, leave from the front, pay when you get off Tokyo: enter from the front, exit from the back, pay when you get on 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026A lot of TV shows, even the news, seems to be structured like a magazine show 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026This was especially noticeable in Kyoto, but most cities are built in valleys, since the country is like 90% mountain, so you get very cool cityscapes of flat roads leading to endless rows of hills on the horizon in every direction which you don't really see here 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026DonKi is overwhelming in a good way, but not good when you are fresh off a 13 hour flight 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Basically no one is a vegetarian, which is funny for a country that used to be very Buddhist. Would have expected the culinary culture to have persistent somehow 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026All the buildings make use of vertical space well. Each building on a shopping street has at least 5 floors, with each floor being its own business. A lot of traipsing up stairs and opening anonymous doors to see if you found the right place 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026I'm amazed at the single purpose shopping streets. I went to Kappabashi and it's just one massive street with every shop selling kitchenware and restaurant supplies (I bought a knife) 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026The consistency of the convenience stores is very cool. I wish more of them had their own branded socks so I can collect them all 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026A lot of chain stores also have their own jingles. Donki is the most famous, but also FamiMart, HardOff, BookOff, Daiso 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Train lines have their own jingle, which plays when a train arrives and departs. This is either very charming or extremely irritating depending on who you are 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026The IC card system is incredible. Each city seems to have their own Oyster card, which is interoperable nationally, for all public transport, and also serves as a general payment method (can use it to pay at a lot of shops and vending machines) 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Hotels provide pyjamas! Super Hotel did fit me, but Prince hotel had only a small robe like thing that made me look like an evil scientist in a lab coat 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Train and bus doors are pocket doors instead of sliding outwards. Wonder if there is a reason for that 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026No bins anywhere! Probably the single most annoying thing. I actually took this picture of a bin I saw inside temple grounds because it was such a rare sight 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Vending machines really are everywhere, and very nice. Especially when they vend both hot and cold drinks 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Traffic lights are horizontal, compared to the UK in which they are vertical 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 05/10/2026Thread of small things I noticed whilst in Japan (before I forget) 110
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 23/09/2026The need to commission a study on the choices of western music played at Japanese stores 010
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 04/09/2026Forgot to add water to the rice cooker and now I have a solid block of hot rice 010
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 28/08/2026I wonder of the aesthetics of Soviet communism would be different if the weather wasn't so cold? 100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 24/08/2026Do people listen to bad albums the same way that people watch bad movies? 000
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 10/08/2026Turning 30 really does flip on the Steely Dan appreciation switch in your brain 000
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 09/08/2026Learning that I can't have "ok boomer" in my alcohol advertising: www.asa.org.uk/advice-onlin... 000
Reposted by jai_ /// जयAnu C. @anumation.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Rajkumari Zelda, 2026 edition ✨ 4214100
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 21/07/2026Microwave that has rave strobe lights instead of a beeper to indicate when it's done 000
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 04/07/2026The more I think about it, the funnier it is that GCP europe-west-2 is just 3 warehouses in Slough 010
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 23/06/2026What the current summer feels like: <END SCENE OF END OF EVANGELION AFTER THE THIRD IMPACT BUT WITH KIER STARMERS FACE INSTEAD OF LILLITH> 000
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 06/06/2026Finding out why Geoff Keighley is in love with Video Game Oscars as a concept 010
jai_ /// जय @jai.moe · 04/06/20261 million years dungeon to the people operating 2-stroke hedge trimmers outside my flat intermittently since 8am 010
