Since I mentioned that I went to one of the 3 most scenic spots in Japan (Miyajima Island) in an earlier blog but didn't know the other 2 spots ... Japan's three most scenic places, selected several centuries ago, are of Matsushima, Miyajima and Amanohashidate. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2250.html
My daily snack has been sekihan, which is red beans and rice. I’d find it at 7/11 stores or Daily Yamazaki stores. Healthy and travels well.
Japan is incredibly clean and free of trash, yet garbage cans aren’t easily found. I had to carry garbage around searching for a place to dispose of it. Sometimes I'd sneak into a fast food place to use their garbage. They did have recycling bins, but they were a bit confusing figuring out which bin was combustible v. can v. bottle, etc. from icons on the bins.
I don’t think Japanese believe in paper products. They don’t have paper towels in restrooms, and they don’t seem to use napkins at meals.
Dennis and I have decided that the "Tokyo Look" for 20something women is VERY short shorts or dresses with black knee highs worn above the knee with boots, a short top, and a jacket and scraf because it's cold! I wonder what they wear in January?
Trains in Japan are amazingly accurate, like in Europe. And the computer systems that run all these trains much be incredibly complex -- there are so many trains running in and out of stations at different speeds, stopping or not stopping in which station, etc. Even though we were riding bullet trains for a week, I didn't really understand their speed until one whizzed through a station while we were standing on the track platform. Within 4 seconds it had sped through!
Diet coke tastes different in Japan than in the US. It's sweeter.
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YES! Another confirmation that Diet Coke tastes different outside the U.S. It does taste sweeter and I've noticed the sweeter flavor is consistent from Japan to Germany to Mexico and Costa Rica. I've glanced at the ingredients when I could and I haven't figured out the difference, unless it's just quantity of sweetener and not a different sweetener.
By the way, if you drink the Diet Coke with Splenda in the U.S. it approximates the DC in other countries. IMHO.
Doesn't red bean give you gas?? Japanese like to use real towels, thus they can be recycle and washed and use again.
If Dennis' memories were still intact, he will tell you that the basic style of short dresses and that all haven't changed much since the 1970s.
Orange Fanta taste differently as well...they taste better in Britain then they do in US. I supposed each drink is tailor-made for each nation's taste. I bet an average Japanese drining American diet coke would think that it bit on the stale side without the sweet taste.
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