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Originally Posted by tenmins
So what is the first emotion you felt when you were walking down the street in Japan and you suddenly saw another foreigner?
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My heart and stomach sank. I just felt
everything else in the world shut off, and my sole focus was those people. I stopped in my tracks, and attempted to hear the language they were speaking etc.
I then just felt very depressed for a little, and then I just kept seeing more and more before I had the chance to regain myself.
I counted how many seconds between each easily distinguishable White person I saw: less than a minute each. Thats a lot.
I asked around and was told I'd only see like... 10 foreigners a day in even the busiest areas. More in Roppongi, but I had no interest in going there.
So this low number made me confident.
But alas the estimates were WAY under. In one day I counted near 250 foreigners while I was outside, in the Akihabara area.
250. This destroyed my early hopes and basically set the tone for my entire trip. :/