I love the food... not only the unique flavors and delicacies, but the variety. That is both Japanese food, as well as Indian, Brazilian, Thai, Chinese, French, Italian, etc.

I also love the collector spirit.

I didn't like that if I wanted to stay out passed midnight I had to stay out all night, or take an expensive taxi home.

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What do you mean???

I agree to your point with staying past midnight, but then I am not a night person, so it doesn't bother me..

Looks like Humidity is up there on everyone's hate list:) Doesn't bother me though, probably because I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Asia, pretty used to it

These types of questions are always hard for me to answer as I end up spending too much time trying to recall stuff from Life Before Japan so that my answers are Japan specific and not just things I love and hate about life.

But that is a pain, so here are my answers of the moment.

I love feeling safe pretty much anywhere I go. I love being able to just walk over to the local combini in the middle of the night without worrying about what could be lurking in the shadows. I love being able to go anywhere and not be concerned about whether it is a "bad part of town". An extension of this is the lack of a mainstream drug culture, which is a seriously big thing for me having grown up in the thick of it...

Something I hate... Besides the heat and the frustration of Cool Biz at the moment - I hate how schools do not tell you anything until the last minute. I HATE having to run all over town to find something we need tomorrow. If you are going to need six toilet paper rolls and three empty milk cartons... Tell me more than two days ahead, please. I do not drink milk and use toilet paper at that pace. :rolleyes:


ETA; I personally love driving in Japan. I love driving tiny little roads in the mountains, I love road trips here. Trains are great, but there are so many fascinating places that are too far from stations to be easy to get to.

I love the fact no one really gets in your face about anything. No beggars walking up to you and saying,"Hey, got a quarter/dollar?"

I hate the fact that, being a big guy, I can't buy any clothes there. A Japanese XL is a L and a XXL is an XL, etc. I like to wear t-shirts a size bigger and I find it hard to buy XXL items there, especially sports-related merchandise because it's not usual for a buy guy to wander in. Why stock what won't readily sell?

I just thought I'd add those because they're not the "normal" answers people here will give....

I love shouchu topped up with fanta grape. The best thing about Japan for me is the theme tunes the trains have.

I hate when the temperature goes higher than 20℃.

Oh yeah. Done that a few times. :D

best,

................john

Japan breeds collecting and hobbying. There are entire stores, conventions and magazines dedicated to everything collectable. Look how JR puts different shinkansen on different lines. They start 'em young with Stamp Rallies all around (getting a free stamp book, and you have to travel from place to place to get stamps and them redeem for a prize). Go to practically anyone's house and ask to see their manga... invariably there will be a series 20+ volumes long they have collected. Whether it is trains, toys, comics, motorcycles... you name it, you can collect it in Japan.

Oh, collectors as in, well collectors.. i thought you mean something else..

Yeah, I do railway model and collect figures myself..

I suppose thats also something i love about japan...

Love tokusatsu.

Hate...racist old men. That'll do.

Loves: quality of food (other than japanese), cleanliness, safety, service (both from stores and restaurants), being able to drink in public, onsens, public transport

Dislikes (i don't like the word hate): humidity, the way nomikai are seen as a requirement almost..and the frequency that they keep people away from their families, uhh can't think of much atm