Pros & Cons to Living in Japan 🇯🇵
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Ever wondered what the positive & negatives are to living in Japan? Let us share our experiences with you!
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Would you guys have any pros or cons to add? Let us know!
emma/sarah comedic chemistry on point as always
I swear, they've done this video like 25 times. But I guess it always gets the views/clicks/comments. Emma and Sarah are just that good and cool
As time goes by things change, perspectives change. So an update now and then isn't a bad idea. Specially now with the Yen being low.
it's new to me
Oh god, Emma, that tiny apartment tour was 8 years ago?… I feel OLD, that literally sent me into a mild identity crisis
That's nothing. Just wait until you reach 40.
"The Laughing Devil (Emma.)" I REALLY hope that becomes more of a thing in Tokyo Creative/Tokidoki lore.
Having a friend named Emma made me screenshot that instantly and send to her. I refrained from writing "This explains a lot", cause you don't really wanna mess with a laughing devil.
I've been to Japan 5 times and this video makes me wanna go back again😂
Last year i finally came to tokyo after wanting to my entire life. I’m 34 and came on a student visa. It really sucks I can’t use the working holiday system but I’ll try to swap to a working visa next year because I love it here so much!!! It’s not impossible when you’re older, just a lot more hoops to jump through
I like that Japan has kept so much of their heritage. I wish the rest of the word wasn’t so westernized. I want to be able to submerge into the cultures of different countries. Understanding our differences so we can learn from one another is important and makes us individually better people. We have lost so many wonderful differences by trying to be as one culture.
Trying to get to Japan next year. Took forever to get my passport. You two make coming to Japan, let alone living in Japan, the adventure of a lifetime.
You had me at “Goodbye PR.” Anyway, the convenience factor at the metro cities is huge. Folks don’t put a dollar value on that until they go to a place where they have to own a vehicle to do anything.
As someone that sees moving to Japan as a possibility in the future, I love watching videos like these. Amazing list of pros and cons. A great follow up video to this would be your experiences about some of the more “paper work” side of things. What were those things you had to find out on your own? What do some of those processes look like? What are some of the resources you have used as an ex pat in Japan?
I am an American living in Japan and I went back to America 5 times last year so traveling is not too bad.
i just had 2 amazing weeks in Japan and loved every single thing about it. You're right the Yen to AUD was super amazing and everything was super cheap compared to here in Australia. Go now if you're planning on going.
Very important pros & cons!! Economy has its high and lows so I really hope Japan gets better for its citizens cause I still want to live there
Your hair is looking lovely Sarah 👍
Both your faces when you mentioned BJ 😂!
More Emma and Sarah!
I'm a super persnickety detail oriented person and I actually weirdly kind of am... soothed... by all the paperwork and order that Japan has? I straight up enjoyed trying to figure out how to do our gomi correctly. I also am fully aware that I am not normal.
Im a regular visitor to Japan. Love checking in with the Commonwealth expats, I can easily distinguish from tourists.
I definitely relate to the points about walkability + cyclability of tokyo vs sydney haha. In sydney all the cycling rules and conditions held me back from getting a bike, but now living in tokyo it's so easy and convenient to casually ride anywhere using bike share (sydney tried to implement those but kept failing).
Oh, wow. I wasn't aware at all. I though America and Canada were the only car-centred countries.
I am more concerned about the poor attitude of drivers towards bike riders in Sydney. 😱
@@Don_Giovanni It certainty depends on where you live
Big con of Japan is that it's not handicapped accessible. Stairs are everywhere! Elevators are rare.
Aloha from Maui 🌈 I'm enjoying the last 10 days of my month in Fukuoka. I am looking forward to calling Japan home when I finish at UH Manoa in about 2 years. You both are great and I am always looking forward to your videos. Thanks for all the laughs, good information, and inspiration. 行ってきます 🙂
The walkability of Japan I can't even imagine how amazing it is 🥲 been living in SoCal my whole life and needing a car for everything SUCKS
I feel like the majority of this video was "Pros & Cons of Living in Tokyo" :P A lot of the points in this video work if you live in Tokyo or one of the other big cities, but even then, some stuff like food options or how nice things are for cyclists are thrown out the window if you go to a place like Nagoya.
My mum and my sister are very close, and stay with each other about one month a year, but from experience I know if they lived together or saw each other everyday they would fall out and it would be bad. Like being in a super hot onsen, it's nice for a while but you wouldn't want it forever.
All good things to know!!!
💯% agree with your points 👌😊
As an American who lives in a walkable city of 3000 people, that aspect of Japan really didn't impress me. Most Japanese cities of similar size offer similar levels of walkability, the difference is in the big cities and their suburbs, that is where it is noticeable. On the other hand The ice cream vending machines though were pretty nice, and some of the natural sites are incredible, although the US has similar sites as well.
Me doing a double take and having to rewind thinking they said:
DROP YOUR PANTS! COME TO JAPAN! 🤣
working in Japan for two and a half years, when you wake up on Saturday, you are in Japan.
The cost of living in Australia is also bad right now along with many other countries.
Laughing Devil (kanji) made me LOL 🙂Change you name before moving here 🙂 Listed cons sounded so familiar. When Tokyo Lens presented hermit who lived in the countryside school it also felt familiar, because sometimes when you live in isolated area it requires skills to live (heat oven, carry water, make food,... just thoughts countryside vs urban life.. and they both have pros and cons..)
Literally flying to japan tomorrow to live and the end was really reassuring 🥰
Don't forget to drop your pen, to make it really official!
Leaving friends wasn't difficult for me, didn't really have any xD Paperwork is often considered to be a con, but I guess the biggest con is working here. Work pressure is high and companies for teaching English are often toxic underpaying places. ^^"
Very interesting. Would love to hear more points of view from people living and working in Japan outside of the content creator world
Filling out forms. The struggle is real.
Tokyo is considered bike friendly? For a Dane (from Copenhagen) it doesn't seem particularly so with what I am used to.
I am from Sweden and lived in a Tokyo suburb for a bit. I biked everywhere in the suburbs but i wouldn't dare to bike in central Tokyo 😅💀
Try Sydney/Australia...
They said compared to America and Australia.
I feel like we have a reached an era of Emma being more comfortable with themselves and I love that
“Emma being more comfortable with themselves”? You’re mixing a singular “Emma” with a plural “themselves”. Try again.
@@warrenj3204It’s probably because of different pronouns.
Emma’s pronouns are literally in her bio you muppet. The irony of misgendering her…
Thank you very much for your posting!
This theme is very interesting!
Well it would be a quick walk in a city for ice, a lot of cities have convenience stores no?
They tried that thing with the rentable e-scooters and e-bikes here in Germany (and probably in many other countries), too. And let me tell you, this is something that I believe only really works out in a place like Japan where people actually treat stuff that doesn't belong to them with care and respect. Here, people just left their rented e-scooters and bikes standing around everywhere when they didn't need them anymore, threw them in rivers or vandalized them in other ways. Plus, the general carelessness of people using them and the fact that German cities aren't really built for cycling led to a lot of accidents.
Girls, I'm subscribed to both of you. I was in Japan 1 time for a short time when I was a sailor. I even managed to buy a right-hand drive car, which I had to throw out as a result. I just have a question.: are you going to continue to connect your life with Japan or are you going to return to Australia and start your life from scratch.
My husband suggested moving to Japan, and man is it tempting to try and see if we can do it. Do you have any thoughts on Tokyo vs Osaka? I've heard Osaka is a bit more liberal, outgoing, and easier to live in as an ex pat
Love you girls
how's the overcrowded in japan and diff charges from foreigners/locals?
@ 10:35 True
Chicago is a walkable city and public transportation is very accessible
When you are not getting mugged, raped, or shot.
Well I have some problems booking stuff online with 2 names and 2 surnames... But aside of fighting forms online, no problem for the rest
So tempted to try living in Japan for a while. I've had enough of NZ lol
yeah i paybills online so yeah i don't have to even go anywhere same with food or anything
I am planning to go next year to study Japanese for 1 or 2 years (I'm 35!) but my biggest fear is that I have dysphagia (cannot swallow solid food, only liquids) soooo... kind of having second thoughts now
Did you know that Japan has all 4 seasons?
Actually bike parking can be a problem in tokyo if you don't know the rules, you can't just park your bike anywhere like you can in many countries
"Bill Joe... BJ!!!" - 😂
Thanks for fixing the colors. 👍
I am in Tokyo on a Student Visa right now and I stayed on a working holiday visa before working at different places.
I am not 100% sure I want to stay after the two years yet ... I love Japan and I want to stay but sadly working for money is super important (I'd rather get money without working though 😅) and the working environment in Japan is sooooo bad especially if I compare to Germany ...
10 days off work vs 30 days
no paid sick days vs paid sick days
~1000¥ minimum wage vs 12€ ( ~2100¥) Minimum wage
and not to forget being kinda forced to go to 飲み会 after work and having to work overtime without getting paid for it and the strickt hierarchy and such.
Also where is the low rent? ^^V
I pay 100.000¥ for 24m² ... in my "expensive" home country I pay ~100.000¥ for 60m² in a big expensive city
the paperwork, why must we fill out so much paperwork! 😔
A Foreigner in Japan will always stay a foreigner there.
Even Hafu's are considered as foreigners.
what happened to the dude with the fro?
Great as usual. Question: y'all were discussing how safe Japan is as it was 30 years ago too when I lived there. But in the early 90s unwanted touching on trains was bad. All my female friends had at least one story. Even I, a 6ft 1, broad shouldered guy was groped on a train. Is that better now? I know Osaka has women only train cars. I'm hoping this was better . It was no big deal for me but I certainly wasn't asking for it and can understand why it would be disturbing.
Worse now because there are more people.
@@Mwoods2272 that's very unfortunate
お二人共、ずっと日本に居てくれるのでしょうか😂
girl on right took laughing gas
too bad they don't make stamps with your address in kanji
Many of the cons are just cons cocerning moving abroad, not Japan specifically. Other than that - a good video,as usual :)
What if your Japan name doesn't match your passport?
As a side hustle, why don't the two of you start a business assisting foreigners in filling out forms? LoL!
I did not know sarah worked for black company :(
at around 0:38 Sera looks off screen like someone is holding a gun and just waiting for her to not look enthused.
And let me tell you, I lolled.
Japan is expensive bro
R u both single ? Just curious
haha bill joe BJ
Sadly America is not walkable. But for car owners it's their peace and quiet from going to and fro and jamming out to music. I wouldn't trade it to be in a city that forces me to walk just for something fast as a pickup at Walmart. My exercise is from HIIT workouts. No thanks.
BJ 😂
wait, Japan has four seasons? NO way Spring exists.
Nah, we have deadly humid summer and a harsh winter now.
Forgot to mention Racism and Xenophobia
Tokyo isnt japan
When your in Japan and your name is Johann Gambolputty... de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle- dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz- ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer- spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein- nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut- gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm 😨😰😱🤯