@@chrisfrench9257 nope, never! here in the US 🇺🇸 you have to click/select the button corresponding to the desired floor. At least that’s been my experience. I personally find it interesting how these meaningless things can be absolutely different in other countries. For example, vehicles having the driver side on the right side instead of the left side is super odd but actually quite interesting at the same time.
@marycelalopez Why is that interesting? It's the same concept. In both scenarios, the driverside is still on the interior side of the road while the passengerside is on the outside. I'm from the USA, by the way. You can select whatever floor you wish to go to without issue. However, you can select any floor you wish, even if you aren't going to that floor. That's why being able to unselected a floor is an interesting and potentially good idea. The elevator will go to the floors in order of selection. Double tapping a floor to remove the selection seems thoughtful, but it does create another issue. However, most people aren't that rude to simply change your selection in front of you, and the ones who are will find a foot up there ass eventually.
As a woman living in Japan it’s really odd to hear other people unfamiliar with the country saying it’s the safest place on earth. The woman in the video obviously was able to walk around at night w her bf, but this place can get really gross and scary when alone, especially as a woman. While there aren’t much robbery and similar crimes, SA is rampant, and not to be too depressing, but I don’t know a single woman above 18 here that hasn’t experienced something uniquely horrible connected to SA. It’s incredibly normalised, not talked about enough, and to everyone staying in Japan, please stay safe. Edit: thank you for the kind wishes and for sharing experiences. I wanted to make something clear. I know Japan is very safe in other regards, but what makes Japan feel unsafe for SA victims is the complete disregard for taking victims seriously, and how useless the police is in helping and solving cases. If you get groped on the train, there is a very big chance no one will do anything. You can be a middle schooler, high schooler, Japanese, non-Japanese, woman, man, anything, and no one will help you. The Japanese women I know have a hard time speaking up, both because of the way they’re raised culturally, and the fact that even if they do, sometimes no one helps them anyway. Japan fetishises rape, non-con and schoolgirls, and does near to nothing to actually acknowledge it and actually do something. Of course this is a deeper issue, but as I mentioned, this place just gets gross in my opinion. This is a bigger problem for Japanese people, and foreigners will probably be lucky enough to escape it. As a white, tall and blonde woman (clearly not Japanese nor east-Asian) there are still many gross things happening to me by both Japanese men and foreign men, but it was at its absolute worse when I was a high school student here, a child, clad in uniform, and this disturbs me. And finally, to those telling me to bring a weapon to protect myself, a foreign friend of mine tried to defend herself by punching a Japanese guy who was sexually assaulting her, and she was deported as the police took the side of the Japanese man, as they often do. Again, stay safe, believe victims, help those in need, and thank you for reading my thoughts on this.
It’s probably your neighborhood honestly. Not to invalidate your experiences but I lived in both poor and wealthy neighborhoods and while I’ve had my share of paranoia nothing really happened. And a most people I know too. There are neighborhoods or districts known for having lots of cases, and SA cases are definitely rampant but I lived in Japan for 4 years as a teen and I could walk home for 20 minutes at night without anything happening. But yeah it’s a huge problem in japan.
Also again. Foreigner perspective greatly limits experience. I don’t mean to say every foreigner is safe and that people won’t try things to foreigner but if you are anything but East Asian (but specifically visually non-Asian) you’re chances for being physically harassed I’ve noticed tend to extremely decrease. It paints Japan as being very crime free and better because this idea ‘I didn’t experience it’ when really there is a much less target on your back to ignore so many of the extreme problems of SA.
@@UnhappytimeaperAnd, of course, the "crime free" label is easier to hold if you don't criminalise or refuse to investigate/prosecute predatory behaviours that factor into the crime statistics in other countries. Behaviours that seem to be normalised (unwanted touching, stalking, ...) and Japanese women are told to just "put up with it". I'm glad that there seems to be some movement to crack down on that, recently. Unfortunately only after a lot of media pressure. It's still true that you're much safer from violent crimes and property crimes in Japan as opposed to the USA.
I love you mentioned this. The sexualization of women in japan IS EXTREMELY normalized, especially through anime and manga. I mean, how many manga/anime can you think of that sexualizes all or most of the female characters, even the minors! I think its harder to think of one that doesn't. The sexualization of teens in those is most disturbing.
@@loulou785741 Most french trains have heating. They are mostly near the floor bc yhe hot air goes up. It's not always very visible since its on the side of the trains
@@mangotuna9197 What kind of train? TGV? TER? RER? Paris métro? I've seen the heater beside the window on TGVs but never a leg heating system like she mentions in the video.
@loulou785741, that's my bad. I didn't see what she meant. I thought she just meant heating near the ground on a train. I didn't understand that it was directly on the legs
@LilJunnie There's murderers in every country, but the 2023 murder rate in Japan is 0.2 murders per 100,000 people, compared to 4.96 per 100,000 for the US and 1.20 per 100,000 for the UK. So, people are 25 times more likely to get murdered in the US, and 6 times more likely to get murdered in the UK, when compared to Japan. Source: world population review website, which gets it's statistics from each countries government.
To those women who are aware & opening our eyes to reality about SA, thanks very much! A city is entirely different after dark, and it’s never a good option to be alone.
Interesting bc when I was in the UK last summer if I was walking in a crowded area, like a busy sidewalk, I couldn't figure out which side of the crowd to be on.
In Sweden, most of these are pretty common too! The unclickable button, the cashier thing, the eleva rule and that children take themselves, most children take the bus, bike or walk to school
And also in rush hour it literally isn’t the safest and fastest way because people line up at the entry instead of going on the ‘walking’ side, also there are safety reasons why people are warned against walking on escalator. I’d know as HK is literally the same with this rule.
@@yechengzheng4997technically the rule in Tokyo at least is that you're not supposed to walk on escalators. It's supposed to be stand and wait on both sides. Basically everyone breaks the rules.
Regarding the kids, they have alarms hanging from their backpacks just in case, also some shops and houses have stickers on their doors indicating they are safe for kids and they can go ask for help in an emergency. Plus quite a few other things to make everything safer
@@archgirl7797nope, it’s an extensive process to have a sticker approved. Background checks, monitoring, paperwork, but most people who file for one around schools are either grandparents who’s adult children moved away and want to help kids, or parents who send their kids to school
Yes! There were stories on this not long ago, about how kids were going missing from trains and it was a big deal because taking the trains on their own is a huge part of Japanese life. That’s why there are the alarms and safe places. Some tourists really are too ignorant of things.
i thought the escalator thing was kinda worldwide. everyone stands on the right (or left, depending on the generally agreed side) and the right is free to walk up
@@ravenapat It was a joke because they *actually* opened up extra registers. They do sometimes in the US, and they're supposed to, but since stores are often so short staffed they either don't bother or can't open up extra during rushes. It's a joke because it was a 'jab' at what the US supposedly does, but showing Japan actually doing it well/consistently. Sarcasm.
"The rest of the world got it all wrong" Having lived in both the Netherlands and Sweden, I can say that at least half of these are normal there as well.
a lot is normal when you live in three of the least diverse countries in the world. socialism works when 95% of the country is of like minded indivuduals with the same goals.
Bro Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are not three of the least diverse countries by a long shot. Germany is the second most immigrated to country in the world, Sweden is famous for its Liberal policies towards asylum seekers, and while the Netherlands isn't quite as good as those two, about 1 in 4 people in the Netherlands aren't Dutch. That doesn't hold a candle to places that are actually monoethnic like China, Poland or South Korea.
The escalator thing applies in London too: I just went there and you stand on the right, walk on the left. This in particular applies in the metro system.
Some of this is Scandinavian too. Children taking public transport, there's self checkout at stores you don't need to stand in line or wait for a cashier. And people respect the lines in escalators. You stand in the right unless you are in a hurry, so you can easily just run through it in the left lane.
Same, although I hate to say it but the traffic etiquette definitely stops when it comes to escalators, I don't think you would enjoy the overall Japanese driver experience LOL.
Please don't take whatever this woman's words seriously, I'm a 24 year old Japanese woman from Tsurui-Japan and my area here is safe but alot and alot of places are NOT SAFE AT NIGHT. it's absolutely horrific and alot of kids go missing, killed, or raped so please be careful where and how you walk through our streets! ❤
Yeah when she mentioned that it sounded like torture lol. Pretty much every train I’ve ever been on in the winter in Europe has too much heat , and they don’t have leg warmers
I still had instances when I was alone at various times of day as a student, and followed onto trains or almost grabbed on the street by drunks. Everyone’s experience is gonna be different and the positive experiences shine harder than the negative but I definitely felt on edge as a woman at night still. They would stare me down so hard I felt disgusting but still safer than being confronted every minute. I hope if you read the comments, don’t feel discouraged to go! I loved Japan I loved being out at night in the city with my friends and meeting people, the night life is where it’s at! I feel safer there at night than in America but just stay safe. Find friends or stay in communication with someone as much as possible. Also validate those with SA experiences they matter.
The problem is all of women who consider a man making a pass at them or even complimenting them to be sexual assault. They marginalize and diminish the women who actually have experienced violent physical assault.
A privacy button for the public bathrooms is a genius idea. I absolutely cannot stand when it’s dead quiet, especially if I’m using a bathroom next to random strangers. 😭
I don't understand. So what if someone hears you shit its a public toilet, what did they expect? Hell, if I hear someone really let one go in the public toilet I'll say something like: "that was so big even I feel better"
@@carhoarder602 It’s not that lol I’m just not a fan of complete silence. For example, I’m just talking about the difference between having zero sound versus turning on an exhaust fan or something with SOME type of noise, or just music lightly playing overhead? It’s like whenever I get home and there’s not any air conditioning or fan turned on and there’s no tv or music so it’s just extremely quiet. I hate that. I need at least a fan running for that little amount of noise it produces.
@@aebalc No it has nothing to do with them hearing me using the bathroom, I just hate COMPLETE silence with no noise from a fan or anything so it’s just weirdly quiet. That’s how I feel about anywhere I go, not just for using a public bathroom.
you ever tried asking the other side "does it feel as good for you as it does for me" or something to that degree? gonne make your day, i can promise :D
“It’s literally safe enough for them to do so” says someone who clearly didn’t grow up in Japan. Sexual assault on trains is RAMPANT. Look it up. An uncomfortable amount of children will say they’ve been sexually abused on a train at least once, whether that’s being groped, touched, or more.
Yes, obviously nowhere is perfect;- but its not as bad as NY or LA or London, in regards to violent sexual crime. Thats the only criticism people bring up when it comes to Japan... The truth is its one of the safest countries in the world. They all share the same values and culture. They said no to diversity and mass immigration and as a result they still have their cultural identity and they have the third largest economy and they're the worlds largest creditor. Please... we in the west should be so lucky.
I live here and… 1. Never seen unclickable buttons 2. Don’t more cashiers come out in other countries? I remember they did in UK/Germany and most EU countries 3. There are places at night in big cities where I would certainly NOT feel safe. It’s generally advised to be careful no matter what. 4. People break these rules all the time during rush hour 😭
In America, it is not uncommon for many stores to only have 2 employees on staff in total. One will be the cashier, and the other a manager either doing paperwork or other tasks in the back. Some chains, like Dollar Tree, do not allow more than 6 total employees to be hired at a given time in order to keep payroll costs down. (which is a shame, these chains can often out price other local stores that have 20+ employees out of business, leaving 14 people forced to change careers or remain unemployed)
I worked at Walgreens before. When the line gets 3+ we get on the intercom and say “IC3, IC3”. Get it, I see three people. That means the stickers have to come and man some registers.
Here in the Philippines, we also have the unclickable buttons and the bidet, as well as the convenience store (7-Eleven). I don't know why this video made it seem like only Japan has it and no country in the world does. Some malls in our country also have a guideline for escalators to walk on the left and stand on the right, but nobody follows them, lol 🤷♂️
@@BellalisDopeIC3 IS SO SMART!! we had “code red” to mean “theres more than 3 people in line and i need help up here” but it started scaring the customers i laugh even thinking abt it now 😭😭
As a teenager living in Poland, I haven't been daily dropped off and picked up from school the moment I started the 2nd semester of 4th grade. Most places in europe actually have safe public transit. Like- they started to teach us public transport etiquette in 1st grade if not earlier.
Same in Québec. I _never once_ was walked to school, not ever. Same for everybody else. Grades 1 to 4 were a short walk away, afterwards it was public transportation until high school when there were school buses. It was a different time.
I want the lamp to be lit when a person has pushed a wall button on a passing floor. The passenger(s) inside will still be able to "unselect" the stop and pass the floor if the elevator is too full - or someone is in a real hurry..
"You can walk around at 3 at night feel completely safe" In my same scroll i literally saw how there are posters on how to not sexually harass a woman, separate train cars for women and well just how sad the situation is
@@grahamlopez3742you watch too many Japanese porno lol no there is no SA on the streets in Japan. I walked around Tokyo during 1-6am all the time no problem.
Japan is beautiful as a tourist but my sister works as an IT consultant there and she has faced SA issues while commuting through train due to ehich she had to shift jobs closer to home and start travelling with bicycle She also loves Japan but for an extrovert like her she admits that Japan is very depressing and that she might move onto the next country her company assigns her to when given the chance
As an indonesian, 1. We can unclick elevator buttons 2. All toilets have bidets 3. We can get solid meals in convenience stores 4. More cashiers come out if the line gets too long 5. We can use our public transportation cards for everything Most countries in asia are similar, but Japan is just really really disciplined!! Theyre amazing people
I saw on Takashi that young kids going somewhere alone will wear little yellow hats which signify that they may require a little bit of help getting to their destination. 🥺
Here in East London I go to the train station every day with my friends and get back in the dark walking through a dangerous common And worrying for my life But in Japan it’s just so much nicer
There was a a girl from the UK in my class and while we were walking to carpool, she was explaining to me how she found the transportation system odd because in the UK, they take public transportation home instead of individual busses, and she said that It'd take like an hour or so to get home. I thought that was odd, but seeing this video make me realize that the United States is literally so unsafe that kids like me are just used to it and would rather question why that's safe rather than why the united states is unsafe. It honestly kind of sad that kids in the US are just desensitized to this and dont even realize how bad it is. Edit: i just asked my mom and she thought the exact same thing that i did. We really need to fix a lot of things in the US, society really is fucked up, i don't even know if theres any saving society anymore.
I mean a lot of stuff like the cashier, elevator and kids getting around on their own is pretty normal in Europe. The last is common like everywhere except North America. I walked myself to preschool. Kids are just little humans and capable of a lot more than North America trusts them with.
In fairness though, most of the US and some other parts of North America aren’t super walkable or don’t offer a ton of options for public transport. They’re specifically designed for movement by cars. Honestly though, even if it was I wouldn’t be surprised if cars or school buses would be used anyways lol
@@Laurel_Lemon I mean the mentality is so different. There is this CZcams that talks about city planning (I don’t remember the name) that got sued for letting his 8 & 10 year olds uns public transport on trained routs. In Canada. Like that’s normal in the rest of the world and in Canada it’s child neglect🤨
It's wild to me that people do that, because that's how your child ends up going missing. I mean preschool? That is just insane. You don't have the reasoning skills as a five-year-old, to understand what is dangerous and what is not like you do when you are teen and older. 💀
@@Sandfrauthat's insane to let a child that young do that.... I think about myself at that age, and how I just didn't understand danger like I did as I got older. That is so terrifying. All it takes is one person, to do something to your child. You only need to look up the sex offender registries around the world, to understand how serious of an issue it is...
NO PLACE on this earth is SAFE. Please never say this. Young women especially hear it so much they assume it’s okay to not use their normal precautions and bad things happen.
True. All vulnerable ppl need to be very careful wherever they go. All these countries that used to claim to be safe have been invaded by ppl of other cultures wh calls for a change of strategy when out and about.
In a lot of states in the USA, you aren’t able to walk around at 3 am safely and I think that is just horrible and same with the kids being able to just go to school by themselves.
In Bulgarian we have some of these things. One, every single kid in Bulgaria goes to school alone with the public transport. Two, almost all of the subways have heated under the seats, so your legs don’t freeze during the winter. And three, when you’re on an elevator, you stay on the right side, so that people can walk on the left one.
I'm in Switzerland and thought the same thing! I love trains having heating in the winter and AC in the summer, people standing on the right side of an escalator so others can pass by easily or more cashiers coming out when the line gets too long.
I live in Japan here are some thoughts. 1. Un-clicking elevators are not exclusive to japan. It’s more depends on the manufacturer. I once used a Schindler elevator in Germany that has this feature as well. 2. Western toilet ( those high tech toilet ) is very common in big cities but not rural parts of japan. But most of them have already caught on. 3. Standing at one side of escalator is a MUST. Which side to stand is depending on region, but never block the walking side especially in metro stations if you don’t want to get cold shouldered by Japanese commuters.
Why are you devaluing every positive thing she said about Japan?? What on earth…your comment reeks of animosity and it is very uncomfortable to observe. Either leave this beautiful nation or seek therapy to figure yourself out. Wtf did I just read…Western toilets??? Nowhere in the US did I find these toilets except private homes where the tenants BOUGHT them. Huh?? The buttons in elevators are COMMON in Japan…and UNCOMMON elsewhere..,that is the point 😂😂🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🙄🙄
Most kids in NYC also take themselves to school. It's an accessibility thing. In most of America, it's unsafe for kids to walk around due to too much car infrastructure, which in turn makes public transit less reliable. So parents HAVE to drive kids to school. But add public transit and safer streets and kids can take it or walk.
I went twice - I would say it’s pretty safe. I wouldn’t say it’s the safest. I’m a woman and went on vacation with my female friend. And we had a guy stalk us to our Airbnb. It was frightening. The positive thing was that we went to a 711 and they helped hold us there and offered to help.
I agree the main reason why they left her alone was because she seemed to always be with her male companion which makes sense. I traveled there for a work trip and as an afro-latina woman I was stalked and leered at often. At one point it felt like I was back home in Latin America with the aggressive sexual interest and it showed so two of my gay male colleagues took pity on me and started hanging out with me to protect me. With two males that weren't interested in me the trip was much more fun since I got less attention from creeps. It was awkward fun being the third wheel in a gay love affair though, I wanted them to enjoy time on their own even though they insisted they were afraid for me so we worked around it so we had a balance since they wouldn't leave me alone after I came back to the hotel shooked up from being groped in the trains. Other than that it's truly such an unique, fun country that I think people should try to experience even once since it does feel like visiting another planet. No one knows how to enjoy every little thing in life like these people do.
This is outsiders perspective which may seem amazing but to live it is a different matter. I grew up there but I removed myself from Japan because of these things. In order to be part of that society, you are stripped of individuality. Japan has the highest conviction rate in the world. This means anyone accused of a crime, you will end up in jail. There are no innocent until proven guilty. More like guilty even innocent. The accusations alone, you will be excommunicated from the community. All the services you were privileged to have will be gone.
Is it safe to say Japan is amazing compared to most other countries? I assume the person that created the video isn’t considering Japan as “heaven” where everything is “perfect.”
The conviction rate isn’t that high because they just convict everyone who’s arrested. It’s that high because they only arrest people who they have enough evidence to guarantee a conviction. So, yeah, you’re going to be an outcast because everyone knows they must have some serious shit on you if you got arrested.
In America, the reason another cashier doesn't come out is because they understaff on purpose to reduce budget. If you don't like it, stop shopping there. The only reason they're doing it is because they're still profiting.
As an American cashier who's worked in retail over 6 years...we do actually do this. XD Maybe not everywhere, obviously I can't speak to every store. But at least ours does, it's a major chain and it's also company policy.
Most of the things mentioned are not just in Japan. I live in the UK and I started going to school myself when I was 9. The first time I ever went out myself I was around 6. The escalator rule is a massive thing in UK, particularly the London Underground. The only people who break it are tourists or people who are new to the system, and they quickly get politely cussed at and trampled over by people in a rush who are late to work. Also, I've been on many lifts where you can unpress a button, so definitely not just in Japan. In literally every supermarket and lots of corner shops here you can get a meal deal for around £3, which is basically a drink of your choice, a snack/side of your choice, and a main of your choice which can be pastas, salads, sandwiches, wraps, sushi, or something else of your choice. Not just Japan.
Same here in Belgium, this is just an American that left the US and is surprised that stuff is different and people respect eachother in other countries. Literally- Thing anywhere else in the world: "ugh so lame, stupid, unoriginal and boring..." Thing in Japan: "omg so awesome, cool, unique and innovative!!!"
ok so that like first clip with the tori gates, its like this huge shrine near kyoto, and i js got back from japan, anyways those gates go all the way up the mountain, and the climb is supposed to take like 3-4 hours but i did it sub 1 with some friends, anyways if you are in japan its well worth the trip cant wait to go back. also mnt fuji is amazing, and i love the escilator thing
Believe it or not I once took the Greyhound from Orlando to Pittsburgh and when the bus broke down, we were near a convenience store that had coolers w all sorts of decent real meal foods and it was open very late. I avoid convenience stores except for an occasional morning coffee while traveling or on vacation, but except for Texas where lots of migrant workers live (that's legitimate migrant workers, not invaders) where they have hot food counters & booths or tables & chairs, I've never seen real food or good food at a convenience store in the States.
The kids taking themselves to school is legit. We were at a train station, gosh I forgot where in Japan, and I saw a four year old girl, nice and sharp in her school uniform, walking alone to her train. I was simultaneously flabbergasted and impressed.
In Germany the kids start going to school alone at age 6 to 7 🤔 a four year old seems a bit too young, because especially when the way is a bit longer (experience from my own 4 year old) they can’t remember the ways completely accurate and that leaves room for getting lost 😅 (and to be clear here: my sons way is 6 stations with one bus, he knows the part where we go by foot very good but on the bus his orientation is not as good and sometimes he mixes up the bus stops. That’s why I think he is still too young.)
Well, 10,000 kids go missing a year in Japan sooo maybe it's not the safest place on the earth and people should reconsider letting their kids travel alone. Guarantee that's when they get snagged by some creep.
I don't think that Japanese children can get to school earlier than 6-7 years. Maybe, you mistook the kindergarten uniform for school? That one with yellow hat.
@@gerax16 I think they're referring to the fact she confidently stated that as a woman you can safely walk around at 3am, despite sexual assault being one of if not the most common crimes in japan
I think the fact that you were with your boyfriend played a huge factor in how safe you were. I went with a group, but almost every time I went out by myself in the evening, I got grabbed or had my ass smacked 😢
@agarsrish It was, but I also had pictures taken of myself and my legs while I was going through the countryside 🤷 and I was with guys as well. I'm snow white with red hair, so I suppose you could say it was due to fascination, but still 🤦♀️
@@desertrose3511 as a japanese person who lives here, SA does not happen all the time on trains lol. you just hear about it online a lot because thats the only common crime that happens in japan.
Late but shes from the us i think forgieners dont realizes just how fucked up the US is can be some of our citys like baltimore has 60-70% of the city as a huge ghetto full of gang violence i have storys my freinds have storys of us walking through really bad parts of european citys and not even knowing that the area was dangerous. Look up baltimore ghetto or kensigton avenue and compare that to japense ghettos there a dinffrance.
If you think japan has it better than the “rest of the world” you haven’t traveled or researched best quality of life. Visiting japan ok. Born in japan deals with shame ,overwork, nearly impossible to date for some, high suicide incidences etc.. every place has similarities and differences but no place is utopia. Weeaboos love the japanese more than the japanese revel in each other, creating (along with anime and manga) a huge hype in western culture that gets excited about every japanese difference- like …wow! Elevator buttons!! Amazing!!! Ooooo!! Ahhhh!!! I’d be more excited about countries with mandatory 8 weeks of vacation, good quality of life. BTW Lots of countries are safe enough for kids to go to school on public transportation. You must be comparing it to the usa to be so astounded.
Why tf is everyone suddenly criticizing Japan all the time. Everyone used to hate Asians, now they love Japan cuz of anime, now everyone’s over that so they go back to criticizing every single thing. Yeah, it’s not a good country but no country is good. Every country sucks and Japan isn’t special
@@bookwormd8627It’s in response to the romanticization of Japan. It’s important to remember that every country has its problems, and those problems should be highlighted so that greater awareness can be brought to them, and hopefully fixed in the future.
@@bookwormd8627its not critisisung. people(especially jaoenese) are tired of the blind glorification of japan when it has igs problems like everywhere else. its like if your dad abuses you but guests who only visit keeps raving about how hes amazing and must be a great advanced modern kind dad!
yeah exactly, they make it sound really amazing when it's cool but not that cool. Also the misconception about how "safe" it is at night whilst walking with her boyfriend at night.
Oh, you're so innocent. Japan is most certainly NOT a safe place, especially for women. Sexual assault is common in Japan, but is severely underreported. If you're a woman walking with your boyfriend/husband, or even just a close male friend, you'll be okay. But if you're traveling as a solo woman, you definitely need to keep an eye on the people around you. Pay attention, keep yourself safe.
I was about to talk about the SA that happens there, but someone already covered it. I was also going to talk about how shit the pay tends to be and the working system but someone already covered that too. Its good to see people informing others.
The escalator thing we have here in Sweden too, although some people deviate from it sometimes, but generally you walk on the left side and stand on the right of it
When I was working in a Japanese company, it had a very demanding job, it was tough. However, the toilet was really great and clean that it was my source of comfort. They polished it every day. The toilet paper was always folded neatly. It smelled really good, too. I haven't seen any better toilets than what I had in there. 😂
Over-compensating “nice conveniences” by Japanese government are some of the tradeoffs for working salaried careers an wageslave jobs for the corporations at 60,80, even 100 hours PER week. The structural worker-bee enslavement system instituted in Japan and other countries literally makes many business men’s lives just working 12 hour workdays 5-6 days/week. It is no way to live long term as free human beings as a westerner imo. Japan is a buddhist, shinto, atheistic/agnostic nation and is very different from the West. There are great things about the Japanese culture, it’s food, and of course it’s great people, however I think the fringes of Japanese society are already approaching a big-tech “distopian cyberpunk” like nature, which is mass surveillance, cameras, and monitoring of it’s citizens. I believe it is one of the nations that has provided the real life blueprint example for the globalists/nwo of using big tech, policing control, business corporations/monopolies and government laws to regulate polite behaviour, non-violence, and utmost respect for authority figures, bosses, etc. All the strict guidelines (some necessary) place 100+ million peoples into a very small space area wise on the map. It’s no wonder that there has to be Sooo many entertaining distractions like outrageous tv shows, neon lights, eating, shopping, drinking, pron industry an prostitution areas that can resemble the main strip in Las Vegas. To placate the masses brave new world style, you need all sorts of fun an outrageous gameshows, neon entertainment, hyper-aesthetic food plating an display, vices, novelties and escapes to distract from the structural underbelly of the corporate system in place. Many americans or westerners couldn’t handle it.
The staying on the one side of escalators so others can walk past you rule is actually in my college campus. I wish it was everywhere, it helps when you are on a rush
I was in Tokyo for a 2 week course and I was having a quick lunch outside and I saw a group of kids walking down the street in two lines. I kid you not but the whole street parted for those kids so they were walking down the middle. The kids were so cute and happy with their matching yellow hats and everyone smiled when they walked past.
The Netherlands has most of these too Trains/metros usually have heating busses too. Kids go to school themselves (I thought this was everywhere?) Escalator rules are also a thing in the Netherlands. Stores also have full meals in the Netherlands (once again thought this was everywhere?) Check out line thing is also in the Netherlands
As a customer, it is great to have shops open at 3 am and employees ready whenever it gets busy, but those employees are probably working overtimes and underpaid because that is the work culture of Japan.
We do the escalator rule in England too, you have to stand on the right side so people on the left can run up if they have somewhere to go. We can easily tell if someone is a tourist because they stand on the left😂
Wish it was like this in the US Instead, you have a bunch of people running right up the middle or standing in the middle of exit and entryways staring at their phones.
To be fair half this stuff also happens in Australia. I’ve been to 16+ countries and I’m currently in Indonesia and the fact I can’t unselect lift buttons has really really annoyed me at the hotel especially when people press the down one and get annoyed as it takes ages and walk the stairs and I’m going up and can’t unselect down.
After 7 years total in Japan, I've never encountered an elevator that had such buttons. I guess newer elevators allow you to unclick buttons, but not all of them for sure.
In Australia, there is the escalator rule. Also, students always travel to and from school by train and it is legit so normal, no one twitches an eye. After school, trains in my area are 99% filled with students in uniform...
and not just trains either..not uncommon for kids to ride their pushies (pushbikes) great distances to school. I was abt 11 i think when I rode to my primary school and recently retraced the way I took in my car and it was up and down hills and a long way 😂 but we just did it, kept us fit and we liked it! ❤
When she says kids I think she means very little kids. When I was in Japan I saw kids as young as 6-7 years old taking trains on their own. They’re taught from a young age to be independent
In São Paulo, Brazil, we have that escalator rule because we are very hasty. It mirrors driving patterns (the lanes in the left have a higher speed limit) it's quite common for us, but people from other regions find it weird lol
they did however say you could just walk around at night because it is that safe in Japan. Which it is not unless you're either male or in a group. @@alphavegas1
Americans don’t let their children walk around like that because of numbers of children that disappeared and were ‘found’ during the golden age of serial killers. And on top of that, fears of predators and rumors of child traffickers kidnapping children have added to that 6 decades old fear. My parents used to trick or treat in the late 60’s as children by themselves, until a couple of children a few years in a row throughout their state (FL) went missing on Halloween and were found…well you can easily find those stories if you’re interested, but they’re f*cked up and graphic. After that in the 70’s, my grandparents refused to let them trick or treat alone and made them go with friends. And they couldn’t go without a TRUSTED adult or group of adults who could keep an eye on them. My mom’s mother was especially insistent on that. My mom continued that with my older sister and I, and we’d either go to her mothers house and trick or treat with my cousins, or they’d come over to our neighborhood. That’s a standard practice now for Americans on Halloween, or you have parties where you can safely give them candy. But you never let go by themselves anywhere like in Japan, you’re asking for them to become a morbid statistic.
Are you team bidet 💦 or team toilet paper 🧻?
Bidet hands down. Ew toilet paper doesn’t do shit. Unhealthy 🤢
Team bidet after cleaning up with toilet paper
I rather not choose, I'm Italian and I'm fine with both.
Both obviously.. First paper and then wash that area clean and fresh!
Team baby wipes
Imagine being in an elevator with a stranger and they just unclick your floor… 💀
That elevator button one got me so confused. To me it makes sense to click the floor you want/need to go to. 😅
@marycelalopez never been on an elevator with all the buttons selected before, eh?
I would be that stranger 🤭
@@chrisfrench9257 nope, never! here in the US 🇺🇸 you have to click/select the button corresponding to the desired floor. At least that’s been my experience. I personally find it interesting how these meaningless things can be absolutely different in other countries. For example, vehicles having the driver side on the right side instead of the left side is super odd but actually quite interesting at the same time.
@marycelalopez Why is that interesting? It's the same concept. In both scenarios, the driverside is still on the interior side of the road while the passengerside is on the outside.
I'm from the USA, by the way. You can select whatever floor you wish to go to without issue. However, you can select any floor you wish, even if you aren't going to that floor. That's why being able to unselected a floor is an interesting and potentially good idea. The elevator will go to the floors in order of selection. Double tapping a floor to remove the selection seems thoughtful, but it does create another issue. However, most people aren't that rude to simply change your selection in front of you, and the ones who are will find a foot up there ass eventually.
As a woman living in Japan it’s really odd to hear other people unfamiliar with the country saying it’s the safest place on earth. The woman in the video obviously was able to walk around at night w her bf, but this place can get really gross and scary when alone, especially as a woman. While there aren’t much robbery and similar crimes, SA is rampant, and not to be too depressing, but I don’t know a single woman above 18 here that hasn’t experienced something uniquely horrible connected to SA. It’s incredibly normalised, not talked about enough, and to everyone staying in Japan, please stay safe.
Edit: thank you for the kind wishes and for sharing experiences. I wanted to make something clear. I know Japan is very safe in other regards, but what makes Japan feel unsafe for SA victims is the complete disregard for taking victims seriously, and how useless the police is in helping and solving cases. If you get groped on the train, there is a very big chance no one will do anything. You can be a middle schooler, high schooler, Japanese, non-Japanese, woman, man, anything, and no one will help you. The Japanese women I know have a hard time speaking up, both because of the way they’re raised culturally, and the fact that even if they do, sometimes no one helps them anyway. Japan fetishises rape, non-con and schoolgirls, and does near to nothing to actually acknowledge it and actually do something. Of course this is a deeper issue, but as I mentioned, this place just gets gross in my opinion. This is a bigger problem for Japanese people, and foreigners will probably be lucky enough to escape it. As a white, tall and blonde woman (clearly not Japanese nor east-Asian) there are still many gross things happening to me by both Japanese men and foreign men, but it was at its absolute worse when I was a high school student here, a child, clad in uniform, and this disturbs me. And finally, to those telling me to bring a weapon to protect myself, a foreign friend of mine tried to defend herself by punching a Japanese guy who was sexually assaulting her, and she was deported as the police took the side of the Japanese man, as they often do.
Again, stay safe, believe victims, help those in need, and thank you for reading my thoughts on this.
It’s probably your neighborhood honestly. Not to invalidate your experiences but I lived in both poor and wealthy neighborhoods and while I’ve had my share of paranoia nothing really happened. And a most people I know too. There are neighborhoods or districts known for having lots of cases, and SA cases are definitely rampant but I lived in Japan for 4 years as a teen and I could walk home for 20 minutes at night without anything happening. But yeah it’s a huge problem in japan.
Also again. Foreigner perspective greatly limits experience. I don’t mean to say every foreigner is safe and that people won’t try things to foreigner but if you are anything but East Asian (but specifically visually non-Asian) you’re chances for being physically harassed I’ve noticed tend to extremely decrease. It paints Japan as being very crime free and better because this idea ‘I didn’t experience it’ when really there is a much less target on your back to ignore so many of the extreme problems of SA.
@@UnhappytimeaperAnd, of course, the "crime free" label is easier to hold if you don't criminalise or refuse to investigate/prosecute predatory behaviours that factor into the crime statistics in other countries. Behaviours that seem to be normalised (unwanted touching, stalking, ...) and Japanese women are told to just "put up with it". I'm glad that there seems to be some movement to crack down on that, recently. Unfortunately only after a lot of media pressure.
It's still true that you're much safer from violent crimes and property crimes in Japan as opposed to the USA.
I love you mentioned this. The sexualization of women in japan IS EXTREMELY normalized, especially through anime and manga. I mean, how many manga/anime can you think of that sexualizes all or most of the female characters, even the minors! I think its harder to think of one that doesn't. The sexualization of teens in those is most disturbing.
Need to keep this comment at the top. Japan is great, but no place is great without its downsides. Standards are different everywhere! Stay safe!
I live in Europe, and we have the cashier thing, the leg heating thing, the kids going to school alone thing and the "elevator etiquette" thing too!
Where in Europe? I've never seen the leg heating thing in France or anywhere else in Western Europe
In London but not on the underground only leg warm things on some of the overground lines
@@loulou785741
Most french trains have heating.
They are mostly near the floor bc yhe hot air goes up. It's not always very visible since its on the side of the trains
@@mangotuna9197 What kind of train? TGV? TER? RER? Paris métro? I've seen the heater beside the window on TGVs but never a leg heating system like she mentions in the video.
@loulou785741, that's my bad. I didn't see what she meant. I thought she just meant heating near the ground on a train. I didn't understand that it was directly on the legs
i’m studying in japan and it’s crazy how the convenience stores are actually convenient
Ya'll please remember that in ALL countries you must exercise caution when travelling even if it is japan.
There's literally a convicted cannibal murderer on the loose in Japan
They also have the yakuza
@@LilJunnie WHAT
@LilJunnie There's murderers in every country, but the 2023 murder rate in Japan is 0.2 murders per 100,000 people, compared to 4.96 per 100,000 for the US and 1.20 per 100,000 for the UK. So, people are 25 times more likely to get murdered in the US, and 6 times more likely to get murdered in the UK, when compared to Japan.
Source: world population review website, which gets it's statistics from each countries government.
Japan doesn't have diversity. But, they do have many creepy men .
To those women who are aware & opening our eyes to reality about SA, thanks very much! A city is entirely different after dark, and it’s never a good option to be alone.
Umm..could u pls tell me what does SA mean...I'm not sure. Is it something like sex abuse or sex offender?
@@MxgicalStxrsSexual Assault
@@MxgicalStxrs $exual a$$ault basically
@@MxgicalStxrsSA = Sexual assault. Like being groped, touched in a sexual way without your consent
Samuel colt did more to equalize the genders than every feminist movement could ever hope to.
Uk here, the school, cashier and train escalator things are things here too
Interesting bc when I was in the UK last summer if I was walking in a crowded area, like a busy sidewalk, I couldn't figure out which side of the crowd to be on.
@@leahyvonne1572 Walking on the pavement wasn't mentioned though?
In Sweden, most of these are pretty common too! The unclickable button, the cashier thing, the eleva rule and that children take themselves, most children take the bus, bike or walk to school
It's only because she's from the US. The us might've been the greatest but when it comes to the small stuff like this it's far behind
The escalator rule isn’t just in Japan
It's not, except for the "no one breaks this rule" part.
@@yechengzheng4997 they do break it tho 💀
And also in rush hour it literally isn’t the safest and fastest way because people line up at the entry instead of going on the ‘walking’ side, also there are safety reasons why people are warned against walking on escalator. I’d know as HK is literally the same with this rule.
@@yechengzheng4997technically the rule in Tokyo at least is that you're not supposed to walk on escalators. It's supposed to be stand and wait on both sides. Basically everyone breaks the rules.
I have always just assumed that this is the rule everywhere
Regarding the kids, they have alarms hanging from their backpacks just in case, also some shops and houses have stickers on their doors indicating they are safe for kids and they can go ask for help in an emergency. Plus quite a few other things to make everything safer
i feel like the 'safe' stickers thing could easily be abused by people with bad intentions, no?
@@archgirl7797 I think they have to file a ton on paperwork to be given one, and really policed
@@archgirl7797nope, it’s an extensive process to have a sticker approved. Background checks, monitoring, paperwork, but most people who file for one around schools are either grandparents who’s adult children moved away and want to help kids, or parents who send their kids to school
OH
THAT'S WHAT THOSE STICKERS WERE?
DAMN THANK U I WAS WONDERING THAT EVER SINCE I LEFT JAPAN A MONTH AGO😭😭😭
Yes! There were stories on this not long ago, about how kids were going missing from trains and it was a big deal because taking the trains on their own is a huge part of Japanese life. That’s why there are the alarms and safe places. Some tourists really are too ignorant of things.
i thought the escalator thing was kinda worldwide. everyone stands on the right (or left, depending on the generally agreed side) and the right is free to walk up
It would be hilarious if the privacy mode in the bathrooms just made loud poop sounds 😂
😂😂😂
The cashier thing is not 'only' in Japan. It's normal in a lot countries that if the waiting line is too long they open new cash register.
exactly was a little confused when that was said. like, that’s in america too, the place everyone hates😂
im pretty sure it was a joke guys
@@ravenapatit ... was a joke 😅😅😅
@@runa_7022 no it wasn't how is that a joke?? this video is talking about good things in japan
@@ravenapat It was a joke because they *actually* opened up extra registers. They do sometimes in the US, and they're supposed to, but since stores are often so short staffed they either don't bother or can't open up extra during rushes. It's a joke because it was a 'jab' at what the US supposedly does, but showing Japan actually doing it well/consistently. Sarcasm.
"The rest of the world got it all wrong"
Having lived in both the Netherlands and Sweden, I can say that at least half of these are normal there as well.
She is american..she thinks america is the centre of the world.😒🙄
She’s an american, they think all the world revolves around them.
Same in Germany :D
a lot is normal when you live in three of the least diverse countries in the world.
socialism works when 95% of the country is of like minded indivuduals with the same goals.
Bro Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are not three of the least diverse countries by a long shot. Germany is the second most immigrated to country in the world, Sweden is famous for its Liberal policies towards asylum seekers, and while the Netherlands isn't quite as good as those two, about 1 in 4 people in the Netherlands aren't Dutch. That doesn't hold a candle to places that are actually monoethnic like China, Poland or South Korea.
Best country I've visited, we loved the people as much as these nice little touches.
The escalator thing applies in London too: I just went there and you stand on the right, walk on the left. This in particular applies in the metro system.
"Ah the toilet's singing, Kiko's taking a dump"
😂😂😂
So you're telling me I could give that toilet absolutely hell on the private setting and it would drown out the 9 car accident sound following? 🤔
😂😂😂☠️
You good homie?? 😂
There’s only one way to find out 😂😂
Have tested and can confirm that it absolutely does not drown out the noise. The looks I got when I exited were those of the emotionally damaged.
@@gonzarellious6102 🤣🤣
We need the escalator etiquette over here in Australia. Definitely. Maybe not so much the heated items.
Some of this is Scandinavian too. Children taking public transport, there's self checkout at stores you don't need to stand in line or wait for a cashier. And people respect the lines in escalators. You stand in the right unless you are in a hurry, so you can easily just run through it in the left lane.
Wow the escalator thing made me think of how mad I get when driving and people don’t get out of the left lane.. 😅
Same, although I hate to say it but the traffic etiquette definitely stops when it comes to escalators, I don't think you would enjoy the overall Japanese driver experience LOL.
Thankfully there aren't a ton of drivers
@@Mr.Sr.Jr.also, the people on bikes can be kinda crazy haha. Like, they aint stopping or changing their path for anything! 😂
We do this in London too
“And no one breaks this rule”
Until an American tourist shows up seemingly using an escalator for the first time in their life…🙄
In Europe more cashiers also turn up when there is a longer queue too.
We just wait. But ppl are much more patient since the pandemic. There's a lot less swearing snd grumbling in line.😂
Please don't take whatever this woman's words seriously, I'm a 24 year old Japanese woman from Tsurui-Japan and my area here is safe but alot and alot of places are NOT SAFE AT NIGHT. it's absolutely horrific and alot of kids go missing, killed, or raped so please be careful where and how you walk through our streets! ❤
多くの子供たちが行方不明になったり、殺されたり、レイプされたりしていたら日本人の親は6歳から一人で学校に通わせないよ。子供が夜中に1人で出歩くこともないから多くの子供たちが行方不明になったり、殺されたり、レイプされたりしてません。
Found a Korean pretending to be Japanese!
Just went to Japan and the heating train seats killed me! I was sooo hot and I literally had to hold my feet up cause I was burning up
Yeah when she mentioned that it sounded like torture lol. Pretty much every train I’ve ever been on in the winter in Europe has too much heat , and they don’t have leg warmers
I still had instances when I was alone at various times of day as a student, and followed onto trains or almost grabbed on the street by drunks. Everyone’s experience is gonna be different and the positive experiences shine harder than the negative but I definitely felt on edge as a woman at night still. They would stare me down so hard I felt disgusting but still safer than being confronted every minute. I hope if you read the comments, don’t feel discouraged to go! I loved Japan I loved being out at night in the city with my friends and meeting people, the night life is where it’s at! I feel safer there at night than in America but just stay safe. Find friends or stay in communication with someone as much as possible. Also validate those with SA experiences they matter.
We don't validate anyone without proof;
Not encouraging any more Ambur Turds out her;
I’m sorry this happened to you
The problem is all of women who consider a man making a pass at them or even complimenting them to be sexual assault. They marginalize and diminish the women who actually have experienced violent physical assault.
A privacy button for the public bathrooms is a genius idea. I absolutely cannot stand when it’s dead quiet, especially if I’m using a bathroom next to random strangers. 😭
I don't understand. So what if someone hears you shit its a public toilet, what did they expect? Hell, if I hear someone really let one go in the public toilet I'll say something like: "that was so big even I feel better"
Do you prefer that random stranger to make small talk while pooping instead of having silence?
@@carhoarder602 It’s not that lol I’m just not a fan of complete silence. For example, I’m just talking about the difference between having zero sound versus turning on an exhaust fan or something with SOME type of noise, or just music lightly playing overhead? It’s like whenever I get home and there’s not any air conditioning or fan turned on and there’s no tv or music so it’s just extremely quiet. I hate that. I need at least a fan running for that little amount of noise it produces.
@@aebalc No it has nothing to do with them hearing me using the bathroom, I just hate COMPLETE silence with no noise from a fan or anything so it’s just weirdly quiet. That’s how I feel about anywhere I go, not just for using a public bathroom.
you ever tried asking the other side "does it feel as good for you as it does for me" or something to that degree?
gonne make your day, i can promise :D
Where I live you see children out walking themselves places all the time, but it also isn't very safe (Toronto).
Y’all are super cute, I wish you all of life’s blessings 😊
“It’s literally safe enough for them to do so” says someone who clearly didn’t grow up in Japan. Sexual assault on trains is RAMPANT. Look it up. An uncomfortable amount of children will say they’ve been sexually abused on a train at least once, whether that’s being groped, touched, or more.
Nice. I’m moving to japan
now lets talk about the new york subway...
@@ToniToniChopaaaayy 😎
Yes, obviously nowhere is perfect;- but its not as bad as NY or LA or London, in regards to violent sexual crime. Thats the only criticism people bring up when it comes to Japan...
The truth is its one of the safest countries in the world. They all share the same values and culture. They said no to diversity and mass immigration and as a result they still have their cultural identity and they have the third largest economy and they're the worlds largest creditor.
Please... we in the west should be so lucky.
@@jimmythe-gent 13.
I live here and…
1. Never seen unclickable buttons
2. Don’t more cashiers come out in other countries? I remember they did in UK/Germany and most EU countries
3. There are places at night in big cities where I would certainly NOT feel safe. It’s generally advised to be careful no matter what.
4. People break these rules all the time during rush hour 😭
Oh, even in Korea, unclickable buttons are a thing and is very common so maybe it’s just your region
In America, it is not uncommon for many stores to only have 2 employees on staff in total. One will be the cashier, and the other a manager either doing paperwork or other tasks in the back.
Some chains, like Dollar Tree, do not allow more than 6 total employees to be hired at a given time in order to keep payroll costs down.
(which is a shame, these chains can often out price other local stores that have 20+ employees out of business, leaving 14 people forced to change careers or remain unemployed)
I worked at Walgreens before. When the line gets 3+ we get on the intercom and say “IC3, IC3”. Get it, I see three people. That means the stickers have to come and man some registers.
Here in the Philippines, we also have the unclickable buttons and the bidet, as well as the convenience store (7-Eleven).
I don't know why this video made it seem like only Japan has it and no country in the world does.
Some malls in our country also have a guideline for escalators to walk on the left and stand on the right, but nobody follows them, lol 🤷♂️
@@BellalisDopeIC3 IS SO SMART!! we had “code red” to mean “theres more than 3 people in line and i need help up here” but it started scaring the customers i laugh even thinking abt it now 😭😭
Japan so totally rocks! You nailed everything! 😂
Heat in trains and public transport cards as payment for transport is here in Canada too .
The escalator rule is also in England. There's always a side for people to walk up or down or a side to stand
And in Australia, adapted from England. I thought it was just common courtesy, but apparently America is a bit different 😅
Same in Germany
Also Germany
@@michellehennings8439was about to say that
Canada as well, at least on the west coast!
As a teenager living in Poland, I haven't been daily dropped off and picked up from school the moment I started the 2nd semester of 4th grade. Most places in europe actually have safe public transit. Like- they started to teach us public transport etiquette in 1st grade if not earlier.
Same with Canada, I bussed or biked to school almost every day
Same in Italy I started taking the train for almost an hour every day and before I biked or walked to school
Same in Québec. I _never once_ was walked to school, not ever. Same for everybody else. Grades 1 to 4 were a short walk away, afterwards it was public transportation until high school when there were school buses. It was a different time.
I live in NYC and I have been on a school bus twice, I started taking public transit by myself when I was 11
Same in Norway
I want the lamp to be lit when a person has pushed a wall button on a passing floor. The passenger(s) inside will still be able to "unselect" the stop and pass the floor if the elevator is too full - or someone is in a real hurry..
"You can walk around at 3 at night feel completely safe"
In my same scroll i literally saw how there are posters on how to not sexually harass a woman, separate train cars for women and well just how sad the situation is
Walk around at 3am by yourself without your bf….
You can walk alone there! No problem!
@@lunae12 there's a really bad sexual assault problem in Japan, and there has been for years.
@@grahamlopez3742you watch too many Japanese porno lol no there is no SA on the streets in Japan. I walked around Tokyo during 1-6am all the time no problem.
@@lunae12I mean you’re not wrong, she can walk alone but she’ll probably get sexually assaulted on the way
@@lunae12okay then you try. Lets see if you can even walk the next day
Japan is beautiful as a tourist but my sister works as an IT consultant there and she has faced SA issues while commuting through train due to ehich she had to shift jobs closer to home and start travelling with bicycle
She also loves Japan but for an extrovert like her she admits that Japan is very depressing and that she might move onto the next country her company assigns her to when given the chance
I love Japan, I just wish it was easier to make friends!
Americans when Japan does something: 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺🥺
Americans when another country does it:😐 “propaganda”
As an indonesian,
1. We can unclick elevator buttons
2. All toilets have bidets
3. We can get solid meals in convenience stores
4. More cashiers come out if the line gets too long
5. We can use our public transportation cards for everything
Most countries in asia are similar, but Japan is just really really disciplined!! Theyre amazing people
depending on where you live also
i live in singapore and we also have all of these
Exactly
Malaysia has all of this too! My apartment elevator buttons does the same. 😆 I never thought it was unique to the west.
True
I wanted to say this too lol
I saw on Takashi that young kids going somewhere alone will wear little yellow hats which signify that they may require a little bit of help getting to their destination. 🥺
It's a cute lil flag for kidnappers
@@beanie_szyslak425💀
@@beanie_szyslak425to clarify: this guy is being sarcastic
@@patricksteinsen1147 just put on the tiny yellow hat and shhhh
@@beanie_szyslak425kidnapping is super rare in Japan because they don't have a cartel problem because they enforce their borders
Here in East London I go to the train station every day with my friends and get back in the dark walking through a dangerous common
And worrying for my life
But in Japan it’s just so much nicer
There was a a girl from the UK in my class and while we were walking to carpool, she was explaining to me how she found the transportation system odd because in the UK, they take public transportation home instead of individual busses, and she said that It'd take like an hour or so to get home. I thought that was odd, but seeing this video make me realize that the United States is literally so unsafe that kids like me are just used to it and would rather question why that's safe rather than why the united states is unsafe. It honestly kind of sad that kids in the US are just desensitized to this and dont even realize how bad it is.
Edit: i just asked my mom and she thought the exact same thing that i did. We really need to fix a lot of things in the US, society really is fucked up, i don't even know if theres any saving society anymore.
I mean a lot of stuff like the cashier, elevator and kids getting around on their own is pretty normal in Europe. The last is common like everywhere except North America. I walked myself to preschool. Kids are just little humans and capable of a lot more than North America trusts them with.
Many kids use public transportation to get to school in Toronto, it’s not even safe it’s just the only way
In fairness though, most of the US and some other parts of North America aren’t super walkable or don’t offer a ton of options for public transport. They’re specifically designed for movement by cars. Honestly though, even if it was I wouldn’t be surprised if cars or school buses would be used anyways lol
@@Laurel_Lemon I mean the mentality is so different. There is this CZcams that talks about city planning (I don’t remember the name) that got sued for letting his 8 & 10 year olds uns public transport on trained routs. In Canada. Like that’s normal in the rest of the world and in Canada it’s child neglect🤨
It's wild to me that people do that, because that's how your child ends up going missing.
I mean preschool? That is just insane. You don't have the reasoning skills as a five-year-old, to understand what is dangerous and what is not like you do when you are teen and older. 💀
@@Sandfrauthat's insane to let a child that young do that.... I think about myself at that age, and how I just didn't understand danger like I did as I got older. That is so terrifying.
All it takes is one person, to do something to your child. You only need to look up the sex offender registries around the world, to understand how serious of an issue it is...
NO PLACE on this earth is SAFE. Please never say this. Young women especially hear it so much they assume it’s okay to not use their normal precautions and bad things happen.
What are normal precautions? Just asking as a Finnish person.
There are countries that are extremely safe for women at night though and Japan is not one of them.
@@Pisquit Doesn't Finland have the highest SA rate in the world? Considering not all are reported its disturbing.
True. All vulnerable ppl need to be very careful wherever they go. All these countries that used to claim to be safe have been invaded by ppl of other cultures wh calls for a change of strategy when out and about.
@@Pisquitdon't be lazy. You can Google that. It's international.
In a lot of states in the USA, you aren’t able to walk around at 3 am safely and I think that is just horrible and same with the kids being able to just go to school by themselves.
In Bulgarian we have some of these things. One, every single kid in Bulgaria goes to school alone with the public transport. Two, almost all of the subways have heated under the seats, so your legs don’t freeze during the winter. And three, when you’re on an elevator, you stay on the right side, so that people can walk on the left one.
Half of those had me going "I'm glad I'm in Germany where that's the case, too." 😊
Glad you're enjoying your trip!
Yesss trueee
I'm in Switzerland and thought the same thing! I love trains having heating in the winter and AC in the summer, people standing on the right side of an escalator so others can pass by easily or more cashiers coming out when the line gets too long.
Except for unclicking the buttons in an elevator! That'd be so cool! 😂
Public toilets in Germany are awful and disgusting.
@@regig.9493 That's why I said half of! ;)
And it depends: The ones you have to pay a bit tend to be decent.
I live in Japan here are some thoughts.
1. Un-clicking elevators are not exclusive to japan. It’s more depends on the manufacturer. I once used a Schindler elevator in Germany that has this feature as well.
2. Western toilet ( those high tech toilet ) is very common in big cities but not rural parts of japan. But most of them have already caught on.
3. Standing at one side of escalator is a MUST. Which side to stand is depending on region, but never block the walking side especially in metro stations if you don’t want to get cold shouldered by Japanese commuters.
“Western” toilet..? It’s asian toilet. I RARELY find it in weestern countries.
Why are you devaluing every positive thing she said about Japan?? What on earth…your comment reeks of animosity and it is very uncomfortable to observe. Either leave this beautiful nation or seek therapy to figure yourself out. Wtf did I just read…Western toilets??? Nowhere in the US did I find these toilets except private homes where the tenants BOUGHT them. Huh?? The buttons in elevators are COMMON in Japan…and UNCOMMON elsewhere..,that is the point 😂😂🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🙄🙄
My father works for Schindler! That's cool to hear. Had a feeling it wasn't specific to the region, Schindler is a major name on elevators as well
@@dteenagewitch360 search on google images for "asian toilet". That's a western toilet.
@@dteenagewitch360 That's how japanese call it.
Most kids in NYC also take themselves to school. It's an accessibility thing. In most of America, it's unsafe for kids to walk around due to too much car infrastructure, which in turn makes public transit less reliable. So parents HAVE to drive kids to school.
But add public transit and safer streets and kids can take it or walk.
I saw the escalator rule in Prague, I freaking loved it. There's nothing like a large group of people equitably sharing a public space.
I went twice - I would say it’s pretty safe. I wouldn’t say it’s the safest. I’m a woman and went on vacation with my female friend. And we had a guy stalk us to our Airbnb. It was frightening. The positive thing was that we went to a 711 and they helped hold us there and offered to help.
OK,we believe you
I agree the main reason why they left her alone was because she seemed to always be with her male companion which makes sense. I traveled there for a work trip and as an afro-latina woman I was stalked and leered at often. At one point it felt like I was back home in Latin America with the aggressive sexual interest and it showed so two of my gay male colleagues took pity on me and started hanging out with me to protect me. With two males that weren't interested in me the trip was much more fun since I got less attention from creeps. It was awkward fun being the third wheel in a gay love affair though, I wanted them to enjoy time on their own even though they insisted they were afraid for me so we worked around it so we had a balance since they wouldn't leave me alone after I came back to the hotel shooked up from being groped in the trains. Other than that it's truly such an unique, fun country that I think people should try to experience even once since it does feel like visiting another planet. No one knows how to enjoy every little thing in life like these people do.
@@proudmen1220so you believe everything is all nice and fine but not when something bad happens?
This is outsiders perspective which may seem amazing but to live it is a different matter. I grew up there but I removed myself from Japan because of these things. In order to be part of that society, you are stripped of individuality. Japan has the highest conviction rate in the world. This means anyone accused of a crime, you will end up in jail. There are no innocent until proven guilty. More like guilty even innocent. The accusations alone, you will be excommunicated from the community. All the services you were privileged to have will be gone.
Is it safe to say Japan is amazing compared to most other countries? I assume the person that created the video isn’t considering Japan as “heaven” where everything is “perfect.”
The conviction rate isn’t that high because they just convict everyone who’s arrested. It’s that high because they only arrest people who they have enough evidence to guarantee a conviction. So, yeah, you’re going to be an outcast because everyone knows they must have some serious shit on you if you got arrested.
Sounds like it works
@@adamg574 time to accuse you of rape 💅
Five of these things are completely normal where I live too, I just continue to be baffled that it isn't like this everywhere.
I lived in Japan for 2 years…I loved it! They are the most polite, helpful and courteous group of people. Wish I could go back for a visit!
In America, the reason another cashier doesn't come out is because they understaff on purpose to reduce budget. If you don't like it, stop shopping there. The only reason they're doing it is because they're still profiting.
You’re right…good customer service is rare in the US. Pathetic that it has become the norm
@@deevnnthey don't pay enough for the people to try that hard from what I know
As an American cashier who's worked in retail over 6 years...we do actually do this. XD Maybe not everywhere, obviously I can't speak to every store. But at least ours does, it's a major chain and it's also company policy.
Unchecking elevator buttons would cause way too many elevator brawls in the west
😂😂😂
That is a fact 😂
You’re right…bad on the US. Just a bunch of grunts with no manners or patience
Only use it when on with an obnoxious child who punches all of them. It happens more than you’d think.
I get the purpose but as a woman, I would be concerned some random would un click my button and ...it would be esky unsafe.
Every time I think of a Japanese toilet I immediately get reminded of that one South Park episode.
you can un-press buttons on any elevator… just hold the button for a few secs and it undoes itself
In NYC middle schoolers and high schoolers take public transit to school by themselves we even get a free student metro card
Yes but they're are homeless people doing crack and bipoc folks shoving elderly women onto a moving train
Most of the things mentioned are not just in Japan.
I live in the UK and I started going to school myself when I was 9. The first time I ever went out myself I was around 6.
The escalator rule is a massive thing in UK, particularly the London Underground. The only people who break it are tourists or people who are new to the system, and they quickly get politely cussed at and trampled over by people in a rush who are late to work.
Also, I've been on many lifts where you can unpress a button, so definitely not just in Japan.
In literally every supermarket and lots of corner shops here you can get a meal deal for around £3, which is basically a drink of your choice, a snack/side of your choice, and a main of your choice which can be pastas, salads, sandwiches, wraps, sushi, or something else of your choice. Not just Japan.
a meal deal for 3£? in Germany you get a small bottle of water for this (little bit exagerated, but almost true in certain places).
it's £3.40 with a tesco clubcard
@@mattlage2640 that's because all shops have been making them more and more expensive for about a year now. It's a shame really.
@@sigourneyburton3387Wow! And many Brits still love to complain about their living standards.
Same here in Belgium, this is just an American that left the US and is surprised that stuff is different and people respect eachother in other countries.
Literally-
Thing anywhere else in the world: "ugh so lame, stupid, unoriginal and boring..."
Thing in Japan: "omg so awesome, cool, unique and innovative!!!"
A lot of these are pretty normal in a lot of other countries.
ok so that like first clip with the tori gates, its like this huge shrine near kyoto, and i js got back from japan, anyways those gates go all the way up the mountain, and the climb is supposed to take like 3-4 hours but i did it sub 1 with some friends, anyways if you are in japan its well worth the trip cant wait to go back. also mnt fuji is amazing, and i love the escilator thing
Those convenience stores look so great!! Actual real food! Not just junk
Believe it or not I once took the Greyhound from Orlando to Pittsburgh and when the bus broke down, we were near a convenience store that had coolers w all sorts of decent real meal foods and it was open very late.
I avoid convenience stores except for an occasional morning coffee while traveling or on vacation, but except for Texas where lots of migrant workers live (that's legitimate migrant workers, not invaders) where they have hot food counters & booths or tables & chairs, I've never seen real food or good food at a convenience store in the States.
The kids taking themselves to school is legit. We were at a train station, gosh I forgot where in Japan, and I saw a four year old girl, nice and sharp in her school uniform, walking alone to her train. I was simultaneously flabbergasted and impressed.
Even 4 year olds? 😮😮 omg, I ive in the Netherlands and I take my son (who's 4 year old!!) to school every day!
In Germany the kids start going to school alone at age 6 to 7 🤔 a four year old seems a bit too young, because especially when the way is a bit longer (experience from my own 4 year old) they can’t remember the ways completely accurate and that leaves room for getting lost 😅 (and to be clear here: my sons way is 6 stations with one bus, he knows the part where we go by foot very good but on the bus his orientation is not as good and sometimes he mixes up the bus stops. That’s why I think he is still too young.)
We used to do that in the USA just 30-40 years ago
Well, 10,000 kids go missing a year in Japan sooo maybe it's not the safest place on the earth and people should reconsider letting their kids travel alone. Guarantee that's when they get snagged by some creep.
I don't think that Japanese children can get to school earlier than 6-7 years. Maybe, you mistook the kindergarten uniform for school? That one with yellow hat.
the escalator one and the public transport one is def the same in the uk
Half of these are also quite common in certain European countries
Imagine travelling the world and then making the most oblivious video ever.
for real tho
Oblivious?
Oblivious to what? Or is there no substance to your criticism?
@@gerax16 oblivious to how stuff is outside cal
@@gerax16 I think they're referring to the fact she confidently stated that as a woman you can safely walk around at 3am, despite sexual assault being one of if not the most common crimes in japan
I think the fact that you were with your boyfriend played a huge factor in how safe you were. I went with a group, but almost every time I went out by myself in the evening, I got grabbed or had my ass smacked 😢
Straight up touching people? Now that’s weird… was this in Tokyo?
@@agarsrishhappens all the time on trains in Japan. Molestation and SA is huge.
Yeah I think this creator is just ignorant and not thinking about people that travel alone. Sorry to hear you experienced that, sounds awful.
@agarsrish It was, but I also had pictures taken of myself and my legs while I was going through the countryside 🤷 and I was with guys as well. I'm snow white with red hair, so I suppose you could say it was due to fascination, but still 🤦♀️
@@desertrose3511 as a japanese person who lives here, SA does not happen all the time on trains lol. you just hear about it online a lot because thats the only common crime that happens in japan.
most of the things you mentioned are also common in UK. For example the cashier and the lift (escalator) stuff, even kids going to school alone
canada does the escalator thing, someone might stand on the left side but if someone starts walking up they’ll move out of the way
Um, I don't think Tokyo is safe to walk around at 3 am...
Not alone is maybe what they meant
Late but shes from the us i think forgieners dont realizes just how fucked up the US is can be some of our citys like baltimore has 60-70% of the city as a huge ghetto full of gang violence i have storys my freinds have storys of us walking through really bad parts of european citys and not even knowing that the area was dangerous. Look up baltimore ghetto or kensigton avenue and compare that to japense ghettos there a dinffrance.
If you think japan has it better than the “rest of the world” you haven’t traveled or researched best quality of life. Visiting japan ok. Born in japan deals with shame ,overwork, nearly impossible to date for some, high suicide incidences etc.. every place has similarities and differences but no place is utopia. Weeaboos love the japanese more than the japanese revel in each other, creating (along with anime and manga) a huge hype in western culture that gets excited about every japanese difference- like …wow! Elevator buttons!! Amazing!!! Ooooo!! Ahhhh!!! I’d be more excited about countries with mandatory 8 weeks of vacation, good quality of life. BTW Lots of countries are safe enough for kids to go to school on public transportation. You must be comparing it to the usa to be so astounded.
The safest place for people from people is Svalbard. I mean the polar bears will try to eat you but you can actually kill them.
Why tf is everyone suddenly criticizing Japan all the time. Everyone used to hate Asians, now they love Japan cuz of anime, now everyone’s over that so they go back to criticizing every single thing. Yeah, it’s not a good country but no country is good. Every country sucks and Japan isn’t special
@@bookwormd8627It’s in response to the romanticization of Japan. It’s important to remember that every country has its problems, and those problems should be highlighted so that greater awareness can be brought to them, and hopefully fixed in the future.
@@bookwormd8627its not critisisung. people(especially jaoenese) are tired of the blind glorification of japan when it has igs problems like everywhere else. its like if your dad abuses you but guests who only visit keeps raving about how hes amazing and must be a great advanced modern kind dad!
yeah exactly, they make it sound really amazing when it's cool but not that cool. Also the misconception about how "safe" it is at night whilst walking with her boyfriend at night.
"If the line gets too long, extra cashiers spawn"
Lmao peter always looks so sleepy
Oh, you're so innocent. Japan is most certainly NOT a safe place, especially for women. Sexual assault is common in Japan, but is severely underreported. If you're a woman walking with your boyfriend/husband, or even just a close male friend, you'll be okay. But if you're traveling as a solo woman, you definitely need to keep an eye on the people around you. Pay attention, keep yourself safe.
Yes it is.
What you just said is true of literally everywhere in the world
@@ToniToniChopaaa I get you like anime but it’s OK to admit that Japan has its faults it’s not some perfect fantasy land
@@jarnold1789 yes and?
@@bishibibi well, im a man, so I don’t really care
I was about to talk about the SA that happens there, but someone already covered it. I was also going to talk about how shit the pay tends to be and the working system but someone already covered that too. Its good to see people informing others.
The escalator thing we have here in Sweden too, although some people deviate from it sometimes, but generally you walk on the left side and stand on the right of it
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When I was working in a Japanese company, it had a very demanding job, it was tough. However, the toilet was really great and clean that it was my source of comfort. They polished it every day. The toilet paper was always folded neatly. It smelled really good, too. I haven't seen any better toilets than what I had in there. 😂
Jesus Christ what a sad story... It gets better yo
Over-compensating “nice conveniences” by Japanese government are some of the tradeoffs for working salaried careers an wageslave jobs for the corporations at 60,80, even 100 hours PER week. The structural worker-bee enslavement system instituted in Japan and other countries literally makes many business men’s lives just working 12 hour workdays 5-6 days/week.
It is no way to live long term as free human beings as a westerner imo.
Japan is a buddhist, shinto, atheistic/agnostic nation and is very different from the West.
There are great things about the Japanese culture, it’s food, and of course it’s great people, however I think the fringes of Japanese society are already approaching a big-tech “distopian cyberpunk” like nature, which is mass surveillance, cameras, and monitoring of it’s citizens.
I believe it is one of the nations that has provided the real life blueprint example for the globalists/nwo of using big tech, policing control, business corporations/monopolies and government laws to regulate polite behaviour, non-violence, and utmost respect for authority figures, bosses, etc. All the strict guidelines (some necessary) place 100+ million peoples into a very small space area wise on the map.
It’s no wonder that there has to be Sooo many entertaining distractions like outrageous tv shows, neon lights, eating, shopping, drinking, pron industry an prostitution areas that can resemble the main strip in Las Vegas. To placate the masses brave new world style, you need all sorts of fun an outrageous gameshows, neon entertainment, hyper-aesthetic food plating an display, vices, novelties and escapes to distract from the structural underbelly of the corporate system in place.
Many americans or westerners couldn’t handle it.
Weird flex but okay. The safety at 3 am was my favorite
A top notch public toilet is a true miracle
The staying on the one side of escalators so others can walk past you rule is actually in my college campus. I wish it was everywhere, it helps when you are on a rush
This is the norm, in the UK.
@@sinceslicedbread7422the London Underground is the only place I’ve seen it happen
@@sinceslicedbread7422and Australia
@@LouisHollll I see it on all escalators in London, apart from airports because there are lots of foreigners. It is definitely the norm.
it's normal here in Belgium too
I was in Tokyo for a 2 week course and I was having a quick lunch outside and I saw a group of kids walking down the street in two lines. I kid you not but the whole street parted for those kids so they were walking down the middle. The kids were so cute and happy with their matching yellow hats and everyone smiled when they walked past.
The Netherlands has most of these too
Trains/metros usually have heating busses too.
Kids go to school themselves (I thought this was everywhere?)
Escalator rules are also a thing in the Netherlands.
Stores also have full meals in the Netherlands (once again thought this was everywhere?)
Check out line thing is also in the Netherlands
As a customer, it is great to have shops open at 3 am and employees ready whenever it gets busy, but those employees are probably working overtimes and underpaid because that is the work culture of Japan.
Or they’re just the night shift 😅
@@Jefftato Yes, they are.
nobody is forcing them to work there
@@transatlanticizei mean finding a job is difficult and people need to make ends meet to not starve so, they kind of are...
@@transatlanticize, sure. Nothing except the whole societal structure.
We do the escalator rule in England too, you have to stand on the right side so people on the left can run up if they have somewhere to go. We can easily tell if someone is a tourist because they stand on the left😂
Wish it was like this in the US
Instead, you have a bunch of people running right up the middle or standing in the middle of exit and entryways staring at their phones.
Same in France. You have to stand on the right and walk up on the left.
@@retiredbore378 And half of them don't care so you have to ask anyway or wait painfully
Same in Canada. People will tell you to move if you are on the wrong side. I thought this was normal behaviour 😂
its called having manners
half this stuff happens in Melbourne already. The esculator, cashier, kids.... I do envy the 3am hangout feeling safe though 😮
Most of these instantly formulated a true crime story in my mind
To be fair half this stuff also happens in Australia. I’ve been to 16+ countries and I’m currently in Indonesia and the fact I can’t unselect lift buttons has really really annoyed me at the hotel especially when people press the down one and get annoyed as it takes ages and walk the stairs and I’m going up and can’t unselect down.
After 7 years total in Japan, I've never encountered an elevator that had such buttons. I guess newer elevators allow you to unclick buttons, but not all of them for sure.
Someone said it depends on the elevator manufacturer
i live in canada and we do the escalator thing and bro everyone should do this it's so practical
I lived in Japan with my young daughter, we enjoyed it and I miss it very much.
In Australia, there is the escalator rule. Also, students always travel to and from school by train and it is legit so normal, no one twitches an eye. After school, trains in my area are 99% filled with students in uniform...
it confused me so much to hear them be so surprised that people take the train to school 😭
and not just trains either..not uncommon for kids to ride their pushies (pushbikes) great distances to school. I was abt 11 i think when I rode to my primary school and recently retraced the way I took in my car and it was up and down hills and a long way 😂 but we just did it, kept us fit and we liked it! ❤
i live in the us and was confused when she said that lol everyone takes public transit but maybe thats just my area
Same in UK 😊
When she says kids I think she means very little kids. When I was in Japan I saw kids as young as 6-7 years old taking trains on their own. They’re taught from a young age to be independent
I remember my time in elementary school where I had to walk there with a group and the oldest always led the group was kinda fun tbh
In São Paulo, Brazil, we have that escalator rule because we are very hasty. It mirrors driving patterns (the lanes in the left have a higher speed limit) it's quite common for us, but people from other regions find it weird lol
A lot of these things are common in most big cities. But I can understand how it can seem very unique if you're not used to city life
I’m not even Japanese but I can speak with my full chest when I say it’s NOT the safest country in the world.
I dont remember them saying that
they did however say you could just walk around at night because it is that safe in Japan. Which it is not unless you're either male or in a group. @@alphavegas1
nobody said it was
I'm Japanese but can confirm, some places are not. Compared to all other Western nation however, very chilling.
Americans don’t let their children walk around like that because of numbers of children that disappeared and were ‘found’ during the golden age of serial killers. And on top of that, fears of predators and rumors of child traffickers kidnapping children have added to that 6 decades old fear.
My parents used to trick or treat in the late 60’s as children by themselves, until a couple of children a few years in a row throughout their state (FL) went missing on Halloween and were found…well you can easily find those stories if you’re interested, but they’re f*cked up and graphic. After that in the 70’s, my grandparents refused to let them trick or treat alone and made them go with friends. And they couldn’t go without a TRUSTED adult or group of adults who could keep an eye on them. My mom’s mother was especially insistent on that.
My mom continued that with my older sister and I, and we’d either go to her mothers house and trick or treat with my cousins, or they’d come over to our neighborhood. That’s a standard practice now for Americans on Halloween, or you have parties where you can safely give them candy. But you never let go by themselves anywhere like in Japan, you’re asking for them to become a morbid statistic.
“If true lines get too long, more cashiers come out!”
America could never.
They do these at a bunch of places wdym
@@frieddoorhandles A magical thing called a joke.
the elevator thing and the kids going to school by themselves thing are both common in singapore