Regarding oshibori.. I remember wiping my face with it for the first time and it felt so refreshing🤐 I had no idea it was considered a nono. My first experience was at a restaurant that specialized in fugu. I opted for the course meal. The waiter kept giving a new oshibori before every new dish was served. Ended up with 5-6 oshibori on the table and I was thinking to myself, "is this normal?" 😵💫 Anyway great video as always Mizhelle! 🥢🥢🥢
@@angeltan5754 This gave me a lot to think about, but to start with, there isn't any population in the world that I would describe as kind because I find that kindness is an individual attribute rather than something I could affix to a whole population. Although, I'd say that in more than a decade of living here, there have been many instances where strangers have been kind to me. For example, my dress ripped in public and a guy took off his own clothing to help cover me up. Is that being polite? I think that's being kind. I fainted inside a train car and people propped me up, and gave me a seat and tissue paper to clean myself up. Is that being polite? I think that's being kind. And then there's the many instances where I've lost countless things including a high-end camera and even my gaijin registration, and they always made their way back to me. The ability to empathize and give something back? I think that's kindness. I don't mean to invalidate others' experiences. I've heard people around me say something like how Japanese politeness is so fake. But at least for the people I've heard say this, what I think they're really complaining about is not the lack of kindness, but the difficulty of forming deeper connections, which is an entirely different matter. You can perform acts of kindness without really knowing the other person, but making deeper connections requires both parties to be vulnerable and that's something you can't achieve without being able to communicate.
@@Mizhelle for me, I like your content to find out cool little gems like the cafe by the train station and the shrines to visit that are not popular but cool like the pencil shrine. I love just little things people wouldn't normally notice.
@@michellematheus1570Thanks for the feedback! Sometimes I feel like my interests can get so niche that I’m not sure if there’s an audience for them. Your feedback definitely helps!
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Super thoughtful tips! Thank you
Glad you thought so. Hope you have a wonderful trip!
Regarding oshibori.. I remember wiping my face with it for the first time and it felt so refreshing🤐
I had no idea it was considered a nono. My first experience was at a restaurant that specialized in fugu.
I opted for the course meal. The waiter kept giving a new oshibori before every new dish was served. Ended up with 5-6 oshibori on the table and I was thinking to myself, "is this normal?" 😵💫
Anyway great video as always Mizhelle! 🥢🥢🥢
Drop me a chopsticks emoji 🥢 if you got to that part of the video 😆
What other info would you like to know about traveling in Japan?
Is it true that Japanese people are polite but not necessarily kind?
@@angeltan5754 This gave me a lot to think about, but to start with, there isn't any population in the world that I would describe as kind because I find that kindness is an individual attribute rather than something I could affix to a whole population.
Although, I'd say that in more than a decade of living here, there have been many instances where strangers have been kind to me. For example, my dress ripped in public and a guy took off his own clothing to help cover me up. Is that being polite? I think that's being kind. I fainted inside a train car and people propped me up, and gave me a seat and tissue paper to clean myself up. Is that being polite? I think that's being kind. And then there's the many instances where I've lost countless things including a high-end camera and even my gaijin registration, and they always made their way back to me. The ability to empathize and give something back? I think that's kindness.
I don't mean to invalidate others' experiences. I've heard people around me say something like how Japanese politeness is so fake. But at least for the people I've heard say this, what I think they're really complaining about is not the lack of kindness, but the difficulty of forming deeper connections, which is an entirely different matter. You can perform acts of kindness without really knowing the other person, but making deeper connections requires both parties to be vulnerable and that's something you can't achieve without being able to communicate.
@@Mizhelle for me, I like your content to find out cool little gems like the cafe by the train station and the shrines to visit that are not popular but cool like the pencil shrine. I love just little things people wouldn't normally notice.
@@michellematheus1570Thanks for the feedback! Sometimes I feel like my interests can get so niche that I’m not sure if there’s an audience for them. Your feedback definitely helps!
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