Shubuya Square in Tokyo — its the wild massive busy place where they shot the movie Lost in Translation.
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Despite the fact that while they say many things are also in English, you have to dig hard to find them. They don’t even have the word EXIT in English in the subway. The only thing that is in English is the train stops next to the Japanese, everything else is in Japanese. It’s very confusing, yet everything is efficient and the people are so friendly, they’ll go out of their way to help you regardless of what they’re doing. Everything is so foreign and it is most evidenced in Shubuya’s main square. Some of the cultural differences…
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Despite the fact that while they say many things are also in English, you have to dig hard to find them. They don’t even have the word EXIT in English in the subway. The only thing that is in English is the train stops next to the Japanese, everything else is in Japanese. It’s very confusing, yet everything is efficient and the people are so friendly, they’ll go out of their way to help you regardless of what they’re doing. Everything is so foreign and it is most evidenced in Shubuya’s main square. Some of the cultural differences… Read more...