Are Osaka citizens more talkative and
Tokyo citizens more individualist? Most people that have visited and stayed
there for a period of time say yes. We won't make any conclusion but just sharing.
Our first meeting with Japanese was on Airasia airplane from Kuala Lumpur
(KUL) to Kansai International Airport (KIX). They were old couple from Osaka
that went to Malaysia for leisure. The old man was
about 60 years old and still, Japanese looked healthy. He even explained to me
where Hokkaido, Osaka, Tokyo and others were located. After the plane landed safely, we
said goodbye to them, we thought that it was the end of our meeting. But no,
they showed us the way to take a bus to the terminal, led our way to
immigration section for foreigner. Then they went to the right side where
immigration counter for Japanese was located. We
didn’t have any baggage so we went to custom checking directly while they were
still waiting for their baggages in the baggage belt. Custom officer told us to
take out stuffs from our backpacks as their normal checking procedure. Afraid
of something might happened to
us, the old man approached us and asked the immigration officer. ‘No, Sir.
Everything is OK’. After that, he went back to join his wife, waiting for their
baggages. We waved our hands from far away, saying thank you and goodbye once
again. For the whole story, you can read it
here.
Just a while after our arrival at Sumiyoshi
Taisha, Osaka in our first day of Japan trip, an aunt asked us where we came
from. Maybe with DSLR camera on Foody and GoPro on Footy, we were so like 'tourist'.
Hahaha....
In Osaka Castle, when we were looking and taking photographs of blossomed flower
tree, an uncle
suddenly told Footy that it wasn’t sakura flower but peach flower. For the whole
story, you can read it here.
We found a kind of strange situation
while we were walking to Dotonbori. There was an old man, with body
full of scratches, sitting on the
ground. Nobody seemed to notice or help. We helped
him to get up and to sit on the edge of flower box. He just smiled to us and didn't say any words. We felt that he wanted to
talk because he opened his mouth but still, no words came out from him. We were
so confused with this situation due to our status as ‘just-ordinary-tourists’
here. Luckily, there was a Japanese man approched him and talked to him
so we left over the old man to him. Sorry uncle, but we couldn't help more
than that.
Then, after a long overnight bus
trip from Umeda Sky Building, Osaka to Shinjuku, Tokyo......
In front of Tokyo Government Building, when we were looking at the map and waiting for the opening hour of the building, a businessman, about 40 years old, asked us if there was something that he could help. Actually, we had got
all the informations before but he was so kind to inform us which floor we had to
go and, awesomely, in a very good English.
Inside Tama Art University, we asked a
college student where we could meet administration staff here in English. It
was like he understand but he just nodded and called for the
administration staff outside. This time, we met a young woman, maybe about
twenty five years old. Actually, this was a request of Foody's friend that
planned to take his master degree here. Here, we asked about studying system, enrollment
fee, the scholarship for international student and others. Along our trip
in Japan, her English was the best.
After our long search to find Odaiba
Kaihin Koen Mae post office in Odaiba because google maps couldn't show us
which floor and it was already 4.30PM (post office closed at 5PM), we
finally tried to find and asked about it to
Japanese. Luckily, an executive woman was walking to our direction and we
asked her directly. Her Japanese was so easy to be listened and she was so
friendly too. She offered to take us there. Actually, the post office was on
the left and her office was on the right after we went up the stairs, it’s in the same
area (as google maps showed) but on the third floor (google maps couldn't show).
At least, all Japanese that we met were
so kind and helpful. Individualist stamp on Tokyo citizens
didn't make them not caring and helping other people.
A lot of Japanese couldn't speak English well (especially old man and woman), but most of
them will try to help the best they can.
Thanks for the help during our Japan
trip, Japanese. Hope that we could treat you with that 'Omotenashi' (おもてなし hospitality) when you
visit Indonesia.
-Ask, then
you'll get the answer-
We eat, we walk, we talk
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