日本に住んでいる間の嫌い物だ。

Alrighty, The title of this post is “Things I hate while staying in Japan”.  At least I think thats how you say it….  I’m having trouble writing a lot off the top of my head but I’m going to try

1.  Appliances suck: In this country, they seem to sacrifice things working well for power efficiency.  For instance, I can’t pop popcorn in their microwaves.  You put the popcorn in and it takes like 3 minutes just to pop.  When it does start popping, it never really picks up speed and if you want all the kernals to pop, you need to leave the bag in for so long that it burns.  Also the rice cookers take like 40 minutes to cook the damn rice.  They are painfully slow.  I think its because they have a soak time programed into them but still, they suck.  The driers here are TERRIBLE.  Ok the industrial ones aren’t but the ones they have in the dorm blow.  You need to leave the clothes in them for like 2 hours.   The industrial ones work a ton better but you need to pay more for the amount of time you leave them in there so it comes out about even.  BS I SAY!

2.  People are allowed to be racist:  I can’t rent any apartment I want because people can just deny you because you are a foreigner.  They would be sued in 2 seconds if this was America.

3.  People walk to slow:  You would think in such a bussling city, people would walk fast.  Nope.  They walk as slow as ants unless they are trying to steal a seat on the train where as then they run like Olympic sprinters.   Not only do they walk slow, but they don’t walk to a particular side of the sidewalk or street.  In America, its kind of known that you walk to the right.  Since people drive on the opposite side of the street here you would think that they would walk on the opposite side of the sidewalk.  Nope, they just walk in chaos.  At least normally they do.  Sometimes in train stations they fabricate decent walking sides since the gates kind of corral people.

4. They have 5 dollar coins:  On a day when I don’t spend money I wont have much in my pockets change wise.  Any time you spend a decent amount of money though, you wil have like 20 dollars in coins and that weighs like 5 pounds.  Its really annoying and also can cause you to lose a decent sum of money by just sitting on a couch.  Which reminds me, Im going to check the couch cushions tonight in the lounge for some free scratch.

5.  Rice is more expensive here:  You would think the food that sustained most of the population for thousands of years would cost LESS than in America.  It costs about double.  A 20 pound bag of rice here costs 30 bucks.  Thats crazy.  I assume they do it to support their farmers.  I had heard something about Japan being very proud of producing their own rice so I assume they raise the price to keep what farmers they have.

6.   The trains stop at 12:  You have to get used to partying all night and spending much more money than you ever would on one night here than you would in America.  Either that or start your partying earlier.  The trains stop at 12 so if you havent gone home at the right time, consider yourself stranded in the area you are in unless you want to pay an arm and a leg for a taxi.  What makes it worse is the fact that you usually need to transfer at least once on your trip home.  That means that if you are partying in lets say Shibuya, and you want to get home to Saitama, you need to leave at 11 just to get home to catch the last transfer train home.  It big sucks.  This is why I had to walk home with a friend for 10 miles on a school night.  It was a miscalculation by one of our Japanese friends.  Which brings me to my next hated thing.

7.   Japanese people know nothing about their surroundings:  So you would think that if you are looking for something to do for the weekend that it would be good to ask a Japanese person that has lived in the area their whole life huh?  Well, chances are, they have as much knowledge about the area as you do.  Japanese people don’t know how the trains work either.  I’ll let it slide a bit because the train system is huge and as is Tokyo but come ON.  You might say that I am making a broad generalization but I have talked to multiple Japanese people and I am usually greeted with the same ignorance about Tokyo .

8.  Everything is too expensive:  Everything is too expensive

Anywho, I complain a lot about this crap but I still love Japan.  I wrote this more just for your amusement.  Usually, I am not bothered by this stuff so much.  Except for the too expensive thing.  That bothers me all the time.