Sleeping Birdies and Deco Scooters

I think that this is my favorite ‘do not sleep on the people next to you’ manners poster I’ve seen yet. Luckily, I travel with my husband, so if I fall asleep on him, he doesn’t mind (and when I’m about to make friends with the stranger next to me, he’ll wake me up before I snore in someone’s ear).

We saw this guy with his scooter at the Tokyo Game Show. It’s not that popular, but you can see decorated cars / scooters / etc every once in a while. I saw a bicycle that had a Volkswagen symbol on the front and a car that had some Transformer stickers on their car mirrors.

 

 

Watery Wednesday

Moving through the week, today is Wednesday, and the kanji means water. Out of all the kanji travel posters that I will upload here, I will say that this one is the most stylized. I had to ask my husband about it, if it says water (sui) or river (kawa) and his final answer was ‘some art student was playing with the thought / characters to make it look more pretty and artistic than usual.’

I agree, especially after we looked at all the other posters. Japanese readers weigh in! Water, or River?

 

911 = 110

This should be basic information, but just in case….learn the emergency numbers for whatever country you’re visiting. Point in case; in America, we call 911. In Japan; 110. This poster was found at Maebashioshima station,and actually there was a second poster (same design) right next to it.

Something to think about when / if you go traveling.

 

Soaking in the Rain

I’ve seen a lot of these ‘manners’ posters around the area and finally manage to capture one with my camera. The posters talk about cigarettes, littering and even stuff like putting on make-up in the train. My favorite one says shows pictures of a man on the subway seat with his newspaper spread out, taking up three seats instead of one; next to him is a woman and another man who look sad. There is some English on the sign, but I don’t remember what it says exactly.

I talked to people about what’s considered manners, and here’s what a person said.

I saw a mother with her child on the subway, and the child was standing in front of the door. The mother told her child to move, not because she was inconveniencing other people by standing in front of the doors, but because she might get hurt. This is why young Japanese have no manners.

As far as I know, they haven’t traveled abroad…