50 Japanese Inventions That Show Off How Distinct The Country Is From Any Other Place

By far the coolest rice out there

Mood.

I love all the tiny ways that Japan tries to preserve and share its art and culture.

I wish the US government was this caring about its people

there’s a reason why japans communities are some of the closest in the world!

This is really beautiful

Every traveller's dream

One thing i really like in Japan, they actually respect cats.

At first I thought it's the sky. Still so magical!

Wow. That's all. Just wow.

delicious food 😍

Why not...

I wish countries conserved their heritage this will

awww

Our local grocery shop has this too here in South Africa. Figured it was the norm everywhere these days.

This is literally the first thing I want to see when I go to Japan next month. Staying in Shinjuku.

Leaf shaped panels

Riding in style. I wonder if this is first class and how much a seat costs?

This is awesome! It reminds of the hanging roller coasters.

That's a bathroom?!

I got on a Hello Kitty themed train in Japan. Every little thing, even the pictures of the driver on the tiny train maps on the back of the seats had been changed to kitty. IMG_201911...14b396.jpg

Samurai firemen!

kill bill vibes, anyone ?

That's soooo cool. "Did you leave your stuff in the Aluminium locker?" "No, I think it was the Beryllium one."

Panera Bread donates their unsold bread to charities.

Because of the thin walls in many buildings, Japanese women would continuously flush the toilet so they could not be heard "doing their business". As that was quite expensive and not ecological, this was introduced. The first versions just played a recording of a toilet being flushed...

I want one. Take my money and gimme

Implement that here and the car would vanish along with the food

mr miyagi has entered the chat

Move Over British Payphone booths, Japan wins this One with the samurai Payphone booths.

SIL used to work in happen Japan in the late '90s. She said men groping women on the trains was every damn day, and you learned to back up against the side quick if you couldn't get a seat. Being a tall blonde, it happened so much, but she also took none of it and regularly smacked and slapped offenders (something Japanese women didn't do, which was very surprising). She once was at a traffic stop on a bike and a guy on a bike next to her rescue over and grabbed her a*s - she jumped off her bike and began beating him with her purse yelling her head off. They never expected her to do that, every time.

What a cool little Easter egg

In the US and UK you just go hungry if you don’t have family members or friends close to get food for you.

That's sick! Wish we had stuff like this in the US

I have a small house and seriously want to install a powder room with one of these.

TIL...There are Curved Escalators!

Perfect place for some Howl’s moving castle

This should be everywhere. I refuse to touch public bathroom handles because I know men are disgusting and too many don't wash their hands.

This is also widespread in other countries.

I took the exact same photo when I was in Osaka :D

I heard Cannon was named after this goddess, Kannon.

Gimmie

but for what ? buying groceries at the airport, then 4 weeks honeymoon on Hawaii and finally picking up your groceries on your way home ?

You mean their government spends money on infrastructure for the people and not building bombs?

Japan is so beautifully environmentally conscious about the most basic things. Meanwhile in the U.S. I can't get my family to fully recycle or stop using paper plates and paper towels for dinner every night. They think I am crazy

That’s INSANE

And in the good ol’ USA you’ve got to pay up the a*s just for Wi-Fi!

It was during the pandemic when no tourists were allowed in the country.

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Practical, but it's probably a long-distance train.