1. With 6852 islands, the land of the rising sun is the fourth largest island nation in the world.
2. The landscape consists of 70 percent mountains.
3. Around 5.5 million machines provide the Japanese with drinks and snacks. In addition to cigarettes and sweets, you will also get toys, warm noodles, eggs and until the year 2002 even hallucinogenic mushrooms were offered in vending machines. Meanwhile, they are illegal.
4. There are more pets than children.
5. And if you do not have a pet, you can drink a coke in cat cafés while caressing cats.
6. Japanese consume about 24 billion chopsticks each year.
7. 90% of all smartphones in Japan are waterproof, as the Japanese take their cell phones in the shower.
8. Blowing nose in public is rude.
9. The monster Godzilla is already 62 years old and has appeared in over 30 films.
10. In 1997, nearly 700 children were hospitalized following a television episode of the popular Pokémon.
11. Japan is shaken by earthquakes 1500 times a year.
12. Previously, Japanese men were allowed to divorce their wives if they were left-handed.
13. Until 2015, it was illegal to dance on the streets at night.
14. Japanese farmers breed square watermelons so they can stack better.
15. The likelihood of being shot in Japan is as low as a deadly lightning strike in America.
16. The Shinkansen high-speed train operates so punctually that its annual delay is only 36 seconds.
17. 50,000 Japanese are over 100 years old.
18. There are 20 different expressions for apologies.
19. The Japanese have invented their own word for death through revision. It is karoshi 過 労 死
20. In Japan, there is eel-flavored ice cream.
Comments (3)
Have you tried the eel flavor ice cream?
I only know matcha :tea: and sesame flavor
In the vicinity of famous tourist spots, there are often extraordinary varieties to taste. I make an extra blog where I explain where you can buy which ice cream :)
http://aminoapps.descargarjuegos.org/p/nbq7g9 :wink: 🙂