Eight Japanese taboos, the knowledge of which will help the traveler in communicating with descendants of the Samurai.
Japan has many unobvious customs, by which a foreigner traveling like an elephant in a China shop. If you are visiting as a tourist and, briefly, language don't know go on standard routes — you probably have most of the nuances of never even tell Japanese people in general are quite delicate. But if you want to gently blend in with the local culture — then here is small guide on good manners. Use on health!
1. Don't take off your shoes
Japan decided to divide the space-dwelling house separately separate Street, Temple separately etc. Before entering a small bridge will be waiting for you and where you want to take and leave shoes. Dwelling in the shoes come only at funerals (and incense sticks at the funeral only tow too). Don't forget to take off when the go!
Street shoes should be removed before entering the Buddhist temples in the Interior. There are special slippers for toilets and baths. Even just put sneakers into the room in which you walked down the street (the Japanese would say: "the soles which involved Street") is already a violation of decency. Follow the icons please take your shoes off. Walk on the wooden floors of temples barefoot, by the way, very nice.
2. Publicly sniffle
Blow your nose in someone you can only if you would like to inflict terrible insult or give to understand that and do it for the person don't you think. Calmly this custom blend well with noisy hlûpan′em when eating noodles — that usually does not fit in the head of the aliens.
3. Tipping
It's a nice moment. Yes, tipping in Japan don't give almost anywhere and never in cafes, restaurants, bars, taxis add a dime to the account is not accepted and may even offend. In the Café, by the way, by not producing — you need to go to the cashier and pay there, to the table for the money podbegat′. But beyond the accounts won't take anything.
4. There are trains
Trains generally many eaten, many sleep and very many girls painted, especially in the morning before work. But more often the not too excited.
Another thing sinkanseny (high-speed trains): there are tables like in airplanes, and rows of seats — as in airplanes. You look in the back of a neighbor, rather than in person. In conventional same trains local significance are often seats arranged as we have in the subway benches facing each other. And if you decide in this train to eat kotletku with rice, a man sits in front of you and you looks — to the image of foreigners added another couple of impolite strokes. You can and wait till the station.
5. Help another to work
Extraordinary item for us, but in Japan it is not worth to carry out someone else's work. Work here makes a person a member of society, and if you put letter instead of a postman or removed trash instead of cleaner, it can be perceived not as aid but as a fact of what you are trying to take his rightful place. A person can be a deeply earnest.
6. Leave the food nedoedennoj
Food made with. Especially rice, which was expensive and accessible only to the wealthy estates. Yes, the portions are usually not too large, Japanese cuisine is very tasty-finish your lunch generally do not constitute a special problem. Toss cooked for you food is disrespectful to the entire chain of production. Food in General in Japan are very carefully, starting from the cultivation of vegetables and ending with serving dishes on the table. And Yes, delicious.
7. Throw out the garbage without sorting
It is known that in Japan are processed more than 90% of the garbage. Plastic bottles made from plastic bottles from garbage unburnable fill Islands, paper processed several times. The entire collection is disjoint, in principle. Even just Street urns separate: there are bottles, plastic, for food residue. URNs are not just so where horrible — you can put the bottle next to a drinks machine, plastic, pieces of paper — about shops. Household waste is collected and transported on certain days: for example, glass is once a month. Foreigners do not understand the system and throw anything anywhere that the Japanese, of course, annoying. A large part of the waste containers, signed English, incidentally, and pictograms is to understand that you can throw is fairly simple.
8. Wear a black tie wedding
And most subtle. It would seem a trifle for the article, but such stories we have heard several times. It turns out that in Japan it is not accepted to wear a black tie wedding — only at funerals. At the wedding are white or striped. If an alien call for wedding ceremony, he said to necessarily come in black tie. Chances to get to the wedding during a short tourist trip, however, are slim. But if go is not something bind black. And you can have fun!
Japan has many unobvious customs, by which a foreigner traveling like an elephant in a China shop. If you are visiting as a tourist and, briefly, language don't know go on standard routes — you probably have most of the nuances of never even tell Japanese people in general are quite delicate. But if you want to gently blend in with the local culture — then here is small guide on good manners. Use on health!
1. Don't take off your shoes
Japan decided to divide the space-dwelling house separately separate Street, Temple separately etc. Before entering a small bridge will be waiting for you and where you want to take and leave shoes. Dwelling in the shoes come only at funerals (and incense sticks at the funeral only tow too). Don't forget to take off when the go!
Street shoes should be removed before entering the Buddhist temples in the Interior. There are special slippers for toilets and baths. Even just put sneakers into the room in which you walked down the street (the Japanese would say: "the soles which involved Street") is already a violation of decency. Follow the icons please take your shoes off. Walk on the wooden floors of temples barefoot, by the way, very nice.
2. Publicly sniffle
Blow your nose in someone you can only if you would like to inflict terrible insult or give to understand that and do it for the person don't you think. Calmly this custom blend well with noisy hlûpan′em when eating noodles — that usually does not fit in the head of the aliens.
3. Tipping
It's a nice moment. Yes, tipping in Japan don't give almost anywhere and never in cafes, restaurants, bars, taxis add a dime to the account is not accepted and may even offend. In the Café, by the way, by not producing — you need to go to the cashier and pay there, to the table for the money podbegat′. But beyond the accounts won't take anything.
4. There are trains
Trains generally many eaten, many sleep and very many girls painted, especially in the morning before work. But more often the not too excited.
Another thing sinkanseny (high-speed trains): there are tables like in airplanes, and rows of seats — as in airplanes. You look in the back of a neighbor, rather than in person. In conventional same trains local significance are often seats arranged as we have in the subway benches facing each other. And if you decide in this train to eat kotletku with rice, a man sits in front of you and you looks — to the image of foreigners added another couple of impolite strokes. You can and wait till the station.
5. Help another to work
Extraordinary item for us, but in Japan it is not worth to carry out someone else's work. Work here makes a person a member of society, and if you put letter instead of a postman or removed trash instead of cleaner, it can be perceived not as aid but as a fact of what you are trying to take his rightful place. A person can be a deeply earnest.
6. Leave the food nedoedennoj
Food made with. Especially rice, which was expensive and accessible only to the wealthy estates. Yes, the portions are usually not too large, Japanese cuisine is very tasty-finish your lunch generally do not constitute a special problem. Toss cooked for you food is disrespectful to the entire chain of production. Food in General in Japan are very carefully, starting from the cultivation of vegetables and ending with serving dishes on the table. And Yes, delicious.
7. Throw out the garbage without sorting
It is known that in Japan are processed more than 90% of the garbage. Plastic bottles made from plastic bottles from garbage unburnable fill Islands, paper processed several times. The entire collection is disjoint, in principle. Even just Street urns separate: there are bottles, plastic, for food residue. URNs are not just so where horrible — you can put the bottle next to a drinks machine, plastic, pieces of paper — about shops. Household waste is collected and transported on certain days: for example, glass is once a month. Foreigners do not understand the system and throw anything anywhere that the Japanese, of course, annoying. A large part of the waste containers, signed English, incidentally, and pictograms is to understand that you can throw is fairly simple.
8. Wear a black tie wedding
And most subtle. It would seem a trifle for the article, but such stories we have heard several times. It turns out that in Japan it is not accepted to wear a black tie wedding — only at funerals. At the wedding are white or striped. If an alien call for wedding ceremony, he said to necessarily come in black tie. Chances to get to the wedding during a short tourist trip, however, are slim. But if go is not something bind black. And you can have fun!
