Last days of Japan.

So as we're leaving Japan today I thought I'd do a quick post. It seems a good time to dispell and confirm a few Japan myths.

Firstly the toilets: I'm sure you've all heard about the clever toilets they have out here. Yes it's true, they do have seat warming technology to prevent cold bottoms. They don't play music as I had heard but they do make a flushing sound "to disguise unpleasant toilet noise" - clever! They also have built in fountains which come out at the press of a button (which you can even change the water pressure on). A bit O.T.T but all in all quite fancy! For a country so obsessed with hygiene (yes they do wear the face masks a lot) they don't have many hand dryers/paper towels in public toilets. Enough on the toilets!

They are a very polite nation. Everywhere you go you are greeted by every single person working in the shop/restaurant. When you're language skills are as limited as ours all you can do is smile and nod. I kept saying 'Hi' to people but we worked out this means 'yes' so colin told me to stop that.

Never did we have experience of the people who are employed to push people into tube trains before closing the doors but i can well believe that these people exist. It seems there is a job for everyone here. I'm sure thats not true but everywhere there are more than a stupid amount of employees (some just to welcome you, as mentioned). Outside one very deserted car park at 9pm there were 5 men with flashy glowing red sticks that looked like lightsabers to direct the non-existant traffic. I kid you not!

It's an incredibly clean and tidy country, which is surprising since you cannot find a rubbish bin if your life depended on it. Everyone just takes there litter with them. If only people in England could learn from them.

Mount Fuji is still there - we're told, but we didn't get to see it sadly. The lakes area was lovely though, so it didn't matter so much. Had a nice last few days in Tokyo and now we have to check out and go to the airport. We really enjoyed Japan. Occasionally it's been more difficult but people here are so helpful and friendly we've always been able to find our way around.