![]() ![]() What most new visitors might appreciate when they arrive is that most Japanese people can speak English – most learn English at school, they just don’t always have a chance to practice it. Japan has changed a lot in the last couple of decades – sure, it is still very foreign to Westerners, and that’s part of its attraction. It’s hard to know where to start pointing your camera lens. In the cities at least, that image of a magical, picture-perfect Japan is nowhere to be seen. There are always a lot of people out and about, endless advertising for everything from new technology to cat cafes, tiny coffee shops you can barely squeeze into, with every shop employee calling out, robot-like,“ irasshaimase” (‘…come on in…’) as you walk past every shop, and electrical cables crowd power poles everywhere. Your first couple of days in Japan will be confusing. It is still, after all, a very foreign country to Westerners.Ī huge population crammed into a relatively small land mass, a hard to understand language, packed streets, teeming masses in train stations, and a culture that’s about as foreign as it is interesting. Japan is one of those destinations that many folks want to visit but, for various reasons, are a little wary. Here, I snapped a group of three women as they were posing for the official photo studio photographer. You might be lucky enough to chance upon a trainee geisha (called a maiko) while wandering the streets of Kyoto – but chances are they are most likely tourists who have paid to dress the part for a few hours.
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