Different habits and manners

Mobile belongings
All Japanese always wear a small towel with them. Now after living a half year in Japan I also always have one in my mobile belongings. I consider it to be one of the most useful objects in my hand bag! Can you guess why it is so useful?

Umbrella Parking
Outside many shops you often find an “umbrella parking”. If not, there is most certainly a plastic bag that you could put your umbrella in if you need to take it into the shop, restaurant or hotel. This makes so much sense when you realize how much water there would be on the floor during the rainy season, when it can rain heavily hour after hour and days after days!