• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Cultural smells are interesting. In Japan, they find the strong scents of perfume, cologne, and even shampoo that westerners wear to be intolerable and people at restaurants will discreetly ask to change tables to move away from those wearing it.

    See, stuff like that makes me like Japan and then I turn around and read something like there’s a tentacle porn-based toddler splash pad in Kyoto.

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      5 months ago

      For me it’s that the country is hostile to foreigners. You can get arrested for stepping out of your hotel room without a passport.