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Popular Local Customs | Other Local Customs Tips | All Tips (2) I noticed that the shop-keepers here took great pride in their shops and in their shop displays. Despite that the street outside was practically deserted and there were no customers inside the shop, the lady-owner came outside to re-arrange her display of wares and dusted and swept the pavement so that her storefront display looked bright and attractive. Due to her attentiveness, I decided to walk in to take a look.
Also a fond memory: Let me relate what happened at the souvenior shop where I had purchased a few items (see my shopping tips). The owner, an elderly Japanese gentleman, was in the midst of wrapping up my purchases with ordinary brown paper, when he stopped midway to ask me (in English) whether the mugs were for -gifts?- At my reply - Hei, Yes, the are- he immediately took greater care to wrap them up individually, and further marked them accordingly (each of them had a different design) and then he encased each with a piece of wrapping paper with a white background and red roses design. What can I say, I was totally taken in by his care and attention to detail.
The ceramic mugs not only survived the journey back home, but were received with great delight by my colleagues. Leave a Comment
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Strolling around the town of Narita, you will get a sense of what it is like to live here.
In the early mornings, school children walk to school, while in the afternoon and evenings, tourists start to appear around the area of the Narita-san temple and the nearby Omotesando (usually these tourists will be flying off the next morning, because Narita airport has something of a "curfew" due to local residents demands when the airport was built here)
Along the streets, you will find people's homes (town houses) interspersed between retail shops, ryokans (Japanese inns) and small restaurants. The streets were neat and tidy, very clean, and you could see little signs of many a house-proud owner, because spring flowers bloomed in little pots on many a window sill. There is no haphazard parking on the streets, and private cars were all parked within their own household compounds. Leave a Comment
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on July 14, 2005
