Crabs on your private parts

To quote the Cleveland Clinic, "Crabs, are tiny insects that live on your pubic hair, near your genitals. You can get genital crabs through close contact, such as sex. " In Japan, however, it seems crabs near your genitals is something to show off. See photo. If you don't like crabs, you can, of course, have potatoes instead.

This is just one tiny example of strange, weird, and odd things in Japan.

We spent the last couple of days exploring Sapporo and the nearby port of Otaru. I didn't take that many photos, but attached are some random ones.

Some of the odder things you can't see or photograph easily. For example, nobody, but really nobody eats or drinks in the street. If like us you did, then you discover there are no litter bins anywhere. Why? because they are not needed.

Then Flo suggested just walking along the road and window shopping for a restaurant. It's not the best idea, since over 90% of restaurants are not at street level. Nearly half seem to be underground, and most of the rest are in floors above shops or offices. If you find on Google a restaurant, you have to work out the last bit yourself because it doesn't say if it's underground or on the 8th floor. This can involve trying to match the Japanese characters in Google to the list of businesses in a building. "The first character is a box with a bit sticking out on one side, and three squiggly bits inside." "Is that it?" , "No, the squiggly bits are different!"¹Read more