The vending machines, there is just vending machines everywhere.

販賣機，到處都看的到販賣機的蹤影

– Everywhere! – Food everywhere!

到處都是! 食物也是!

I feel like people here are a bit more…

我覺得這裡的人有點...

Hey guys! This is Cathy Cat! “What’s the thing that surprised you the most

嗨! 各位，我是Cathy貓。「你在日本

when you came to Japan?” That’s a question I am gonna ask a couple of

感到最驚訝的事是甚麼呢?」接下來我要問一些

foreigners who are around here so let’s see what they gotta say!

在這裡的外籍人士，讓我看看他們怎麼說吧!

What was the thing that surprised you the most. Where you were like

你感到最驚訝的事是甚麼呢? 像是說

“Whoa that’s strange! That’s weird? That’s …”

「哇! 這很奇怪! 這很詭異! 」等等

The toilets! I can’t use them! What do all the buttons mean?!

廁所囉! 我不會用啊! 那些按鈕是甚麼意思？

And there is music playing. That’s really bizarre! Couldn’t cope with that.

然後還有音樂，一切都很詭異，我hold不住了

But someone offered Chloe an umbrella last night when it was raining.

不過昨晚下雨時，有人遞給Chloe一把雨傘

Like a guy just gave her it, which was so nice. That shocked me.

應該是個男的，他很好心。我嚇到了

– I think this street. – This street?

我想應該是街頭吧。街頭怎麼了?

Yeah, cause I came here on the weekend. It was super busy at that time,

因為我周末剛到這裡時，那時候整個忙碌

I couldn’t even move. There was like a river of people.

我無法移動，真的是川流不息的人潮

So that was a big shock for me.

這對我來說還蠻驚訝的

How safe it was! I mean, I feel like I could sleep on the street, honestly!

很安全，說真的，我都覺得可以直接露宿街頭了

I don’t feel… and …

我不覺得說...

And people don’t like STARE at me here, you know.

而且，這裡的人不會盯著我看

In Korea and Taiwan I get a lot of stares, but in Japan it’s like really welcoming.

在韓國和臺灣，很多人盯著我看。但是在日本，我覺得很融入其中

As I say. It’s my first time here so everything is like “Whoa! No way!”

這是我第一次到這裡，這裡的一切只能說「哇!不會吧!」

– Maybe the toilets? – Maybe okay. Maybe a little bit. – The electronic one,

廁所嗎?其實還好，或許有一點。電子感應式的廁所

that you have so many options to choose from, you know. Very complicated.

妳有很多選擇，很複雜

I think we’re just shell-shocked getting off the airplane but erm…

我們一下飛機後就嚇愣了

Nothing’s really blown me away. I really like all the kids dressed up all crazy.

也不是說嚇到魂飛魄散。不過我真的很喜歡這裡獨樹一幟的打扮

I have never seen anything like that, specifically in America. So that’s

尤其在美國，我從來沒看過這樣的人文風景

kinda interesting. I look at it like the counterculture movement like punk rock

所以相當有趣。我好像看到龐克搖滾的反傳統文化

or something. Something like that, I don’t know.

諸如此類，或許吧

– Harajuku fashion! – Yeah, get it!

原宿風格囉! 是的，沒錯!

Well, where we live it’s very casual, beach town.

嗯，我們住的地方是很悠哉的海濱小鎮

So here everyone’s dressed up fancy, and just to walk around the streets so

這裡的人很精心地打扮，在街上來來回回

that’s a big difference.

真的是天壤之別

But it’s so clean, so nice, so beautiful. I’m happy to be here.

這裡倒是很乾淨、很棒很美的地方。我很開心來這裡

The vending machines, there is just vending machines everywhere!

販賣機，到處都看的到販賣機的蹤影

– Everywhere! – Food everywhere! – EVERYWHERE!

到處都是! 食物也是!

Cat Café! Cat Café was good.

貓咪咖啡店很棒

Anything else you can think of that surprised you?

還有其他讓妳驚豔的地方嗎?

I like the difference. You come here and it’s so crazy and busy. And then

城鄉的不同吧。來到這一切都是瘋狂與忙碌

we went to Takayama, which was so rural, peaceful and quiet.

之前在高山市，倒是一個很寧靜的鄉下地方

– It’s got a lot of everything, which is good. – So clean! Melbourne is like a hole.

真的是大開眼界，很棒! 也很乾淨，墨爾本根本垃圾掩埋場

It’s so clean, I can’t believe it.

這裡真的很乾淨，不敢相信!

Obviously, there is like the Cat Café’s and stuff. They’re all a bit…

像是貓咪咖啡

yeah, the café culure. – I like the hot springs like…

咖啡店文化，我喜歡溫泉

Obviously, we didn’t know at first that in the Onsen we would have to be naked.

一開始我們不知道要全裸泡溫泉

In England like, you would never really think of that. It was really cool though.

在英國，妳根本沒有想過。真的很酷

Everyone is just really chilled out about it and it’s just … and you think that you are

每個人都處之泰然，而我覺得

gonna be feeling really uncomfortable, but it’s actually fine.

有點不習慣，不過後來就覺得還好

Everyone just minds their own business and they are really cool.

大家不會對妳雞婆，我覺得很好

I feel like people here are a bit more relaxed compared to America I wanna say.

比起美國人，這裡人比較從容

America, they’re very timely and it’s like “We have to do this, this, this…”

在美國，甚麼都要趕，就像是「我們要做這個、做那個。」

– In Japan I feel like they are a little bit more relaxed. – Thank you very much!

在這裡，人們比較放鬆。非常謝謝妳!

Looks like one of the things most of the people we’re surprised about are

看起來，其中讓大多數人感到驚訝的是

actually the toilets that you can find here in Japan. They are very, very high-class and technical,

在日本你能看到的廁所，真的是高級、高科技

or not so. Depending on where you go.

也並非全然，要看哪裡的廁所囉

Also hot springs… that you have to go nudie in there and lots of other things.

再來是溫泉，泡湯要全裸喔。還有其他更多更多!

What surprised you about Japanese culture?

有甚麼日本文化讓您驚豔的呢?

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在下方留言給我們，期待看到您的留言! 再見囉，掰掰!

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現在你可以幫我們Ask Japanese提交字幕囉

If you speak any other language – apart from English – there is a little video

如果你會英語之外的外語，這裡有一些影片

description how this works!

教你如何操作喔!