Want to catch the last magazine or the latest manga before returning home late at 23h, a little hungry at 2am, want a bento of nikuman or pastry? need to take a coffee to start the job early at 5am when it's cold, need an umbrella, a pen, sticky again because a chikan you ripped them in the subway (I dunno I guess it can happen) the short answer is always the same: combini.
Off topic: I want to clarify that nikuman is not a man worthy of meat among the most formidable enemy of batman because of launched his famous attack on the shank, but a donut (the bun closest in French I guess) to the meat steamed. Niku: 肉: meat and man: manju, which means roughly that donut or what style of clothing. Although the Japs have piqued the Chinese long ago and just manju mantou by cons I'm not Chinese so to know the origin of mantou Sort this out while you are alone. In China, called nikumanju Baozi, that's why, assholes Westerners that we are, we translated this innocent by bun appetizer-bao in much of our stores greasy spoon , just to remember that eating a donut-donut, and that and that it was super super good good ... There are many variations around the world and it is not only the meat, therefore it is part of the common denominator of all humanity: everyone agrees on the fact that when he is hungry and cold, it bullet.
The handset is the little shop that has everything, not too expensive, while most of the food and drink or clothes or accessories that may be needed in an emergency, some magazines, the post, a distributor and sometimes a marker for various transportation reservation. Open 7 / 7, 24/24 mostly. Within a radius of 50m around my house I have 3 and still, even though I live (yes, even that is correct!) near a JR station is relatively low. It teems and it is impossible not to find.
In August 2009, there were 42 345, divided between:
- 7-11 (Seven-Eleven): 12 467 - Lawson: 9562 - FamilyMart: 7604 - Sunku - Mini stop - Am / pm ...
for this most famous
The handset is therefore an integral part of life in Japan, adding that the 100yen shop also make Party, we understand that many Japanese go shopping only to the handset. (And besides, having never seen a euro shop in France or anywhere in Europe, all non-Japanese there are also about to race! Without wanting to fall into the stereotype of Japan Superior ... in fact the principle is so global that Europe is rather inferior.)
Quick topo on the first 3 ranking (after rereading I realize you probably fuck you):
Seven-Eleven
Seven-eleven is not the original Japanese, the basic chain was founded in Texas (Yep, me too it was a shock, but the guy who created it was not just a redneck apparently so you could do). It produced the ice and went into conservation and the sale of daily products. Still, as Mr. Texas, despite the great success of his company (also should not be a light to make the calculation that opening his shop longer allowed to make more revenue (from 7am in the morning to 11pm in the case), has struggled in the 80s and got bought by the Japs. (deduced in passing that the 7-11 franchise is a good example to show that "work more to earn more" is a Expired joke 30 years ...). The brand is now well established, mainly in Asia Pacific, Northern Europe and North America. And no there is not in France.
Lawson Lawson, in addition to being an invective your boss you mean that you go buy your bullshit you with a pack of binche combini at the corner, was also born in the States, in Ohio, only in milk, then grew (much the same, they would not know the half-skimmed milk at the time). The mark was not exported to Japan in the 70's with a local partner, who ended up owning the entire brand. A Note that the Dairy Mart in the States are present in the party of former Lawson, but was hassled by the Puritans local (Kewa? my vocabulary is entirely objective!) on the sale of porn articles, the name changed to protect the image. Japan does not bother with these details and miss mini skirt can easily split a four hours while that Mr. salaryman is leafing through the hentai that will bring for the evening. There are also Lawson in China but not elsewhere in the world, let alone in France.
FamilyMart
FamilyMart he is born on the islands (admire the countless pun you can do with the word archipelago. it is staggering is not it?). They are present in Japan, in most industrialized countries of Asia (including 2 in North Korea! Ha ha! Aspen rotting communist, your end is near! ...) And the U.S.. They recently had emmerdes (2010 so the weight of the stick with which we will beat them has not been decided yet) as they have sold whale meat, and more protected, what is wrong. There is NO in Europe, let alone in France, so yes we will continue to stuff "the Arab area," I do not know why nobody opens the night convenient store in Western Europe. I take any response.
And we go for the series of photos:
The handset design: it is open, there are fags, alcohol and cash (たばこ, お 酒, ATM /银行).
The Sunkus is my favorite i like the little guy with the hat in k and godasses, but the beers are cheaper in am / pm (10 yen eh)
It's cool there are bins for sorting each time, and distributors of smokes and drinks (But no hoods, sorry guys).
The reading area, mainly food, fashion, and the rear end of the manga (the Japanese are human beings like the rest):
The bento:
drinks at all is, the corner bakery is behind, there is growing full of stuff, it's a mix of European / Japanese, not always sigh, but with good surprises. If not full of crap everywhere, crisps and cakes, as well as the more special, octopus, dried meat and fish (the Octopus tears, the fish is medium, the meat, I do not find the version preserved in salt for 4 months ...)
Stationery (check by putting in a Tahitian radius, has priori no reason why he is splitting the pear.)
Copier, newspapers, DVDs, honestly they're good motion but I took the picture so good ...
The enemy of the guy who had returned 'just' for a coffee (especially when it's snowing outside):
And some surprises: A test ... once ... able to say "me, I tasted" and force others to take.
cheese & champagne? o'rly? (hint: do not test cheese)
Seen from outside, we are told it will never return, but once inside, you say that in fact, even if it feels the narrow, if it was going well and that could even add more.
I evidently referring to the subway (and train) in Japan. (Oh what a twisted mind those French!)
One car of any line is mathematically infinite space and the perfect illustration of the recurrence: one can put a person and any number of people in it can be always put an extra. Rush hour, employees of the line will help you greatly to go, of course: one foot on the platform, hands on the door frame back to the crowd reluctant to imitate a school of sardines and hooop, we push . And it fits.
I will greatly liked to illustrate my point, but every time the trains are really crowded, I just can not move at all, let alone take a picture, even with my laptop, it is impossible . Each deceleration or acceleration of the train simulates a pogo in the car with a pressure of several dozen people on each side trying to regain their balance. I trust you to find your picture in any image-sharing site online media (as far as legal).
Fortunately handles are numerous and distributed in a car everywhere, so the probability of finding a point of support is large enough. It's not like our subway PERAVES and unique striptease bar in the middle of the wagon, where everyone can taste the joys of sweat from the hands of his neighbor.
Without it, a subway is a subway, nothing really Folichon, (well I am still waiting on TV in the Paris subway). The only advantage transcendent, tremendous, the double seat combo. With already registered you can sit and that's pretty cool already, but in addition, under the seat, there is a vent that blows air ... hot. So I choice between me freeze up and feel like sitting in my duvet but beware still leave room for little old. Haaaaa. Haaannn. Doooors. I love it. I fall asleep (it was well mashed zero that one). I think it's just not conceivable for a Japanese to have warm buttocks, I'll do a post on the twenty-second century technology applied to the bathroom you will understand.
And the subway is this (click to enlarge (and I mean the image) ):
What? ours for a neophyte is not brimming with clarity.
It's actually quite simple.
Already, there is the subway and JR (Japan Railway = train), which are two distinct types of lines. Among other things not the same price (the train is cheaper) and the minimum price for a trip to a resort in all cases is 130yen and you pay at the distance, so we avoid changing times fuck subway train for a station if it is expensive. We were the figures for the metro, here is a letter, for example, the Yurakucho line is the Y (Y as Yurakucho, you see that piece of cake) and this line, each station a number. For example if you want to reach the aircraft carrier, C8, and well you go to Hibiya (8th station on the line) with the Chiyoda line, so if you know how to play Battleship and Clue, you know, take the subway in Japan.
The main difference to me is the organization. In Paris, the spiderweb system, several lines that intersect at large stations and the more I'm near the central station more I more I walk away, unless I (When I center say I understand, I limit not the center of Paris to the island city!). Tokyo is more "useful" for people who want to change lines. Many lines are circles and go around Tokyo (I can kind sleep in the subway without getting back to the other side of town and besides I did not even move my butt to warm to go home anyway). It takes longer to change that line once or twice to take the shortest route (straight line) but I can easily side. The most famous being the Yamanote line, which looks after the plan is a perfect circle or circuit F1 Nürburg. So remember to look at the city map before looking at the metro map and choose to change the station "nearest", the two plans do not match EVER.
Example: If if it's the same thing ...
I'd be lost if post helpful later on the organization of neighborhoods, but we find the names of neighborhoods in the metro and also their position relative to the big resort. (Example Igashi (东) means East Igashi Ikebukuro Station, located east of Ikebukuro Station.) Ultimately, it's scary but it's quite well built and quite practical for around town.
One for the road, just to make fun of the size of the Japanese for free:
Bon sorry for white, but I was tired, I just started a super physical and grueling job, I named: cook, and it stings.
So, tomorrow, maybe I should go to the Tsukiji fish market (the big fat mature market in Tokyo) but it was postponed until next week, then no halibut carelessly placed on ice that you are gentle eyes and wake up your wildest imagination.
No photo today, because today I'm talking about something real and useful: the doctor, care, HEALTH! One jokes especially not with that in Japan (did you just compare the number of people running around with a mask in Paris and Tokyo). In France it is quite peon to believe that the guy who has a mask is the one who is ill, which is totally stupid, the guy has a mask that makes it the smart guy who has no desire to nab the shit you gonna him spluttering into the nostrils by telling him your life. Glaring example: Zorro, Zorro has a mask, it protects itself, it protects us and Zorro is never sick, QED.
In short, all that to say we do not trifle with safety in Japan, I may be a post at the top, the panels signaling, warning slogans, etc..
Today I gave myself to test the doctor, I am in warrior mode with two words in my vocabulary only. So what do you do if you have a sore in Japan?
example, taken at random, you Maraver miserably mouth trying to catch the last train, recovery unfortunately not perfect but almost, bobo.
Method 1:
My favorite at home. It bleeds? not. I hurt? not. And when I on it? yes-uh. It's ugly? I farted mouth eh, the flowers that grows not in the crust! Ok, this is normal, so good, nature is well done, I clean and I regenerates (Not as fast as Wolverine of course, but it is the word I regenerates). Method 1 or walk until you encounter the first type colleague panic x2 bonus if the friend is Japanese. "Ah, but it's ugly! It gangrene!" (See above, bah, yes it is ugly, of course ...) which pushes us to go to Method 2.
Method 2:
First word ie 医 者 or いしゃ or isha which means doctor. Second word namely 病院 or びょう いん or byouin means hospital.
The usefulness of the first word to be discussed: doctor works very well. Second word handy, because that is where it goes and that's the direction we are asking the people on the street when one is lost. Usually at this point, it begins to rain.
hospital is actually not necessarily a complex type CHU hospital, it refers equally well a firm where officiates a single doctor. Do not look for a building of 15 floors! It's as big as any shop trick to quickly locate the building without decrypting the kanji: there, where we learn that 科 is very frequently used in medical circles. Once spotted, you should check that you have to go home by an ophthalmologist with a toothache.
When I say any shop is a traitor because I never thought that the doctor nearest me in my street, was just above an edge .., an institution providing services localized relaxation ... I passed a hundred times before without seeing the trick.
We go, hello sir, gnagna, that you can do. It gives her insurance card, tourists, if you have not, you probably give anything but I know not what. Expected. Whatever the world are expected at this time we move from patient to patient so we wait.
Here it gets fun.
First, the language bar, but finally I understood what he meant. The funny thing is that in Japan, ON DO NOT PLEASANT TO HEALTH Zounds! but nothing.
In France, a normal doctor, see the wound - 2s analysis - 3s, take the right product - 5s (and even if it is below), make the dressing - 2s, smiling inanely and say that c ' is finished before cashing - 3s, so in great 15s max is flared (I remember, I just scratched my hand, if you have an incurable disease, it takes more time).
Japanese Fashion, watch hands, think, look, think, lots of dressing, there aaah finds that her dressing is too small then starts a party origami for a dressing to size (In his head and he mimes with his hands) then selected pad. me, fool that I am I ask when I take off my bandage. So he explains: risk of necrosis! So he put the product prevents necrosis and clean but after erosion ago! therefore risk of ulcers! (But superficial, my life is not in danger either) so I have to return in a week. (seriously WTF! In one week I Régen alone with mother nature!) short, I prescribed an ointment 50gr apply under the dressing. On his small plug ... 'cause it has a small card with while he notes, it takes a buffer (previously normal), bam, he would not sign ... like the stamp in the shape of a hand, it is funny ... and here, there, I noticed a row (twenty) ink pads, each representing a body part, hand, foot, head, everything! And my doctor to scribble with colored pencil drawing in the left hand by the buffer, all areas where I have sores ...
Cost: 1020yen is € 8.16 and I still get fooled, last week it would have cost me less than 8 € (always look at the exchange rate before meat).
The guy tells me where is the pharmacy. It is still raining. Gnagna order, and wait, grosso modo, 5min ... Fortunately there is on TV. He just needs to give me a tube of ointment there, doing what? And here I have two hypotheses: either the guy gave me a tube of hair pil 50gr my thing, they are three lab behind the glass, but hey, it means nothing. Or we print their receipt, with instructions and color picture tube of my 50gr please take them with 3 weights. last remark funny, on my insurance card, there is not space to write the name and surname, me I have three, for example, but it fits not even 2. Of course when one says to the office the last 2 are not essential, since they exclude the full name appears on the passport. So they write down everything, until it comes over. On my receipt and I order a beautiful middle name truncated in the middle as an header:)
Whatever the country stuff the doctor for anything it sucks, but that's okay, I spent more time outside looking in to that cause my medical vocabulary (none accepted). Honestly, it's not too much consultation, it will make me an opportunity to see if the social security system is complicated here.
I hope to post more entertaining next time, with any luck we'll be able to see photos shock as dead bluefin tuna or whales died and two months, this blog will shine as an apostle of the love between people and nature.
