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RE: Random Japan #58 :: Talking Trash Cans
Cute trash can! That drink machine reminds me of my daughter's experience in Tokyo on her trip earlier this year. She said she could buy a drink/coffee from a machine, but she had to drink it by the machine, throw the container away and not walk around on the streets with it! She and her friend were told it was bad manners? Is that true of all of Japan? In the good old USA, you see people walking everywhere with their coffees, soft drinks, etc.
Your daughter was being a very polite foreigner. :) Walking around while eating or drinking is bad manners, yeah, but as always with these things older folks care about that much more than younger. And walking around while drinking is becoming more and more common everywhere, probably because with bottled drinks it is so much easier to do, so you see it more often. I often see Japanese people and foreigners alike walking around with drinks.