Category: Daily Life
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How to use Loppi, the Lawson magic machine
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Have ever noticed this 90s (80s?) looking red machine at Lawson? This is Loppi, the ticketing-payment-and-much-more machine. While its user interface is as dated as its looks, it is still…
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PayPay: How to charge your account with money
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Here’s our second article on how to use PayPay. Now that you’re hopefully all set with your account (if not, check out the previous article), let me share the different…
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PayPay: What it is and how to open an account
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If you’ve been living in Japan, chances are you have seen those PayPay signs around cashiers or at the entrance of some shops and restaurants: Japan, influenced by the trend…
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Japanese Housing Types & Useful Words
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You are about to move to Japan? Congrats! Or maybe just looking for a change? Housing in Japan has its own terminology that can be a bit confusing at first…
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Survival Guide to Summer in Japan
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It’s here… the dreaded Japanese summer! Not only does it differ from what most of us are used to from a heat point of view, it also gets really humid.…
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It’s Garbage! How to Sort Trash in Japan
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Ah… The topic of sorting trash in Japan. I feel like it’s one of the most famous puzzles: what to sort, how to sort it, when to put it out……
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Rokuyou (六曜): The Lucky and Unlucky Japanese Days
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You may have seen it on Japanese calendars: some characters under the dates, usually in black and red. These are the rokuyou/rokuyō (六曜), “six days”, a way used in Japan…
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The (Untold) Etiquette of Onsen ♨
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It took me too many years to realize that the key to learning the magic of the onsen experience wasn’t as easy as reading the list of bad behaviors at…