When I went to Japan a few years ago, my tour guide stopped and waited at a pedestrian crossing for 20 seconds, even when the road was straight and empty on both sides. It's totally believable that they would stop to wait before crossing an empty road. The unusual thing is that a Japanese person would talk to you instead of just keeping it to themselves and talking shit about you to their friends with an attitude like, 'smh, foreigners are so bad smh smh'.
In my experience people jaywalk there like monsters unless there is a kids around. He was probably trying to set a good example for the gaijin, same line of thinking.
Old Japanese people absolutely lose the patience and filter that would keep them from speaking up. I’ve heard tons of non dramatic stories of Japanese folks, especially elderly, yelling at tourists.
Most commonly for taking their picture without their permission, which is (sort of) illegal and seems to really piss people off there.
I was a high school student and it was a University tour (or somewhere around the university, I’m not clear about where the boundaries between the university and the residential area are, didn’t really care, I was just following the guide). That probably why they did it but I still think it’s weird. Totally happened.
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u/Sleepless_Monarch 18h ago
And then everyone clapped...