The most underrated thing(s) about life in Japan?

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  TonetoEdo

  on Aug 7

  I get the impression from social media and forums that visitors to Japan are including optical stores on their shopping lists. The last time I bought glasses in my native Canada, they cost five times as much as the similar glasses I got here!

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  TonetoEdo

  on Aug 7

  Architectural details are underrated. I appreciate toilet doors with little grommets or frosted windows at the top so you can tell if the light is on.

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  genkidesu

  on Aug 7

  @TonetoEdo I can understand it gaining popularity with international visitors, I always tell my glasses-wearing friends and fam to get their eye test/pair of glasses here instead of back home. It's about the same in Australia (5x what it is here) so you can save a significant chunk of change!

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  helloalissa

  on Aug 7

  The last time I got glasses, I was the only customer using Japanese, if that is any indication about how visitors plan on getting glasses here. It can take up to a week depending on what you need but is worth it if you can stay in one place for that long. In general the cost of living here is still so affordable compared with a lot of other countries, but that has it's downside as well. I recently looked up the minimum wage in the UK and found it's something like 2400 yen, so more than twice what it is in Osaka. I have joked that it would be the same price to get a dental crown in the US as getting a flight to Japan and the crown here, without insurance. That's probably just the US with overpriced medical care though.

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