{"id":290,"date":"2012-08-05T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:32:35","slug":"five-quirky-things-i-found-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/05\/five-quirky-things-i-found-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Quirky Things I Found in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before my first visit to Japan I expected a lot of strange, quirky sights. I was overall pretty surprised to find not a wacky country, but one that is profoundly interesting and fun to explore. But that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t have its fair share of odd experiences, including these five I found while exploring the areas in and around Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7705845340_ea60bcc904_b.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"610\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This unfortunately named beverage was found in several vending machines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7705850164_fa89144ea9_b.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"610\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several ice cream shops didn&#8217;t have tubs of ice cream, instead they had packets that were inserted into machines and you chose a flavor from walls of cones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7705847568_a3002b8fa0_b.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"610\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because who doesn&#8217;t want to dress their dog like a ladybug. Or a chick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 856px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7705840838_ece3073d11_b.jpg\" width=\"856\" height=\"678\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HELLO KITTY!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7705843758_1dae91fcfb_b.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"610\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petting zoo at a nearby park featuring&#8230;dogs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you been to Japan? What were some things you found quirky?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/landlopers.com\/2012\/08\/05\/quirky-japan\">Five Quirky Things I Found in Japan<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/landlopers.com\">LandLopers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >Before my first visit to Japan I expected a lot of strange, quirky sights. I was overall pretty surprised to find not a wacky country, but one that is profoundly interesting and fun to explore. But that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t have its fair share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folkanimals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}