19 things that surprised me in Germany as a Japanese person | vlog 

I associate these menus-with-pictures with those tourist-trap restaurants you'll find in any touristy place.

​@@flitsertheo I feel the same. 😅 But having pictures on the menu in a foreign country is quite nice...

@@My123Tutorials If you can trust those pictures.

Sounds stupid to me.

No. Colour photography is very recent (1970s). There was no illiteracy issue in Germany in the '70s

Except in Düsseldorf, the pedestrian lights also have yellow lights.

Also to note, the low traffic lights for bicycles are smaller and sometimes there are lower traffic lights for normal cars (which are bigger) because the higher ones are mostly for trucks and other big vehicles but they all still have three lights.

​@@Bioshyn What? Most of them have "please wait" as the third one. Only a few ones have yellow light

I wish addidional low traffic lights were common. Standing in first place with my car with only high traffic lights strains my neck.

@@-Lazy actually, Düsseldorf is the only city in Germany with yellow pedestrian lights. And yes they are at every traffic light here. Every other place only has red and green (except for only a few railway crossings in rare exceptions) because that is the norm of the StVO (german traffic law). Düsseldorf is allowed to keep them however because they are rather popular among some locals and politicians and also because we already had pedestrian lights with yellow since 1953 which was 20 years BEFORE the red-green standard was adopted into StVO. Outside of Germany you can also find such lights in some swiss and italian cities btw.

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How do I find these spots? I moved to stuttgart and they dont pop up on google maps or searches

@@prat1024really?

In my City of Gießen there are Signs/Stickers in some shop-windows that indicate that they have a friendly toilet (Nette Toilette) which means that people can use their toilet without buying or paying anything. Apparently this exists in about 200 German citys.

All shopping centres I have been in germany until now had free toilets. That shopping center looked special and the toilets expensive, I think its a higher class shoping center. There are also some public toilets that are for free I actually know a few around the city I work in and also which are most times clean and which are not. By the way never visit the toilet in a japanese MC-Donalds, almost the worst I had ever seen. (exepet for toilets at a big festival in germany, way worse)

in my 28 years i have never seen a toilet in germany that requires you to pay.

southeast black forest here, every VILLAGE has had its own microculture here lol most people know the Bollenhut, but this was worn only in about 3 villages in the black forest.... no idea why its a symbol for the black forest.... same with whole germany, even tho it might be not extreme everywhere, bu not every place in germany looks like bavaria, berlin or whatever.... sadly many people forget those wonderful places when visiting germany, or even talking about it

I totally agree, every city, town and village has something unique to offer. Or almost. I visited Ulm last summer and found it to be both interesting and welcoming. Of course, the Ulmer Dom chuch was… sort of insane but certainly very impressive. Nice people too. (PS I have no affiliation with Ulm in any way or form, just a nice place) 😊

I feel this comment a lot because whenever I watch these type of videos I feel like a foreigner myself because I live near Flensburg and it's so different here from like Köln or München

I totally agree. For a moment I was worried that he would go only to frankfurt and think all the cities in Germany would be like that. Frankfurt is somewhat special because it is a business city with a huge focus on banks and finance. I still feel he should also have visited Munich or Nürnberg or Stuttgart because Those are much different to Frankfurt Düsseldorf and Cologne.

@@achimsinn6189 Why always just the really big cities? How about Osnabrück with it's historically famous town hall? How about some smaller village pretty much anywhere? It's even extremely rare to see a recommendation for pretty much _the_ tourist town, Rothenburg o.d.T. Always just the major cities that certainly do show off some variety, but only a narrow slice of the _overall_ variety.

Yeah just trust what the government says, that's always a good idea..

@@franjocupic3241 Especially now. I live right next to Germany in the Netherlands and masks are a distant memory. It's been two years or so since they were last mandated here. Pretty much the whole world is past that, and more and more research is showing that it barely worked anyway and did in fact have negative consequences. But the Germans are still like "lets just do what our government says".

@@jbird4478 yeah fr the german culture is just do what they're told and not question anything

@@franjocupic3241 No they don't, german here. The ones that still use masks, are the stupid ones, that can't think for themselves and still believe in the goverment. The rest doesn't use it anymore.

German government told people to stop wearing masks several months ago. Many people stopped wearing them even before but some wear them even today so your theory is totally wrong... German citizens do follow the rules like robots...

some the other way around! we are far away from each other, but seem to have a lot of similarities and a feeling of cultural connection. maybe because both come from a time of a lot of different and independent city/small states + WW2 and we both like to build great cars :D Greetings from Germany! hope to visit Japan one day by myself. especially the countryside.

As a german i often travelled Japan and always had the impression I'm in Germany

​@@MasterChiefKamps i always felt the same when talkinh with Japanese Friends. Lots of common values.

I think mindset of japanese people is so similar to mindset of german people

@Malicioushunter well, I miss the friendliness, politeness, respect and mindfulness in Germany... you won't finde somebody to beg you to take their sear in a bus in Germany if elderly or pregnant, to the contrary: most would look away... Japan is society orientated, Germany sets the individual person higher than society. Good example was Covid

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That is interessting and kinda funny, because most non german people consider Germans to be very rude. But I guess, Japan and Germany have that in common somehow, and that's why japanese people don't think of our more distant behaviour as rude.

@@Leshantra Thank you for the commet,Leshantra.I understand your way of thinking because I watched a fierce battle between the police and young riot on the nose as well.However,all of my friends also told me the German had been kind. Any way,I will keep the good memory.Danke.

Frankental is in the east though :)

But there is also in the West

@@PeterAuto1 Could be, but the franks were a tribe with large power centres in modern south eastern germany (i.e. bayern etc). The probably was also a Frank group in the west, but interestingly the french name for germany refers to a different tribe, that lived in roughly modern day Baden Wurtemberg "Alemanni". (french name for Germany "Allemagne") So it seems to two regions of Frankish power were divided by the Alemanni tribe.

​@@j.p.vanbolhuis8678 not only the french call Germany Alemagne...some other countries have similar names but written different..Alemannia,Almania etc. I think it is because my culture is not only in Germany it is also in main part of Switzerland,small part of West Austria,South West Bavaria,Liechtenstein,East France,very few parts of Northern Italy. My culture was known for travelling a lot and finding new places to stay like a lot of other cultures too but the Alemanic stayed in a lot of countries. The Alemanic culture is connectkon between Switzerland,Austria and Germany through the lake constance

​@@j.p.vanbolhuis8678We have 2 Frankenthals, 1 in Rhineland-Palatine and the other one in Saxony.

Those tiny libraries are neat. We have some in our midwest US (great lakes region) town, too. We got a bunch when walmart was trying to buy land in our downtown & buy rezoning and they donated a bunch of money for people to construct them thinking it would be easy to buy good will. Our local community took the donation and built them. It was easy to show the spike in donations by that corporation. But we didn't let walmart take over our downtown. :) Allowing regular, non-corporate chain local businesses room to breathe without the state chartered giant plopping down all around them. We were able to maintain something non-cookie cutter. Some little libraries also unfortunately occasionally suffer vandalism or disrepair. But not all. I wish we had more vegetarian and vegan options. Here vegetarian is still often some sort of cheese dish.

But be careful, as purely vegan restautants are mainly located in bigger cities. But normal restaurants usually have vegan or vegetarian dishes on their menue even in the countryside.

Eat veggies at hone or pack viggies its much cheaper

If you visit big cities like Berlin or Frankfurt you should be fine. 😊

I also found these tiny libraries when visiting China. It's such a nice thing.

I still wear mask BECAUSE others don't. Many have a cold and don't care to spread it in closed spaces

Yup its personal itf theywant . I think he does not read or watch news since its tragic and violence : i watch one of his video he rmentioned that

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Danes do it too. I cringe so hard when people don't. My partner is half Hungarian, and didn't learn it properly even though he grew up here, so I have taken upon me to teach (push, force, nag 😅) him into doing it right. It feels so intensely rude if someone does it wrong.

Incidentally the bridge he showed in Cologne is where that trend started originally. Though it has caused a lot of problems for the city as the bridge was never designed to hold all that added weight so they regularly have to remove thousands of them to protect its structural integrity

Feeling locked into a relationship how romantic. Not.

I lived in Germany for 10 years, now I am in France. Nothing has made me love Germany as much as living in France 😆

@@tripledoubleone haha 😂 yes so true.

What are the pros and cons of living in France compared to Germany? I am German and love living here but I also love France so I try to go there as often as possible:)

@@DenzelPF-jl4lj I liked in Germany that the people follow the rules much more than in France for example. Sometimes I could get crazy for this.

Feel free to come back. many jobs open while strikes are coming. :D

Düsseldorf has the largest japanese community outside of japan, so its not really surprising^^

We are not in the US, McD has pictures of the food on the menu and the food they serve doesnt look like the picture, no one cares about the pictures. In a written menu the food has to made with the ingridients listed in the menu, you still cant just change french fries for potato edges or a Bratwurst with a Weißwurst.

I think Germany and Japan are similar

@@ninototo1 Yes and no after all both countrys have some similaritys in how they love to organize the average live they share similar believes interaction with work and other people and have an eye for quality products. The Japanese culture however might be more strict in some other aspects and also sometimes more weird in others ^^ When it comes to rules both countrys have the comunity in mind while a country like the United States of America is based on the individual for example. Overall Japan shares culturel influences as well like classic music and they have also a similar drinking culture. In short you could say they share a similar spirit while stil having their own will to live accordingly to that spirit. The biggest differences might be arround stuff like work life balance and the importance of honor in the society as a whole yet all of this has its pros and cons and If I have to name something that is troubling me thinking of Japan than it is the extremes they provide in the spectrum with people that might be excluded of the shared comunity as a whole or even celebrated to much in the opposite direction. Both countrys share a lot but also could learn a lot from each other if they would cooperate more closely for the benefit of all. So saying Japan and Germany are the same is basically as saying that France and Germany is the same yet they have so much differences as well that it is more than just a little bit of cultural influence.

@@kirasternenfeuer6198 🤔 Where did I say theyre the same?

That has some historical reasons. Essentially, there were a sort of prussian-japanese developmental cooperation in the 19th century in which Japan used germany/prussia as a sort of model to catch up to date after the country had completely isolated itself from the rest of the world for a while.

@@darthplagueis13 Thats right. There is also the fact both countries lost WW2 and were extensively bombed, then helped by the US to recover and had US troops stationed there. Japan and Germany have the highest troops of US soldiers stationed outside of the US. Then both countries became industrial and economical powerhouses well known for their cars. They are really strikingly similar.

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There are so many Japanese living in Reykjavik (compared to other foreigners and general population of Iceland)!

@@eaglenoimoto No not really - there are a few but there are much more Chinese people and most Asians in Iceland are from Thailand but the biggest foreigner group is from Poland. But thankfully there are a few Japanese, I'm studying Japanese at the University and the three language teacher there are three Japanese women.

Also in some cities like Düsseldorf there are many Asian people, including Japanese people, so in those places easier to get Asian food /manga and similar

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I know it with Jägermeister instead of rum!

To be fair, every part of Germany is so different from the other parts :D

Please not Berlin, we don't want to ruin his picture of Germany.

berlin nowdays is like a village hooker. everyons been there at least once already and it wasnt quite what they expected. it would be far more impactfull to visit parts tourists usualy dont go to. like the spreewald, the lüneburger heide, the schwartzwald and other more remote locations.

I’m German and have never heard of hazelnut pastries 😅 Which region was this in?

​@@eaglenoimoto Nusshörnchen

@@eaglenoimoto Heidelberg and Garmich-P. We also had hazelnut ice cream and spaghetti ice