Hey everyone, Benkumu Radio, how are you doing? Or should I say, Konichua? And that's because today I'm going to speak about my experience in Japan with food and culture because let's be straight up it was an awesome country if you

haven't been you've got to go put on your bucket list absolutely incredible

everyone that I spoke to is like, yeah, but isn't Japan really expensive?

And for me, it's kind of like any country, like you can find cheap things to do or expensive things to do.

My return flights were about about I think they're about

four hundred and seventy quid and I was there for two weeks and a lot of the locations

that we stayed in cost us anywhere between 40 and 70 pounds a night. So no it wasn't too expensive. There were days

where we had you know loads of sushi for lunch and it cost us a fiver and there were days

we went out for a Korean barbecue and spent 40 quid so I think

it's like anywhere you can you can go on a budget or you can not so please don't be put off by the

money so Japanese culture for me was quite fascinating for a couple of

reasons and hopefully there's a couple of lessons in here for us. One thing

that I was truly fascinated by was how you didn't see anyone at all that was

overweight. Like it was it was literally mind-blowing. It wasn't until we got to Tokyo,

which is their biggest and busiest city, that you

started to see a few more overweight people and one thing I did notice, if I'm honest honest there was a lot more skin issues like a lot more people had like spots

eczma acne that kind of stuff in Tokyo and I'm wondering just a guess they're eating a lot more kind of processed

fast food and generally not getting enough fruits and vegetables generally

getting a lot of food in the body that isn't really food and that is affecting the

skin. So that was one thing I noticed. I didn't find that in any of the other

cities, any of the rural areas, but the whole weight thing fascinated me and I kind of looked at why and what the Japanese do, you know, just from my awareness because I wasn't able to have enough conversations with people to kind of really delve into this because while nearly everyone spoke English it was all English that would you know get you a plate of food and that's kind of it.

So we struggled to find people to really sort of have a get you a plate of food and that's kind of it.

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