I’ve only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they’re just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I’d be taking for granted?
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For some reason, Japanese tourists go nuts for PEI. Now I’ve nothing against PEI, it’s a nice enough province in the beautiful maritimes. Good potatoes.
But I don’t think it deserves THAT much hype.
It’s definitely because of Anne of Green Gables, not necessarily the island itself. Anne is HUGE in Japan, visiting her hometown is like meeting your favourite celebrity.
It’s an island of farms. The economic and demographic statistics are predictably dire given that, too.
You get to vote 3 times, though.
I’ve heard that! Anne of Green Gables is big there too for a weird reason. There’s an anime airing right now, even.
We went to the mostly abandoned Anne of Green Gables theme park in Hokkaido, Canadian World, a couple months ago.
The translation of the book was done particularly well, I think. It was prescribed in schools. And the setting was attractive to those stuck in big cities.
“what in your country is totally normal”
Japan: “We have a Canada theme park”
O_o
During the economic boom, Japanese people had money, but traveling overseas was still scary if it wasn’t Hawaii or Cairns, and even if they had the courage, they didn’t have the vacation time to get all the way to Newfoundland and back. Hence the many various theme parks that popped up all over the country, each more bizarre than the last. Most of them are shut now, many abandoned in various states of decay. Quite fun to explore!