Japan - what we liked and what we didn't like

Likes:

• Ubiquity of automated food vending machines
• Most perfect transport system we experienced ever
• Toilets that need a little instruction booklet to understand
• The clean feeling after using such a toilet the right way
• The Japanese Alps - After 5 years in Oz a real eye candy
• Crazy Harajuku girls
• Traditional houses in Magome and Tsumago
• Mingling with locals in the hot onsen in Nozawa Onsen, best and cleanest body scrub ever
• Naoshima art island with Yayoi Kusama sculptures and Tadao Ando buildings
• Cycle paths everywhere
• Kyoto's temple abundance

Dislikes:

• Limited English language skills in Japan
• Bowing the lot
• Starting every sentence with "excuse me" or "thank you for waiting"
• The Japanese fear of sunlight and with it comes the lack of outdoor seating
• Architecture weirdness - either extremely ugly or super modern
• Non-existence of chairs and lounges
• The costs of travelling in Japan