Japan is an incredibly advanced nation that embraces technology like no other country. From robots to super-fast bullet trains to striking vending machines, Japan has any and all types of high-level technology. It is a country living ahead of the future, stepping into a new and improved world.
For anyone who is planning to go to Japan, you will find that you can get very quickly attached to their technologically advanced way of life.
Let’s dive in to the wildness that is the tech life of Japan.
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Japanese Toilets Are Highly Sci-Fi
You might already know this, but Japanese toilets are famous for their abundance of buttons, lights, and other high-tech features. These features include heating the seat, a bidet with adjustable water jet pressure & shape, automated toilet bowl cleaning, and the ability to check your blood pressure, weight, or urine quality.
At the start, a person might find these toilets challenging to use and understand. Once they get used to them, it would be hard to live without one.
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Weather Forecasting Technology
Japan’s weather forecasting technology is improving in accuracy every year. Weather forecasts in Japan use land surface weather observation, weather satellites, supercomputers, and other combined methods.
This weather forecasting technology allows Japan to be able to detect and prevent natural disasters. Also improve the socio-economic standing and livelihood of Japan’s citizens.
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Japan’s Streets Are Safe And Secure
Japan is one of the top countries referred to as the safest nations in the world. One factor that helps Japan remain peaceful is the ‘Koban’ located in many areas of the city.
The Koban is also called a ‘police box,’ but most people around the globe are familiar with the Japanese word Koban.
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High-Tech Vending Machines
In Japan, you will love nothing more than the vending machines. From clothes, to electronic appliances, even to umbrellas, you can find anything and everything in these high-tech machines. In fact, you can buy anything you can possibly think of from these machines.
For food or drink based Japanese vending machines, they have different types with unique functionalities to each one. Hot beverage vending machines carry hot chocolates, coffees, teas, and almost any other beverage you can think of, while cold beverage vending machines carry sports drinks, fruit drinks, beer, energy shots, seltzers, and more. Not to mention, there are hot and cold food vending machines that can not only provide instant ice cream or other delicious instant desserts, but make hot ramen, soup, or any other hot meal for you on the spot.
Many restaurants also complete their restaurant layouts with some form of vending machines for quick orders or take-out. This allows you to be able to make quick and easy food/drink orders for a wide variety of complex combinations with extreme ease.
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No Rooms But Pods
As an affordable, space-efficient, and futuristic way to stay the night, Japan has introduced capsule hotels.
These hotels offer you everything you need, equipped with high-tech lighting systems for sleeping and waking, TVs, radio ports, and some hotels even offering spas and cafes. They are a great and interesting option to spend a night or two in during your trip to Tokyo, or when you forgot your apartment code/keys during your year abroad in Japan!
However, if tight spaces aren’t your thing, not to worry; Japan has a wide variety of spacious wester style hotels, B&Bs, and Ryokan that come with high tech bathtubs, computers, TVs, shops, hot springs, and anything else you can think of!
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Robots Run The Hotels
The Japanese love their hotels and robots, so they combined these two passions to introduce a fully automated robot hotel receptionist!
The robotic staff can check you in an out of your room, speak in different languages, and even cater to guests, doing all the house-keeping and answering to customer inquiries, just like a human being.
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Advance Rice Cookers
In Japan, rice is the most significant staple food in the country, and every year they improve the quality of rice. With the latest Japanese technology, you can cook perfect rice through a cooker. And at the right temperature, you can make the rice tender and tasty in no time. Many models of rice cookers are now functioning for overseas use.
In A Nutshell
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