Japan is a place where you can experience high-tech toilets complete with heated seats and a series of different flushing choices in the same house that offers sleeping arrangements on the floor on a traditional futon.
In the morning you see teenagers on the street who are extremely aware of creating their own identity through fashion-conscious and ultra modern clothes and hairdos. In the evening in the restaurant you are served by porcelain-delicate women wearing traditional kimonos.
You see women trudging through the soggy mud of a rice paddy, planting rice plants one by one by hand. You also see state-of-the-art robots that steer themselves up and down the rice paddy while planting the rice plants automatically.
You experience age-old traditions of tea ceremonies, sake brewing, Buddhism, Shintoism, and respectful bowing to each other. But you also experience madly busy and crowded train stations, multi-tiered highways, and neon-decked skyscrapers.
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