Japanese in Hawaii
Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 @ 6:04 am by harvey in Language, Travel Views: 1,580
I visited Hawaii for the first time this month and was blown away by the amount of Japanese around.
There were signs in Japanese, Japanese food, Japanese tourists, white people hawking goods to Japanese tourists in broken Japanese… the whole nine yards! There are countless Japanese restaurants and even an ultra-famous Japanese Shaved Ice Place (kakigouri かき氷) called Matsumoto’s. Some shops in Waikiki even accept payment in Japanese yen.
Here are some pics of some of the random Japanese I encountered. Click to ENLARGE!
If you really want to immerse yourself in Japanese and don’t have the willpower to do it where you are now… consider moving to Honolulu!
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