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This is Japanese Hospitality, "Omotenashi".

[Ginzo] 18:00 on April 7, 2017

One evening, around 5 o'clock, it was a day when the rain fluttered and the flowers were cold.

When I got off the Edo bus at the Chuo-ku government office, a foreign family was operating the smartphone in some trouble.

"Excuse me. “May I help you,” I say the name of the hotel I don’t know. Because the map displayed on the smartphone is not clear,

Then, please lend me your cell phone. I'm going to check with the hotel people in Japanese.

I'm not sure if I call the woman at the hotel and ask her the exact address and landmark.

"A group of Americans named Tully has 2 couples, 2 kids at the front entrance of Chuo-ku government office. It's raining and I don't have an umbrella, so please come and pick me up." About five minutes with Tully and his party, I was talking about the new president's villa in their hometown, and the woman in the hotel picked me up with an umbrella.

 I am very pleased with the actions of a woman who appeared with an umbrella in a quick action, and repeated, "This is Japanese hospitality, Omotenashi" many times,

A smile and a woman at the hotel fit in my camera.

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I am proud of the Japanese culture where such kind behavior continues. Ginzo