There were 36 buttons on the control panel for the toilet at the restaurant in Tokyo where we ate fugu. It took me a while to figure out how to flush.

The good and the bad about Tokyo

Things I like about Tokyo:
1. It's the cleanest city I've ever seen. There is not a spec of litter or graffiti anywhere. Not even a crack in the sidewalk, or a pothole in the road. Seriously.
2. No tipping. All advertised prices include tax, and tipping is practically uneard of. I really hate tipping, so this is cool.
3. Every toilet I've seen has a multifunction electronic bidet that will spritz your ass with water at the temperature and pressure of your choosing, at the touch of a button.
4. Great subway system.
5. All the cartoonish signs and ads make it look like the city was designed for kids
6. Very few homeless people
7. The taxi drivers wear white gloves, and the trash collectors wear uniforms.
8. Everyone is fit, nicely dressed, and ridiculously polite.

Things I dont like about Tokyo:
1. Everything is so frickin expensive
2. The streets and addresses are very disorganized and confusing, making it hard to find places (even for the Japanese). Some streets dont even have names, and the ones that do are not clearly marked. There is no logic to the layout. Addresses appear to be completely random, rather than sequential. Even the taxi drivers need a gps to find an address. It seems like a major problem, and I dont know why they dont fix it.
2. There's not much english, and I can't read japanese so it can be hard to figure things out.
3. It's hot as hell.
4. It's an extremely conformist culture.