Japan Tourism Agency has published video clips that introduce manners that Japanese people expect foreign tourists to have.

The video shows the appropriate behaviours in different touristic places including public toilets and restaurants. How Japanese people want the tourists to treat shrines and old architectures? How to walk on the street? How to behave in onsen and hotels? The way Japan Tourism Agency approaches to the foreign tourists is “because then you are cool” instead of “you are wrong” or “a bad tourist”.

There are 15 of them including short films and the subtitles are in English, simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and Korean.

In the video, samurai, maiko, kuroko, karate practitioner, sumo wrestlers are the ones who explain the public manners in Japan and it’s visually eye-catching.

What’s kuroko? It’s written as 黒衣, literary means black clothes and the correct pronunciation is kurogo. They are stage equipment in a way, or who work with a stage setting. In Kabuki, there are no machines on the stage. When it snows or when the actor need to fly, kurogo does the job. They are in black and no face. You basically consider them as a part of the setting and ignore them (if you can). 

Anyways, here are the videos.

This works for Japanese tourists too. It’d be nice if there is a Japanese version. Then we could all save Japan’s historical buildings and monuments, like Ituskushima Shrine in Hiroshima, for instance. 

たくさんの方が呟いてくれてますが、今一度。鳥居や柱や構造物にコインを差し込むのは基本的に止めて頂きたいです。腐食や損壊が進みます。コインはお賽銭箱等に入れるのが作法ではないでしょうか。もちろん当の神社仏閣が推奨している場合は除きますが。（写真は厳島神社の鳥居） pic.twitter.com/AAv01InbVS

— 千手院 (@senjuin1010) February 22, 2019

You can find easily all videos from the Japan Tourism Agency’s site : HERE