Atsui is Still a Conversation.... Do it at the Beach!

This will be a quickie, but I absolutely must share.  I used the camera function of my iPhone to snap a picture of the ad pictured to the left, to test out the quality.  I am pleasantly shocked at the picture quality! Yeah, I'm loving the iPhone man :). (Update:  Actually, I'm not so happy with the quality.)

Anyway, this ad is a part of an ad campaign for Tokyo Metro that promotes train etiquette.  The campaign has been running for over a year now and in the past has focused on applying make-up on the train, listening to loud headphones, talking on your cellphone while on the train, wearing extremely large bookbags, etc.  I love this campaign, I hope it never ends because the ads are great!!!! 

I hope they create one about Japanese men picking their noses on the train.  I mean, it is quite disturbing to witness grown men deep in their noses while riding the trains.  [Tokyo Metro Advertising Geniuses, if you are reading this, please consider spotlighting the Tokyo-Train-Riding-Nose-Pickers....please!]

The caption at the bottom should read:  "You are NASTY, get a tissue and do it AT HOME!"

Anyway, all is well in Tokyo-- It's hot! It's humid! Ooohweeee it's hot AND humid!  And, I think we have reached a point that is beyond Alabama humidity!  Indeed Atsui is definitely a conversation!

Comments

[Jerice Williams]

Hello. You dont have to post this comment. I just recently moved to Tokyo and looking for other black women in the area. Please email me. I would like to talk to you about living in Japan.

[LadyLLawliet]

I took a picture of the same sign; I think that's the funniest one thus far. Also, me and my friend have seen men picking noses on the train, and a lot of times they eat what they fish out. Grown men. Talk about being UN-pleasantly surprised!

[Gorgeous Black Women]

I think Americans need that one more than the Japanese.

I'm actually quite surprised. According to David Sedaris, Japanese people are exceptionally clean and well-mannered, especially on the train. I just finished "Smoking Section" from his latest book "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"

[SistainTokyo]

yeah, they are, except when on public transportation. You will get pushed, shoved, and witness people pick their noses.

[andres jimenez]

All posters available from official metro site

http://www.tokyometro.jp/anshin/kaiteki/poster/index.html

[charles lesure]

hello jerice are you still in japan