My wife and I went to see cherry blossoms at Himeji castle today. On the way back we ran across this awesome sign:

What a welcoming sign! The Japanese reads お急ぎの方ご利用下さい (o-isogi no kata go-riyou kudasai), which is hilarious in Japanese but translates a little awkwardly to something like “People in a hurry, please use”. A more loose translation, which gets the meaning across a bit better would be “If you need to piss really bad, please come into our store,” but in the most polite and formal language possible. It’s sooo not Japanese and yet so Japanese at the same time.

I didn’t need to use the restroom, but the sign lured me into the store anyway. What a great idea!

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