Japanese Kikubari ~ 3 ~ When you take off shoes

  As I wrote before, Kikubari in Japanese means ''taking care of the other person''

As you may know, in Japan, people take off their shoes when you get in the house.

And you have to take off shoes when you go to restaurant.

  When you take off the shoes, we Japanese turn around  our shoes.

The reason is because it is easier when you put on the shoes.

  We do this not only for myself but also for the other person.

This behavior is very polite in Japanes culture.

For example, you invite the guest at your home, you would do for the guest.

But the visitor was very polite, he or she would do that by him or her self.

I think many Japanese restaurants do this service .