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Originally Posted by cranks
Hahaha, I know. Colorado is no Tokyo. I was born in Shinjuku. You will not stand out in Shinjuku, Akasaka, Ginza and Roppongi. But you will in Motoyawata which is just 20 minutes from Tokyo station. I agree though, it's not really "stares". But the "staring factor" a non-Asian guy can get is a lot more in Tokyo than in NY. There is like 0.2 percent of black people in Tokyo, and there is what? 30% in NY, so it will be different. Shinjuku, Akasaka, Roppongi are the exceptions. Ginza, mmm maybe.
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You know, I have spent small periods of time here and there all around Kanto, from Chiba to Rokko to Yokohama to Saitama, and the level of looks from the 80s to the 90s to the 00s has dropped greatly. Again, at this point I think if you think people are "staring" at you, you are probably are being too sensitive.
If a woman was wearing a kimono in my neighborhood in the US, I might look twice and think "I wonder why she is wearing a kimono?" but that is as far as it would go, and I would probably forget about it 30 seconds later. I think this is a realistic thinking.
The idea that foreigners are so special and weird in Japan went out a couple decades ago.