A few things that surprised me about Tokyo, besides how different it is from China and how much more similar it felt to the West.

• People drive on the left side of the road.
• This one girl I was walking behind after the U.S. lost to Slovenia was, by all indications, drunk off her ass. She was stumbling everywhere. And yet, while walking down the stairs from the walkway overpass in 4-inch heels, she didn’t fall.
• There were squat toilets. People used them.
• For all Japan’s modernity, its hotels are rather stuck in the late ’80s/early ’90s. And we were staying in ones that were supposed to be nice.
• So many Chinese people!