40 things visitors to Japan find surprising. 

1. Everyone eats KFC for Christmas dinner
2. Japanese people really like Yahoo!
3. Taxi doors open automatically
4. The rooms at business hotels are tiny.
5. There are power lines all over the place
6. Capsule hotels 
7. There are vending machines absolutely everywhere
8. You can buy alcohol and tobacco from those ubiquitous vending machines
9. The Washlet bidets
10. You can drink water from the tap
11. The tea isn’t sweetened
12. You can smoke in restaurants
13. There are free samples at the supermarket
14. There are tolls on the highways, The ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) system on the highways
15. You can find absolute masterpieces of pastry at cake shops
16. The confusing, complex layout of Tokyo
17. The buttons to summon a waiter at family-style restaurants
18. Touch-screen menus at bars and restaurants
19. There are holes in the 5 and 50 yen coins
20. People hand out free packets of tissues on the street
21. The quality and selection at 100 yen shops
22. The fruit is really delicious (There’s a lot of cross breeding)
23. GPS is automatically included in rental cars
24. You can leave a bag to save your seat and no one will steal it
25. A small-size drink is actually quite small
26. The high likelihood of lost items being returned to you
27. People politely line up to wait for the train
28. Heated toilet seats
29. The high price of movie tickets
30. There are pachinko parlors everywhere
31. The skill used in wrapping gifts and other purchases
32. The multi-story parking garages
33. There are hot springs just for your feet
34. There are women-only cars on the trains
35. The love hotels
36. Cigarettes are really cheap
37. It’s so safe you can go walking around in the middle of the night with no problem
38. Japanese squat-style toilets
39. The incredible variety of KitKat flavors
40. The trains actually come on time