Chapter 111 – Travel in Japan – Day 1 (2)

I kept quiet while watching my brother, wondering if I had made a mistake, and after a while, when I heard that I was arriving at the station where I had to get off to transfer, I told my brother.
After escaping from the train, my brother and I took another train coming from where we just got off and transferred to the Tokyo line.

“This car isn’t coming… It’s next.”
“Is another car coming to the same place?”
“Yes, that’s why you have to listen carefully to the broadcast and pay close attention to the information board.”
“Isn’t that too complicated?”
“That’s why it often goes wrong. Oh, when you watch Japanese dramas, there are scenes like that sometimes, right? Getting on the wrong train.”
“… If that’s the case, I’ll have no choice but to ride the wrong way.”

Being late for a company in a Japanese drama or something like that, getting on the wrong train and being late was surprisingly common in Japan. Riding in a hurry made it easier to make mistakes.
My brother and I took the next train and headed to Tokyo Station. Once again, inside the crowded train, he held me up against a wall and held me up with both arms to prevent people from bumping into people.

“I wondered why my older sister thought that, but every time the train goes like this… It looks like there is a real molester.”
“Hmm… It must have been a very common crime in Japan.”

My younger brother seemed a bit nervous, as if he was bothered by the people around him constantly bumping into me, and I stood still with my hands together because I was a little embarrassed to be on the train in my brother’s arms as if I was being protected.

“So, does your sister do ahegao on purpose when you go?”

However, my younger brother was quietly looking at the unique Japanese landscape full of low buildings outside the train, and suddenly asked in a small whisper as if in doubt.

“Ahegao no… I don’t make that face. I mean, I just stuck out my tongue… Aaaaa… Why did I tell you that… ? Please forget this…”
“You’re not trying to look naughty on purpose?”
“On the contrary, I feel it so much that when I wake up, I am drooling, how embarrassing it is… I want to fix it, but I can’t.”
“But isn’t it a habit to do that only when you feel too much? It just happens every time.”
“That, that… Haaa… Seriously, just kidding… ?”

When I heard the excited voice, I looked up at my brother’s face, and when I saw that he was making a very mischievous expression, I realized that he was deliberately teasing me.
Her brother grinned at me and then she whispered in her ear again.

“See you at the hotel.”
“Uh? Hotel…”

I was very embarrassed to hear what my brother said.
Not because she didn’t understand what her brother said… I understood that he was saying that if I went to the hotel, he would harass me at night, so I started to pay more attention to him.

“A moment ago… I didn’t mean to do it with my mouth…”
“Yes?”
“Hey, we need to stop talking about this. Because there may be Koreans.”
“… Shall we do it in Chinese?”
“I’m not talking dirty in Chinese.”

My sister listened to my firm words, chewed them for a while, and stopped her words with an ah.
My younger brother and I stood in the train and went quietly, and we played around with our hands together without a word.
It wasn’t long before we arrived at Tokyo Station, and I told my younger brother that I was getting off at the station soon.

“Get off here.”

The younger brother listened to my words and nodded his head, then got off as soon as he arrived at the station. As the people in the train rushed out and were swept away by the crowd as if being pushed by waves, the younger brother held each other’s hands tightly and pulled them into their arms. I gave it.
Just as it is, it really stops as if it doesn’t care about the pushing force of the people around it at all… My younger brother, who had been holding on as if a rock stood tall in the surf, looked down at me once as if to check the condition when the crowds decreased a little, and looked around and said with a really annoyed face.

“Didn’t I say that this is a polite country? It’s not some wild boar…”
“Because Japan’s hell season is very famous… Shinjuku Station is the most notorious among them.”
“Regardless of that… This is too much Was it like this when you came alone?”
“Um… I got lost a couple of times.”

Because I was held still as if I was being watched by the people around me, my heart raced on its own, so I glanced at my younger brother, then glanced at the side for no reason, then blinked again, then looked at the side again and blinked.
When I got off the train and the people around me disappeared for a bit, and I felt more at peace, my younger sister released me from her arms and stretched her out as if feeling stuffy.

“Something… Narrow.”
“Is it that narrow?”
“Your sister wouldn’t know… There’s something about that strange feeling. Hmm… It’s uncomfortable to lower your head a little every time you get on and off the train.”

Rather, when I came to Japan, I liked everything because it felt like everything was tailored to my size, but my younger brother seemed to be the opposite.
Unlike me, who is only slightly shorter than average, my younger brother was extraordinarily tall among men, and considering that my head was about the size of his chest, it was only natural.
I took the escalator and entered the station with my brother and I holding each other’s hands, and when we came back to the place full of people, the younger brother put his other hand on his forehead as if he was dizzy and said.

“Where should I go?”
“Ah… Wait a minute, let’s go here… And after going to the right from where you can see it all the way…”

I dragged my brother along, holding each other’s hands and trying not to stick too close to the wall, reading the sign hanging from the ceiling.

“Here, here, this way… Oh, it’s over there. Come here… And… If you go there, it’s the exit!”
“… Why is this structure like this?”
“It’s kind of strange… ?”
“I wondered why China was built so needlessly, but this place is just like a maze.”
“Huh, isn’t it amazing? I don’t know the details, but it’s because the land and transportation are different.”
“Isn’t it just bad?”
“In China, after getting off the subway, you have to ride a rental bicycle to get to your destination, so the sections between stations are so long, isn’t it? Still, Korea has a station for every very short section, as if compressed within one region… You can even walk between the stations. In Japan, the whole country is connected by train, so it is complicated to have so many overlapping sections.”
“But why is Korea clean?”
“Even in Korea, complex stations built in the past are complicated… Well, Japan has had trains for a long time, so the number of tracks has gradually increased, so if you say this… In China, after rushing urban development, it feels like the roads have become strange because they avoided many underground facilities to build subways. Couldn’t Korea have been built at the right time… ?”

I don’t know the details, but when I told her as much as I knew, my sister nodded her head in agreement.
After arriving in Tokyo, my younger brother followed me out of the station holding hands in the crowd, and I held the hand of my much bigger younger brother and dragged him around as if I was carrying a child.

After arriving at Tokyo Station, the first place my brother and I went to was the Imperial Palace in Japan.
It was called the Imperial Palace because the emperor lived there, and the palace where the emperor lived was not open, but the garden inside, which was like a large park, was open to the public.
As soon as the younger brother arrived at the Imperial Palace, he looked at the surrounding moat and said,

“Is this also in China?”
“Originally, it would have been in Korea. It’s called a moat that was dug around the castle and filled with water… It has been used since ancient times to prevent invasion. You can go west.”
“Oh, there’s a swan over there.”
“Oh, it is true. There are also ducks.”

When I looked closely, there were fish living in the moat and many birds came to play.
My younger brother looked at it quietly… I went through the big gate into the imperial palace and took a picture in the garden.

“… Didn’t China live in moats?”
“Oh!”

Come to think of it, I didn’t take her brother into the Forbidden City, and I didn’t see anything when I passed by.
However, remembering that there were also grandfathers fishing, I answered with a smile because it was funny that I thought that I hadn’t lived anything like my brother said, albeit for a moment.

“I will buy something!”
“I will live… ?”

There are many old trees and gardens in the Imperial Palace, so it was good to see the unique Japanese garden, but it was also good to take pictures.
There were quite a few Chinese and Korean tourists around, and I saw a lot of Westerners.
As if Japan likes to grow trees in a slightly twisted way, there are many trees with very subtle shapes. In particular, the patterns drawn on the gravel yard made of small stones made me feel strangely attractive.

“Oh, are you Japanese?”
“No, I am Korean. I came to see you.”
“Aha… Wow, that guy? Is he your boyfriend?”

I wanted to take a picture with my brother in the garden, so I asked a blonde Western woman who seemed to be traveling in a group of three to take a picture with me, and I got a bit of an embarrassing question.
Then her brother quietly came up behind me, and she hugged and kissed me while laughing, and she answered in slightly broken English.

“Yes, they are a couple.”
“Oh, couple… ? When are you getting married? Are you on a honeymoon?”
“… What are you talking about?”
“Yeah, in English… Therefore… When I say couple, I mean it feels like we’ve been in a relationship for a very long time… Hey, are you getting married…”

Her brother listened to me and pondered for a while… She hung up in broken English.

“We, very, hot, now.”
“Hey, I don’t speak English like that…”

“Hot” Is something that makes you feel very sexually attractive or has a sexual meaning, but my younger brother seemed to say it without knowing it at all.
I was shy about my sister’s English, but the three Western girls really enjoyed it.
The three of them laughed really loudly, followed the words of the younger brother as if they were cute, and then took several pictures of the younger brother hugging me, who was blushing with embarrassment against the background of a large cherry tree that had lost all its flowers, and returned the cell phone.

“Wow… But your boyfriend is really sexy. Are you of mixed race and not Asian?”
“Your proportions are a bit mixed, too… Are you a mixed-race couple?”
“Are you an idol? Or a model? I want to follow you on Instagram.”
“What are you talking about?”
“… I won’t translate anymore.”

My brother and I shook hands with three people who were traveling separately, and we walked away from each other as they told us to upload the photos we just took on social media, and then we would find them and follow them.