I have the most interesting car: when I start it in the morning, it greets me with ohayo gozaimasu (good morning) and tells me the date, followed by an interesting bit of "what day is today?" trivia. For example, August 15 is Instant Ramen Day, May 9 is Ice Cream Day, and November 22nd is Happy Married Couples Day, designed to help promote happy married couples (and hopefully get that non-dog birth rate up a little). Today is ii furo no hi or "good bath day," a day when people like me who love Japanese hot springs and open-air baths can feel good about getting very clean while bathing. While I do love going up to the mountains to experience a real volcanic hot springs whenever I can, I don't really have to go far to take a nice hot onsen bath, as there are three large public bath/hot springs establishments within 5 km of J-List, and one under construction that should be opening soon. Every weekend when we're trying to decide what we want to do, my kids know what my suggestion will be: heading to some hot springs to get really, really clean.
Today we're announcing a new sale for our customers: buy any three J-List T-shirts, hoodies or embroidered or plush hats, we'll send you a free T-shirt from our lineup of items we're closing out because we had too many of them. Add any three shirts, hoodies or hats shipping from San Diego and we'll include something free for you. While we will of course try to match the sizes with the other shirts in your order, it may not be possible depending on stock levels. Thanks for helping us clear out our stock of shirts, so we can make great new designs for you in the coming months!
8 comments:
Aww. I wanted to go take a bath on an Onsen :D
What kind of car do you have?
It's an MPV. I believe the speech part is done through my navi, er, whatever they're called in English. It's the same voice that tells me where to turn, etc.
Wow, that's awesome. I wish my car did that
*adds that to my "Why I want to live in Japan" list*
On second thought, they probably have cars that do that in America too...
whatever, it's still awesome, and so is Japan
Is there any chance you know of a site in English that lists these 'every day trivia' dates? You've mentioned them a couple of times in the past and no matter how hard I search I can't find a list of them anywhere and I'd really like to read about them for the sake of having more useless trivia in my head lol
I just heard Worf from Star Trek say ing my head, "Today is a good day to bathe"
Hm, can't find a good one in English. I actually find different dates sometimes when I do a search in Japanese, making me think there's no official database. Companies make some of these things up out of thin air -- for example, Oct 1 is J-List Day! Just made that up now ^_^ (That's the date of our founding, back in 1996).
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