There are bicycle parking lots.
Mail gets delivered on Sundays (regular mail sometimes doesn't, but all foreign mail and packages do). Additionally, if you aren't home to recieve a package they will come by your house as late as 9:00 PM to re-deliver it. "Who's ringing the doorbell at this hour? Oh, it's the post man!" Dedication.
Most streets and intersections have speakers on their lamp posts and telephone wires to broadcast public service announcements but more often they just play a variety of music. Especially in the high traffic districts, it can get very lively.
You can smoke ANYWHERE. Except the subway. Restaurants, cafes, bathrooms, malls, arcade parlors, museums, etc are all fair game.
There is a highly efficient public transportation system. Our train station is a mere 7 min walk from our house.
When on the train/subway and you see a notice that there has been an accident on a particular train line--it usually means someone jumped. There were a lot of accidents during the rainy week we were here.
On a driver's license, it lists the issue and expiration date by the year of the emperor, not the calendar date.
Circus music plays in grocery stores
People cut in line. A LOT. Actually, I'm not sure they even believe in the concept of the line here. It's a big country full of cutters
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