Visitors

Whenever a visitor comes to your home in Japan, they bring gifts. It is normally sweets because the average Japanese home is really small and they just don't have the room for stuff. So instead of bringing candles or something large they bring Japanese cake, cookies, brownies, bean paste. A lot of good sweet food.

When we were staying at our apartment, there were a lot of things wrong with our dishwasher. Our pipe leaked and water came down on our neighbor's apartment. The lady who helped us find that apartment brought us sweet and goodies three times, whenever she came back to call people to work on our dishwasher. We got cakes, candy, and popcorn. She did bring us a blanket too.

One time we invited a man who works with my father and his family to come to our house for dinner. They brought us a big box of cakes, that were so yummy.