Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 347: Osaka World Expo

To be fair, Japanese people do manage public transportation quite well.

Whether it’s queuing or crossing the street, they’re very disciplined.

But you have to exclude the people of Osaka from this.

In Osaka, people never care about traffic lights. They cross the street after gathering ten people, daring cars to hit them, fearless of anything.

Besides that, women throw cigarette butts everywhere, and men spit on the streets, which are basic operations for Osaka people.

When Japanese elsewhere practice regional discrimination, they directly insult Osaka people by calling them South Koreans, because they’re so rude.

To be fair, Osaka’s climate is indeed different from other parts of Japan, being subtropical monsoon.

Plus, Osaka traditionally values commerce and doesn’t like conforming to rules like other Japanese.

This results in Osaka people being out of place among the Japanese.

Also, Osaka people particularly love installing various exaggerated signboards on the streets, adding a strong cyberpunk flavor.

Image of Osaka street in Japan.

"Japanese people’s quality can be this low?" The little accountant was truly surprised during her visit to Osaka.

When she played in Tokyo, she really thought all Japanese were like Tokyo’s Japanese—clean, hygienic, and well-behaved.

But upon arriving in Osaka, she found the city’s quality was much worse than most places back home.

"Don’t say this to any Japanese outside of Osaka, because they’ll automatically exclude Osaka people from Japanese nationality." Chen Yiyang commented jokingly beside her.

Returning to the hotel, it was already late.

Yet, Chen Yiyang’s friend in Japan, Toyota Osamu, still came over to meet him.

"Sorry, since you didn’t inform me beforehand, I couldn’t prepare VIP status for you."

"No problem." Chen Yiyang quickly replied, "We can visit the World Expo like regular tourists, no need for special treatment."

Because of Japan’s relatively good public safety, Chen Yiyang didn’t think of doing anything special.

Although it provides convenience, it would miss out on many interesting experiences.

He decided to just be an ordinary tourist and have a look around the World Expo.

Then the next day, Chen Yiyang regretted it.

Chen Yiyang and the little accountant queued for three whole hours to enter the World Expo’s venue.

Three hours!

Chen Yiyang felt his legs go numb from standing.

Beside him, even the little accountant, who’s usually inclined to queue for food at a popular shop, couldn’t take it, feeling like she was dying.

"I feel like my legs are about to waste away," Chen Yiyang complained as he barely managed to make his way into the Expo venue.

"I’m a bit better than you," the little accountant said, pulling a long face, "I’ve only ruined one leg because the other is a prosthetic."

"We’re lucky, at least we printed the ticket QR code in advance," Chen Yiyang tried to comfort the little accountant.

Yes.

Chen Yiyang, worrying about too many people on the opening day of Osaka World Expo affecting the signal, had printed the entrance QR code beforehand.

And unsurprisingly, the Expo’s network signal was indeed bad today.

No, it wasn’t just bad; it completely crashed.

Chen Yiyang’s phone had no signal inside the World Expo whatsoever.

Many people, after queuing for three hours, were directly stuck at the entrance gates.

Because the Expo’s entrance ticket couldn’t be scanned, even those who queued couldn’t get inside.

Moreover, it was raining today.

Many were queuing while getting wet, then waiting for the network to recover and scan the QR code upon reaching the gates.

Unbelievable.

Image of the congestion at Osaka World Expo.

After finally entering the venue, Chen Yiyang and the little accountant hoped the few people inside might make it a better experience since most were stuck outside.

Then.

Today’s bad weather couldn’t be blamed on Osaka World Expo’s officials; it was a total natural disaster, in Chen Yiyang’s view.

But what’s with some of the venues leaking water!

Even if it’s a shoddy project, it shouldn’t leak on the first day of Expo!

Didn’t they consider rain during the Expo period?

But the Expo is to be held for several months!

Thankfully, some venues inside were indeed well done.

Chen Yiyang and the little accountant still appreciated some impressive venues.

But then came the second problem.

Osaka World Expo claims to be a cashless Expo.

The Expo officials stated that within the Expo, regardless of consumption, shopping, or buying services, no cash payment was needed; just pay using mobile QR codes.

Sounds normal.

Yet, in Japan, which still uses fax machines and floppy disks, having a cashless Expo is quite a big advancement.

Yet, the foremost requirement for mobile payments is a good internal network in the Expo.

Most visitors couldn’t even scan the entrance QR code; how could there be any network for payment?

Chen Yiyang truly got to experience the feeling of being poor back in the day.

Just that back then it was genuinely about having no money.

Now it’s about having money but not being able to use it.

Fortunately, phones could still be used for calls.

Chen Yiyang called to check where Marco, who was visiting the Expo, had gone.

Marco gave Chen Yiyang an address, so Chen Yiyang took the little accountant over.

The place Marco was at was the Expo’s service hall.

By the time Chen Yiyang arrived, Marco was arguing with the staff.

"What’s going on?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.

"These morons!" Marco didn’t bring an interpreter because usually staff at such international expos would speak English.

Marco directly cursed in front of the staff, "These Japanese are brainless.

I bought some souvenirs at earlier venues, and wanted to deposit them here as carrying them is too cumbersome."

"Then what?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.

It can’t be that the venue staff discriminated against Marco, this Brazilian, refusing him storage, right?

"Then these Japanese told me that depositing luggage here costs ten thousand yen, and they only have two hundred slots!

Oh my these Japanese idiots! There are over a hundred thousand visitors in the venue today, and these Japanese only provide two hundred storage slots. Are they brainless?"

At this point, not only did Marco think the Expo staff were brainless.

Chen Yiyang also believed the Expo planners lacked common sense.

The average Expo visitor flow must be in the tens of thousands.

Providing just two hundred storage slots for tens of thousands of people, is it that the service center is too small, or do Japanese think Expo visitors are superheroes, able to carry a heap of souvenirs while walking around for hours?