Before travelling to Japan for the first time in 2018, I had in mind a lot of clichés about the country: sushis, technology and robots, sumo wrestling... In this article, I'm comparing 10 of these clichés to what I actually discovered!

I didn't know much about Japan before travelling there for the first time in 2018, and a lot of aspects of the local culture astonished me when I arrived in the country. Here are the 9 things that surprised me most!