Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.