The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

A bottle of rose-scented water that helps correct dishevelled hair

To be precise, this isn’t a freebie that should be given free of charge. This is a reward for my loyalty to a hairdressing salon, a rather primitive form of store loyalty cards.

This is my first time I got any reward from my loyalty card since I was back to Fukuoks in 2006.

Strangely, despite the fact that the salon is so keen to keep its customers as to give this card,  they don’t ask me any of my personal information. They don’t know my phone number, my address, or even my first name. So ha haven’t got any direct mail or New Year card from them. What they know about me is only my surname which is necessary to make an appointment.

While most of hairdressers nose into your private life, asking your job, age, where you go on weekends, and so on…this salon doesn’t show any curiosity about the person in front of the mirror. I like this simple, or somewhat dry, relationship with my hairdresser because I have nothing to talk about. Ah, maybe I’m not interesting enough for them to ask anything …