Airport Staff in Japan Send a Thank You

It’s not surprising to hear stories of service providers in Japan doing amazing things to provide the best possible service to their customers. Be it in small details of daily work or customer services that border on a treatment I say of a deity!

Japanese Twitter user ChoroHaha ( @Chorouzu1017 ) recently shared an example of this hospitality that has surprised many, with the friendly and grateful gesture of the ground maintenance staff at Amami Airport on Amami Oshima Island.

While the plane was waiting on the tarmac for its turn to take off, @Chorouzu1017 looked out the window and noticed that an employee had sprayed an artistic message of thanks to visitors to the island with water.

先日、搭乗してから何気なく外を見ていたら…！

もっと最初から撮っておけば良かった。初めはハート？四つ葉？と何が始まるか分からなかった

#奄美空港pic.twitter.com/NiTvrxYw2E

— ちょろ母@今年は国内再発見の年 (@Chorouzu1017) June 16, 2021

Along with the perfectly drawn flowers, he wrote “Arigasama Ryota”, an Amami Oshima regional way of saying “Arigatou Gozaimasu” or “Thank you very much”. The video received many positive comments from people who were moved by the gesture, probably more now because of the great weight that the tourism industry currently carries in places that depend a lot on it to get ahead.