Originally Posted by
darthbimmer
That's something I wonder about when I travel overseas. "Stand right, walk left" makes sense in the US because it's the same as our driving etiquette-- slower traffic keep right, pass to the left. Obviously in countries where driving is done on the left rather than right side of the road, driving etiquette is the reverse. But is walking etiquette also reversed? My experience in some driving-on-the-left countries has been that pedestrians still use stand-right etiquette.
Japan: I almost hit an airport door that didn't open for me--I was following the normal keep right logic without even thinking about it. Apparently they intended one door for in and one for out and they only had sensors in one direction. (And I didn't even remember Japanese driving direction--I had no intention of driving so it wasn't something I had any reason to look up.)