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School buses in Japan are occasionally shaped like cartoon characters.
- School buses look different from country to country.
- They vary in size, shape, and durability, although in most places, school buses are required to be yellow.
- In some countries, school buses are a service reserved only for private school students.
If you've never been to a school outside the United States, you might be surprised by how different they are from country to country.
The same goes for school buses, which depending on the part of the world you're in, can be small, crowded, and even sometimes shaped like Pikachu.
Although school buses come in all shapes and sizes, it's almost universal to see them painted their distinctive shade of bold yellow, chosen for its high visibility from long distances.
Here's what school buses look like in 12 countries around the world: