Do people in Japan really buy hundreds of dollars worth of gear just to backpack half a mile from the bus stop to a gravel patch in someone's back yard?Granted it doesn't seem that much different from western people buying hundreds of dollars of gear just to camp in some dirt by the side of the highway, but is that really what /out/ is like over there?
>>2840169IdkHere is a much cooler japanese /out/ channelhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=U6eFZ7e9RaA
>>2840169>Are the things I see in animu real?No, retard
>>2840169You just perfectly described British backpacking. The US has remote FS/BLM land and expansive national parks. Some less adventurous people might not venture too far, but staying close to civilization isn’t done out of necessity.
>>2840169120 japs means lots of people on not much land. Same with UK (higher population density than india).
>>2840194UK: 277 people/km^2India: 462 people/km^2Both are shitholes but come on.
>>2840203Jeets are not like normal humans. You can’t do a straight across comparison. While they are worth less than a native brit, the way they behave makes that density value completely irrelevant.It’s apples to oranges anon.
>>2840169sometimes you can hike all day and still end up in the backyard of some building like a forestry shelter or a power line substation
>>2840266I hiked part of the Kumano Kodo, stopping at various homestays throughout the weekend. The taxi driver who dropped us off at the trailhead thought we were insane, kept asking as if we were really going to the start. He couldn’t believe we would attempt the trail with fleece jackets, jeans, boots, and bags, despite all the stops inbetween.
>>2840203>Japan: 338 people/km^2Jesus christ.Meanwhile, in the land of the free....>U.S.: 37 people/km^2Even better:>a square km is 247 acres.>my property is 50 acres and theres 220 acres adjacent to it thats used for logging and nobody lives on
>>2840189>perfectly described British backpackingTake a look at a map stupid. You see that northern bit of Britain? Look up the population density.Your either a ignorant foreigner or retarded if you think our outdoors are nothing more than back gardens.
>>2840273It doesn’t matter because you don’t go there. We all know what Bitshit backpacking is.
>>2840270do australia now
>>2840169For the gear thing, yes. Japanese people tend to take their hobbies very seriously so they will usually buy the highest quality gear for anything they do even if it’s way beyond what they actually need. Sometimes it’s the only thing they have time to do for fun, so don’t bully them about it.As for the actual Japanese /out/ experience, it’s true that outside of Hokkaido you will never experience a true sense of remoteness like in the American wilderness because it’s just too densely populated and there will always be a town on the horizon, but there are places where you can hike all day and never see another person, so at least you can get a feeling of isolation and people even get eaten by bears every once in a while. Plus I feel like a lot of the old mountain villages with a remaining population of like three old people fit the aesthetic.The problem with camping is that it’s actually illegal outside of designated areas, which are all plots of gravel right next to roads and towns like that. It’s dumb that there don’t seem to be any other options. Yes, there are people who camp deep in the woods illegally, but they won’t normally tell you about it and I don’t think most people are willing to take the risk. I have heard someone say the cops found them once and just asked if they had permission from the mountain owner, to which they played dumb and got a speech about how all land in Japan is someone’s property and they had to leave, but didn’t get arrested or anything. Though, if you’re a foreigner who is in the country on a visa, it’s probably a more dangerous game.
