Why haven't you been to Japan jaypee?
Not a /trv/ guy
>>50745677Excuses
i have enough tattoo's for the entirety of the country and they cannot be covered up; therefore I took it upon myself to ban my self from entry to make natives more comfortable
>>50748129Just... Wear long sleeves?
>>50748144they cannot be covered up, i would look like a jackass wearing a scarf and gloves in the summer
>>50748235You seem to be perfectly comfortable looking like a jackass with hand and neck tattoos anyways. I don't see why you're so concerned for the nips and how they'll perceive you when you won't show the same courtesy for your own countrymen.
>>50748271i do, i am retired thankfully and haven't left my house in 7 years.
>>50747860>Acrylic standsworthless trash.
is everything easier if you speak jap?
>>50749247more fun if you can find Japanese people that know zero English and find a place where there are no foreigners around, way more funotherwise it is going to be just the typical sucky tourist experience
>>50745675I can't speak Japanese and I don't what I'd do there anyway. I don't care about cons or anything. And besides there are too many normie tourists there nowadays.
>>50748129what's wrong with tattoes?
>>50749278tattoos are trashy and a sign of bad judgement
>>50749278The Japanese don't like tattoos, they associate them with Yakuza. It's also about the Japanese tendency to not stand out.
>>50749288neat
>>50745675i'm poor ;_;at least my japanese friends said I can stay at their house when I go there, but I still don't have money for the plane tickets
>>50745675it's gay there
>>50749389>at least my japanese friends said I can stay at their house when I go therehow did you get them
>>50745675They haven't apologised for Pearl Harbour yet.
>>50745675No money, kinda pointless to go anyway
>>50749449jp SNS otaku places, you just really have to follow their etiquette and have something in common and they'll befriend you
>>50745675I did but due to my crippling anxiety I was only able to eat a Kura sushi and spent most of the time in my hotel room dressed as a women
>>50749761we could have had cosplay gay sex
>>50748235Just go noone really care
>>50745675To me Japan is sacred. So sacred that I cannot even fathom going there. I hold Japan in such high regard that I refuse to even post my art to Pixiv.
I have! I got to go to last years Winter Comiket for the first time :3. Got drunk many nights at Bar U.N. too!
>>50750248that's gay and retarded
>>50745675I've been to Japan five times already
>>50749270>>50749761Just go to Akiba
>>50745675I love Japanese media, but I'm not certain that I would get anything out of being in a Japanese location.I get so much out of just staying in my room and reading Japanese books that the effort of physically going there seems largely unnecessary.I'm also not comfortable with the idea of being a "tourist" and walking around "consuming" their culture from an outsider's perspective.I'd be much more interested in getting a job in Japan and working there for a few years and being an active participant in their society than standing on their doorstep looking in.I would still like to visit, someday; it feels like a waste to invest so much time learning Japanese and never bothering to visit, but I never feel compelled or even truly interested in actually going.
>>50745675too many foreigners recently, I'm going to Chiang Mai instead, Thai girls are cooler too
>>50755222You are already too late, if you hadn't been to Japan before 2020 then you might as well never go. It has changed for the worse and going there as a newb now is cringe.
>>50745675I have been, and all I did was shop and eat out. It was fun but not really something I'd spend thousands of dollars to do again.
>>50755932What's some good foods to eat in japan? Not must-try stuff because you want to experience local rare food or live your weeb dreams or whatever, but normal stuff to eat when you are hungry.
>>50745675im going to japan for spring reitaisai though
>>50756611Very good!
>>50756497never been to Japan but my go-to litmus test for Japanese restaurants are the dumpligns and it's my understanding dumpling stalls are common in major cities
If you go once you have to keep going until you eventually buy a house like I did. So be careful.
>>50745675No fucking money. I'd love to go there and even live there but it's not happening anytime soon.
>>50759792>No fucking moneySame
>>50745675moneyit would require me to be in the middle class where i live to afford it
>>50761990How much does it cost in US dollars to go to Japan?
>>50774086Cheapest round trip ticket I’ve had from America was ~$1000 and most expensive has been $7200
because i haven’t quite grasped the language yet. one day, though…
>>50745675I'm poor.
I'm going to Tokyo next month to get it out of my system. 4 days. Mostly gonna do touristy things like walk around Ueno, look for food in Shinjuku and shop around Akihabara. I apologize in advance for all the faux pas I will be committing
>>507767724 days doesn't seem enough to get it out of your system. I went for a month my first time. My friend went for 3 weeks
>>50778263This is gonna be my first solo trip overseas and I may be too autistic to be in a new situation for weeks. If this excursion goes well, I can plan for a longer trip. Maybe ride the 新幹線 to somewhere remote. Pet deer in Nara. Drink beer in Sapporo. Eat crabs in Osaka. Walk around the meadows of Hokkaido. Spend the night in a 旅館 in Aokigahara. But for now imma do basic touristy shit in a big city where I'm more comfortable. Take it slow, take it easy! ゆっくり～していってね。
>>50745675I have to convince my friend over there to let me live with them, as a husband
>>50778782Y-You mean your female friend, r-right, anon?
>planned for a Japan trip around October-ish>starting to look into plane tickets>every airline has shot up because of the war and shitI literally saw tickets in January for around 800 dollars and now everything is 1600+. God fucking dammit
>>50745675Just finished a ~10 day Osaka to Tokyo back packing trip. Dead tired at the moment but maybe I'll blog post of my adventures after resting.I completed my objective of locating a store with a dedicated Comic LO section.
>>50755222>I'd be much more interested in getting a job in Japan and working there for a few years and being an active participant in their society than standing on their doorstep looking in.Been doing a PhD in Japan this past year, also got a part time at a Japanese company (albeit in a mostly-gaijin filed department). If you want to actually be a part of society, you basically HAVE to have enough knowledge to manage day-to-day conversations. I've made a bunch of friends on campus since I joined the judo club, even gone on a couple dates with japanese girls once or twice, but the feeling of being the "other" never really goes away, no matter how good your pronunciation is. The trick is to just accept it like a man. If you've got any other questions, fire away
>>50782550Is your pay as garbage as I think it is? I'd rather run a business and just hire nihonjin to take care of accounting/beaurcracy headaches. I could be wrong though, there are still chill jobs around
I have a house in Osaka and want to open an izakaya. The barrier to entry for opening such a place is nothing compared to doing something similar in most western nations.
>>50782829It's minimum wage (1250 yen/hr) but with the option of remote work so I can just chill at home buck naked and get paid. Also my phd is on government gibs so I don't really have to worry about money. >bike to campus>live on rice and cheap meat, only eat out when invitedReally the only big expenses are like rent/utilities, hobbies (got into gunpla recently) and like touristy stuff with your fellow gaijins
>>50782550Get out of japan, white devirus are forbidden from touching the precious japanese blood, remove your white rapey hands from the yamato people if you truly love nippon desuuuu^^
>>50783225I'm latino but pale
>>50783267That's worse! I demand a kendo match to the death
Because I don't have any money, otherwise I would inmediatly do it.
I’d imagine anyone who wants to visit Japan but hasn’t is held back by money. Same reason I think it’s a douche thing to list traveling as a hobby. Damn near everyone enjoys traveling and wishes they could do more of it. Claiming it as a “hobby” is just code for “look how much money I have”
>>50781428In blatant disregard to no one asking; here is the start of Anon's Nippon Adventure:Day 1>Land at the Osaka Airport. Get body searched at customs. Probably due to the previous country I was visiting. Strange welcome to Japan but okay.>Get a sim card from a vending machine. Get information overloaded at the train station. Ask ChatGPT for guidance. GPT-sensei directs me to the self help kiosks. Buy my Suica Card. I'm a bonified tourist now.>Ride the train. Hey that place looks cool.>Check out a shopping center. >Check out capsule toy shop. Come away with a Black Frost, a Pixie, and a sleeping Frieren. Was cool.>Check out department store. Marvel at glorious Nippon refrigerator and toilet technology.>Check out video game section. Find Yakuza. Find Gal Gun. Find promotional cabinets for Pragmata and Idol Master.>Check out models section. Find Gundam. Find trains. Find Frame Arm Girls. Find Idolmas figurines. Nippon department stores are superior compared to the west. Are American department stores even trying?>Feeling hungry. Get hamburg omurice at an omurice restraunt. Grab a Miruku Tii drink afterwards for 110 yen at a vending machine. Was good. Chill out on the roof of the shopping center.>Check out a shine off the main gaijin path.>Pay patronage to the local deities. See shrine maidens. Draw a fortune. Average Luck. Was neat.>A neko hops onto my lap while taking a break. Warm it up for a while. Later on see it in the lap of another shrine visitor. The slut.>On the way out, see a couple of honest to god danshi koukousei banchou and their nakama doing some sort of promotional stint. Shit was surreal.>Find another shopping center. >Eat an ichigo crepe. Drink a meron soda. Was good.>Check out a book store. Find a Medalist promotional video. Find a hand crafted Dungeon Meshi synopsis board. Find a Spy X Family Anya grade 1 teaching book. Find a Holy Shit large amount of BL books.>Go to a Taito Station. Watch Salarymen play Street Fighter. Watch a couple play Inital D. Watch JCs play Idolmas. Play crane games. Win a large package of pocky. Was fun.>Visit a Surugaya in Den Den Town.>Browse retro video game stuff on the first floor.>Browse figurines on the second floor.>Browse anime on the third floor.>Browse R18 doujinshi on the fourth floor. buy a stack of Comic LO books. The sales clerk isn't phased at my purchase. Welcome to Nippon.>Check into a business hotel for my first night. Marvel at glorious Nippon space efficiency. Still jetlagged so sleep was mediocre.
>>50784903Day 2>Have hotel breakfast of eggs, fish, sausage, miso and other Nippon breakfast related things. Was not bad.>Head over to Nara Park. Buy deer crackers. Molest deer. Get molested by deer. Watch other people get molested by deer. Was great.>Chill out on a park bench and view the unblossomed cherry trees. Too early in the season for them to have blossomed. Zannen deshita.>Hike towards the great shrine at the back of the park. The path starts to feel tourist heavy (both Nipponese and the gaijin infestation). Find some remote spots at the back of the shrine that were a bit quieter. Was okay I guess.>Have lunch at a sushi belt restraunt. Watch sushi go round and round. Stack up 11 plates and a 4000 yen bill. Shit was great.>Stop at Kizugawa. Head into Rural Nippon to cleanse the touristy feel from Nara Park.>Wander some neighborhoods. Wait for a train to pass at a rail crossing. >Find a vending machine in the middle of nowhere. And another. And another. Start to appreciate the prolific nature of Nipponese vending machines. Enjoy a warm miruku kofee from one of them.>Pass through a cemetery. Climb a mountain to the historical site of a castle long since gone.>Find a public restroom nearby. Strikingly well maintained. Start to appreciate the prolific nature of Nipponese public restrooms.>Enjoy the view from a nearby observation platform. See a nearby community center with sports facilities. >The view of the city. Sun setting. Crows cawing. The whack of a tennis racket. The ping of a baseball bat. The sparse cheer of the players. The rail crossing in the distance. A couple JCs practicing the clarinet nearby. Shit was anime.>Head back to the station and head over to Uji.>Try to visit the Nintendo Museum. Tickets only sold online. Online tickets require a Nintendo account. Too much effort. Matakondo.>Visit a nearby rural Bookoff. Shit was oka- Wait why is there an open access R18 section in this rural bookoff? Aren't these kind of things supposed to be squared away in some back corner? Tonikaku, bought a cute Fujisaka Lyric book to add to my collection.>Feeling hungry so visit an absolute dive of a diner. Drop my spaghetti while trying to order and get offered the English menu. It has the gaijin tax on it. I order a fried chicken ramen in rich broth. Shit was...kinda bad but still edible. Not what I was expecting for ramen.>There's no business hotels in Uji so I book one back in Osaka downtown and start making my way back.>Walk past 3 love hotels and get offered guidance on soaplands/massage parlors twice before realizing that my hotel is right in the middle of Osaka's redlight district.>Feet are tired and seriously have to piss so I decline the Nii-san's invitations.>Despite the seedy location, the hotel is still quite reasonable. Once again I appreciate the glorious Nippon space efficiency. The walls were well soundproofed so sleep was good despite being downtown.That's all for day 2. Tune in tomorrow for Anon goes to Kyoto.
>>50783275I do judo not kendo anon-san
>>50745675I need a job. Hopefully I get one tomorrow with my second interview.I will go to Japan when I get money.
>>50755240Aren’t we all foreigners?
I got serious yellow fever ever since my last trip 2 years ago.Speaking weekly to my japanese italki teacher just adds fuel to the fire.I think I will try living there eventually but I am pushing 30.
>>50782982owning a place with commercial space on the ground floor and living space above would be the dreamhow would you make your izakaya stand out
>>50786730>commercial space on the ground floor and living space above would be the dreamI see places like that for sale quite often, and usually pretty damn cheap (compared to most of the world)The trick is location. Best location for an izakaya to be within walking distance of a lot of houses and also near a train station. Ideally, close enough to the train station that the locals walk past it going to/from home. But the closer you get to a train station, the more expensive the property will be. >how would you make your izakaya stand outIzakaya with an outgoing gaijin Taisho who clearly respects the culture and does his best to assimilate, and a local Okami who can talk to customers natively and apologize for her baka gaijin husband when needed, is going to automatically have a leg-up, especially when making quasi gaijin/Japanese fusion food, which I’ve had luck with so far.
>>50752559Akiba is really fucking soulless these days, unless you have specific plans for that place like attending a event or visiting specific shops there's really no reason to be there other than to just say "I have been there".
>>50745675What do nips think of American born Chinese?>>50745677
>>50790774Chinese are like blacks. It’s okay to look Chinese as long as you don’t act Chinese. If you sound American, call yourself American. If you sound Chinese, call yourself Taiwanese.
>>50745675/pol/ told me I'd be attacked by a bunch of brown-skinned immigrants there
But I did, twice. First was with an IRL friend so we did more general touristy stuff like visiting temples, museums and such. Second time was with online friends so we focused more on otaku stuff. Comiket was really cool, I thought it was going to suck having to wait on the line for 3 hours but there's a big sense of comradery with the other people there since we are all there for the same reason so it's easy to strike up a conversation to help pass the time. Once I got in there I was surprised by how big it was and how diverse the artists were. There's the common stereotype that all doujinshi is porn and that hentai artists are all gross otaku but most seemed like normal people and there was a variety of genders and ages. It was funny seeing how many artists in the ryona and guro sections were cute girls. Being there in person also helps put into perspective just how little of the stuff sold there gets scanned and posted online, and viceversa, it's been a year and I still see doujins posted in sadpanda from the edition I attended that I don't remember seeing on the actual event.Was also cool visiting the second hand doujin shops. My favorite was Surugaya because it has this huge uncategorized shelf selling doujins for incredibly cheap, I got this one for 50 yen
>>50745675I have been to Japan, twice. Last time was Winter Comiket in 2023, I'm hoping to go again in Summer 2028.
>>50778263I went 4 days my first time and you can do so much in 4 days if you really want to.It was exhausting but I only felt the exhaustion after the trip was done because it was just constant movement and flow.I did both Kyoto (1 night) and Tokyo. I compromised on a lot of things in order to save time, but it worked out.You gotta decide what experiences are worth spending real time on, and which attractions you can get the most out of per unit time by just swinging by.Some things that caught me a bit off guard:- Most stores in Akihabara only open 10 am or later. Plan accordingly.- Collab cafés might require you to have booked weeks in advance and that requires a Japanese phone number. But some offer take away items that you can order without a reservation.I went to see a lot of movies to fill the morning and evening time slots when stores are closed. Transit is another good way to spend the dead time: you want to plan things so you don't spend too much precious time in train cars, but it's hard to avoid in Tokyo.It probably helped that I'm mostly interested in touhou and anime and gaming and not so much into traditional culture.I wanna go to comiket at some point. Maybe this winter? I also didn't get to see Ikebukuro and visit a few famous arcades. Regarding arcades, I couldn't really find peace to sit down and just play games that I can probably emulate at home, so I didn't spend much time on them. Lake Suwa would also be nice. Maybe I should just book a trip over comiket and new year and try to meet up with some /jp/ anons there?
>>50799760There was like 25 anons last winter, enough for a whole thread. Summer was only around 10~ish people
>>50784903>>50784909As a first time solo traveler who is also going to osaka another other places for the first time in about 20 hours, I just want to say I read and appreciate your posting, anon.Japan is just one of those places you have to see, it would bug me forever if I didn't go at least once.
>>50787101I wish you the best of luck. Please make a thread when you launch your business so curious anons like myself can come visit your restaurant.
>>50755240Why? What culture ties you have to Chiang Mai?
