Rainy Day Editionー How do I travel by public transportation? ーUse Google Maps within cities, install the Jorudan or Navitime app for intercity travelー What should I see in <place>? ーhttps://www.wikivoyage.org/https://www.japan-guide.com/https://www.jnto.go.jp/>Solid general guides - sights, sample itineraries, pre-travel considerations, etchttps://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1fmfaySQHmojbRGKWCwRecq6Ln1Bb2Xdh&ll=35.67928012473078%2C139.68638283648374&z=12*You should check on google if a place is still in business before you plan to visit it*ーMake your trip more comfortable with Hands Free Travel serviceーhttps://www.global-yamato.com/en/hands-free-travel/?_gl=1*1kpsw68*_gcl_au*Mjg5NzUwNDI0LjE3NTA4OTU0ODY.https://www.sagawa-exp.co.jp/hands-freetravel/english/ーFind a tattoo friendly onsenー>https://en.tattoo-go.in/>https://tattoo-ja.com/enーHow to use coin-operated washing machines in hotels and townsー>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jHojFs1IE>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEc57aNzE7c ーTravel insurance: Better safe than sorryー>https://www.jnto.go.jp/emergency/eng/do_travel_insurance05.htmlーJR PassーSince JR has adjusted the prices for the pass, not really worth it anymore, unless you want to travel by train very extensively. You can plug in your itinerary in the links below and compare prices to the JR Pass.>https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/>https://world.jorudan.co.jp/mln/en/With the increased price of the JR Pass, local train passes might be good deals now.>https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2357.htmlーInfo on Degeneracy ーREAD THE INFO LISTED HERE. STOP TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE THREAD.>https://chn.cityheaven.net/>https://rockitrisingsun.com>https://paradise-tokyo.net>https://hentaitokyo.com>https://tokyoadultguide.com/Previous: >>2819033
---WARNING----If you are a foreigner, Japanese women will genuinely find you creepy if you are under 6ft 3 (195cm for all my third worldies here). I've lived in Tokyo for 8 years and Osaka for 2, and this has always been the case when I asked colleagues and friends about their situation for dating Japanese women.
>>2823049you said this in another thread i was lurking on last week. why would you post the same comment? you farming for doping by posting the same post over and over again from a bunch of basement dwelling neckbeards? Find allah.
>>2823047Plan on traveling back in the summer. I plan on buying stuff (cds, video games, figures, etc). Do I have to pay a fee for bringing them back to the US? Google Ai says yes, others online have mixed thoughts. Big help if anyone knows.
>>2823244In general for a customs fee, yes. But they usually only care about people importing luxury goods or prohibited items when you return to the US.
Why do most hotels only open for booking 6 months out? Trip is in april, flights already booked yet the hotels i want to go to only have dates till feb.
what do I do in Naha alone other than drink
>>2823292drink on the beach?
>>2823292drink at one of the bars in Makishi?
>>2823266>customs feeEven for small stuff like $20?>why hotels only allow 6 months ahead for bookingMy guess is so they can adjust their pricing based on economic conditions and the market etc. i wonder if they did this 10 years agoAny live action reports of if that flood is still causing interuptions? And did it hit Yoshiwara?
>>2823268Probably because people will just cancel. That's what happens when you book that far out.
>>2823268>fewer cancellations>large domestic pool of customers>almost as large foreign pool of customers>seasonal changes in prices>events held in the area affect prices>>>profit
any bars worth visiting in kyoto/shijo or osaka
4chan so dead if the japan general is like this
>>2823509Yeah its real quiet. I guess no anons are in japan right now to share their insights and stories.
>>2823520it seems they all died in the flooding, rip.
>>2823520>no anons in Japan right nowYeah and theyve already posted "I NEED 2 go back!!!""How do i deal with post japan travel depression!!?">>2823537>floodingYeah Im trying to get some details on this flood so I can decide to buy my ticket or not. And no I cannot trust some google searched article , i need anon approved info
>>2823509it'll be active when guy who complains about brown people is back
>>2823049Lmao.北千住って東京のどのあたりなの?Depending on your answer I'll know if you lived in Tokyo or not for 8 years and interacted with anyone.
>>2823268Japanese hotels are not made for "western style" tourism, they're made for business travelers first and then Japanese travelers. About 50-60% of all Shinkansen users are business travelers. Most hotels are designed for them for 2~3 days stays.Long time Japanese tourism, as it exists is 5~7 day affair in grouped in clusters of Obon, Golden Week, Silver Week, New Years Period.The rest is basically 1 day or longer weekends. The Japanese almost never have 2 weeks or more of a holiday combined. So planing that far ahead isn't necessary.This results in small rooms, hotels that don't need to plan ahead but plan for tourism season thats coming up.Right now Japan is not built for International tourism. It only started getting big numbers in the 2015-2019 periods. Then all of it went to hell with Rona. Now they're rebuilding again.Even with everything Tourism in Japan is still by percentage wise 70~80% Japanese in origin. And going by spent yet it's 75% Japanese vs 25% Foreigners. The biggest spenders currently being South Koreans.
>>2823551What do you want us to tell you. Don't wear shoes when going to Musashi Kosugi? It happened in 2019, now in 2025 you have at least a few years until guerilla rain comes by again.https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250911/k10014919931000.html
>>2823563Can’t he just look it up and answer you?
>>2823568Let see.
>>2823569Idk man, it’s at the end of the Hibiya Line and it’s on the Chiyoda Line and shit like that. That guy obviously doesn’t speak a lick of Japanese/is also kimoi if he’s been here 10 years and has no gf as a foreigner
>>2823566>what do you want us to tell youTell me that nothing major as really been affected so I will buy the damn ticket!But okay i guess if all i have to worry about is wet shoes, than thats okayThanks friend
>>2823509No news about tourists, anti-tourist measures or happenings in Japan that affect tourists in 3 months from now have come up.I'm sure that in a few weeks conversation will pick up again once the Autumn color hunters show up
will just going to japan and not doing anything there tangentially help support the jav industry? picrel is my javfu
>>2823574Rains come and go. Tokyo has a sophisticated rainwater sewage system, so the water will clear out almost instantly when it stops raining.Avoid lower land, do what you'd normally do, maybe take your least favorite shoes and pants.They say that time gilds the memories - you'll be a bit miserable in the moment, but you'll look back on it thinking that it was actually a fucking amazing trip
>>2823580very nice pair on her. could be bigger but the ratio is amazing
>>2823573Look when I ask you this, and you lived in Tokyo you'll answer a specific way. If you're a old person it's one way, if you're a young person it's another way. There tons of questions like these that instantly identify you as being "in the culture" and what jidai you're from or what mindset you have.Like if you're a foreigner and you live in Adachi ku or Katsushika ku people are going to assume things. Just like if you told them you live in Tama Center or Tsukuba. If you live 8 years in Tokyo and you can't tell me stuff like this you failed at any sort of meaningful talk with any of your co workers or Japanese society at large. When I told people I was staying in Tabata when I was a student they instantly assumed something. >>2823574It's a country built to withstand rain and the only thing that fucks up it up are mudslides and they affect remote railways or towns. I have no idea where you're going but if you're going to Tokyo. Any sort of natural disaster has 0 effects on Tokyo because it's too financially stable and important. There could be the biggest earthquake ever and next month you would be able to come and it would all mostly be repaired or there would be a replacement for what was lost.This isn't Oigawa Railways where one Typhoon knocks out half the tracks for 5 years and nobody can repair it. So yeah you saw some flood waters on X/Twitter and they're gone, they'll be cleaned up in about a week max if there any mud at all.
>>2823580>>2823582chatgpt says no but i dont believe it
>>2823580You could buy her JAVs?
>>2823585will the money actually go to her?
>>2823587Depends on the contract she has. But in the vast majority of cases not much. You're better off finding an event you can go to where she actually is or sells good related to her.https://x.com/remu19971203/status/1965025407218184669Like this Buy Max event shes holding. These aren't some sleazy backdoor events these are much like idol events simply photography events where you can take pictures of her with restrictions. https://x.com/remu19971203/status/1956711117041943013Or this one where it appears shes just selling non lewd photos in Clothing store. She seems to be Osaka based so you'll need to obviously go there.
>>2823587Eventually a little. See if she has some sort of direct donation or subsrcribe service (highly unlikely since it is Japan), meet and greet or similar. Support your idol, buy her merch etc
>>2823583>>2823581>flood no matterThanks flood bros. Yeah it would actually be pretty cool to experience a flood while there. I just wondered if flying in this week was going to suck for whatever reasons, thanks for assuring me its going to be okayAny ideas for any spontaneous type of work or volunteering anywhere ? Ive checked workaway and most listings seemed cucked
I’m going to Japan solo in December for around 23 days. Wondering what people usually do for accommodation when traveling alone.Also, I’m deciding between Tohoku, Kyushu, or Shikoku for that time of year. For a solo trip in December, which of these regions has more going on? I'm afraid of the weather being kinda shitty in Tohoku
>>2823593You're going to need to be more specific.What does most listings cucked mean?
>>2823609Tohoku in December has actual winter with shitloads of snow the closer you are to Aomori the worse. Kyushu has a warm medeteranian climate so it's like warm, depending on year when I was there it was like 16~20°c at day and 6~8 at night.For Shikoku let's say -2°c to -4°c compared to KyushuWhat I do is I find a nice big city, as close as possible to the Shinaknsen Station and then buy a Local JR Pass and explore via that. Usually the rural places have nothing going on at night so it's better to stay in a more urban enviroment https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/railpass/railpass.htmlhttps://www.jreast.co.jp/en/multi/pass/eastpass_t.htmlShikoku and Hokkaido are really the only two places where this doesn't apply as much. Especially Shikoku https://shikoku-railwaytrip.com/pass-information/Even from Takamatsu to Matsuyama it's 2.5 hours by train. Thats insane considering how close they are and most cities are like this. The big ones at least. For Hokkaido it's better you can do Sapporo, Jigokudani, Hakodate, Otaru, Toya and Shikotsu, Ashikawa they're all pretty close.
>>2823624What is there to see in Shikoku? I would mind to spend most of the trip there, it is worth it or it's better to wait until the hotter weather?
>>2823619>more specificI mean that most of the listed volunteer positions seem to be cucked (not good)Like most of them are already filled or just not ideal volunteer positions say compared to other countries where finding some sort of random volunteer job on a farm or in some sort of (hippie type) communjty group thing where a unique experience could be hadSo I am asking if anyone has any suggestions for finding some sort of unique volunteer type living situation
>>2823651This is probably not the right forum for that. I'd search on reddit or facebook if I were youThat said, Japan requires a working holiday visa for working during your visit and I'd not FAFO with that
>>2823446Jazz in Rokudenashicool smokey jazz and blues bar
Any comfy restaurants in Sapporo that you guys would recommend?
Thoughts on a Japan trip from like like 12/20 - 1/3?Bad time to go? I have over 2 weeks off paid thenIs there any way to fly there under like $1800?
>>2823739where are you flying from and what do you want to see?
>>2823740DFW airport (texas, USA)I've never been and my language skills are weak so I'd probably have my hands full just in like Toyko and figuring everything out
>>2823741Fly to LAX/SFO first and then fly to Tokyo from there in order to save money. 2 weeks is enough time to do the golden route of Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto, but if you insist on only visiting Tokyo, then I'd probably wait until the spring when the weather nicer and airfare isn't affected by the holiday season.
>>2823741You may want to check out ZipAirline's website in November when prices drop. You will have to fly to Los Angeles LAX on a separate ticket but its still cheaper than 1800. Also the cheapest tickets are 2 to 1 1/2 months before your international departure.
>>2823747when the weather is nicer*Also, I'd recommend taking a bus to Kawaguchiko to see Mt. Fuji if you plan to go to Tokyo in the winter.
>>2823520A jpg thread this time last year was over 1000 posts. At that time, we learned that it was still possible to post after 1000 posts.
How are the hotels over there? Japan, oska and Kyoto? Cheap? id like to get really cheap ones, even the litle pods one are fine
>>2823784they can be pretty cheap. maybe 30-70 usd depending on neighbourhood
>>2823785nice, hopefully cheaper eh? plan on going alone in a month or two and staying for about a month. Just plan on becing cheap and enjoying the small shite. anthony bourdain andrew zimmerman this bitch
>>2823788also hostels work too
Tell me of a place you really liked in your Japan trip. Can be anywhere in the country, can be a museum, a mountain, a restaurant. Something that really stands out for you.
>>2823793ale gion beer in kyotoi was walking and i wanted beerthen i looked in front of me and i saw this placei drank beer
>>2823580>even the little metal strap buckle things are cute hearts.Japan is just better at everything
>>2823793Marine Blue hotel on Yakushima. I actully booked it only because the main hotels were booked by the time I had my pto approved. I was actully worried about it at the time but it was such an a magical little hotel on the beach.
>>2823784You really don’t want the pod ones.There are a ton of affordable hotels that are all top tier for a one person. >>2823789If you do this get a privite room unless you hate yourself.
>>2823793Any place I liked.My method is “cat method”.I roam around and sit and chill whenever and wherever I like the vibes.
>>2823638I can't tell you honestly because I don't know what type of tourist you are. So far most people that I know that went there had two reactions. >Nature Pretty>So fucking boring nothin to doIf you're a weeb there a few sacred spots.If you like religions there a Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 temples that people used to and still do on foot about 1200 kilometers of it. Takes ages.You'll see them with their white coats.If you like Gardens it has some.If you like castles it has few.It's mostly untouched nature, waterfalls and it's mostly good if you have a car it's absolute nightmare via Train/Bus as things come ever 1~3 hours.There really no special food or anything they have good Udon but you can find Sanuki udon in Osaka... So like its just scenic. Honestly you'll get a teste of it if just go to Takamatsu the railway ride from Okayama is already scenic as fuck.>>2823651Only a few countries get a working holiday wise and not many of them, volunteering in Japan is a community activity in a city/district/village thing and they don't just bring foreigners from around the world to do it. It's a difficult culture. I'm not saying theres none but it's simply not a thing people do.
>>2823739The only downside is the same as anywhere else honestly it's that the sun sets at 5 pm, so if you wanna see nature you better get up early. I also don't know how you Americans are with weather for years on all forums I've been reading that Japanese winters are so cold and oh my god don't visit Japan in Winter and then I went there for 3 months in Winter nad it's fuckin 15°c a day and 7°c at night for everywhere but Northern Tohoku and Hokkaido. It got to 20°c on certain days. Maybe it's because you're all used to central heating in houses or something? If you're going with AirBnB prepare to heat with a split AC unit. If you're going to a hotel prepare for the hotel to cut heating when the card isn't inserted. >>2823793Oigawa Railways entire climb up through the valley and dams. Suizenji Jojuen on a rainy winter day with nobody but me inside sipping tea and eating sweets Fushimi Inari before all the tourists came.The slow train ride in Hokuto from Shin Hakodate Hokuto to Sapporo in heavy snow.First time walking over the Rainbow bridge in Tokyo in the evening as all the lights start to come alive. First time Riding the 500 series Shinaknsen Enoshima Sea Candle Light Up The moment the Azusa/Kaiji Enters the Kofu basin and you can see Fuji in the background.Lake Motosu looking at FujiMatsumoto Castle in Winter where the moat around it is frozen and the Japanese snowy Alps are in the backgroundKenroku-en in Kanazawa when the snow falls and the trees are all bending under heavy snow but they're protected by YukitsuriWeeb shit:The walk in Odaiba from Telecom Center to Daiba Turning right at the Gundam going over the Dream Bridge to Ariake and seeing Tokyo Big Sight.Climbing Mount Takao on the same routes as Yotsuba and Yama no Susume.Shimobe Onsen, Minobu and then going up Mount MinobuWashinomiya Shrine still being a massive Lucky Star Sacred Spot after all these yearsTokyo Game Show, Comiket, COMITIA, Reitaisai
I've been to Japan 3 times so far. I'm probably going to go again next year for a concert. I am kinda Tokyo/Osaka'd out but don't have any must do's/visits left since I've been to Fukuoka, Sapporo, Hiroshima, and most of the smaller cities that jumped out to be. Are Sendai or Nagoya worth a 3 or 4 day diversion or should I spend a few days in SK, HK, or Taiwan?
See you guys at pic rel next year
>>2823244If it doesnt exceed $800 you dont have to pay any duty.You can just declare souvenirs and a guesstimate on the price.However thats if you even get a form, I havent received any on my last 2 visits but all I take back are souvenirs so i doubt it even matters
>>2823872Both Nagoya and Sendai are very car centric cities so you won't find many fun hubs or things like that there. Nagoya is worth visiting for the Castle, Museums and Food but since you've been to Japan it's for a Tourist an inferior version of Tokyo and Osaka.Sendai has an interesting compact city center but it gets less and less urban very fast. It has some nice nature around it Shiraito Waterfalls, Sekiyama Waterfall, Fujihana WaterfallsThe coast around Matsushima has some scenic nature and islands.The Hitome Senbonzakura is amazing in Spring but thats about it I think. You got he big statue, you got various Dane Masamune stuff, You have Zundamochi and Gyutan and thats Sendai.I will say however the city center around Sendai Station is great, tons of restaurants, ton of shops and malls, theres even a mini Akihabara with all the Important stuff like Animate, Belonbooks, Rashinban, Kikuyashoten is an amazing manga shop, they have Village Vanguard and the entire Gee Storelineup so Cospa etc...
I just got back from my JP trip, I think I will stop going in September… maybe try and do a Spring or Autumn trip next time.I had only 1 day to rest at home before starting my work week. Man life just feels mundane after being there, didnt hit me as hard after my first visit but after this visit I feel sad and bored.
>>2823931>didnt hit me as hard after my first visit but after this visit I feel sad and bored.nigga look at my weight gain which happened exactly after I got home from visiting Japan for the first time in my life lmaoif you're like me and live in bumfuck nowhere suburbs in America, you probably yearn for a walkable city life with more disciplined people and more affordable cost of living, as well which is tough here lately. just keep fighting FIGHTO.
hotel prices in Tokyo are insane now.
>>2823446"Firefly" near Dotonbori was a hidden gem when I was there last month. Run by a Peruvian-Japanese lady who's a total character, plus good drinks and free karaoke. Apparently they also have great Peruvian food, but we got there pretty late. She also gave me and my friend a free shot if we promised to tell people about the place, so I'm compelled to do my duty here.
>>2823624>For Hokkaido it's better you can do Sapporo, Jigokudani, Hakodate, Otaru, Toya and Shikotsu, Ashikawa they're all pretty close.How much time do you think its enough to visit Hokkaido? 2 weeks?
>>2823966Never been but I'd imagine 2 weeks is enough if you hop from accommodation to accommodation going around the island. Travel time between the towns is brutal enough. If you just want to visit Sapporo and the immediate surrounding, sure
