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>>2889535Mongering is just as valid a discussion topic as sightseeing and far more rewarding. Sometimes you even get presents that last 7-10 days with treatment.
I know it's popular to hate on Ichiran, but I still think its way better than Ippudo. Ichiran is like high tier junk food, while Ippudo is like a mid tier chain restaurant. I still eat Ichiran a few times every trip. Of course neither is as good as a regular non chain Ramen place, but I think Ichiran gets more hate than it deserves and Ippudo is overrated.
>>2889544I've never gotten the hype around ramen period. The ingredients never have enough time to soak in all the flavors since ramen places are always rushing you so the noodles and meat are always kind of bland and the broth is way too salty. I also never feel like a single bowl has enough actual food but the salt content is so high it makes going through multiple bowls to be a chore. And don't "muh authentic artisanal ramen" me since I've eaten bowls from kyushuu to hokkaido and found them all mid.
>>2889535Think about ogatoonsen - small town where you just go to onsen and then to soapland and then back to onsen - entire weekend. Eeee, eeeeto. What a paradise.Btw tobita kills everything you can get in Tokyo. Tokyo is so shit and expensive, I paid short of 60k yen for meeting with AV actress and she did not even yelled like a pig. Massive disappointment and scams - all these deriherus "for le foreigner"
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>>2889547Ramen to me is just Japanese home grown fast food that's high in salt, cholesterol and calories. Akin to hamburgers for Americans. On my last trip to Japan I never bothered with their ramen. There are so many other cheap, delicious things you can have in Japan anyway
>>2889547Yeah its definitely a guilty pleasure. I love miso Ramen with a nice big block of butter in it. Definitely not healthy but I'd I'm on holiday I don't really care about being healthy. I prefer Mazemen these days. I think Ramen is just easy, when you can't be fucked and just want to be in and out in 15 minutes and get on with your day/night. Its perfect for that.
>>2889555It is common knowledge in Japan that authentic ramen from a restaurant is more of a guilty pleasure than a proper daily meal, and eating it too often is bad for your health.
Cold udon with tamago and miso soup are both better than ramen
>>2889544>>2889547Japanese people don't get the hype around ramen either. It's junk food to them.
The best foods I've experienced in Japan are champon in nagasaki and potato croquets in hokkaido.
I had ramen every night for almost two weeks and it bloated the fuck out of me.I had to remove a link from the watch I bought there when I got home lol
>>2889558Of course, instant ramen is also considered junk food. While it's a staple for lazy bachelors and broke students, most people usually just eat it as a quick weekend lunch or a snack between meals when they get a bit hungry.
Asked last thread but got no answer.What's anons' thoughts on the Seto Islands daytrippable from Takamatsu? Shodoshima is the biggest with the most going on but Ogi and Megi are also popular.
>>2889595I've only been to Megi Island. It was a brief ferry ride from Takamatsu dock IIRC. Spent several hours there hiking up to the sights. Not a ton of amenities there when I went. Took the ferry back. It was pretty fun.
>>2889573For me it's Japanese BBQ and Osaka-style Kushikatsu.
>>2889547>I also never feel like a single bowl has enough actual food but the salt content is so high it makes going through multiple bowls to be a chore.That's why you can order extra noodles for fatfucks like you
>>2889598Did you find Megi worth it? What were your personal highlights beyond just enjoying the hike?Going back-and-forth with Chat GPT about details it suggested Ogi and Megi as a package deal for a day trip, or going to Shodo's inland rice fields.I'd be going in January so I'm leaning towards Shodo and haven't seen anyone online really have an opinion of Teshima or Naoshima.
>>2889595I went to Naoshima and Teshima in March.Naoshima is an alright, if slightly expensive day wandering the no-cars-allowed art museum zone. Some of them are nice, some are like 3 bare rooms, and you will want tickets in advance for the most popular one. The natual coastline is quite nice as well. Overall it depends on your tolerance for modern "art". Teshima on the other hand is an absolute scam with a single 'exhibit' that got my socks wet and then I forgot my bag and had to walk 15 mins back up the hill I just walked down (I don't have the balance to ride a bike) and then it rained for the whole rest of the afternoon so I just sat at the ferry terminal rather than visit the last one or two spots to see. The only thing that redeemed Teshima was the jap granny that gave me some kumquats off her tree because I said her garden was nice while taking photos of the flowers (pic related). It seems I forgot to take a photo of her sakura tree despite her telling me to, but I liked the flowers more and the sakura wasn't really in bloom by then. Oh, I guess the 'Needle Factory' art house on Teshima was alright too but again there was very little worth spending a whole day there for, I basically only did it because I had to take the ferry from Naoshima to Uno anyway to take the train further south and decided to get an evening train and go Nao -> Te -> UnoBoth of them were utterly mogged by the Onomichi Art Museum though, which was still running the '100 Views of Kyoto: Four Seasons Depicted' exhibit with 83 paintings on loan from Kyoto (out of like 119 or something) until May 6th. Honestly I didn't even plan to visit the art museum I just had time to kill before an afternoon ferry so I checked it out cause I was up the hill anyway for the temples and it was a real "Finally, some good fucking food" moment.
>>2889605I found the Momotaro/Oni stuff fascinating so I enjoyed that. If you were to do Ogijima too I would probably pack a lunch and have on comfortable shoes. It would probably take up the whole day I imagine. Shodoshima has monkeys apparently and was the setting for a manga. If you like that more, then you may enjoy that.
>be fat>be bald, but can‘t cut hair back to 0.9mm in the apa hotel>have a threeday beardIt‘s over for me isn‘t it? Mongering is probably the only option, but is mongering even possible if I can‘t talk japanese? And how are the
>>2889626How are the gaijin hunter bars*
>>2889626Just go to a barber?
Chest bags worth it for 2 weeks in japan? I hate looking like I'm carrying a small village worth of shit in one of those large travel backpacks, not to mention after 2 hours my shoulders and back will be dead at only 11am. My plan is to leave basically everything in the hotels, and just walk around with nothing but one of these chest slings. Anybody else do this sort of "minimalist" travel?
>>2889685yes but get an even smaller one, i only carried my passport, some cash, wallet and a charger. only used a backpack during degen shopping tripsyou can hide it under a jumper/shirt etc
>>2889608Thanks anon, saved me bothering to consider them. I'd been to Hiroshima already but hadn't been to the art museum because the person I was with really wanted to go to the atomic bomb museum & memorial instead. Maybe next time I go to Hiroshima.>>2889615>pack a lunch and have on comfortable shoesWalking is no problem for me, especially in cold weather I could hike all day. There's some decent looking cafés & lunch restaurants on both islands, I'd rather get something to eat from the locals than bring a currypan.Not really interested in monkeys over museums, historic architecture and nice scenery.>>2889685My chest purse was my life for my whole trip this year. I brought minimal shit so I could carry all my really important stuff in the pouch on my person and left my backpack with nothing but clothes and cheap souvenirs back at the hotel without any worries.I got a really cheap and ugly one that made me look like a jackass but it served my purposes and I wasn't there to impress randos so I didn't care.
Steps for using the toilet when wearing a kimonohttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/SfthwEhjbkkIn the past, women didn't wear underwear under their kimonos.
So not sure why exactly, maybe because I am ugly or a gaijin, but sometimes people here are like afraid of me. >walk into konbini to search for trash, woman instantly grabs her bag>stand in line for the train, suddenly the two people in front of me go 5m to the right and wait thereKinda fun lol>>2889642>please pay 30 bucks for something you need to do every 2-3daysAnon I am not rich. I will do it in the hotel (somehow)
>>2889717Onomichi art museum isn't hiroshima, I went to the Hiroshima art museum also and it was fine. If you can find where they're displaying those Kyoto paintings now and it's on your route I'd say visit there it's kinda a must imo.
>>2889685Everyone just walks around with chest packs or daypacks.And if you send your luggage to your next accommodation via courier, traveling will be much easier.
Tobita > traditional Thai massage > pinksaro > soapies >> deriheru
>>2889751matsushima > tobita
Don't make me tap the sign again, coomers
If you had to live in one area of Tokyo, what would it be?
>>2889750>>2889751I'm curious what stores you ordered from to have had such bad deliheru experiences. The absolute best and most affectionate girls have all been outcalls for me. A few stinkers here and there but the worst ones were mostly thc. Tobita is nasty and all you get are a few wipes and 30 minutes to pump and dump. Most don't even let you kiss there. I guess you guys really likes the lolipops.
>>2889777azaudai
>>2889777Ikebukuro
>get on a train in Tokyo>sweaty drunk woman next to me struggling to not fall asleepDoes this happen often
>>2889873This is what a high-trust society is like.
>>2889873Was she hot tho. I like when cute girls fall sleep on me on the subways.
I am going to Japan for the first time solo in a few months. I know a bit of Japanese and tried to use apps like HelloTalk to meet people and practice but it just seems so fake and botted, it's full of 'women' posting selfies going "It's really lonely living in today's world, is it just me?" and 200 replies going "Hi lets chat and learn English!". There italki but you have to pay, and also ohanasi kagawa but I'm not sure about it.Is bumble a decent app for meeting people?
>>2890038>app for meeting people?go outside, pussy boy
I went to nagashima spa land since I heard it's a pretty based amusement park. It was definitely less crowded than Universal or Disney but my first line really soured my experience. I was in line for some coaster and I was behind maybe four or five Indians. That's how it started at least. They kept waving their friends over and before I knew it like 20 stinking Indians were cutting in front of me while I stood there like a chuck trying not to make a scene. Literally where can I go to get away from these creatures?
It's really muggy today.
I locked in my hotels for October at 160
>>2890120congrats what city and neighborhood? last summer i stayed in shibuya near the crossing, i will never do that again, i prefer quieter neighborhoods, usually the business hotels because it's fewer tourists and more sleepy, which is peak comfy for my autism
Anons, do you have any personally recommended places to eat for a solo traveler in Tokyo? I know there are plenty of sites out there with recommendations but I'd like to hear what anons have experienced themselves
Can someone inform all the Chinese to walk on the left?Seriously, half of Fukuoka walks right it seems. Also Japanese do this, why?
>>2890227inform them yourself, pussy nigga
>>2890230I go brushing the wall all the way to the left at autistic levels
when should i go to japani got miles on credit cardbut never traveled anywhere beforeim neet so i have high time freedom but low financialwait should i even bother?
>>2890227>osakans stand on the right on escalators>but when walking on flat ground you go on the left>sometimes it doesn't even fucking matter and people go everywhere anywayidgi
>>2890288>flat groundI mean stairs too but yeah>>2890279What do you want to get out of the country? Think about that and make a list of shit you want to do or see before buy tickets. If you want to be a cheap fuck go in summer for cheapest everything and you can pack extremely light too.
>Visa fees went up fivefoldOh no not the third worlder
>>2890311They should make it a clean $1000 to chase off all the brown tourists
>>2890311>be me>fly to japan>no visa>get let in for 90 daysfeels good man
>>2890220If you're anywhere near Otemachi Station there's an underground mall as well as a highrise mall above ground all of which have a plethora of good restaurants in both Western and Japanese style.
if i were to take the shinkansen to osaka, how many days do you think i should stay down there, to experience dotonbori, nara, osaka castle, and gin/kinkakuji? my stay in japan's a total of ten days, so i'm thinking three days osaka/kyoto?
Spur of the moment, I bought tickets to Tokyo from Bangkok (really felt like my two weeks allocated was just too long. One week was enough.) so now I've got 5 days. Anyone want to hang during that time? I'm fuckinf retarded and into plamo so we can do whatever and weeb out, but also can knock back a few and do whatever. Not to blogpost too much, but I've got mixed feelings since none of my other buds wanted to come with. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss dragging my homies around and seeing the sights. Guess we're all just getting old. Whatever, guess I can make some new acquaintances.
>>2890375Definitely go see Unicorn before he leaves, anon...
>>2890370that is an extremely tight schedule imo, but potentially doable if you did something likeday 1: kyoto (gin/kinkakujin)day 2: nara (this is a day trip, should stick to a hotel in kyoto or osaka)day 3: osaka (osaka castle, dotonbori)if this is your first time i'd consider adding 1-2 days in either city, even if that means leaving out one city entirely. for my first trip i skipped osaka in favor of kyoto and found no shortage of things to do and see.
>>2889873Code?
>>2890322Unironically this, but also as a full moon gaijin, also the poor ass white people coming now because the yen is low.They need to be filtered out.So many would still pay.You all know it
>>2890370we did three nights osaka and three nights kyoto and both stays felt super rushed desu.osaka had too much to do and kyoto was spread out wideit is certainly doable but make sure to get up early and go to bed late loland make a good list of what you want tot do and their locations in google to get around easier
>>2890411>>2890391damn, i might just cut nara out then, since it's the one that's most out of the way, to make more time for osaka and kyoto. thank you for the inputalso, outside of the deer park, what else does nara have, that would give me good reason to dedicate an entire day?
>>2890424> what else does nara have that would give me good reason to dedicate an entire dayfor me, todai-ji and kasuga shrine are unskippable if you're doing nara at all. you could probably be done by 1pm-2pm if you got there as things opened. the deer park itself is "mostly" skippable, or at least you'll see plenty of deer as you make your way to other attractions and i wouldn't include it as a major attraction unto itself. i agree with skipping it if the other cities are your priorities.
Nagoya is actually pretty comfy. If I had to pick a city to stay at long term I'd probably be here.
>>2890442And recommendations on what to do there?
>do nomadtable>there is this one jap girl (ai) and her „friend“ from norway>talk with her randomly and suddenly just go ai-chan>realize that it was really rude, but couldn‘t apologize >she later fucks off anyway, because she was „hungry“So how rude is it actually calling random japanese people with the chan suffix? If she reads this, sorry ai-san.
>>2890445It's not the variety of things to do that I think makes it attractive. It has all the things a modern Japanese large metropolis would have, it's just that the people are friendlier than in Tokyo and there's less foreigners. There's also just three subways so I find navigating it all to be simple to understand. Grid layout around the central park is easy too.
Anyone into IC card collecting?
>>2890452it's not rude unless she is older than you, in which case why would you, because it forces her to call you -kun in return and makes you sound like a kid. Jap people don't care about keigo and drop it instantly all the time if they like you. You just got AMOG'd by the Norwegian bull. You probably have brown eyes.
>>2890458>there's less foreigners reminder everyone should ignore hikiomori opinions, why the fuck do you want to live anywhere long term without other foreigners who speak your native tongue
>>2890523Because I go to Japan to get away from shitty western culture. The more foreigners there are the more baggage they being along with them including being loud, littering, not giving a shit about lines, dressing like shit, smelling awful, and pushing for more foreigners to move in. Go around some parts of Tokyo and you hardly spot a single Japanese person. If you want to live somewhere where they speak your tongue stay home. If you want to enjoy Japanese peace and order then you have to live in a place with as few foreigners as possible
>>2890525>>2890523I never hang out with foreigners when I'm abroad and never talk in English to them but from my experience I get treated better in places where there are more foreigners. I'm less of a circus animal and more of a human to the locals. And I stay in shape and speak the languages well and mog all of the other foreigners. Maybe if you go to a place with foreigners, you're getting evaluated in comparison to weebs and losers, but if you go to a place with no foreigners you're getting evaluated against Brad Pitt and instagram models from their algorithm
>>2890526That's in your head. In places where you're a novelty all white guys look the same to them so they think you look like Brad Pitt. I also find people much more open to trying to talk to me in Japanese whereas in Tokyo they just assume you don't know anything and stumble their way through English. As someone trying to learn Japanese it's way more helpful.
You are from a waiver country right anin
>>2890586AND IM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I GET IN FREE
>>2890525i have dual citizenship, one is visa exempt, one is not.
>>2890586surely the majority of tourists are from waivers and theyre missing out on a load of money?
I miss Christmas Japanhttps://youtu.be/sTmyyN6aFuY
>>2890662one wordchina
>>2890220Get butadon from Motsuyaki Sakaba Tonbou
I've got a job opportunity lined up for early next year in Shinjuku and I'll be doing a working holiday visa to stay for 3-6 months. How difficult is it to get the WHV as an Australian citizen? And how difficult is it to find a short-term lease apartment? I'm looking on sites like GaijinPot and HMLT and the properties there are looking promising. A little pricy, but not terrible.
Is Coke Plus actually useful for getting better shits? I always get constipated in Japan.
>>2890829don't use gaijin goy sites. search in japanese for sharehouses
>>2890829These are the two I lived in in Japan. https://www.leopalace21.com/search/monthly/line?prefectureCode=13https://www.sakura-house.com/
>>2890836Coffee always does the trick for me.
>>2889727Let me rank the foreigner disgust factor from tolerable to ick according to Japanese friend >unconventional fashion/style>your race>facial hair >fat or yoke>bald
>>2890847>unconventional fashion/stylecould be>your racebrowns btfo>facial hairfull beard is ok. wispy shit has to go>fat or yokeeh>baldi don't think so
In hotels with onsens they usually have an inside and an outside bath. I've noticed that japs deliberately segregate themselves from gaijin. If I or other white people are using the inside then the japs use the outside, and if I use the outside they'll use the inside. Maybe they think they're being nice or something but it feels personal.
>>2890857It is personal. Your similar instincts were cucked out of you by your masters
>>2890857>be Asian >be circumcised >have tattoo >have zero stares from japs Feels good to blend in with japs and watch tv in sauna with them.
>>2890411What you do in osaka that made it feel like not enough time? I was in osaka for 3 days or so earlier this year, iirc i went to the aquarium one day, the castle another day, and otherwise just hung out in shinsekai and the surrounding area at night time, found the area kinda boring overall and was looking forwrd to flying back to tokyo. I checked out dotonburi (was literally stating in namba) good photo ops, otherwise overcrowded tourist trap, i skipped on kyoto/nara entjrely because i heard they were also overcrowded tourist traps
>>2890847>unconventional fashion/stylenormal>your racewhite>facial hairnone>fat or yokeskinny >baldnw-3 and shave :(
>>2890870Nara took a huge chunk of one of the days. then stuff like minoo park, osaka castle, sumiyoshi and just getting lost walking the underground shopsthe rest was raiding the thrift stores and car stuffeverything opening late and closing early caught us out i will admit
>>2890913It seems to be passtime in /jpg/ to shit on Osaka and sing Tokyo's praises. I'd just ignore these cretins at this point.
>>2890916both are great. i appreciated the different kinda chill atmosphere in osaka after we had a week rushing about tokyo
>>2890847when Japanese say they don't like facial hair they mean shitty Japanese facial hair, i.e. incomplete patchy pube beards. Rest assured if you have a short, full beard women will go buckwild.
>>2890973Don't lie—Japanese girls absolutely hate the things you think make you attractive, like a beard, a muscular build, and pheromones.
Is the Japan craze dying down?I've always loved Japan, then I visited a few times and loved it even more, speak the language well and am not brown. Unfortunately it seemed like for a few years post covid mindless tik-tok zombies who go where the app tells them and brownoids with money (somehow) invaded the country even though they don't care about it. Is the "fad" for these people dying down? I'd like to go back this year and think about moving there in the future but I want to be sure that this trend is reversing
>>2890977The 建前 says they like hairless twinks with no testosterone. The 本音 says muscles and hair makes them wet
>>2890981The reason no one sits next to you on the train is that Japanese people can’t stand the “pheromones” you give off.
>>2890977>white incel explains what Japanese women desire
>>2890985I never sit on the train, I always let the older and needy have spots :( also I'm fit, I don't sweat, and wear non-scented deoderant.
>>2890981this guy fucks
Starting this week, Bon Odori festivals will be held somewhere in Tokyo every weekend. This weekend, they’ll be held in Ueno Park and Asakusa. There will also be a Gujo Odori festival in Aoyama.https://tokyofesta.com/
>>2890979take a trip and report back
>>2890997I will as soon as I get some time off and more money, I've been going every year for the past few years. If anyone here is boots on the ground I'd like their opinion but also I don't use social media so I'm wondering if its still as huge as it was for influencers/tik tok
Like every anon here told me, I did it today. I paid my respects to unicorn-chan. Now I will go to the gundam store and look at stuff I will never buy, I also never watched gundam
>>2890847As you actually quoted me, here>unconventional fashion/styleUniqlo cargo pants + uniqlo oversized shirt>your raceLight skinned turk>facial hair5mm beard, trimmed>fat or yokeFat like a bear>baldCut it myself so yeahI did get some likes on tinder/bumble btw. One of them was japanese.
>>2891020Good, I'll visit him in a month in my last day in Tokyo.However a buddy told me to don't bother buying anything unless it's store exclusive, as Gundams are not that expensive overseas. I'm more interested in the Godzilla shop.
>>2891021>Light skinned turkso, dravidian black indian tier>>2890979Last time I went anywhere notably touristed it was just the usual chinese and tourgroup boomers, and that wa sin Kyoto where it should have been full of the worst influencers and the like. Oh, there was one jeet (assumedly, brown of some sort jeet by behaviour) married to a white woman with a kid, he was digging a hole in the dirt with his foot to toss his banana peel away. Some jap boomer nearby started telling him off in japanese and the jeet just kinda stared like 'what di i do wrong, im feeding da earth this im compost saar' (his argument).I walked over and put the peel in a plastic bag I had spare, robbed him of all his izzat and got a broken english 'You welcome Japan any time!' from the jap boomer it was kinda funny. Jeet was seething so hard he saw me later that day and came up trying to start a fight and have a whine about it, SAAR WHY YOU DO THAT I HELP PLANET SAAR. I forget if I posted about this when it happened. This was mid-spring by the way.But anyway I would say the fad has lowered and either way you can always escape the fad by going to more of a nowhere prefecture.
I'll be going to Japan for a week or so. It's my first time going overseas by myself and I'm not sure how I should carry money/pay for stuff. Will a mastercard be enough? Can I withdraw cash from ATMs with one?
>>2891045Most transactions are conducted in gold nuggets and flakes.
>>2891045It's a first world country, anon. Just pay for things like you normally pay for things. Just make sure your bank knows you'll be in Japan so your cards don't get locked.
>>2891045>Can I withdraw cash from ATMs with one?Use the 7/11 atms they should still have the lowest fees or just, do a currency exchange order in your home country ahead of time.
>>2891047>>2891051Yeah, I feel kind of dumb now. Thanks!
>>2890996Based anon, Ive been looking for local festivities. I was in Hiroshima earlier this month and didn't realize they were having some kimono festival and missed that and felt retarded.
>>2890979Chinese tourism has been cut in half and plane tickets have increased in price, so it’s beginning to balance out
Went into a convience store and it was filled with a bunch of black families. I thought that I was in Detroit for a second, how the fuck these niggas getting plane tickets?
>>2891091I know man my only gues is that after the BLM shit they got jobs that supply them with enogh credit to get blow it on cars, clothes and vacations but not use any of that $ to cleanup their community or raise their children better
>>2891091I don't think I've ever seen black people in Japan outside of Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto
make me feel better about being toddler with downs syndrome levels of bad at using chopsticks.i'm actually so embarrassed I find it hard to sit down at a restaurant where you sit shoulder to shoulder, or even worse at the counter where the chef can see you.i'm so shit i'll usually find a way to fuck up picking up a simple piece of nigiri half the time. this is my third time visiting japan.
>>2891119Who cares
>>2891119It's okay to eat sushi with your hands.
>>2891119Just eat the sushi (not sashimi) with yo hands, makes the flip dip alot easier and it's the trad boomer way to eat sushi anyways
>>2891043>with a kidprobably the scariest part of this story lol. Kyoto was what was in my mind as well when I asked, just so much condensed tourist behavior, which is a shame because it's genuinely a great place and it feels so much older than Tokyo. My favorite parts of trips are always going to nowhere prefectures / cities and you can tell immediately that no foreigners ever go there
>>2891119At other Japanese restaurants as well, you can simply ask the staff to bring you a fork since you don’t know how to use chopsticks. The staff understand that it’s only natural for some people not to know how to use chopsticks, given that they were raised in a different culture.
>>2891119お箸を使うのが下手です...ふっふっふ~
>>2890919>>2890916>>2890913Im not shittin on osaka, im asking about fun shit to do there if i go again in the future, i had originally planned on checking out nara/kyoto but after the crowds at the castle and in dotonburi and per the advice of rando here i passed on em; and am considering checking em out should i visit osaka again in the future
>>2891129i chimp out if they give me a fork instead of chopsticks
>>2890979The weak Yen has made it more affordable than in the past.It's a safe country, it's largest metro area is virtually crime free which is a huge anomaly in the world at this point.It's clean and beautiful.Good food.The craze is here to stay unless Europe radically alters course.
Is Amanohashidate worth the trip? It looks like a 3 hr trip via JR from Kyoto, so it's a pretty heavy commitment to go up there, but it looks pretty from the photos. I don't know how much there is to do there other than walk between the two ends or if it's worth spending the night there. I'm not in a hurry, and this isn't my first trip to Japan or anything, but I don't want to waste an entire day on some tourist trap.I was thinking about leaving Kyoto in the early morning, getting there before noon, wandering around for two or three hours, and then taking another 3hr train to Kinosaki to spend the night there. But if it's worth spending more time there, I guess I would spend the night there and maybe go to Kinosaki the day after. Or maybe I should do it in the opposite direction and go to Kinosaki first and then to Amanohashidate before coming back to Kyoto for the Shinkansen.
>>2891156all of these are true but there's definitely been a uniquely recent fascination with japan among normies + social media, no? explain what you mean by europe altering their course, do you mean from them being tourists or europe being a destination?
>>2891178they spend a lot of money on outreach and soft power
Anyone have any experience renting the monthly/3 month rent apartments?I'm looking to stay in Osaka for probably a couple of months and get some work done while I relax. I usually travel to Vietnam or China because I can stay in fairly nice hotels there for about 600 a month while eating the complementary breakfast, but Jap hotels seem a bit overpriced to me for long stays so I was looking into renting instead.Any reputable websites? known scams I should avoid?
>>2891199Look up "share houses" and you'll probably land on something that's okay. Found one here that is less than $600 a month.https://www.borderless-house.com/jp/kansai/osaka/
>>2891119practice practice practice
>>28911682hr oneway is my limit for day trips. It's a fine over nighter then you can travel west along the coast towards Tottori and Shimane for a good trip.
Recomendations for towns and places without crowds to stay cool in this summer.Will smaller towns in Hakkaido fit this criteria ???
>>2891220>Hakkaidonigger
>saw a japanese mum with a blasian kidThanks to makeup she looked really white, which made the girl create a stark contrast. >>2891043> so, dravidian black indian tierBlack friend said I look yellowish and a female friend said I look like snow white sometimes, pale face red lips. Dunno man I don‘t see myself as brown. And honestly it doesn‘t matter. Dunno how japanese people see me.
>>2890847>unconventional fashion/styleT-shirt and either shorts or linen pants >your raceWhite>facial hairClean shave or light stubble>fat or yokeSkinny>baldShoulder length hair
Best places to go in August?I plan to go for 3 week.
>>2891359Hokkaido or Tohoku
Jealous of those ITT who can afford the travel. Feels like every second not spent exploring Japan is lost time. I gotta move fast before Japan gets Jeetified and starts feeling like any other dump in the west
>>2891371isnt it already too late
>>2890847I look and act like this and have picked up and hooked up with 3 girls in japanAdmittedly none of them were japanese
>>2891384>I look and act like this and have picked up and hooked up with 3 girls in japan>Admittedly none of them were japanesedoesnt count
>>2891386Ok so yeah two were aussie chicks i picked up at hubs (different trips years apart) third was technically a japanese temporary resident, i actually thought she was japanese and i was finally gonna score, but it turned out that she was a korean exchange student (vs zainichi, i wouldnt fuck a full on zainichi) so id say that half counts
>>2891388it doesn't
>>2891402U gotta get one of those crepes with the ice cream and fruit and take a bite and put your hand against your face and say oishii like the cute girls in the animes
>>2891402YOOOOOOOO the heckin jyozurino??? YOOOOOOO how 2 monger I need to think about monger yooooooooo
>>2891409If I would get girls without monger I wouldn‘t ask
>>2891402>fukuokayeah, there are plenty around this area. they even have "information centers" that will help you find what you want
>>2891427That kind of talk isn't welcome here friend. It seems like you are trolling by bringing it up constantly.
>>2890662I work in hospitality and these kind of measures are not meant to make money, but to gate keep the riff-raffs
>>2891487See >>2800657 >Note: Discussions of prostitution or sex tourism are not permitted on /trv/.But you already knew that, you baiting nigger retard. Fuck off.
>>2891402>get told a lot my japanese is good, I really can‘t speak japanese (yes I know what that means)what does this mean? im retarded.
>>2891513he's getting 日本語上手'd but japanese people are just being nice. He probably did a week or two of duolingo and quit
>>2891510Shut up fag
>>2891513>6 days left in trip>ankle hurts like hell to walk on>probably going to rain the rest the time because of the typhoonsI think my trip is fucked. Already spent 3 weeks here so I guess I might as well just sit around the rest of the time.
A Ramen Restaurant Run by Italians Living in Japanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsWlw-nHQk
>>2891510>no no please don‘t mention mongering anon, it‘s le bad!>meanwhile 60year old corporate oji-san goes with young facemask girl into a love hotel during lunch break in shinjuku
>>2891513> what does this mean? im retarded. What this anon says >>2891518 I can‘t do basic sentences. I just know some words thanks to anime and learning jap a little bit with srs. Can‘t even count over 10. I just say すみません、ありがとうございます、○○おねがいします plus some other words. Some japs hate it, others don‘t mind and some others are saying your japanese is good (which always means your japanese is bad)
>>2891584Holy shit I am a retard> what does this mean? im retarded. What this anon says >>2891518 # I can‘t do basic sentences. I just know some words thanks to anime and learning jap a little bit with srs. Can‘t even count over 10. I just say すみません、ありがとうございます、○○おねがいします plus some other words. Some japs hate it, others don‘t mind and some others are saying your japanese is good (which always means your japanese is bad)
Japs either assume you don't speak any Japanese or you're fluent. If you start speaking a few basic things they just start rambling on for like five minutes before asking you a question and while you're still processing everything they switch and try again in baby english.
>>2891588I'm asian so they default to nihongo with me and when I can't catch up they just look at me like I'm retarded.
>>2891599Very few Japanese people behave in such a rude manner. If you’re not fluent in Japanese, they’ll simply assume you’re a foreigner. Japanese people always place great importance on politeness.
Until 2013, Japan was less visited than Sweden. Has anyone here been to Japan before the tourism boom?
Temperatures in Paris have been exceeding 40°C for days, while in Tokyo it’s 19°C.
>>2891624That's because it's been raining every day in tokyo for weeks and it's shitty
>>2891599>went to unagi restaurant (translator's note: unagi means jelly donuts) >old man takes my order>give it perfectly, even manage to answer back when he asks about drinks >feelsgoodman >2 asian guys sit next to me >old man takes their order >they talk in english and try to point to the menu >ojisan asks them to wait a moment and goes back >cute girl in her 20's comes and takes their order in englishI won, but at what cost...?
>>2891631Always find it funny when you see someone asian lookin in japan and assume they're a fluent local but they're actually just a tourist who speaks even less (or none at all) japanese than your white assOn the other hand, lot of random white dudes who are perfectly fluent
>>2891609I was too young but my uncle lived and worked there in the late 80's/ early 90's, he tells me stories about how nice it was. Back then everything really felt futuristic and you were actually an oddity if you were white. I think attitudes in general were just more positive at the time. Honestly I don't know how he did it, didn't speak a lick of japanese and navigated that shit without any modern tools.
>>2891609I was there in 2012, roughly a year after the major tsunami/earthquake. Was last in Tokyo in 2024. Being a foreigner was definitely a little more novel back in the 2010s. As far as tourism stuff goes there was a more "you're on your own" type of vibe to things. On the flip-side people were more helpful because of lower tourism fatigue.In 2012 data plan/cell phone stuff was more annoying to setup. The Japanese Yen was equal to/slightly above USD at the time. Japan had a reputation for being expensive among US boomers so you didn't see a lot of Americans casually traveling there. Tourism numbers overall were lower but that was also the peak of Chinese hordes randomly showing up in tour buses.
1 in 3 people in Japan during summer are tourists. It legit must feel like a giant theme park. What's the point?
>>2891659There's plenty of places you can go that aren't full of tourists. Just get out of kanto/kansai
>>2891609I went in 2013, and lived there for 3 years in the countryside, 1 year in Tokyo.The biggest change I guess by 2016 was all the go-proers and selfie-stickers recording the Shibuya crossing and arcades. Them freaking out about seeing people in kimonos and yukatas. It was pretty cringe.Even then, when I first arrived I'd hear stories from the boomers about the Japanese 90's economic boom and how easy it was to be a gaijin back then.Quite a few of them were karate-kas and hated the new generation of weebs and animu nerds showing up.The Japs were freaking out about Trump starting a nuclear war with North Korea.
>>2891659>What's the point?get out of the touristy areas, when you do its always the best parts of trips. this doesn't even have to be leaving Kanto/Kansai like >>2891671 (which is still good advice) but literally you can take a 10 minute train away from the center of tokyo and be the only white person for miles. tourists DO NOT stray from the tik tok spots. part of this is because they don't know the language and how to navigate.
>>2891690Honestly you don't even need to go that far out, even if you go to akihabara or shibuya just like... walk a few blocks perpendicular from the 'main street' and it gets a lot less crowded and touristy feeling
>>2891634Do you have any pictures he took back then?Did he live in the city or the country?I wonder if he disliked anything about it>>2891635Beautiful picture.>>2891686>karate-kas and hated the new generation of weebs and animu nerds showing up.I wonder why lol
I love the inaka
You ever just get tired of traveling? I've been in Japan for four weeks now and this is my 4th trip. I'm just kind of burnt out and feeling depressed in my hotel room. I just can't enjoy any of the placez or things that used to bring me so much joy. The only things I look forward to right now are meals and getting a cup of coffee.
>>2891782I just finished my 5th trip about a month ago, and even though I was there a month I only took about 2000 photos (compared to like 5000 a year earlier) and I kinda feel like I didn't do a whole lot. Starting to just do the same things over and over even though I went to new places. Japan is becoming routine for me. I also basically just spend most days in cities going to kissatens and restaurants. But I try to go out to more rural areas at least a few times.It's not like I'm not enjoying it, Japan just doesn't have the same spark for me it used to. It just feels comfy but it's a laid back comfy where I don't feel motivated to expand my horizons.Here's Beppu
>>2891781>>2891785Here's a trio of nekos in Beppu
>>2891785beats normal life
>>2891786Freshest possible tuna don right by Yaizu port
>>2889561based ramen indifference asserter
>>2889724that would create annoying umami stains...
>>2890220soba shopslearn how to use those ticket vending machines before you go (if you're too shy to look like an idiot)
>>2890586>>2891481should hike up plane ticket prices like Air Canada too :^)
>>2891061If you bank with Tangerine, have a second bank bank account accessible. Tangerine is a disaster. They cucked me out of my money on my trips to Asia, and even in Canada. I can write more if anyone is curious.
I can not lie, I love Kirby
>>2891795If liking Kirby makes me gay, call me Elton John.
>>2891631kek to make yourself feel better, you can greentext all the times you used your fluent japanese skills you acquired over several years to pick up random Japanese women for a shafting
Another earthquake just hit. Are we building up to something?
My latest trip to Japan has confirmed that although i am 31, i still look young enough to be referred to as "onii-san". Not a single oji-san yet. Feeling good bros.
>>2891810They say that to every guy who's under 60
>>2891807Japan gets earthquakes somewhere every single day. That's like saying "wind just blew. Are we getting a tornado?"
>>2891797he's a dekinai coper soifacing because a woman took an order at a restaurant. he's 100% khv in japan
So is the dance festival thing in tokyo still happening or is it rained out?
>>2889534find your love in japan
>>2891891It seems the Gujo Odori dance festival in Aoyama took place in the rain today.
>>2891624>> 40 degreesteenager numbers, I live in Australia and we've recorded 48 degrees during one of the summer heatwaves
>>2891770Not that anon, but that photo I believe is one of the gates toward Meiji Shrine and it is indeed a pristine place of worship and well worth your visit in case you haven't been
>>2890220You've probably left Tokyo already, but if you're still there I recommend Shabu-Yo in Akihabarahttps://store-info.skylark.co.jp/syabuyo/map/198399/?utm_source=ss&utm_medium=gmb&utm_campaign=websitelink-TokyoIt's an all you can eat hotpot place. There are english signs and menus, and you can simply make your order with a touch pad and your choices of meat will be delivered to the table by a jingling roomba
>>2890220That kissaten in ameyoko, it just says "coffee" outside no idea what the actual name of it is but it's on the outer rim near one of the entrance alleys near ueno station. Great place for a late night coffee and slice of cheesecakeOne of the places in the sunshine city mall on the floor w/ all the food has pretty good assorted gyutan dishesThe standing sushi in the akihabara station attached mall (good prices, fast service, if you see a line, dont worry it moves fast)
Earthquake again! I just sat my ass in the shitter when I almost got heart attack from that damn alert lol. 100 km from tokyo>>2891970Yeah bro, go to so called community cafe to flirt with Japanese girls
Got my hotel and flights booked for Sapporo from October 13th through the 22nd. Any other anons gonna be there?
>>2892003Why did you choose Sapporo, why October and what are you going to do?9 days is a bit short but I hope you enjoy yourself.
>>28920039 days is a great length for Sapporo. Not sure what the other retard is complaining about. There's lots of nature around and it'll be beautiful that time of year.
>>2891970>kissaten in ameyoko, it just says "coffee"Im sure it has a name in japanese, no idea how to search for it online by the english name since coffee shop is pretty non specific
>>2892003Love Sapporo, super easy to navigate and it's relatively small so you can go everywhere on foot. Somehow by sheer luck I ended up there right when they were having the big yosakoi festival. Would've been nice to have a car though to see more of the nature spots.
>>2892020It says right there coffee shop ギャラン .Found it near Ueno station, address is 東京都台東区上野6丁目14-4.
>>2892024Well there you go, i dont read japanese so it's just coffee shop to me, regardless it's good place, check it out if in the neighborhood
>just think 12 days should be minimum at least to make it worth the 12 hours trip, since you spend 2 days on the travel anyway, leaving you with 10 days to enjoy the trip >get called a retard
>>2892027Id say 2 weeks onsite (14 full days, NOT counting arrival and departure 'transit') days is the bare minimum to justify the trip
>>2892027all of my trips are 90 days so any two weeks off a year arrangement is cucked and retarded. you end up niggling over minutes and rushing around doing nothing.
>>2892029I assume you work from home during the time or pure sabbath?Do you use Airbnb or those rental services?
>>2892034>I assume you work from home during the time or pure sabbath?no wfh, no real career. just wage slave and repeat>Do you use Airbnb or those rental services?fuck no. you cant afford to use those if you are staying more than 30+ days at a time. they are too much of a ripoff
I warned this would happen. You could have chosen to listen. You could have chosen to live.
>>2892027For a single region of Japan, it's not short at all. Japanese people themselves will rarely spend more than 4 days in Sapporo even if it's a once in a lifetime trip.
>>2892046I hate everyone here who goes into any "japan sucks!!!" thread, just to say "nuh uh it was great for me you're bullshitting" when in reality they should agree just to keep more tourists away.
>>2892046what is that
>>2892057JAL's new and improved fuel surcharge for the next two months that adds another $180 to the price of a round trip ticket
>>2892046Who the fuck cares, tickets are thousands of bucks, 441 is a <10% increase
>>2891900>love looks like>horrible food>empty alcohol calories>TikTok filmingidk if they'd even talk about interesting shit, ever>mediocrity
>>2892047>Japanese people themselves will rarely spend more than 4 days in Sapporo even if it's a once in a lifetime trip.Japanese people already live in Japan and experienced japanese stuff. They only go to Sapporo for very specific things. As a foreigner there's plenty of stuff to do, especially since it seemed from anon's post that the whole trip was gonna be only 9 days total.
>>2892062i checked a couple of weeks ago and i saw a flight from tokyo to italy for like $210
>>2892008I chose Sapporo in October to see the fall colors and go to a comparatively less tourist-crazy area for my first Japan trip>>2892021Awesome, I’m really excited to see it. Seafood and onsens are big in that province apparently and that influenced my choice as well
Until around the beginning of the Heisei era, even towns with populations of just a few tens of thousands had bustling areas around their train stations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-c2MAFBN4Y?t=3520
>>2892075Not everyone has unlimited vacation time or wants to spend 17 years in a single town just to scratch the surface. A week is plenty for visiting one area of anywhere on earth.
>>2892003Go to slowboat jazz club, honestly one of the best jazz clubs in the world
>>2891785My favourite memories of my trip to Japan were just rambling around the rural areas. Unbelievably comfy, I fully expected to be itching to get back to the neon of Tokyo but I thoroughly enjoyed myself
>>2891785Time to visit other countries. Japan is nice but it's pretty uniform no matter where you go. Some countries are much more dynamic and you'll feel more variety by going an hour in any direction. In Japan, whether you're in Beppu or Naha or Osaka, the towns themselves feel very similar. Architecture is the same throughout the country. Nature is the thing where Japan offers a good amount of variety, but even that is less diverse compared to some countries.
>>2892198I’ve never been to a jazz club but they always seem like a comfy environment. What’s special about Slow Boat specifically?
>>2892212I agree but I'm actually married to a japanese woman so Japan is kinda where we go at least once a year now, visit the family, etc. I'm only an average middle class chud so I can't just remote work and have unlimited PTO, so I gotta ration my days.I love Japan but I haven't felt super excited for traveling in a while. Last time, we did 2 days in Taiwan and I felt more excited than I had in years
Any good izakaya chains to try for my first trip?
>>2892321>chainsBrah literally walk into a random izakaya, ill never understand why people are so focused on specific restaurants and then theres a long ass line outside some sushi place while theres another perfectly fine one down the street and around the corner with no wait.You dont need to go to the place that some youtuber made a video about or that is highly rated on tabelog, pretty much ANY random sushi, ramen, udon, izakaya, etc... place will be an enjoyable dining experience for a first time traveler, just walk into random places, have fun, form your own favoritesThis is like someone saying they're coming to america and asking if chilis, tgi fridays or applebees is better; yeah i know which one is the best (it's chilis and it isnt even fucking close) but what if there's only an applebees near where you're staying? You gonna go out of your way to go to chilis? Its all similar enough
>>2892327>never understand why people are so focused on specific restaurants and then theres a long ass line outside some sushi place while theres another perfectly fine one down the street and around the corner with no waityeah but japan isn't really the place to get indignant about it, those fuckers love waiting in lines for something that's between 0 and 5% better than the one next door
>>2892329Nah im just saying this shits ridiculous, and i 100% see tourists doing it, like i walk past a line. Go around the block, enjoy a meal at a similarly priced/type of food place, am walking back and the same motherfuckers are still sitting in line.If you want to waste chunks of your vacation waiting in a line for subpercentile slightly better food (if even) or to say you ate at the same place as your favorite youtuber you do you, im just gonna call you gay and retarded
>>2891900Why am I seeing this on every board on this site? We get it you're a jew
>>2892354Its not just a tourist thing, Japanese love standing in lines. If something is popular Japs will go out of their way to consoom.
>>2892530Yeah, i remember laying in my capsule watching a reality TV show visit a pancake shop. Got up, walked down the street. Saw a line of Japs waiting to get into said pancake shop. It was surreal.
>>2892354>>2892530>>2892579I keep tricking myself into joining these lines or buying the japanese hype about certain places. The last time was some scallop tsukemen place in Tokyo where you have to get there at like 8 am to put your name down. Waited for 2 hours, put my name down, came back for my reservation at 12pm or so. It was... pretty standard tsukemen with added pretension and them telling me the correct way to eat it. Sometimes Japanese people huff their own farts too much about this stuff. I know at least two tsukemen places that were better, one of them always has a long line at lunch though but at least I don't need to fucking go there twice in one day.
>>2892599Japanese people line up because it's some shop that was on TV. They don't go because it's good. They go because a D tier celebrity ate it and said "umai". When I see long lines, I know the shop is mid. I refuse to wait now because it's always a disappointment. 10 minutes is the max I'll endure.
>>2892599>watching some cute wannabe idol girls perform in kabukicho to a crowd of like five people>this gang of otaku pull up and whip out glowsticks>they start a cheer squad and scream and dance their minds out>attracts a crowd of like 25 more people>they just walk away like it was nothing Probably the most Chad otakus I've ever seen
>>2892684Didn't mean to tag the most, my bad
>>2891928Correct. It's the Meji Jingu in Tokyo. Always end up here once every Japan trip. I can appreciate a well curated/created forest.
>>2892321There’s so many desuHananomaiIsomarusuisan (if you like seafood)Sushi tofuroTorikizoku if you count yakitori as izakayaBunches with the word yakiton in the nameOff the top of my head
I want to do a travel to japan for around 21 days.I want to start with tokyo and either end up in Kyushu or Osaka (I want to see both)However there does not seem to be a lot going on in Kyushu.I want to go mostly to see all the Christian Stuff. But maybe I should keep it short? What do you anons think??
>>2892790christian stuff, what do you mean like churches and the jesus was born here thing?fukuoka is the big city in kyushu that is worth checking out. also mount aso looks insane. Takachiho Gorge is a famous tourist spot. also theres a lot of onsens
>>2892790Nagasaki is the only place in Japan with any Christian shit worth seeing unless you really love Francis Xavier and don't mind small, mundane exhibits
>>2892795Onsens are everywhere, niggy>>2892804Thats what I thought too, I'm making a couple stops... Moriya shrine, oarai and hinamizawaI like Christian stuff but I'm probably just going to spend a couple days there in nagasaki and then finish my travel in kansai region
>>2892790The churches charge money to see. It's funny how Christianity sticks to its roots in Japan: as a Jewish scheme to get money from goyim.
https://discord.gg/SR8vJF46jDiscord server link for the anon asking in the other thread
It's cloudy in Tokyo and the temperature isn't that high, but I'm already drenched in sweat after walking just about 500 meters.
>>2892952stinky anon
Is Japan "saar"ed out? Might not go if so
>>2892971It is. It's out of control. I'd visit Taiwan or China instead.
>>2892974> Staying for a month in a tourist area in Osaka> Whole suburb is jeeted out every weekendIt's all so tiring
>looking forward to going to osaka for a month soon>people saying it's jeetedAre you fucking kidding me? I was last really exploring Japan almost 20 years ago. I'm going to get fucking culture shocked when I go back aren't I
>>2893017Shills are paid by israel to spam this board (and site) with demoralisation and one of their favourite kinds of posts is 'Japan is over goy there is nowhere left for you young white men to run just give up and die already!'
>>2893003>>2893021Yeah a clue here is he's talking about a suburb. Wtf is a tourist doing in a suburb in Japan? They're called bedtowns in Japan because even the people who live there do little besides commute to the city from there.
is Yokohama a bland commuter town like saitama, or worth visiting?
>>2892974>>TaiwanSure, if you prefer the Indonesians
>>2893031It's a typical port city. Pleasant enough and anything of interest is in walking distance. Might as well just stay in Tokyo and see what you can as a day trip.
>>2893031It's worth taking the stroll from the train station to Yamashita park if the weather's good
>>2893052where da bitches at
why do most people seem to agree Japan is terrible for coom tourism if it has the least disgusting women in Asia by far
>>2893064dekinai copers. japanese women are the ugliest but most willing to coom btw
>>2893052The whole stretch of the waterfront area there is nice, weather permitting
>>2893026Osakako is where the cruise ships come in, there's literally thousands of tourists every few days and this is where they get off their boatalso the aquarium, ferris wheel, universal studios is a short 2 minutes free ferry ride across the bayI'm telling you right now, even though it's 6 km out of the city this place especially on the weekends feels like little India some timesand yet other days is incredible quiet and properly a chill Japanese suburbsuch a weird place
I'm going to spend 3 weeks in tokyo, any suggestions?
>>2893076>I'm going to spend 3 weeks in tokyo, any suggestions?touch grass and have sex
>>2893031Their Chinatown is cool especially if they are doing a parade or somesuch,
>>2893072Yeah every Japanese port has a ferris wheel for some reason, some of them are even still operational. Doesn't mean anyone actually goes there.
>>2893031If you like naval history and museum ships at all you should check out the ijn mikasa in yokosuka, which a bit south of yokohama. I went earlier this year, and stopped by on the way back to tokyo in yokohama and wandered around chinatown and ate a bunch of stuff and had an overall good time
>>2893096My suburb is fucking packed each weekend. I truly couldn't care about some low tier cities and what happens there.
This was the most underwhelming shrine in all of Tokyo
>>2893110Some people may even call your suburb an urb minus the sub.
>tfw I have to go home today It's the worst type of dread knowing this is the longest I'll be away from Japan for at least a year
>>2893131WUT
>>2893093>> 3 weeksThat's a long time in their summer.I've never been to Japan during that season - but you might want to consider renting a car to drive out of Tokyo to their beach tourist spots - Enoshima, Atami, Kamakura, etc
>>2893137Been 3 years since my trip and seeing pictures still gives me a strange feeling of homesickness. I come to these threads and listen to the FamilyMart jingle just to feel something.
>>2892808every region in japan broadly has the same things, you asked for things to do in kyushu those are the things niggy
Spent 2 weeks in Tokyo/Kyoto back in March. My biggest regret? Not going to soap service thingy. Jokes aside (or not?), would going to Japan again later this year be too soon? Maybe go to Okinawa.
Did some collecting this time
>>2893131It's 20 minutes at best into the cityIf I spend too much time over at universal and miss the last ferry it's like 25 minutes to travel 2 km as the crow flies
>>2893234*25 mins in a taxiOn a train it's about 40 mins. I should bring swimmers and just make my own way across the bay
How's Japan in December? I'm thinking of maybe doing Mt Fuji marathon.
>>2893116Looks cuteShrines exist for your respect, they don't owe you anything
>>2892940How's quickly can I get groomed here?
>>2893265Pretty slow server so it may take years
>>2893293That's not quick enough I might be of legal age by then
>>2893267>Take the train. Bonus points at night, it's a known molester train, so if you find someone in skimpy clothing then feel free to start touching.I got caught by police doing that twice in korea. I did it maybe a hundred times though. Do they prosecute that in Japan?
>>2893349>Being a NYCer I equate Yokohama, Kawasaki to New Jersey Hoboken, Jersey City and Elizabeth in proximity to Tokyo (NYC).>I even joke Zushi, Kamakura etc is the Jersey Shore of Tokyo, Chiba is Long Island and Saitima is Westchester NYI fucking love these kinds of relativistic analogies, as a masshole i always compare hokkaido to maine/vt, and consider tokyo nyc and osaka boston (and all sorts of additional small town comparisons for other cities; e.g. sendai is just nahshua nh) when im explaining japan shit to my buddies
>>2893234There's a train station at Universal that goes almost directly to Osaka Station in 15 minutes.
>>2893358it's very close but a long way without the cute council ferryOsakako is not anywhere near universal if you won't take a boat ride
>>2892795Hey anon I am also in kyushu and idc about christian stuff. What‘s the must seen places and what can I do during rainy days like tomorrow? Wanted to visit oita, kuma, nagasaki and miyazaki. Also what can a fat weeb do at night here? Wanted to try out a gaijin hunter club in tokyo but couldnt go. Anything similar here or should I just go to my hotel and be a sad loner?
What are good smaller-brand and easier to win arcades for claw machines? I like Taito but I know they’re harder to win from in general but i still spent a lot of coins in the Taitos around KabukichoI had a very good experience with Game Panic in Akihabara, easily winning 2 different big Kirbies in just a few minutes so the smaller arcades are probably better, right?
>>2893373>fat weeb>gaijin hunter clubYou'd have a 100% chance if you went to the right club. Try the wild board population control club, they'll be happy to have you.
Anyone want to come play boardgames and switch this weekend you smelly weebs lol
>>2893381>gaijin hunter clubCan you pls explain what these means i've heard it said so many times and it still confuses me
>>2893264I know. But there were very few cats. And a ton of trashy tourists. blacks, shouting russians, loud Chinese.Who wears a croptop to a shrine?Very strange. Graveyard next door, I wonder how the people feel about the circus they run.
>>2893393It's a made up term on par with "ceremonial" matcha referring to a spot (typically a bar) where locals go to look foreigners to have a one night stand with.The most common one is named "Hub", a British themed pub. The irony is these places are filled with 99% foreigners, primarily tourists, because of this "gaijin hunter" delusion.If I was a slut looking for gaijin cock, I would simply just hop on Bumble where I can pick and choose without having to deal with fedora lords. As a manwhore, this was by far the easiest and quickest option.>hi>you look nice>you too>want to fuck?Yes? Great.No? On to the next one.
>>2893395>hubAre you sure about that? Ive hooked up with chicks at hub on multiple occasions; all were other western tourists (aussies mostly), i dont think ive ever even seen a japanese person inside a hub other than staff
>>2893397Reading comprehension.>The irony is these places are filled with 99% foreigners, primarily tourists, because of this "gaijin hunter" delusion.
>>2893393With club I mean a place to party and gaijin hunters are girls, who want to fuck foreigners. So gaijin hunters club is a place, where you party and the majority of girls wants meet foreigners.
>>2893399What about a place where guys want to meet guy foreigners?
>>2893403sounds like /pol/ or /v/
>>2893403Meet me behind the ramen shop, you know the one
>>2893413Go away, Okita
>>2893421If you want me to dress like okita it's gonna cost extra
>>2893403You're already in it.
>>2893414Imagine deleting your own thread after you get caught larping.
>>2893351Fail. If you’re using NYC as a reference point, and including Yokohama and Kawasaki as part of greater Tokyo, culturally speaking, Saitama would be NJ, Kanagawa CT, and Chiba maybe an upstate NY. And the Sendai/Nashua a shit analogy. Sendai is a major regional city, Nashua most definitely not.
>>2893397> Are you sure about that? Ive hooked up with chicks at hub on multiple occasions; all were other western tourists (aussies mostly), i dont think ive ever even seen a japanese person inside a hub other than staffYou do realize that outside of the retard tourist infested Hubs in Shinjuku and Shibuya, it’s a major chain and the vast majority of them are overwhelmingly patronized by Japs, right?
>>2893471IDK I like Long Island better for Chiba.
>>2893490Yeah, that works better.
I just wanted to know about cool spots in fukuoka and kyushu damn, not have a debate about gaijin hunters and shit.
Been drinking all night. Anons, should I go back to Japan in December?I would go spend some time around Lake Kawaguchi, Tokyo and maybe go back to Kyoto once more. On one hand, when I visited first time couple months ago I was more happy than ever before, but at the same time more depressed than ever before for some reason, so I don't know what to do.When I wake up in 4 hours I'll check the first reply and make the decision based on it.
>>2893506I think you should introspect and figure out what was making you depressed, and make the decision based on thatnot like you don't have time to debate it
>>2893506Natural reaction to experiencing civilization for the first time after coming from weimerica
Why is there no love for Okinawa on /jpg/? If you scuba dive or snorkel there's so many spots that easily beat most places in the world. Sunabe seawall has diving that you can literally access from the street next your hotel picrel. Does the presence of American freedom forces scare off the euronormies?>>2893471True, that works too. Hell even Tokyo can be boiled down to NYC hoods so much. Shibuya,-Times square, Shinjuku/Kabukicho-Greenwich Village, Harijuku-Soho, Ginza-5th Ave/Upper east side and so on.Hell i'm in Okinawa and its basically the Hawaii of Japan the only difference is they eat spam on rice vs spam on toast.
>>2893547>Sunabe seawall has diving that you can literally access from the street next your hotel picrel. Does the presence of American freedom forces scare off the euronormies?This. I live in Tokyo and usually go to Okinawa every year. I usually stay in Naha for the food & nightlife, but take the bus up to Kadena and snorkel from the seawall every day, then shower at the Anytime Fitness there before heading back to Naha to eat and drink. It's pretty amazing how good it is considering it's so close to Naha, with the zogbot jets constantly flying over.
>>2893566>Then shower at the Anytime FitnessShit that's a hack that I never realized. I would dive/swim there and then drive to the gym all the way in Kadena AFB to shower.
>>2893395>if I was a slut"if"
>>2893547It's not easy to get to? Strangely enough I know a bunch of Okinawans from living in Taipei but never been to the island
>>2893547its fun but kinda far and hard to get around without a car. i went 6 months ago and had a nice time. felt less like japan
>>2893547>Why is there no love for Okinawa on /jpg/?1. Japan isn't a diving destination.2. None of the fat fucks itt can swim.>easily beat most places in the worldSEA is just around the corner and if it's diving you're interested in, none of Japan's islands can hold a candle to anything on the equator.
Hey guys, my friend wants to know where to find gaijin hunters that are into slightly overweight dues with a Norwood 3 in the Tokyo area around November-December. Any ideas?
>>2893577for expats diving is well overrepresented as a hobby, it's not hard to find someone else into itmost would go to Philippines or Thailand though, I've done shark diving in Fiji and it's absolutely amazing, easily in the top 3 after a decade of diving, Pacific Islands are peak destinations, SEA second
Do they accepts mastercard in japan?I want to charge the pasmo/suica only for traveling and not for everything
>>2893588The Costco food court in Shinmisato. Holding a hot dog in your right hand is the signal.
>>2893547I think /jpg/ers who want a tropical destination can find cheaper and closer options.Even Japanese people seem to prefer Guam or Hawaii.Never been, but unless you're a Karate-ka, U.S. Marine, or a big WWII guy I don't think it's gonna be on your radar at all.
>>2893662Probably, but consider getting a travel card with no intl fees rather than just swiping what you usually carry around in your wallet
>>2893403If you're in Tokyo, go to Shinjuku 2-chome; if you're in Osaka, go to Doyama-cho.
Are the public baths in non-ryokan hotels decent? Do you have to be nude in those just like onsens?
>>2893734I've used them a few times and they're always fine, and yes you need to be naked of course.>>2893547Okinawa probably still costs more than a third is shithole and if you're a begpacker or worse a m*nger like some of the fags on here they'd rather go to the thirdie shithole then make some cope about how it's totally better for XYZ other reason. Not denying you can't get good diving elsewhere but we both know it's not dive quality that was the deciding factor for these 'people'.To be fair it wasn't the deciding factor for me either, I'm in Ishigaki right now and going to Naha tomorrow and I decided on Okinawa over some other country because it was easier than applying for a re-entry permit on my work holiday+ knowing a bit of language already.>>2893577M*nger detected>>2893591Fiji is full of fucking jeets though so it sucks. It's like fucking majority jeet by this point, absolutely miserable fucking country.
>>2893734I enjoy them and usually book them when possible since they're about the same price as any other hotel. Kobe had the best one I've been to since the water was comfy and actually came from a real onsen. Others are just bathhouses and yeah you have to be nude. Reminds me of when I was in some APA with a spa and this white zoomer was shyly walking around with his bathing suit. Personally I love walking around with my dick swinging and watching the Japs trying to avoid eye contact since I'm above average.
>>2893734I highly recommend getting a hotel with a sento in it.It's just an added cultural experience to do at night. And if you haven't been to a japanese public bath before, its a lot more convenient and less intimidating then going straight into a grimey little backstreet showa-era sento (which you should also do at least once).I think Dormy inn is famous for having decent baths in their hotel chains. A lot of these places have an indoor bath and another bath in a covered patio area, so you can bathe in the night air.You absolutely do have to be naked. Trying to get foreigners to follow japanese bath etiquette has always been a point of contention over there.You have to put your slippers on the shoe rack and keep track of them with the little numbered tag.You have to have both your big towel and your little towel.You have to be fully naked.You have to wash yourself at the little stations.You have to put your hand towel on your head while you are in the bath.You have to relax in the special area afterwards.You have to drink a flavored milk or yakult in one go and go AAAAH! like in anime
>>2893003>Go into an konbini >All staff are swarthy gentlemenI left London to get away from this shit
>>2893803Getting naked in one of the public baths in Japan is honestly extremely liberating
Anyone ever been to the air park in Hamamatsu?
>>2893823If you're in Hamamatsu I'd suggest going to the bird sanctuary not too far away. It's honestly the best zoo I've ever been to in terms of actually interacting with the animals.
>>2893765>cope about how it's totally betterFind anything on par to a liveaboard in either Tubbataha or Raja Ampat in Japan. I'll wait.I live here and having to fly out of the country whenever I want to go diving is annoying.
4 months since my first trip. To this day my favorite place I found was just some completely random Tori gate at the base of a hill leading to nowhere with eerie sign saying something along the lines "do not cross the gate, this place is for gods only" or something like that. I bet it's just some people fucking around but I like to imagine it was some sort of a special place with lots of spirits or whatever. I kind of wanted to enter/cross the gate but I didn't out of respect/not to be cursed or whatever. Or maybe I missed my opportunity to meet hot succubi.
I want to see some cyberpunk vibes shit. Where to go?
>>2893892Shinjuku
Osaka is trashy.
>>2893892Chongqing, China
Are apa and most business hotels shitty for sound insulation? Like will i hear the room next to me cough?
>>2894018Yes, but japanese people are generally quiet so you're not gonna have to deal with some basketball american blasting rap music.
>>2894018I was at an apa in akasaka and didnt hear anyone, of course maybe people were just quiet.
>>2894018I've had bad luck with having snoring, drunk salarymen nearby. I had a couple capsule experiences like that too. One time it was a chunky Taiwanese dude with sleep apnea, it sounded like he was loudly choking to death all night. A little Strong Zero nightcap might help before bed.
Do you want to know about the biggest incel story I literally just witnessed. Probably not incel, but you will get the gist. >be at a bar with random people I met>one guy(gaijin, otaku, can’t speak japanese) is suddenly opening one champagne bottle (60k yen) afteranother>learn later he is rich as fuck btw>orders shots for everyone, MULTIPLE times>bar is not that big, but we are like 15-20 people in there>shop owner says, that the female worker is his girlfriend and I would say they own the bar>he leaves for smoking>suddenly girl talks with the guy>5min later a insta account, that has no posts, only follows 2 people and has one follower, follows the dudeLiteral ntr story out of the books ffs. I need to ask if the female insta account is following her bf, if not then it‘s truly a cruel world.
Reasons to choose the Kintetsu Limited Express “Phoenix” even though it takes twice as long as the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Osaka: • All seats are equipped with backrests, so you can recline as far as you like without worrying about the person in front of you. • You can sit in top-of-the-line premium seats (genuine leather with power-adjustable leg rests) at a lower fare than the Shinkansen. • You can travel directly to “Namba (Minami),” Osaka’s bustling downtown area, without having to transfer at Shin-Osaka Station.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sVrQmbjok
>>2894120I love the Hinotori
>>2894120Shinkansen is comfy as fuck, and I'm a big guy (for you)
>>2894120She's cute without makeup. The eyebags are endearing
>Bought the most expensive Shinkansen tickets>Fell asleep
I planned a day for it without thinking too critically since I had other shit on my mind to organise (scuba and fishing trips, fireworks) but Junglia seriously fucking sucks.If you ever even think of going there, don't. Dog shit stain on Okinawa. Wish I had read the google negative reviews before I bought a ticket. Felt like Disney level prices for 40+ minute lines on a dead day, shit public transport that cuts your day off and hour before closing and a lottery system for the adventure park 'rides' you can experience far cheaper somewhere else. And some dinosaur animatronics, but USJ utterly mogs them in terms of 'dinosaur safari ride' and the rest of USJ is pretty good also. Especially compared to this crap.
>just want to get some advice for mongering in kyushu>reddit is not allowing me to post in the subreddit fukuzoku>tag needs approval>also not allowed hereI just want to get some advice man. Why the fuck is this so hard
>>2894335Whining it's not allowed is also not allowed, go ask grok or something you niggerbaby or fuck off to Thailand, Japan is for 2dchads
>>2894337There's coomer links at the top of the thread. You can search by region, city, industry, and then find individual shops. I don't think it can be any easier. Stop being lazy
>>2894341But these are just for Tokyo no? Yeah basically I want to know how it is, what to look out for, are the girls heavily deviating, should I book online or can I go with the dude outside, is the selection the same. Shit like that. Just don‘t wanna spent like 30-40k and end up with a ugly girl, who doesn‘t fuck.
>>2894346
>>2894347This was not a „can you answer me these questions“ nor a discussion, just why the sites above won‘t help me with what I need.
>>2894346If you're too dumb to go through the links then there's no helping you. Just stick to touts who will hold your hand and give you some mid chubby vietnamese girl to fuck. People like you who are so stupid they're bound to create problems are the reason they double the prices for Japanese girls at establishments
what are the go to youtubers at the moment
>>2889534After my Japan trip, I've wanted to move there.What kind of job could I even secure as a foreigner? I'm not a citizen of any Anglophone countries (Finland) and lack a degree so I can't be a TEFLcel. I'm just a security guard. Have there been any instances of foreigners getting a work visa as security guards?
>>2894384Retail or hospitality at the lower levels. I mean, that's what all the Indians and Filipinos are doing. If you're really skilled in IT you could find work if you brush up on your Japanese. N2 seems to be the minimum for most real professions.
>>2894335>>2894346You can even just search soapland on google maps and it'll show you where they are.
>>2894384I would strongly suggest not doing that and instead seeing if you can get a job in Europe that pays well enough you can do annual long vacations there or do remote work while on a 90 day visa or something.Nowhere stays fun when it becomes your mundane day-to-day so you'd basically be ruining the place as a vacation destination. Especially since you're Finnish so you already have most of the good day-to-day aspects of Japan aside from the convenience stores and high quality public transit.
>>2894447Scandinavia's gloomy winters cast a shadow over our hearts
>>2894384tl;dr Don't. I mean, you really can't.All low skill jobs (factory work, service industry, anything that doesn't require more than 3 brain cells) are done through hiring agencies from countries with labor agreements with Japan, so you're out. Exceptions are those who are already here on a different visa, usually student, working part time.All white collar / professional visas have a hard requirement of at least holding a bachelor's degree or 10 years of relevant work experience.Next is HSP, which works for non degree holders. As the name implies, Highly Skilled Professional, being a security guard isn't really on the list.Assuming you have the basic eligibility requirements for either the HSP or any of the white collar visa categories, you will then have to find and convince a company to hire you and sponsor your COE/visa. Your only realistic options are:1. Working holiday visa if that's an option for your country, and even then most work-holiday visas require you to be under a certain age.2. Student visa if you can afford to support yourself. You can work part time too - if you want to get your shit together and if you have the time/money, studying and getting a degree while also learning Japanese can be a path for long term residency.You will need a lot of money and more than that you need to grit your teeth and keep your head down. It's going to be rough, it will take several years, you're going to be miserable, and chances are you're going to go back before your first year here even ends.Last but not the least, you can use the rope method and hope that you isekai as a vending machine in Japan.
What are some good ways to have some Realtraveler ™ adventures in JP?Learning the language and making friends? Renting a car or bicycle and going into small towns and off the beaten path nature spots? Work exchange programs? Skibum all winter?
>>2894515>Renting a car or bicycle and going into small townsStop terrorising locals that want to be left alone for your Instagram reels you cretin
Make sure to buy a sturdy smartphone mount for your bike. Under no circumstances should you buy one from Termu or SHEIN.
>>2894515I've met some quirky japs at bars and airbnb's. It all comes down to luck.
>>2894384Maybe you can get on with the Finnish embassy in Tokyo or something like that.Most of the foreigners I met living here not in TEFL stuff, were translators or white collar type dudes. I think you will need some proficiency in Japanese to lad a job like that.The blue collar dude I met was a Vietnamese factory worker also taking free Japanese lessons. I dunno how he got on there.You could try the working holiday visa to get on somewhere. Even for security, I think they'd want you to have some Japanese proficiency.
Last trip I spoke to exactly 0 people while visiting.How do I change that? I'm pretty socially retarded.
leaving tomorrow night to sapporo and still on the fence wrt bringing some non legal mushrooms in my checked bag. I have to think the odds of being discovered are very low and I could conceivably argue that they are simply food items.I'm doing some backpacking in daisetsuzan and want to make the most of it. am I retarded?
>>2894739Take them so we can all laugh when you post an update photo on the plane back after being denied visa entry
>>2894739You are extremely retarded and I hope you get raped in immigrant jail by niggers.
>>2894739Guys like this must have been spoiled by their parents growing up and never learned basic common sense.
Thoughts on Nagano?
>>2894662Whenever someone says that they had a great spontaneous conversation with a local, it's usually while they were in a city in the west (Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka). People in Tokyo are all autistic