Thread 214710532

Did you have fun? Where in Japan did you go?

>>214710532 (OP)
No and I don't think I ever will, you're safe from the gaijin dw

>>214710532 (OP)
my brother went last month and loved it

>>214710532 (OP)
I HAVE A FLIGHT TO JAPAN BOOKED AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER
I WAS WAITING FOR IT HALF A YEAR AND I HOPE THAT RUSSIA DOESN'T START A WAR FOR 2 MORE WEEKS SO THAT THE AIRPORT IS NOT CLOSED

I've been to Tsushima and I don't remember anything, other than seeing that big holy tree supposed to be the guardian of the town its living in

>>214710532 (OP)
No, and seems like I'll never be.
>Japan to close all "Japanese centers" in Russia

>This was announced by the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers, Yoshimasa Hayashi. In total, six branches of the Japanese Center will be closed, which are located in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
>These institutions supported market economy reforms, as well as Japanese language and business skills training.
>Hayashi noted that the decision was made due to the changing situation inside Russia and Russian-Japanese relations.

>>214710532 (OP)
2007 Hokkaido

It was good

>>214710667
gib Kurils and Karafuto back

>>214710712
give the land back to bears

>>214710532 (OP)
Studied abroad in Tohoku. Greatest country I've ever been to. I miss it and it's people dearly.
And I also miss Onsen and Katsudon. Two things you really can't get here easily.
Plus konbini culture is just unique. Lawson fried chiki is the best.

>>214710712
Gib your land back to Spain.

>>214710532 (OP)
Yes

>>214710756
Novgorod should have won

>>214710686
Did you go skiing?

>>214710532 (OP)
no but I have thought of buying a plane ticket to just visit Japan desu

>>214710667
Genuinely feel bad for you guys given how shitty and paranoid your government is.

>>214710800
Nope, It was a bit too early to go skiing(like October) iirc and i was a bit too young at then as well. Would like to visit again someday

Japan is owarida!

>>214710532 (OP)
A friend of mine went and a part of him stayed there
He almost cried due to having to come back. We are kinda aspie and never felt truly at home here, but according to him it felt like home.
I got curious so I'm gonna visit next year

I went to Kyoto during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Philosopher's Path was great.

>>214710532 (OP)
whats it like in japan if you dont speak japanese? Is it hard to learn japanese?

>>214711304
Even if you don't speak Japanese, all the signs are written in English and I think there are many hotels that offer English service. Japanese is extremely difficult to write, but it's an easy language to speak.

Autumn is the perfect season to visit Japan.

>>214711304
You'll be fine if you are in Tokyo. Otherwise you will absolutely need translation apps if you need to speak to anybody. And certain things are designed so that you have to do just that.

I forgot the name of this temple.

>>214710667
Excuses
There's a 3 hour line in front of the Japanese embassy in Moscow every Monday. The visa is literally free and there are almost no rejections.

>>214710712
Under the San Francisco treaty Japan agreed to give up all territories it gained in XX century which includes Sakhalin.
Kurils only remain disputed because they were given to Japan in 1875 under the Saint-Petersburg land exchange treaty and because the Soviet delegates left the San-Francisco conference in 1952 as a protest because the PRC delegates were not invited.
I understand why the Kuril dispute still exists but don't bring up the fucking "Karafuto" please

>>214711747
Okay. The actual problem for me is learning Japanese and that it costs a handful of money.

>>214711832
Yeah I guess it is quite expensive to go here as a tourist.

>>214710532 (OP)
I live there

Summer was unbearable but october was really pleasant. The water in the bay of Tokyo was still warm enough to have a swim.
There were many more gaijin last time around compared to 2015.

>>214710532 (OP)
close your country jap bro. It's getting flooded and plundered by foreigners

>>214712775
i guess that applies to immigrants and rapefugees but tourists only help by spending their money in the country they are travelling in

>>214713547
the amount of all spending from tourists is like a drop in the ocean of the economy. its virtually irrelevant. It only helps the business owners themselves but the only businesses that actually need and would benefit from the inbound spending are places tourists never set foot

>>214715061
>the amount of all spending from tourists is like a drop in the ocean of the economy

Bullshit.

I went in 2023 and want to go back in 2026

>>214710532 (OP)
I went 10 years ago. I can't remember all the places I've been to, we stayed for a month. It was interesting but I was feeling very homesick by the end if it, japanese people were courteous but very distant.

>>214710532 (OP)
Not yet, but I probably will, it's the only east asian country I haven't been to.

>>214715297
>were courteous but very distant.
that's the average experience anon. You're an outsider that can't even speak their language.
What did you expect

>>214715297
Don’t take it personally. They’re like that with themselves too.

>>214715330
That's not the case in many countries. I knew they were like this but it unfortunate nonetheless.

>>214710532 (OP)
No. If I want so see drunk Anglo tourists I could just go to Stephansplatz.

>>214715253
it's like 5.6 percent it is not a significant amount

>>214710647
Tsushima's shrine recently banned all tourists from their grounds literally because Koreans wouldn't stop behaving like animals.

>>214715723
are we talking about the same place? does that shrine have a big tree which is said to grant wishes?

I don't have passport

Was there studying and doing internships in the 90s. Fabulous time. I've visited a few more times over the years, last time being this April. It changed a lot throughout the years

>>214717048
How hard was it to get around in the 90s and find the address of buildings without a smartphone map?

>>214710642
Same.

>>214717320
Actually it wasn't that often that I had to find a specific building. And if then usually someone came to pick me up at the station.. like from university, etc. Even all the visa work.. there was always someone taking me to the consular office or such.

Other than that, when partying I just got off Shibuya, looking for a bar? then it's shinjuku/ikebukuro, etc. No gmaps, no tabelog for food places.. so you had to try your luck randomly.

>>214718006
what has changed a lot throughout the years in your experience

Lived there for two months. Great food but unhealthy. You have to go out of your way and look for a specific diner to get a salad. Forget about fruits.

>>214710532 (OP)
No, but I want to go

>>214719662
You could still smell the money from the bubble. Great cars, lots of constructions. You still see that today but concentrated on a few spots like Roppongi or so. But back then you found the nicest cars even in some random neighbourhoods. Shibuya was much more shady, with youth gangs hanging around, sometimes making trouble. There was barely any tourism. Much less chain restaurants/stores and more unique things. Nightlife was kinda nice because it used to be 50/50 men and woman.. I went to Womb recently and it was 80% male tourists. Also much more focused on dancing back then, not just hanging at the bar and drinking longdrinks.

I also think drugs were much more common in the 90s. I remember that I could smell weed a lot. Always got offered cocaine in clubs. And you could legally buy magic mushrooms.

I think Tokyo is much more commercialized nowadays. They seem to make good money of Chinese mass tourism.

>>214720883
Shibuya is swarmed with tourists to the point where I just don't go at all. even waiting at a crosswalk you hear mostly chinese. If you go to a club the surroundings are a chinese guy trying to flirt with a korean girl and they both are struggling with english and cant understand eachother.

>>214720013
This is true. I only cook my own food. People I work with eat fried food every day for lunch. Unimaginable to me

i have been twice, i enoyed it a lot. maybe i will go again next year

first trip: i did from tokyo to fukuoka along the tokaido shinkansen

second trip (autumn foliage trip): nikko, tokyo, hakone, then osaka for 1 month where i did about a dozen day trips to different places around kansai

>>214717048
>>214718006
>>214720883
Lucky bastard

>>214710532 (OP)
yes
that's me in Japan

>>214720883
Wasn't there a massive public works bubble in the 90s? Was everything under construction back then or did you just hang out around the developed areas like Shibuya?

>>214715330
Tbf even if you speak the language people are still distant. If I went to France and spoke French most people wouldn't care, it's a cute novelty to them. People bond over labor/interests not making the correct sounds with your mouth. I paint and I have more in common with European colleagues that can barely speak English than my next door neighbor.

>>214710532 (OP)
I have wanted to visit Japan desu. I would go to the naughty streets of Tokyo but then visit the real countryside where people actually live, maybe Kyoto, I would meditate under a Shinto shrine.

>>214725648
Like 92% of Japan lives in big cities. The countryside is mostly old people, the cities are where people actually live.

>>214710532 (OP)
yes
no
tokyo, chiba

fuck japan, japanese bitch took my money

>>214726398
pay more, gaijin san!

>>214723445
It's still nice there though. Great food, people are still welcoming you as a non-Chinese, still as polite. And if you aren't hanging out in touristy places it still gives you lots of that Showa period vibe. Gals still as easy. Go and enjoy.

>>214725101
There were constructions everywhere, I remember nearly all major train stations got renovated or rebuilt. Lots of bridges, walkways, .. maybe public buildings mainly? And or rich people that built on their previously bought ground

no but let me in

>>214710532 (OP)
No I think Japan is an evil place for not letting >>214733143 in. I thought it was a model society prior to this, but now I've completely changed my stance on it.

>>214711503
it's because spring japan is overcrowded and expensive to travel, summer japan is brutal, and winter japan is also expensive due to winter break

Going there for Christmas