/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hi /jp/. Soon i'm going on a 2 weeks trip in Japan, around Tokyo and Kyoto, and i'd like to ask you what places should i visit since i have no idea. Thank you in advance

Sup /jp/

Probably the wrong board, but I figured you guys know stuff about Japan so I'm just gonna ask here.

I've won a 2 week trip to Tokyo. But I've heard japanese people are extremely xenophobic, and being 6'4 and blonde I will probably stick out as a foreigner. So what kind of shit should I expect?

Also, what are must sees in and around Tokyo?

/jp/, I need your help

My dad's going to be going to Tokyo for a business trip in the near future, and he's asking me to look into places for him to visit while he's there. He'll be staying for about a week.

Got any suggestions?

Congratulations! You are now as capitalistic as New York but not as half as culturally significant.

Help me out /jp/.

Company decided that they're gonna relocate my job over to Japan in a couple months (Either Osaka or Tokyo, nothing decided yet), and I could use some help on communication...

I can read basic stuff like manga and some newspaper articles and I can understand about 70% of what people say to me, but I still have a couple of questions...

1) Basics to ordering food? Asking for checks, ordering multiple of one item, etc.
2) Possibly a polite way of asking people for photographs? Photography is a passion of mine, and I hope to continue doing it overseas.

My class is thinking of going to either Tokyo or Greece.

We have enough money for a five star hotel at both and 250 dollars of pocket money for whatever we want.

Should I go there? If so, what should I blow my cash on? Food is paid by the school.

How can I move to japan?

I am going to college next year but when i am finished i want to move to japan.

Will majoring in Japanese help?

Hey /jp/, i'm taking a trip to the tokyo area in march and i was wondering if anyone has lived there or been and would be able to tell me some fun things to do in the area, I've been looking for a while and already have a long list of things to do, but maybe someone else knows something I don't or would overlook...
I'll be staying in a hotel in the Shinjuku area for about one week.

Hey /jp/, I was just curious, how much do you think utilities such as the water bill, the electricity bill(though that would be a hard one to answer specifically), and ect would cost in Tokyo?

Low end of the rental market:

For ¥35,000 a month, one can rent a 12 square-meters room. Such a room would have a sink inside and perhaps a stove for cooking. It would not have a toilet nor a bathroom. The community Japanese-style toilet (often being referred to as a "hole in the ground") is shared among six or seven people. To take a bath, one must visit the local public bath, at a cost of about ¥700 per use. We can't tell you exactly how many Tokyo residents live in places like these but there are a lot.

Top end of the rental market:

These are properties geared towards the western expatriate executives. These houses would have American-sized electrical appliances which are too big to fit in most Tokyo apartments. Places like these would be 150 to 300 square-meters in size and the rent would range from ¥1,000,000 to ¥2,500,000 a month.

Owning a place:

The average-of-the-average Tokyo married-couple may be looking to buy a brand-new 70 square-meters apartment at a cost of ¥45,000,000 and above.

Notes:

Building standards and architectural designs here is quite different. For example, even for apartments with a floor space of about 100 square-meters, it is rare to find ones with two bathrooms and/or two toilets. That may seem strange to foreigners but the fact that Japanese families tend to share the same tub of water for bathing every night, it is merely practical to have only one bathroom in the house. Moreover, a 70 square-meter apartment would be marketed as a 3-bedroom apartment, i.e. rooms are small.