/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I read that Japanese houses are lightweight to withstand earthquakes.

I have one question about this:

What?

>>11623091

Flexibility over sturdiness I presume. Similar to how you deal with high winds with skyscrapers.

>>11623091
actually traditional houses fare poorly to earthquakes due to the peculiar housing supports.

Why is Japan so perfect?

>>11623789
eh, China's better

>>11623766
Nice fallow

I want to be a country Samurai and collect NEETkoku in my traditional Japanese home.

>>11631812

Amazing thread. Requesting sticky.

>>11631824
take it easy, retard

From the flight between Tokyo and Shanghai.

>>11631845
dayum that looks cool

>>11631849
Yes, snowy mountains are typically quite cold.

Staying in Kobe right now. I'm looking for nearby shrines and all that.

>>11631822

>>11631855
are those ladels for pouring water on pokemon like staryu?

>>11631880
those are frying pans after being washed

>>11631880
LOL

>>11631822

please don't carve my o-face.

>>11631822
>>11631812
looks Slavic

>>11631848
I absolutely love rainy scenery like this.

>>11623088
>>11623090

Looks cold and uninsulated.

I've always wondered what do stairs look like in traditional Japanese buildings.

Are they completely straight. or do they stop midway and have that ``mid-climb turn''? Are they made of wood, stone or bamboo? Are there doors at the end of stairs?

Why are there so few pictures of stairs in traditional Japanese buildings?

I wish I could live there again.

These are from Mie-ken

>>11635029
CUTE!

The milf thread is a lot better than this photographs-of-fucking-nothing spam.

>>11635128
>photographs-of-fucking-nothing spam
heh
just like every second thread on /jp/

>>11635134
You would think that about the milf thread you gaylord.

>>11635148
at least a milf thread is more interesting than "dump this touhou's entire booru"

>>11635128
Its probably hard to complain about relevancy of several threads at once

>>11623091
You heard a big lie.
HOWEVER...
The fact that they're light might be a good thing when and if they come down over your head, that's the only way I can agree with that. (Still they're not all that light to be harmless when they fall, after all take a look at that sturdy wooden beam in OP's pic)

This thread is just too lewd for my eyes.

>>11623088
fatalframe.jpg

>>11635008 here, please respond ;_;

My family seems to really want to vacation SOMEWHERE, I might bring Japan up to them. (Germany is also at the top of the list) Where are the best shrines for visiting? I don't think I would want to go to large cities.

>>11635970
There isn't much to see in Germany and the food is mediocre at best, go to Japan.

>>11635970
You first world kids are really lucky. I'd have to work 20 years straight to take my dog to the corner store by bicycle, and you go overseas like if private planes grew on trees.

Does anyone here remember the Encarta 3D tours? (Man, those were the shit.)

I remember there was one with a pagoda or something like that, but I'd kill for a modern 3D tour in a Japanese building.

>>11636053
I've spent a fuckton of time in those tours. I loved the Acropolis one.

>>11636037
My family doesn't have much money, my parents just feel guilty and stir crazy and want us to do something as a family.

>>11636037
Maybe you are better off as a peasant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7zoZe-ZATs

>>11626525
>>11623787
>>11631848
>>11635042
>>11635881
More like this please, mostly rainy scenery. I beg of you.

I always save most pictures from these threads.

>>11637926
Me too

>>11637933
Even the grass looks comfy and warm.

>>11637926
do you want source ?

ok weebs listen up.

http://p.twipple.jp/

f5 that shit like mad and you get to look into the lives of japs or add the title of an image into http://p.twipple.jp/*image* for a twipple id

that's where all these 5 alphanumeric titled images come from and the content changes with the time, so like sun down you start getting sunsets, midnight you get amateur porn, 3 am you get NEET art. it can be a lot of fun as a loser weeb faggot.

im done using it to avatar and bait so have at it.

>>11637933
I hate it when slushy snow like that freezes overnight and becomes impossible to walk over without slipping.

>>11641703
>>11637933
it never snows in my city. I have seen snow but only in ski resorts and such, never like waking up once morning and see the snow falling outside ;_;

here are some with nice scenery ive got bookmarked

http://p.twipple.jp/user/mugisan
http://p.twipple.jp/user/koppy175
http://p.twipple.jp/user/kanna24oct
http://p.twipple.jp/user/samurajo
http://p.twipple.jp/user/junjun_0125
http://p.twipple.jp/user/ryogetw 「this guy is a 2hu faggot」
http://p.twipple.jp/user/hanabusaichiro/6
http://p.twipple.jp/user/shiomizaka_wave
http://p.twipple.jp/user/boysonlynight
http://p.twipple.jp/user/surterre1981

and my all time fav

http://p.twipple.jp/user/remioman320

>>11641673
I prefer to get the cured selection that /jp/ provides.

>>11641924
Twipple can be interesting to browse through, as much as I may be overly condescending and ironic about it. Tons of good "in the moment" shots automatically dumped via iPhone.

>>11641685
perspective is wrong

>>11641720
>and my all time fav
>http://p.twipple.jp/user/remioman320

Dude what the fuck? Just opened it and there were penises everywhere. Posing with his dick out.

>>11643915
I think that's a bad joke.

>>11635042
Are those supposed to be tea trees?

I found videos of some dude walking through peaceful narrow Japanese streets on Youtube. It is very relaxing and beautiful.

>>11653865
There is another channel I came across with a sweat old japanese man who makes instruments I believe or just general carpentry. Very relaxing to watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vMgwc1wF84

>>11653917
ugh, too mabushii for my tastes

>>11656041
very nice

>>11656050
Wow, SMAP is still a thing? I'm impressed.

Nature aside, the thing I like most about city photos is the absolute lack of dirt.
It feels so bad taking one step out of your house and seeing dog shit and "graffiti" and broken things everywhere.
Seeing these pictures heals me a bit. The lack of evil niggers destroying everything because they don't want others to have good things is pleasant, even if only through images. I'd like living there for this, though not really in a big city.

the streets are so clean it always makes me jealous

>>11656107
as if white people dont throw trash everywhere and break shit and deface shit

but yeah it's nice, but so are upperclass areas in any country

>>11656181
in Japan it isn't restricted for upperclass areas

>>11656107
Where do you live? Japan's not that clean. Switzerland, Austria and Norway is probably as clean as it gets.

How much would a week or two in Japan cost if I wasn't too picky about hotels?

>>11656203
50000 yen + flights

>>11656192
it is but there are more of them

>>11656211
Not too shabby, guess I'd need to pay for food and transport as well though.

>>11656203
japan is ippai, please don't come

>>11656181
They dont. Have you seen how clean Germany streets are?

>>11656674
They're not clean at all unless it's even worse in other places.

>>11656681
The places I used to live in the rheinland pfalz were always nice at least.

>>11656094
Neat.

as a japnaense pople these house so kowai! onri baka aho live in old house becuase yuurei from last family there hontouni!

no good tokyo japanese like me and my family would live in DASAI county farm house. so kimoi desu maybe foreigner not understand this but its is baaaaaad and us japanese only like build new houses after we tear down old one even though it is only 10 years old but as I said YUUREI and DASAI and ATARASHII only otherwise hoka no minnasan think we are BINBOU BAKA desu

>>11656107
This so much.

I don't give a fuck about ecology, but at least lets keep clean the place where we fucking live.

>>11660219
>I don't give a fuck about ecology
> but at least lets keep clean the place where we fucking live.
fucking idiot

If I'd known /jp/ liked photos I would have posted some from my trip. (Was there for three weeks last month.)

Perhaps I'll try a cherrypicking a few for another day since I'm pretty sure you don't want all 1400ish of them.

>>11661067
One guy already uploaded his 1527 images for us

>>11660232
I mean that I wouldn't go out of my way of living only to not waste water, or to save whales.

It's just that you don't shit where you eat.
Garbage goes into the garbage can.

One of my dreams is to live in a japanese house in the countryside.

I have no idea where or how to build such a place. But i hope this dream comes true.

>>11635881
Neat, someone saved a picture that I took.

>>11661094
Sometimes I wonder what kind of people are throwing trash out their cars to the side of the road. It's really disheartening.

>>11661102
just wwoof my friend. closest you'll ever get.

>>11661107
I loved your pictures man, thanks for sharing them.

>>11661112
can you wwoof in Japan?

I would be completely down with that for a summer.

>>11661107
I find this relaxing yet, I don't want to live some place that cold.

>>11661591
Probably makes you feel cozy. Same river during the summer from another area.

>>11661654
I like how green their towns are.

When I was in Osaka, there were so many homeless. Probably a hundred. In the subway you could see piss pooling between floor tiles.

Japan's pretty dirty, too.

>>11661689
>has never been outside before

>>11661710
Were you at the Koreatown?

>>11635033
The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

>>11623091
They're lightweight so they're easy to to clear away when they get destroyed.

>>11661911
The house next to that one looks like it's about to fall over.

>>11662637
You're right. Sheesh.

>>11662682
There is something wonderful about those mountains. I have lived in the mountains of Nevada before, and they are just as large and pretty, but they dont have the pure aspect that these do, maybe because I have climbed most of them, and know then well.

>>11661820
Neuromancer

>>11662788
This book good? It's in my wardrobe, I read maybe eight pages then forgot about it.

>>11662637
>>11662436
there were a surprising number of houses in disrepair visible from the main track on Shikoku. (between Matsuyama and Honshu) A number of the more traditional styled houses even had partially collapsed roofs.

I was wondering if it had something to do with the property values being depressed by the train track going through right next to them.

>>11661911
what is this?

>>11661348
sent ;)

>>11662862
It's a sewer pipe going into someones house.

Japanese landscape thread?

bump

ooh, ooh, pick me, i know what to do here

>>11673212

>>11673212
I like to think this is how you get into gensokyo. The stars and planets have to aline just right on some shrine that is deeply hidden and forgotten in some woods.

>>11673213
where is it?

>>11673965
>Seen through a "Yukari gap", the outside world has a modernised civilisation that Gensokyo doesn't have.
>Even though it's impossible to pass through the Great Hakurei Barrier, it's still very easy to enter by simply getting lost while wandering around, but humans are still unaware that they entered another world.
>This leads them to great danger if they were eaten by youkai, should they fail to find the Human Village or the Hakurei Shrine. If they find the Human Village, they'll be escorted safely to the Hakurei Shrine and be able to return to their world once again.
>They'll just think they entered a mysterious place and usually think it was just an illusion, then later forget about it.
>If outsiders refuse to return back to their world, they're forced to take up residence in the Human Village, however, they rarely choose to stay.

It is easier than this.

i scrolled down too quickly, but there were still enough to be seen

This thread makes me happy. No Instagram/HDR "eye candy". No particular story the images are telling. These sort of pictures are the most beautiful as they are, as documents of daily life elsewhere.

You know how people predicted virtual tourism would become a thing when the Internet was just taking off? Well, it's become a thing for me. I often browse Flickr just to see landscapes like these. I search for the name of a small rural town I'd like to visit, then imagine myself living there, even play some songs the pictures remind me of. It's my favorite way of relaxing.

Anyone else into virtual tourism?

>>11674072
Obviously Google Maps is also kinda fun for that sort of thing. Though I prefer photos, makes it seem more authentic somehow. Random people taking photos of places they enjoy being in.

>>11674072
sometimes the idea of traveling somewhere is more pleasurable than actually going there

grass, greener, other side etc

>>11660219
for those that don't know, which I'm sure isn't many of you, this village is the village that Hinamizawa from Higurashi is based off of. When I go to Japan in a few years this is one place I really wanna visit

>>11674072
It's nice, but in the back of my mind I stay wishing to experience those places in the flesh.
>>11674081
I don't know, I'm not a very well traveled person but one of my favorite feelings in the world is those few times when I've been in the middle of a road I've never been in the middle of the night in my way to somewhere else. To me it's about that experience more than about going 'I recognize that place'.

>>11656279
... Is my understanding of "Ippai" incorrect, or did you misuse it?

>>11676352
Yes japan is very breasts, please don't come on them.

This place was between two buildings on a busy street.

Bump

>>11681979
What is that?

>>11682006
They are preparing a trap for the titans.

>>11682009
obviously

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TDnaLXRewA

>>11682240
better:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cat2525jp
https://www.youtube.com/user/egawauemon

>>11623901

>meanwhile, in China

Do they still make 'traditional' style homes in Japan or have they all been modernised?

>>11685067
I don't know but wouldn't that be kind of kitchy? I think its better to preserve authentic traditional homes.

>>11681985
Wait.. A roman Road? In japane? I thought those were only in europe and near east

>>11686174
It's... it's.. not even straight

>>11673164
Those flowers!

w

>>11639255
Said 'grass' is in all liklihood mostly or all moss, hence the dense flumpfyness. The lawn at my parent's is like that in large patches. IIRC growing mosses is a whole school of japanese garden aesthetic in it's own right.

>>11674128
That village is my current number one place i want to visit. I want to walk through the street as a festival is taking place. I want rainy comfy feels in that village.

>>11682006
A wall to hold off the Kaiju.

Bump

Red Gates

>>11635970
>Germany
There's nothing to see here, don't bother.

>>11702092
When I was there I saw a cat on the mountain, followed it, lost the cat, got lost, found an old lady in a shack and she gave me directions back the right way down the mountain.
I felt like I escaped into the twilight zone.

>>11702150
I always imagined that the mountains in the southern Germany (Bavaria really) were freakin' awesome to look at in autumn.

Am I mistaken?

>>11631845
naisu

>>11702150
Not true at all. You can get educated an visit one of the MANY concentration camps. I really really recommend it to /jp/sies, seeing most of you are fairly uneducated regarding the crimes Germany committed against humanity.

>>11704652
thanks shlomo-kun

Feels like I'm there

>>11702200
The ones I saw didn't run when approached

>>11702150
I never visited Germany much, Switzerland is okay for visiting but if you really want to experience any history France and Italy are godlike. France has a ton of interesting castles, mountains, churches, attractions and good food. Same goes for Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Verona, Venice are really interesting cities/regions.

>>11661820
"It's not like I'm using...it's like my body's developed this massive drug deficiency"

>>11707551
>castles, mountains, churches, attractions and good food
Ireland has all of this, except the mountains and the good food is good beer.

I want to go there!

Does anyone here rememer the Encarta 3D tours? (Man, those were the shit.)

I rememer there was one with a pagoda or something like that, but I'd kill for a modern 3D tour in a Japanese building.

>>11713871
I've spent a fuckton of time in those tours. I loved the Acropolis one.

>>11713871
I used to play the maze/quiz/trapped-in-a-castle thing a lot. I don't remember any 3D tours though, were they on the same release with the quiz thing or did it come after?

>>11717262

Touhou reference?
Japan confirmed for bros

>>11717313

Only on /jp/

>>11717313
>Westerner mentions videogame or internet "meme" irl
Wow disgusting, 0/10 not even funny, this is all reddit's fault
>Japan makes reference to 2hu, animes or videogames
Glorious Nippon, so kawaii and kakoi, I wish I lived there

>>11724571
you are literally quoting /v/, dude

>>11724578
What's the difference at this point?

>>11724610
/v/ is much faster and they still haven't taken off their lejun-think

>>11717313
How?

What?

>>11724571
at least i'm not a shit skin like u

What?

>>11702086
Here's a photo of that same bridge but in the late 1800s.

>>11735434
>>11702086
That's pretty cool.

>>11735434
>>11702086

What bridge is that? And color photos in 1800?

>>11740078
did you even try to google bro man dude?

>What bridge is that?
Shinkyo bridge in Nikko.

>And color photos in 1800?
by late 1800s for sure!
some of the earliest were from the 1860s. it was all done on plates though, not film (if that's what you're wondering).

This thread is so fuckin comfy right now.

>>11691625
Kanon ;_;

>>11681979
but srsly, anyone know where this is?
I'm in japan right now, need more places to visit

>>11746885
metatags, please try harder in the future!

猿谷ダム.

>>11635970
japan's the right choice

>>11623091

I can't speak directly to what you've read but I do know a little bit about the Japanese housing market. The Japanese overwhelmingly prefer new construction and because of this, the resale value of a house declines quite rapidly. Houses are viewed as something a single family settles in for a lifetime with only the land possessing value after about thirty years.

This may change a bit going forward as the Great Kanshin Earthquake (Kobe, 1995) resulted in fairly radical revisions to the building codes and houses built after the codes were revised may be viewed as safer but their residential stick-frame construction companies still build with the 30-year lifespan in mind.

There is also a bit of a trend where Japanese companies are reassigning employees around the country on extended (greater than a year) basis. If this happened enough, I would speculate that it would result in a market segment that won't settle for simply accepting a huge loss on their home's value and resettling and will start viewing homes as more of a commodity rather than a lifetime nest.

Alternatively, concrete residential construction exists with the idea that the home is safer and will hold value. I prefer these myself but the cost is something like 50% greater over stick-frame when new.

I'm sure I wouldn't be the first American to wish that I could import American construction materials to build a home in Japan.

>>11635022

Is that the Azuchi Castle replica at some theme park?

>I've visited the ruins

>>11735434

Looks like the area was heavily logged then. It looks better now.

>yay conservation

>>11747506
>>11747557
Why the fuck did you use greentext for these particular sentences? Is this how people at /v/ are doing it?

>>11747590

Dunno, I don't vidya. I just felt like doing it that way.

>that's not very kawaii of you, anon-kun
>okorinbou bro?

Contributing.

>>11656107

Just for you, anon-kun.

>>11747716

Along an abandoned railway that is now a hiking trail.

>Fukuchiyama-sen

>>11747765

Ever wanted to live next door to a castle?

>greentext to anger okorinbou-kun

>>11747792

Here's the view along your commute to college.

>Shiga University

>>11635022
>>11747506

>here's the proof

Nobunaga and his funky octagon. That Naga! What a crazy guy. Honganji Kennyo probably would not have approved.

>>11747892

Screw Akechi Mitsuhide. His mom was probably a bitch anyways. You'd think unquestioning devotion to your paranoid sociopathic daimyo would come before family but noooo.

>>11747902

I wonder which generation of regrowth this is since Mitsuhide burnt the place down in 1582.

>>11747915

Not a bad view towards sunset, looking out towards Sainoko no mizuumi. Nobunaga probably chilled here outside his personal temple, watching Monkey dance in the fading light.

Time to head down to Tosa and check out the view from Kouchi-jo.

I forget why I was here or where it was. Somewhere Kantou.

>>11740078
People coloured in photos using photographic inks back in the day.

>>11747981

Locals: passively hating tourists since forever.

>>11747981

This is a small bakery. I like to go here after breakfast and pick up mid-morning goodies. They've used spray-formed concrete inside to give the place an Old World Europe vibe. Looks a bit like a hobbit-hole. Living over your business is probably pretty rad.

>until summer
>dat oven heat

>>11747990
spooky spooky me me me me

>>11747695

I forgot to mention that to my immediate right in this photo was an encampment of homeless, tucked away at the tail end of the park lining the river. I didn't take a picture; gotta leave folks some dignity. I doubt homeless anywhere else in the industrialized world are anywhere near as neat as the Japanese version of the phenomenon. Brazilian favela residents would need finishing school to visit these homeless.

>shoes neatly left outside the tarp flaps

For those few weeks of cherry blossoms, they had the best views in the city.

>>11748005
did you ever climb onto the balcony and steal her pantsu while she was at work?

>>11748554

No, we're different sizes.

Bump

>>11747981
When was this taken? I always found it interesting how fast South Korea developed after the war. In the span of 20 or so years they went from wooden houses to skyscrapers and huge economies.

Not sure if the same happened to Japan. Yesterday, I was reading about Nanban Trade (南蛮貿易) and on the Wiki page it says:

>Japan was noted for being much more populated and urbanized than any Western country (in the 16th century, Japan had 26 million inhabitants against 16 million for France and 4.5 million for England).[3] Buddhist schools in Japan were also larger than Universities in the West, such as Salamanca or Coimbra. At the time, some Europeans became quite fascinated with Japan, some even writing that the Japanese "excel not only all the other Oriental peoples, they surpass the Europeans as well" (Alessandro Valignano, 1584, "Historia del Principio y Progreso de la Compañía de Jesús en las Indias Orientales).

>Early European visitors were impressed by the quality of Japanese craftsmanship and metalsmithing. This stems from the fact that Japan itself is rather poor in natural resources found commonly in Europe, especially iron. Thus, the Japanese were famously frugal with their consumable resources; what little they had they used with expert skill.

Even in the 16th century there were already weeaboos.

>>11757171

The European populations were halved by the bubonic plagues earlier in the millenium.

Japan industrialized first in the Meiji period of the latter half of the 19th century after the Tokugawa shogunate was broken, allowing foreign commerce with Japan. After the devastating effects of the second World War Japan essentially industrialized again, reaching a peak in the Eighties.

>>11702086
>>11735434

Here is a live webcam of the bridge.

http://www.shinkyo.net/livecamera.shtml

Sucks that it is next a highway...

Bump

>>11683538
That's only relevant to the metropolitan cities. I once travelled on the national highway in the countryside between Shaanxi and Hubei province, and the sky was clear and blue, the first time I've ever seen a clear sky in China. I was amazed, since the only skies I've ever seen in China were grey and ugly. The fields were pretty green as well, but the scenery was otherwise quite boring.

>>11637933
>>11653917
>>11748005
I love that "cozy" old urban look.

>>11747765
>>11747774

>>11676285
why is there just a random deer poking out from the lanterns

>>11780294
Oh deer, I missed that somehow.

>>11780294

That's probably Nara. It's known for having deer wandering around aimlessly, crapping and snatching anything edible that a tourist might have.

>I'll take my Buddhist tourist traps without Lyme disease, thanks

>>11653885
He started with such a thick piece to whittle it away.

Must be very frustrating to be working like that and hear the traffic go past.

Thread has reached image limit. Would anyone be kind enough to make a new thread. I very much enjoyed this one.

>>11787801
Will work on that once someone gets some new images to use.

>>11787728
Traffic can be calming at times.
I used to love living next to a highway. Easy to sleep to the calm action going on around me. Took forever to get used to silence after moving as it just felt wrong at first.

>>11787846
You have been poisoned by progress.
Look at the photos in this thread and discover the inner- and environmental-peace you are lacking.

>>11673170
Do you think if we complain about power lines in every /jp/ thread that TEPCO will take notice?

>>11787862
Both are nice.