/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>15530317
I live in Japan...
For a year now...
By myself...
Paid by Japanese government...
And I know Japanese...

Who cares, you weeaboo?

>>15530324
>Speaks Japanese
> Gets paid by the government
Yes your right, your a much better example for poor fag lowlifes. Totally.

>>15530353
It requires less of a shift in routine for poorfag lowlives to learn Japanese than visit Japan.

Since /jp/ is mostly a media board, language may be more important than physical location for most people, though it's not an either or thing.

>>15530317
how did you get around the country/cities without being able to read signs/knowing what train stop to go to?

>>15530402
Depends on where he went. But major cities in Japan have English signs everywhere. You have to be a retard to get lost.

I'm doing that right now. I do speak some Japanese and can at least read kana + a few kanji, though.

Currently in Osaka. The main difference between Osaka and Tokyo seems to be the fact that people stand on the right side of the escalator as opposed to left. Also it smells weird here for whatever reason.

>>15530402
I was in Tokyo. Everything is in English and trains can bring you back from where ever you go.

>>15530413
Osaka sounds fun. I saw enough of Tokyo.

>>15530317
>What's your fucking excuse?
I'm not a braindead cunt who feels like wasting thousands of dollars on a completely ephemeral experience?

I really don't understand why you'd go to Japan. Maybe if you wanted to fill your suitcases with doujinshi or old JP only hardware, I guess. But even then, you could probably just have everything you want shipped home for cheaper than the tickets, room and board by stalking YJA for a month.

You can spend an hour looking through holiday snaps online if you want to see some old shrines and trees.


I feel like holidays are something that people do just because everyone else does. I've never once understood the point, maybe if you're going backpacking through India or something and getting stabbed to death in the street, then you might take something away from the experience. But a first world country where you just pay for things and look at things? Why? If you need a break from work, you can just have a "holiday" at home.

>>15530317

How could you land that job if you don't speak japanese. How did you attend customers?

Where did you live for that month?

>>15530426
Travel is for escaping the prison that is your own life. It's usually one you mentally constructed yourself, but it's still there.

All the holidays I have spent at home were mostly pissed away on 4chan. If I went onto a holiday in Japan I might actually get out there and see new things.

>>15530426
That is a good point. I don't know what makes it so special. Its like going to a live concert when you can just sit in a basement by yourself listening to the same album everyday in the dark.
But going there for a month can give just enough time to really soak in the diffrence between America and basicly anywhere else but Canada.
Plus it sounds good in any situation to say you lived in another country for a month. Bonus points for work or charity or something.

>>15530317
How?
Share your secrets senpai.
I would love to live and work in Japan, even at a gas station part-time, but there's just no way.

>>15530429
I didn't go there for work. I saved up enough to last a month

>>15530440
First you should learn English and realize that he went to Japan for a month on a gas station salary, not that he went to Japan and worked at a gas station for a month.

>>15530434
>>Travel is for escaping the prison that is your own life.
Having never considered my life as a prison in any respect, I supposed that feeling is lost on me. If doing what you're doing bothers you so much, why not just quit your job and move somewhere new or something?

>>15530437
I think people who do things to beef up their CV are tremendously boring. Living in a first world country for a month while spending 10 times more than everyone around you? Do you need a medal for that or something, like you braved the unknowns of a tourist trap? If I had an applicant who put "I went on holiday for a month once" on their CV, I'd throw it in the trash immediately.

>>15530434
This guy answered this perfectly. How many great memories do you have looking at pictures of cool places? Probebly none. But I remember almost every day I was there.

>>15530442

How big was your budget?

>>15530446
>If doing what you're doing bothers you so much, why not just quit your job and move somewhere new or something?
I was mostly speaking in terms of a mental prison; trapped by routines and complexes and thought patterns you built for yourself and never mustered the willpower to change. Though I suppose it would have been much more appropriate to use "my" than "your."

Change is heavier than a mountain, routine is as light as a feather.

>>15530454
I spent $950 for the plane
$350 for all living expenses
Couple hundred for everything else.

>>15530353
Yeah, totally. I studied and got good enough to be selected for a paid stay in Japan.

Why did you have to work on a gas station?

>>15530459
I like my gas station job in my home town. I like who I work with. I like my hours and freedom. But, with my pay, doing something so big in life shouldn't have been possible. At least that is what everyone always assumes.

>>15530463
People usually don't assume you're alone.

I presume you don't have a wife and kids, don't have your own home etc.

>>15530426
Look at people going out and doing things. I can experience everything from by room. Look at these pictures of Germany. I'm having so much more fun. Just ask the picture of my friends I found on Google images.

>>15530473
>People usually don't assume you're alone.
I don't know if OP is actually from /jp/, but around here (or even on most of 4chan) that's an overwhelmingly safe assumption.

>>15530477
Yeah, but outside of 4chan it's not.

When you're alone, it's not hard to save up money for splunges like OP's trip. Just don't buy that PS4 and games.

>>15530473
Correct. I didn't ruin my life with a bunch of kids, a horrible marriage, a overpriced house, etc. I do have a car thought. I already regret that.
Bills only get bigger as you get older. If you don't do shit now, you will turn into the other people on this thread looking up pictures of Japan online as their vacation.

OP could you elaborate how was your day to day? Where did you sleep, diet and so.

>>15530480
I had to sell my Wii U to catch up on bills when I got back. I have better memory's of my trip than of HD platformer machine.
Worth it.

>>15530482
A guest house in Nishi-Nippori. Cheap and laid back.
Ate food from 7/11 often until I found a good grocery store.
If you are from America and have survived college, it isn't much different in day to day or price.
Tinder is a godsend for dates, looks don't seem to apply.
Trains are easy to figure out and make going absolutely anywhere possible.
Always use your smartphone. If you don't know how to explain something to someone, show them pictures. If you want a Sunday at mcdonalds, have a pic on your phone just in case.

>>15530492
Nishi-Nippori's pretty cool, you have Suwa Jinja just around the corner.

Cheapest grocery store is probably gonna be Aeon, if you have it close. There are two others around where I live, but Aeon is always a bit cheaper.

>>15530482
If you are staying for only a week or 2, look up manga cafes. Or else it is guest houses at $300-$400 a month. Hotels and such are a fucking joke on prices.

>>15530498
Not Nagasaki. Nishi-Nippori in Tokyo.

I work a shitty minimum wage job and I just bought my tickets to go to japan from the 3rd of december to the 28th. I thought it would be a good idea to spend christmas in tokyo. I don't speak Japanese either, any tips on cool places to go? I am landing in narita, reserved a hotel near akiba for a few days already, but after that there's so many things I don't know what to hit up or where the good tourists spots are. I would like to visit Nagoya, Kyoto, and Osaka, but I haven't even started planning yet...

>>15530500

300 to 400$ seems affordable. I need almost a perfect silence to sleep, could I sleep at a manga cafe then?

>>15530508
Yeah, I know. I've been there.

>>15530510
Yeah. Just about any place even on the streets is quiet, let alone in a place for private reading and napping.

>>15530509
In Tokyo I liked Ueno Park, Asakusa, Nakano Broadway etc.

Just a moment away by train you have Nakano.

>>15530519
>Just a moment away by train you have Nakano.

I mean Hakone.

>>15530509
I landed in Narita, and headed around there too. The rails are down the stairs you will see on your slight left. Train ride is about an hour.

>>15530523
>>15530519
Also how do I get my hands on a train pass or whatever they use? Im assuming its english friendly.

>>15530519
I went to all of those. Spent 3 days at Akiba. 3rd day was for gifts

>>15530317
I have no excuse. I am living in Japan right now.

>>15530527
Yeah, in Tokyo you can switch pretty much any terminal for anything to English.

Most people here longterm, me included, use Suica or PASMO, but it's pointless for tourists. It'll be better if you get some sort of time-limited tourist pass.

>>15530527
Pass is not worth it. It's only a few bucks a day. Like $3 for a round ride to akiba, or a 40min walk. Walk more

To anons who have been there, is humidity such a cutthroat bitch as people say?

>>15530538
Na, I would say get a Suica card anyway.

You can use it for payment at vending machines and various stores as well as for trains and it takes 10 years of inactivity to expire so you can keep it for the next time you go to Japan.

Most rail passes are only worthwhile if you use the Shinkansen or other reserved seat services a bunch of times.

>>15530527
I did a big trip to Eroshima island witch is a long way from Nippor. Couple hours of train. It was like $15 or 20. That is the most you'd spend on travel. Getting to all main parts of Tokyo is too cheap to get a pass.

>>15530549
Well considering the guy said he wants to travel to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, he might use a pass well enough.

>>15530547
I was there in Febuary. It was cold for them, normal and calming for a Iowan like me.
I heard it is bad in the summer but oh well, they love their AC

>>15530549
I never learned what those cards where. Maybe it would have helped speed things up. But at the end of the day, bringing a chunk of cash is safe enough too.

>>15530558
Yeah, but unless you are there for like half a year or rich as fuck you would spend half the trip in trains to get to experience all of those to even half their glory.

Well I kinda live here already.

OP here.
JanJan. It is a Pink Saloon. 3000¥ ($25-$30) for a blowjob. Girls are not bad from my experience. Simple and great experience. They accept foreiners. No Japanese needed.
They allow fingering, and 69 if you have the right girl. You can finish in their mouth.

>>15530577
Nice.

>>15530571
I had a long vacation here and instead of travelling I spent it by reading eroge and taking long walks around Tokyo.

>>15530558
In that case I would say get both a Suica and a JR Pass for the minimum amount of time that will cover the travel by Shinkansen.

The first time I came to Japan with a friend we both got JR Passes to cover the three weeks we were here, we started in Osaka, went to Kyoto, Hiroshima and Tokyo, that was three trips on the Shinkansen and then we used JR lines for practically everything and I still don't think we covered the cost of the JR pass.

The second time we bought a one (or was it two?) week pass and activated it in Kyoto and went from there to Beppu, Hakata, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Kagaguchiko and Tokyo and definitely got more than our money's worth.

>>15530577
Your room looks smaller than mine.

My condolences.

>>15530587

Is some oppai action permitted too?

One other recommendation I have is to get a small USB powered travel router, and make sure it isn't on the 192.168.* network before you go to Japan, or pick one up in Japan for about 3k yen.

Some hotels don't have wifi and one's that do often have worse speeds on it because it gets hammered more. If the hotel has an ethernet jack in your room then it is usually better.

>>15530599
Could you explain the suica and JR passes?

>>15530605
Yeah, you can touch them anywhere and position them how you want them. I laid my girl down I could feel her up. Hair holding was ok but not pushing down

>>15530611
Google it? You'll find million English explanations online.

>>15530605
Out front is a chill dude. He won't approach you unless you look like your looking for the place. He Will ask if you have 3000 ready and show you the entrence. Inside is shit techno and an old lady who you will pay and she will take you to your booth, and get you tea while you wait. The girl comes and takes off all her cloths, and then undressed and cleans you. Then you can make out with her for as long as you like before she moves down you and starts. I was nervous to go there, but not so nervous inside.

Heika :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36784045
>Japanese emperor says he will abdicate in coming years - Akihito, 82, has had health problems

>>15530621

Is there a time limit? Was the girl pretty/average?

>>15530611
Suica is an IC card, you charge it at JR stations through machines they have there and you can pay for trains, most buses and items at vending machines and some stores by just tapping it on the IC readers.

It makes train usage a lot quicker as you don't have to buy tickets and it works on pretty much all city lines (country lines not so much, often they still require you to purchase tickets).

A JR pass is something you redeem and activate when you arrive in Japan and gives you free travel on the JR lines, JR bus services and a few other JR services as much as you want for the period of the pass. You can also use it to book free reserved seats on a range of Shinkansen and other Limited Express services run by JR BUT you are limited to JR with it.
When using it at stations you have to go past the window next to the gates and show it to the station staff and show it when booking tickets on the Shinkansen and Limited Express services.

>>15530625
15 minutes. The girl I had was good looking, around 18-23, and shaven.
I have heard not as good storys, but I can imagion if they really end up being THAT bad you can at least close your eyes and enjoy a bj.

>>15530633
Probably Chink/Vietnamese etc.

>>15530622
Time for the True Emperor to step up.

>>15530426

Travel is fun. I've been to over a dozen countries, and in my travels I've met many new people and encountered many new ways of thinking. Travel has opened my mind and shaped me into the person I am today.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to stay in your room and pass your time by yourself. That's perfectly fine. But I think travel is crucial for people who want to participate and contribute to the global society.

I have plenty of money. I just don't feel like wasting it.

>>15530686
>wasting

>>15530317
WTF. On a part-time gas station salary? U have 2b a troll

>>15530317
I'll be going there for a week in September for the magical mirai. I'm so hyped up.

>>15530426
>I feel like holidays are something that people do just because everyone else does.
Travelling makes me happy and gives me something to look forward to. I will much rather spend my money on a trip rather than buying some useless material shit.

>>15530457
How did you it on such a shoestring budget?

>>15530426
>You can spend an hour looking through holiday snaps online if you want to see some old shrines and trees.
You can tell that this person has never traveled because he thinks that looking at photos is in any way comparable to actually visiting a place.

>>15532316
I've been to plenty of places. I just haven't found any of them remotely interesting, which is why I liken them to looking at photos of shit. All you're doing is wasting a ton of money for the chance that you might remember it more clearly in a decade, like anyone gives a fuck.

>>15530426
This guy understands existence.

>>15530446
This is the kind of guy who breeds and thinks Pop music is super-totally-fun.

>>15532334
I hate to tell you man, but both of those are me.

I'm going to Japan for the first time ever next month.

Any tips?

>>15532328
>I just haven't found any of them remotely interesting
Then why the fuck did you go there? Sounds to me like you're the faggot who traveled "just because" instead of going somewhere that interested you.

>>15532405
1. You're going to die in the heat. Bring or buy some face cloths, buy cooling wipes at convenience stores, drink plenty of water/sports drink and check weather forecasts because lol rain/typhoons.

2. Look through this thread, there are a bunch of suggestions that are valid for you in here.

>>15530317
i transferred to Japan
for three years
by myself
company pays my living costs
without being fluent in japanese

what's your excuse?

>>15532416
Work, nigga. At the end of the day, everywhere is the fucking same. Ooh, one place has pretty mountains, another has nice forests. Who cares? Give me 4 walls and a roof, a fridge full of food, and a computer with internet, and I'm good forever. I don't give a shit about how you pulled yourself out of the slums or used to shoot people for a living, write a book or something.

I'm not adverse to going to a new country, I just don't see any point in it for "fun".

>>15532548
I just want you to know how incredibly sad you sound.

>>15532561
Well it's just a simple lack of passion and wanting to discover things, I guess. Happens to quite a lot of people.

>>15532548
>I just don't see any point in it for "fun".
Because you went there for work.

>>15532652
Doesn't make it any less sad.

One could even take the view that the commonality of it makes it all the more so.

>>15530317
How does one actually get a good job in Japan? These are the only stories I ever read, person goes to Japan, works for shit pay and/or is an English teacher.
Where are the stories of:
>I graduated with a CS/EE/ME/Math/Finance/Business/etc Degree
>Went to Japan
>Got a job
>Do more than just get by and get to say I live in Japan on a 2hu posting board

>>15532682
Work isn't 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. There's plenty of time to go do retarded touristy things if you're dumb enough for them.

>>15532720
You get a transfer to the Japanese branch of your company

>>15532720
Because it is a bit more difficult to get into Japan if you come straight to look for work. You generally need a sponsor to help you get a work visa which means you basically need to be employed by a company before arriving.

It is considerably easier to come work as an English teacher for a year or so and then change occupation.

>>15532732
But work is something that is always there to ruin what touristy shit you plan to do.

>>15532428
rain in august? I thought it was just in june

>>15532992
Doesn't mean that it will be dry all August. Japan's summers are generally quite wet.
Also, this year July is more wet than June, least where I am it is.

>>15530317
I had to cancel my trip this summer.

My excuse is that "in turn" I'll move there with office transfer in late September.

>>15530512
>>15530498
My fucking nigga.
I go there almost every night to sit on the stones and drink beer/coffee while looking at the passing trains

>>15530317
A part-time gas station salary probably pays 2-3x more than a full-time engineer job here.

>>15531144
When the cost for a round trip dipped below 1k I put it on paypal credit, and saved up as much as I could in the 3 months before I headed out. I payed off the ticket afterwards.

>>15532444
I didn't want to work and stay there. I wouldn't leave my friends... unless the pay was real good of course.

>>15530577
is that a kamakura shirts points card?

>>15530317
>Using my tax dollars in another country

FUCKING KILL YOURSELF

>>15530317
Which country did you fly to Japan from? How much were plane tickets? How much was accommodation?

Fuck, crazy storm just started.

>>15530317
had you taken a peak hour tuna train?

how does it feel having a JK supporting herself on you
or a OL nee-san's breath on your neck

>>15530317
>Visiting Kenrokuen outside of Sakura or Kōyō time.
You dun goofed OP.

>>15532548
Life is what you make of it, Anon. You can be miserable all your life if you choose to.
Happiness and positivity require hard work, but they are real.

>>15535105
I'm not even slightly unhappy, though. Just because I don't find any joy in looking at a mountain doesn't make me miserable.

>>15530587
There is no japanese girl at JanJan though, only cheap prostitutes from eastern asia.

>>15530547
If you're used to humid environments, it not quite as bad as people say. If you're not, you will likely have a very unpleasant time.

In the summer, it's almost always above 70%, often over 80%. You sweat just from being.

>>15530547
>>15535127
Yes, I'm not handling it well, so July's been hell for me so far.

>>15530444
>YWN go to Japan and work at a gas station for a month.

time to cry myself back to sleep.

>>15534715
I will kill myself if you can prove you have never bought a product or used gas imported from outside of America.

>>15534751
Omaha to Chicago to south korea to tokyo.
All other costs have been answered already.

>>15534959
I was there in Febuary. Ugly time to go, but I loved the weather.

>>15535107
You don't have to look at mountains. Find something you enjoy. I enjoyed Akihabara, and walking in a random direction everyday until I found a cool new place to eat and try new foods.

>>15535120
I had a japanese girl. Who cares if their not? Unless they are Chinese of course.. but that would not go unnoticed. Not even in a dark room.

>>15535212
The one thing I've learned in Japan is that I fucking hate Chinese people. I wish they'd stay in their own country and never come out.

>>15535255
You too?

>>15535212
>Who cares if their not?
3000¥ for a bad-looking filipino girl ? When you can cum inside her raw for 15$ in her country, i for sure care. If i go to a japanese saloon i want a japanese girl, not a cheap whore.

Would rather use computer.

>>15530446
>Having never considered my life as a prison in any respect
You're kind of an outsider here in that respect, normal-anon.

>>15530484
>wii U
>HD
I think that trip to Japan really did a number on you, anon.

>>15534649
I'm surprised someone on /jp/ even recognizes Kamakura shirts. Yeah, it is. Are you from New York, or do you live in Japan as well?

>>15535892
new york. you must have a good job.

>>15536002
Eh, it's ok. It's not really that expensive over here. It was like 75 bucks in the US, but I only pay 5000 yen over here.

>>15530577
you live in a kitchen/closet?

>>15530426
nigga the fact that you say "stabbed to death in india" shows how much you need travel.
you'd be hacked by machetes in india first of all after being fellated by all the local hotties who're crazy for that white skin/light eyes combo

>>15536079
A very comfy kitchen/closet.

>>15536247

Looks like the ideal living space.

>>15536247
that looks mega comfy

Will you scan all the precious 2hu doujins /jp/ ever wanted?

In my country you can only get once-in-a-lifetime 3 month permission to go as a tourist.

Considering that achieving citizenship is nearly impossible I'll try have to plan those 3 months very very carefully.

>>15536668
what country is it?
must be very tough

You see any nice pagodas OP?

I've always wondered why they don't make skyscrapers that look like miyajima?

>>15536689
There's a few nice pagodas in Tokyo.

Have any of you ever known a Japanese person to be offended by the words Jap or Nip used to describe them? I've always heard that these are offensive names for Nipponjin, but they're such tame words that are just shortened from their ethnicity.

My excuse is that I wasn't privileged enough to be born in a first world country, where a part-time job can afford me enough money to travel abroad.

>>15537247

The only Japanese people (male) I have spoken to have been so timid that they wouldn't make such a thing known, even if they were offended.

>>15535352
I didn't say who cares if they are bad-looking. I said who cares if they are japanese. You would turn down a super-hot model korean for a 250lb retarded japanese whale with crooked teeth. Gross dude.

>>15535855
>my big boy fps console is more HD-er than your baby console. Rolfmao lol XD your Wii U plays games at 60fps/1080p? Mine plays buggy sandbox game #20068 at 20fps/720p.

>>15537732
You will never see a hot model korean in these pink saloon though, only filipinos.

Currently planning a 3 week trip in April next year. Planning to climb Mt Takao, possibly try Mt Fuji depending on the conditions. Going to be visiting a lot of the war/navy museums in Tokyo and Yokosuka, along with the Saitama and Kyoto rail museums.

I have some questions though. I had wanted to spend some time up north, in Nikko, Sendai, Hiraizumi, and Hirosaki/Oirase. I've seen conflicting information as to whether or not hiking is a good idea up there in April, and I'm thinking I'd be better off skipping it and spending more time at the major cities. Does anybody live or take trips up there that can give advice?

>>15537881
Just giving an example. The race don't matter, especially if you are only playing around $25 bucks for more than what's legal in America, when other places are much more expensive. As long as they are hot enough to get it up I wouldn't complain.

>>15539181
If those ideas are what you are interest you I would plan to do at least one.

I'm on a cozy scholarship in a big Japanese City and just kick back and relax here. What's your excuse?

>>15539538
are you white/an only child??

>>15539548
I'm european.

>>15537631
I want to bully a timid Japanese man.

>>15539181
I've lived in Sendai and Hiraizumi, and visited Hirosaki, as a matter of fact.

There's not much sightseeing to do in Sendai, but it's a very nice town to live. If you wanna go hiking, Mt. Zao is fairly close, and can be reached by bus. There's also Matsushima, which is gorgeous, but no hiking afaik.

While you're in Sendai, you can catch a bus to Hiraizumi (or nearby Ichinoseki and catch a train), which takes roughly 90 minutes. Usually leaves in front of the Sakurano department store.

I'd recommend going to Hiraizumi at least for the day, so you can see Chuusonji and Moutsuji. Wanko-soba is an Iwate specialty, and is worth trying.

I don't know if hiking is possible in April in Aomori (I went in summer for Neputa). I was lucky enough to be with a friend who had a car when I visited, so I don't know how easy it is to get by with public transport.

Personally, I would suggest spending a little more time in/near Tokyo. You can get to Mt. Tsukuba (Ibaraki) or Mt. Haruna (Gunma), or the mountains of Okutama which are a bit closer.

Hope some of that helps answer your questions!

>>15539639

いじめは良くないぞ

>>15536668
venezuela? you'll like japan. I hear they have bread, eggs, running water, AND electricity.

>>15540759
Thanks for the advice. I'll put Aomori off for a trip in summer or fall in the future.

>>15530426
>>>/out/
>>>/trv/
literally

I know the /jp/sie stereotype is of the NEET who stays indoors all the time, but hot damn mate. Go outside, it's not like your life is worth not getting stabbed over with the way it is right now.

>>15534571
shit, I should fucking do that
mostly been piggybacking off of family/friends if I wanted to travel anywhere

>>15530685
I prefer reading books for new perspectives in thinking, a lot more comfortable.

>>15530481
Don't bully us, please. /jp/ is not for bullying.

>>15530685
>Travel is fun. I've been to over a dozen countries, and in my travels I've met many new people and encountered many new ways of thinking. Travel has opened my mind and shaped me into the person I am today.
Travel is boring. I've been to a couple of countries, there was many strangers people, nothing different from crowd on the streets of my hometown. Travel was pointless walking around, waste of time. Of course, looking at sceneries and whatnot had absolutely no effect on me as a person. It would be pretty retarded otherwise, because experience is the same as looking at pictures on the internet.

>I participate and contribute to the global society
That's huge inflated ego right there.

>>15542623
You are a soulless individual.

>>15542655
What do you mean? Please elaborate, or I'll have the impression you just saying random nonsense without thinking with the sole purpose of expressing displeasure with me as individual, which is meaningless and pointless on the anonymous board.

Where you at stay opie.

I wanna go soon for a month, like 3 weeks in the tokyo area, 1 in kyoto/osaka area. Don't wanna pay more than 100$ a night though

>>15542683
You find no difference between reality and pictures.
You are clearly lacking something as a person.

>>15542241
I was referring only to one specific person who had the freedom but throws it away to be" cool online."

>>15542685
Stay at a guesthouse for 300 a month. Travel around from there, you don't have return back there everynight, you could go somewhere else a few days and then return there to save money.

>>15542623
Fuck off already

>>15535255
Yea, a lot of them have terribly rude behaviour if you're referring to mainland Chinese, that is. I don't know how it came about, but they now have a culture of rushing things and you have to GO GO GO GO. In that sense they have similar cultural aspects to Japanese, in that if you work you're part of society. Otherwise, you're dead in most of the people's eyes.

>>15530317
I've been working for about 4 years but still live at home. I have $80K+ in savings since I don't spend often, and 4 weeks of vacation that won't roll over.

I can't go because I don't have any friends, and I'm too afraid to go alone (inb4 the step out of your boundaries bullshit).

>>15544311
You have no one to blame but yourself if you die without ever having pursued your wishes.

>>15544311
I am there 2 weeks this august. if you would like to, I invite you to join me.

>>15544311
>4 weeks of vacation
What the fuck man I'd go in a heartbeat, even alone if I had that.

>>15544311
>I don't have any friends, and I'm too afraid to go alone
Then stay in your comfort zone and don't sweat it, order yourself some nice shit from the internet and enjoy it with all your soul. Traveling is like some new age religion for people from facebook, anyway, and is completely overrated.

>>15544311
>stepping out of your boundaries
it's not so much this, as it is discovering new people, new places, and new things to re-invigorate my heart and soul
Cliched af but that's what I feel, anyway. People who travel with others may not always get to experience the things they'd like to, which is why I didn't quite enjoy my first trip to JP

have lived here.....
for 3 years.........
by myself...................
dam....

Japan is my whole life. I live 5 months every year in Japan and this all with my austismbux (also helps my parents let me keep my rent money)

Doesn't get much better than this~ ^____^

>>15530317
I don't have an income and leaving the house is pretty scary. I'm a bit jelly, but It's not worth it for me I think.

>>15545085
>leaving the house is pretty scary.
Nicely meme'd, faggot

>>15530457
Wait. You only used $350 to live for a whole month?

>>15530317
my salary is 300$ a month and i live alone

>>15542744
You find great difference between the same pictures reflected in your eyes.
You are clearly sick in the head with delusions running wild.

>>15530426
>old JP only hardware
would do that

>>15542744
again, some people have a lack of passion and the want to discover new places and people and experiences. There's no need to bother or argue with someone on an anonymous board if the discussion's going nowhere.

>>15530442


So for around 1 month in Japan, you spent around $2,000 in USD/CDN for a relax trip? Is this feasible for another person with the same budget? Thank you.

>>15530317
Moving to Japan in two weeks. Can I just slip a SIM card in my British phone and use it over there?

>>15544812
This. I've been in Japan for 3 times already, 2 weeks each. Always with someone else. And while it was fun with others, my best time was when I got to be alone for a while. Go for a movie, sit at the counter in a bar or Coco, just walk down the street alone. Those are all things you likely to only experience alone. Plus, it makes you a bit more often as you don't have an "inner circle" to whom you can turn to.

>>15544235
Most people who have that notion don't see a difference between mainlanders and other Chinese, and it's easier to apply an umbrella statement to all Chinese in general, since in their perspective it doesn't hurt anyone to lump all Chinese together as the same thing.

>>15546850
Depends on your phone. It varies from phone to phone and country of purchase. But it is possible.

Basically, look it up

>>15530426
Travel seems more trouble than its worth. There's so many logistical needs you need to take care of.... finding places to get food, being on time for public transportation, finding somewhere to stay, getting internet and having a working phone, getting cash in the local currency. All in a place you aren't familiar with. Ugh.

Add on top of that adjusting to the local timezone and it becomes a pretty stressful experience, IMO. I spend a lot of trips hungry, tired and in a bad mood. You can mitigate these problems with good planning if you're experienced, but if you're not you end up learning how to travel smart by making mistakes. Which is no fun.

Isn't it better to have holidays be relaxing breaks from the stress of every day life? Pretty much everything good about Japan we can get a distance in a mediated, controlled, convenient fashion, anyways.

>>15546985
Oh yeah. People from Hong Kong have been great in my experience. Much more polite and more knowledgeable about the world abroad. They don't stare at you like you're some sort of freak. They seem pretty used to seeing people of different appearance from different countries. I'm sure they've got their own annoying tendencies, though.

>>15546985
There have been huge spreads of Chinese throughout different parts of the world, so much so that one in SEA and one in China with 5-6 generations of cultural changes don't really have the same mindset on things anymore. It's like saying all of mainland Chinese are terrible tourists, which is incredibly biased. A LARGE proportion of the middle class population (who're mostly the ones contributing to travel) have said mindset with terrible attitudes, and they're mostly the previous generations rather than the current one.
In short, mainland Chinese who are 20-30 years of age, the younger generation, would most likely be better tourists

if you are in Osaka, then don`t buy any food at 7/11, just find スーパー玉出(suupaa tamade) and buy bento's(about 300yen) and other food there.
You also may try to find　業務スーパー（gyoumu suupaa) it`s cheaper than Aeon.

i`m living in Osaka, near Namba for about　one year

>>15547950

>>15546850
Look up MVNOs, and check which one your phone is compatible with. This alone will save you zillions of yen a year.

>>15544311
hahahaha you are prime example of a cuck.

>>15545712
Op. I make that much to. Find a better excuse.

>>15546819
Yeah. If you play it cheap. Watch round trip prices. Don't pat more than 1k and have someone drive to to and from airport.

>>15530317
My excuse is simple.

I am a naive dumbfuck hick who has never been to a town bigger than 10,000 people.

No matter how much I know at an objective level, even Tokyo or Osaka would chew me up.

>>15535255
>I wish they'd stay in their own country and never come out.
They problem think the same of you, honestly.

>>15549186
I don't care what non-humans think about me.

>>15549228
But that's irrelevant.
I was talking about other members of Homo Sapiens.

I am going on an academic year study abroad to Nagoya University starting this September.

AMA

>>15530426
Americunt go out

>>15547950
Will do

>>15530317
RUGBY WORLD CUP 2019 HERE I COME

I live in Japan...
For four years now...
Working as a game programmer...
Fluent in Japanese...

What's your excuse?

>>15530422
In my opinion, Osaka is the best city in Japan. its just got so many little areas which have their own identity. like once when me and my brother were walking home we saw a small little underground Izukaya, we went downstairs drunk as fuck and ate some fuckin chicken. shit was cash as fuck

wrong board faglords

>>/trv/

>>15530434
>>15530451
>>15530456
>>15530476
Where do this normies come from?
Just respect this veteran >>15530426
that thinks go out is just a lack of imagination. You even started to bully him in group, as if your life style were superior. Could you all be more prudent and have in consideration What board is this and what kind of people is it full with?
And don't get me wrong I think that travel is fine, but OP just shows his experience with such disgrace because he faced the true. Japan is not some easy place to go and start living as if it were nothing. You really gotta have a good fucking reason to live there and not only for trivial things.

>>15554165
>its just got so many little areas which have their own identity

>>15554289
>muh epic /jp/sie meymeys

>>15554127
did you go to a /jp/ meetup last year?

>>15549180
I'm from Iowa surrounded by corn and churches. I loved Tokyo

I went to Japan for the second time recently. Stayed 3 weeks. I just got back last week. I even went to the /pol/ meetup in Akihabara and hung out with a bunch of fat neckbeards.

Would definitely recommend. Don't know travel til you've tried it.

I've lived in Japan for 4 years, work for a Japanese company and speak fluent Japanese but I don't really have many friends here

I guess I mostly just like 2d (occasionally 3d) girls and don't feel much affinity for the typical guy here - anyone else similar?

>>15564148
whats wrong with the guys?

>>15564238
They're not like my chinese cartoons..

>>15564244
True but everything is different, japan id not anime wonderland what some people may think.

akiba is the only exception

>>15564244
I can't speak for Japanese people but have you ever met Asians? You'll have to get used to their way of, well, "existing".

>>15564238
I can't speak for Japanese people but have you ever met Asians? You'll have to get used to their way of, well, "existing".

>>15564346
Faggot.

>>15564347
It's a literal fact that you have to adapt to a change in environment or in this case culture. If you're European and you go interact with Asians for the next year, you'll have to get used to a different attitude.

kusothread

>>15564359
>hurr hurr i have to adapt to other people its so hard

Takeshi will never give you a ride on his kick ass car with this attitude

I will live in Kawasaki near Tokyo for a whole year.
Should I get vaccinated for Japanese Encefalytis? I got inconsistent information from my doctor and the tropical medicine institute, so maybe any local over there that can inform me more properly?

>>15564377
Who are you quoting?

>>15564484
Just go to the hospital when you're dying

>>15564484
What goes through your mind that causes you to decide that /jp/ is the correct place to ask travel-related medical questions?

>>15564520
Well, at least he doesn't have to worry about neurological damage, seeing as he hardly has any neurons at all.

>>15530492
>Dates
>Without speaking any Japanese
So just English teachers?

>>15559417
Since when does /pol/ do Akihabara meet ups?

Were there a lot of non whites?

>>15530492
>A guest house in Nishi-Nippori.
3Q?

>>15536247
How much is that a month? Where can I find something like this?

>>15565227
No. Backpackers

>>15567824
Don't know about that place, but I paid 600 dollars for mine (30 days). It's right next to a metro station and it takes only like 8 minutes to get to Tokyo Station.

Airbnb is a godsend for budget travelers and people who don't want to stay in hotels.

>>15568484
>Debian on a pre Shitovo Thinkpad
This is a nice picture

>>15545494
Bumping this.
I want to believe.

>>15565168
Asking myself the same.
Kinda.
How do get to know people in japan when you have absolutly no connections at all.

I'm going to Japan for 3 weeks, spending about a week in 3 major cities.

Best places to satisfy wanderlust but without having to do all the touristy stuff?

>>15569538
Just go wherever. The further you stray from the touristy areas the better.

>>15569538
Why do you think you're above tourist activities?

>>15569562
I don't think I'm above it, I'm just not into it really.

I still want to go feed the deer at nara park and hike a little bit of Fuji, but I'm just not interested in most of it.

>>15530317
I got beat up and pissed on in Japan for not knowing Japanese.

I wouldn't recommend going there if you can't speak it. It was shit and my money was stolen and even before that I got ripped of on everything I bought even though I could see the price but they kept insisting it was a higher price until I paid because I didn't want to go put everything I had back.

>>15569602
How do you know that's why if you don't understand Japanese?

>>15569611
Work on your english before you start on japanese.

>>15569611
What are you even trying to say?

>>15569562
Not that guy, but there's a lot of touristy places that are really overhyped and ruined by the sheer amount of people there. Particularly in Kyoto, being the big tourist city.

>>15530317
I'm kind of interested of buying a bunch of blu rays whenever I inevitably take a trip to Japan. I've never been much into merch but this would be something I'd be interested in. How easy is it to buy blu rays (with English subtitles) in Japan? If so, do you have any advice as to where I should go/shop?

>>15570717
>blu rays (with English subtitles)
>(with English subtitles)

Apart from a very small selection of stuff, not much.

>>15570717
>How easy is it to buy blu rays (with English subtitles) in Japan?

Does anyone know who owns Takaragawa onsen?

I tried googling that plus 持ち主 and all I got were some websites that didn't really say much.

Me and the gf, yes I know, fucking normie, REEE, etc... are going to be going early November/late October.

We aren't too focussed on weeb stuff, maybe a few days in Tokyo for shibuya, akihabara and the imperial palace.

So far we are going to be staying at a flash ryokan for a night, going to a bunch of mountain onsen since the autumn foliage is supposed to be awesome, some hikes, traditional gardens and maybe the nuke museum too. What would you guys recommend? Kyoto and Nara are definitely on the list too.

We want to go there to see the country, meet the people and experience the culture. My weeb speak is passable for getting around as well.

>>15570717
>>15570775
>Go to Japan for high school trip
>Fuck yeah advent children Blu ray and ff13 demo is out over here.
>Buy it
>Hype as fuck
>Get home and run it

Fuck, no English.

>>15576007
Who are you quoting?

>>15576016
Myself obviously, do I need to start greentexts with

>Be me

Like a fucking redditor now?

>>15576028
we don't "greentext" on /jp/ please leave you dishonor us with your presence

>>15576035
Gr8 b8 m8 I'd r8 it 8/8

>>15576028
>Myself obviously
Don't lie please. Quote of yourself will be your photo image.

>>15576001
>My weeb speak is passable for getting around as well.

Generally everyone overrates themselves. Chances are you'd shit yourself the moment some Japanese person would speak at you in Japanese. And if you mean get around as in orientation by signs, that's pointless, every sign is in English anyway.

That said, I recommend Hakone. Super easy trip from Tokyo, you'll enjoy nice nature and onsens and on your way back you can stop on Odawara castle.

Also Tokyo Edo Hakubutsukan in Ryogoku is pretty good. It's so insanely detailed, if you take it all in, you become a scholar of life in Edo.

Also desu Shibuya and Akihabara are pointless to visit unless you specifically want to something in them. Especially Shibuya. What's in there for normies like you? The statue of Hachiko and expensive shops? What's in Akihabara for normies? Expensive shops and some posters with anime girls to oogle? Expensive shops are all over Tokyo desu. Not even saying all this to be mean, I geuinely think these two aren't worth visiting simply as tourist destinations. Go to Asakusa instead, for example, it's not even that far from Ryogoku.

>>15569602
>>15569611
Cancerous retards

>>15532720
Those kind of people don't post on 2hu boards anon.
I'm acquaintances with 3 people who've gone though.

1 guy is math major, presently doing grad school in kyoto. [no moon]

1 guy is a graphic artist / 3d designer, met some jap chick in his degree program, and is now working with a certain game company's japanese branch (they're trying to break into that market). [pretty good at the language, basically self-taught]

1 guy saved up money (from military), cashed in some investments and is paying $10k a year to live in japan on a student visa studying Japanese at one of those language schools for 2 years. he was talking about going to undergrad there too, but how is he going to afford it? not sure what his endgame is -- maybe he's planning to land a cake and marry into permanent residence. he started with just a few months of self-taught moon but he'll be fluent by the end of 2 years i'm sure.

>>15577752
>tfw self taught moon for about two years
>Lived on both coasts of the US, not particularly impressed with either and want to move abroad (not necessarily Japan, just anywhere)
>Pace is shitty because I'm doing an computer engineering degree with a 110% full schedule and have very little time to spend on moon.
>Feel like I'm going to be swept away onto the next part of life as soon as I graduate without a chance to actually decide what I want to do

Maybe I'll try looking for internships abroad or something over my summers, but I would have no idea where to start. I wish was blissfully unaware enough to be in a Humanities major with 1/3 the course load.

>>15578475
>Pace is shitty because I'm doing an computer engineering degree with a 110% full schedule and have very little time to spend on moon.
>Feel like I'm going to be swept away onto the next part of life as soon as I graduate without a chance to actually decide what I want to do
Amazing how you've just described exactly how I feel about graduating next year. Like I'm going to get some offer for a job that I won't be able to refuse. I'm also doing CpE btw.

I'm doing my best to steer the currents though -- grinding hard to pass JLPT N1 before I graduate so I can get that onto the resume, and looking to apply for companies with japanese divisions, or to grad school opportunities in japan.

>>15578795
I honestly feel like grad school might be my only way to give myself time to catch my breath, take a half-course load and work internships at the same time all the way through. I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling that way about it

>>15559417
>/pol/ meetup in Akihabara
heard about this. how was it ?

>>15530317
Plane ride is expensive.

>>15580046
If you live in the US, drive up to canada and fly out from there. It cuts the cost of plane tickets in half. I bought one a week in advance in the middle of summer for $700 round trip out of vancouver.

Airbnb is 25 a night for a private room.

You can always find a cheap shokudo to eat at

>>15569611
Sounds like you are talking bullshit.

>>15554127
How is the pay? How many days/hours per week do you work?

>>15583002
good question. bump

I'm planning to move to Japan one of these days. Are caretakers for the disabled paid well enough to pay off rent and not shit myself to poverty?

>>15576028

That was over 2 years ago OP, it doesn't count anymore.

Also please call me.

invaders from itt

>>15530317
Lack of money.

>>15589985
You are gonna stab people, aren't you?

>>15590311
she looks sad

>>15530317
kuso is that you?

>>15580584
It's like $600 round trip out of LAX (LA), provided you got your tickets in advance.

I'm in Japan right now, got here a few days ago. Currently setting up my apartment.

>>15580627
Naw, my friend got all his shit stolen too. There's some bad areas of Japan. There's places in Kyuushuu where Japanese people get their shit stolen constantly. I lived there for like 3 months.

>>15536247
>>15568484
Our comfy rooms in Nipponland? Our comfy rooms in Nipponland.

>>15592964
Nice view dude

>>15592785 here
>>15592964
This is my view. Still getting set up, though.

I want to live there but I have no skills that would make me useful. Hell, I'm hardly useful here. Most I can do is visit I guess

>>15592964
>>15568484
gee, these sure are great

>>15530317
I hate flying.

>>15530512
My nig, I used to live there.

>>15583002
Sorry, I didn't see this.
I make about 220,000円 a month. I work five days
a week, about 10 - 12 hrs a day. Tons of overtime.
I'm relatively new to the game industry, that's why my
salary is so low.

>>15593029
Looks a lot more organized (and empty) than my room.

>>15593082
same t.b.h