/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>18461718
>Why are you such a weeboo?
>First thing I said in the post is that I don't give a shit about anime and manga

Nice job mate.

>>18463435
who quoting?

>>18463461
The one post I quoted?

Moriya shrine

>>18464198

Don't know if it's me or what but why are there almost no pictures from Okinawa?

>>18463435
You speak like every depressed person, weeaboo or not, that thinks Japan will save them. It'll only make things worse. A year in language school with some vague dream of getting some random hob where you'll be just a disposable gaijin is no way to live happily.

>>18465088
>let me tell you about your life

Also

>You speak like every depressed person, weeaboo or not, that thinks Japan will save them.

Nice assumptions.
Absolute retard.

>>18465477
Good luck in Japan.

Can we stop this shitty discussion and instead post photos from Japan?

>>18465088
>>18465477
Fuck off

Anyone got pictures from this year's Sapporo snow festival?

>>18465940
I like this one, where was it taken?
Also, I totally agree, these useless arguments are squandering our post limit. I wish I had photos to share as well, as I have been examining the architecture though the images posted in these threads.

>>18466740

>>18464208

>>18466268
It was taken at Yamadera.

>>18469271

Whats with all the vending machine pictures?

>>18469567
>HUUUUUR WHY VEND MACHINE IN JAPAN PIC THREAD HUUUUUR

>>18469271
I wonder if those beers are at an acceptable temperature to drink.

>>18469271
>three cig machines, one beer machine
terrible lack of symmetry. needs another beer machine on the other end.

Shimanami Kaido was definitely one of the best experiences I've had in Japan.

Anyone got ryokan,onsen,rotenburo pictures?

>>18471873
As long as you mean cold, I'm sure they're fine.

>>18471873
8 degrees is acceptable, right?

>>18473857
>>18473850
8 Degrees is definitely not acceptable for some styles but should be fine for most.

Do they remain refrigerated even in the peak of summer?

>>18473884
>Do they remain refrigerated even in the peak of summer?
Of course.
Though before you go trying to buy from that beer machine you need either a Japanese drivers license or be able to convince the operator on the other end of the intercom you are over 20.

>>18474196
>or be able to convince the operator on the other end of the intercom you are over 20.

and how the fuck do I do that as a foreigner?
I mean, I'm 28 and definitely look this old. Can I just show my passport with my birthday date?

>>18474387
I dunno. I just use my Japanese license.

>>18474658
I don't have one, my dude.

>>18474737
Well, you can always conbini instead.

>>18464208
Did you make one yourself? Is this >>18468753
yours?

>>18474992
>you think YOU'RE having a bad day?

>>18474992
Do they just keep that for display?

Never was a fan of fish head, too fishy and bony.

>>18462769
Awesome pictures, everyone.

Lately I've found myself wishing that I lived in Japan, but then my inner "adult" kicks in and reminds me about how expensive and stressful it would be and that I'd be lucky to even get approved for a worker's visa. Life just kind of sucks sometimes.

>>18469567
Japan: land of vending machines.

I would be nice to have them here too, but can't trust even a damn telephone pole to these damn 3rd world shitholes.

>>18465088
>>18465477
Fuck off.

>>18475994
You can make awesome soup with fish head.

>>18476467
>expensive and stressful
stop believing every fucking meme please

>>18473579
After seeing how highly people think of it on here, I gave it a prominent spot in my itinerary during my trip to Japan this summer. I'm going to cycle it halfway, stay a night on one of the islands, and then cycle the rest of the way to Ehime. I can't wait.

>>18477983
>already beaten to death
>huuuur fuck off

No, YOU fuck off you absolute subhuman garbage.

>>18482417
I recommend it warmly. I went the other way, starting in Imabari going to Onomichi. You get to start with the more uphill parts and the highest bridge, and also end it with the Onomichi ferry. I felt like that was the better choice. You can also stay a night or two in Onomichi, which is charming in itself.

>>18478970
Where is this? Looks great!

>>18486362
That's Ondooohashi (音戸大橋) in Hiroshima.

Thank you mods for keeping this thread comfy

>>18492018
Oh snap it's the one from the camera

Hello 風景friends. I come seeking photos of コンビニ.

>>18494620
Unfortunately I don't really take photos of convenience stores because they're not interesting.

>>18495007
Honestly, I wish I took pictures of my local conbini when I was there. I feel so close to them since I visited one of them almost every day, and I never took a picture of one. I'm pretty bummed out about it, actually.

>>18494620
In all my time there this is basically the only photo of a conbini I took. :(
It was my last conbini visit.
Hope someone shows up with some nice conbini pics.

>>18494620

>>18498699
Is this Golden Gai ? The punk bar is pretty neat

>>18498663
nice

>>18495007
What about capsule hotels?

>>18498663
PLEASE POST MORE JAPANESE 7-11s

>>18504351
I've been to one but again they're not very interesting.
Also, they're pretty public places, so filming/photography should be done with permission.
Also, also, they have free porn on the TVs.

>>18499085
yeah it is. went there like 3-4 nights in a row (i don't even remember lol) and it was heaps of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbH6qHczbEU
This is nice

Took this a few years ago, I really like it.

>>18504806

Stayed at a internet cafe the other day when I locked myself out.

It was pretty nuts. They had a ton of porn on the computers, and would even let you download and transfer it to a USB stick.

>>18505504
Must be because you were there, it's an... ordinary pic, really.

>>18506256

>an ordinary pic

That is what this thread is about. We have people begging for conbini and vending machine pictures here.

That said, he could have panned up a bit. Cutting off the top of the building on the left is distracting, and the empty street in front is kinda boring, but it isn't terrible.

>>18504806
I’m fascinated by the architecture and interior design of capsule hotels. I’m surprised they’ve never been in an eroge or some sort of visual novel.

>>18506341
>That is what this thread is about.

Not really.
Vending machine and conbini pictures are very "japanesey" on their own.

That anon's picture is just a road with some buildings, nothing interesting at all going there.

Some vending machines are really varied, colorful, "funny" even.

>>18506764
Well, unless it's a same sex eroge/VN then they probably won't appear because they tend to be segregated.

>>18508559
Well,it could be an all ages VN like Chaos Child, or maybe a hypno eroge to explain the sneaky banging.

Anyone have non body pics of aokigahara?

I'm not sure if the person who posted this photo
has found the answer of its whereabouts, I might have found the location. 〒643-0004 Wakayama-ken, Arida-gun, Yuasa-chō, Yuasa, 湯浅町湯浅304, the shop name is 彼乃子(next to 平和食堂 having 大東一, which appears to be Wakayama's local sake brand, on their sign). Surprisingly enough, they are still open in 2018 as it has one google review saying their 釜めし is quite good. Don't know why google translated 釜めし as ramen though. And I cannot be 100% certain for this information unfortunately, since there is no street view provided.

This is "NIshi-Tengacyaya street" in Osaka
maps/L9fRDpV2ui82

>>18512880
Woah, anon, Nice CSI JOB there.
I posted it last time, took the photo from an older archived thread where OP posted it w/o further info.

Have this other /comfy/ building I found out another photo here.

>>18505504
Honestly, I really like how empty it looks. Most photos I've seen of this street have lots of cars going by. To me, this photo captures a very interesting atmosphere.

>https://youtu.be/Kg43lCl60NQ

I’ll just leave this here because I remember some anon said they liked this.

Used to have a tumblr page full of beautiful Japanese photography but my account was banned without reason. The tumblr community are easily triggered so someone probably reported me for my Hitler-kun pics or the occassional trolling when I couldnt resist it.

>>18476467
Just learn nip and apply for jobs. Life isn't bad at all if you're not a English teacher monkey and you actually speak the language.

>>18524638
not him, but what positions are available for non-teacher baka gaijins?

Business liaison?

>>18524789
Anything.

Hell, you don't even need to speak Japanese to work where I work. We have gaijins that don't speak shit since we have western clients that don't speak nip either.

Guess if I had to say one thing gaijin programmers are everywhere at /jp/ meetups. Just make sure you know your shit well so you can get avoid becoming a code monkeys. (Nip code monkeys are pajeet tier) If you're competent by western standards, you can be a god here.

>>18524813
I guess you could survive without learning Japanese, but I wouldn't want to live that way. You will be like a child who needs a grown-up to guide you through any adult situation. If you want to move to Japan, learning Japanese should absolutely be your first step. It opens so many doors for you and will make your life here so much better.

>>18473325
amazing

I saw these clowns twice on the same day. I'm surprised it's still legal.

You could take a foot-onsen in this cafè. Pretty neat.

>>18542109
are those gaijin?
>>18542228
>>18542207
>>18542148
>>18542139
very beautiful. I am jealous of you. cafè is wrong though.

>>18542252
English is not my native language, sorry about that.
Yeah, they are foreigners, not sure how they sign up for it, but it's apparently a regular thing that happens.

>>18532261
>>18524813
>>18524638
such contradictory lines of thought...
I mean, not these ones I quoted but on 4chan in general.

Just the other day I asked on a Japan General thread on /trv/ about moving to Japan and the only answers I got were

>you fucking nigger you're stupid
>you'll only be stressed out
>lmfao english teacher

No one willing to help, doom and gloom only. Can I ask you guys a question? Would you please reply sincerely instead of just being another shitty troll from /b/? (which I don't think you'd be judging how you replied nicely to that other anon). I'll ask on a new post because char limit

>>18543892
I had to work and couldn't finish my question and now I have to sleep...

I'll post later.

>>18542358
It's mainly foreigners. It's 'wacky japan', same as robot restaurant, so everyone knows about it and since they are hardcore targeted at foreigners, they have English websites. And I've seen at least one group that was led by a foreign guide.

>>18542358
Beautiful, I love the windows

>>18546939
Here's one from the inside. It's Dougo Onsen in Matsuyama.

>>18540715
>>18541924
comfy

Levitation in the air pants
Camouflage pants

>>18544782
>>18543892
>>18524638
>>18524813
>>18532261

Sorry for taking so long, work had me busy...

I have some money I can use to get me to Japan, but I'm not sure what's the best thing to do in my case. I don't really mind working long hours because I already have to do so here in my country and I'm also not paid for it... dress codes, etc, these things don't bother me.

Anyway, the way I see it I could go to those language school courses for 2 years and search for a job before the student visa ends up, because that way I'd be more attractive to the market in Japan as a whole (I have a bachelors degree in my country but it's pretty much useless since its not STEM). I already speak some Japanese and have completed Genki 1/2 so I'm not a total beginner. You guys said knowing Japanese would open many doors so this is one bet I'd take because in order to live there and pay for tuition etc I'd use the money I have saved up (btw I don't know if this matters but I also speak English, Spanish, German and Portuguese). I want to remain in Japan so I'd need to find a sponsor for my visa after the language school. What are the odds of making this come true?

I suppose the other option I have is simply going to University in Japan for a new Bachelor's Degree.... the problem with this is obvious, as it requires 4 years and much more money, but I suppose it's a safer bet than the mentioned previously.

>>18542068
My man, I was just at Onomichi the other day too. I might even have brushed shoulders with you.

>>18548927
Why do you keep bothering people?

Japan doesn’t want you,they only want native English speakers. The requirements are getting stricter all the time.

>>18548927
I don't know what country you're in, but if you can travel and improve your Japanese I would recommend checking out the bilingual career forum (https://careerforum.net/en/).). I am a native English speaker with N2 Japanese and a STEM bachelor's degree, and I was able to land a 正社員 position in Japan that way. I don't know how well other gaijin do, but I was able to squeeze at least one job offer out of it.

>>18549916
So another shitposter.
Keep going, you're just another of the countless I can add to filters and whatnot.

Also

>Japan doesn't want you, they only want English native speakers

Apparently they want even less qualified people then, as friends of mine, Filipino teachers, and what not. Good thing we now know you're an absolute moron.

>>18549976
>STEM

ah well, you're way ahead of me then.
Mind if I ask what field?

>>18549976
btw thank you very much for that website, it's a great resource!

>>18548927
The other anon is right, Japan doesn't want you, you even admitted you don't have a STEM degree. Stop being a pretentious twat.

>>18549976
Please stop enabling these idiots, you don't want to bring more of them to Japan.

>>18550591
Even for white people it’s tough, my friend has an it or computer science degree and it was hard for him to find a job. I don’t know why this Brazilian monkey keeps harping on japan when he’ll never be able to speak the language anyway.

>>18550870
Most of the people that want to move to Japan are completely delusional, whether they're anglos that actually have a free pass to become an 英会話 or third world monkeys.

They don't even care about Japan, they have an idealized image of it, formed from anime and lolsorandum commercials that they saw on YouTube, and of course JAV.

>>18550942
>that image

Fucking shit, does he even realize most japanese girls cream themselves at the thought of wearing a western wedding dress?

Anyway,back on topic anyone have pics of natural hot springs with no people, stuff like beppu?

>>18550942
>>18550870
Nice assumptions.

>mm-muh anime, you don't know enough a-about Japan
>y-you'll neveer speak Japanese cuz I say so Cuz i tried and its hard huuur

Guess the thread is full of failures who can't admit being wrong and the only thing they can do is cry about muh whiteness in response.

Carry on, I'll post updates from Japan when I'm there just so I can rub it in your faces, remember this just so in the future you can look back on this day and realize how much of a fucking subhuman mongoloid you guys are.

>>18551438
Dude, you have no STEM, you can’t speak Japanese, and you’re spoken English probably sounds like someone gargling a dick. The odds are not good, maybe you should play the lottery.

This is the last time I’m going to address you,so stop shitting up the thread, it’s called nihon no fukei,not help retard on his kawaii waifu quest. Stop begging and whining and spewing your diarrhea. Do it again and I report you so mod and janny handle it.

>>18551130
I've been to Beppu.
It's steamy.

Anybody have any pictures from around the Hokuriku area?

>>18551438
I made it and from what I've read so far I'm sure you won't make it.

>>18549886
When were you there? I arrived the 12th February and left the 14th. It's a nice city, don't you think?

>>18551130
A few.

>>18551130
Not directly an "onsen", but I loved how the color of the water turned out.

>>18551130
Some Beppu. Individually, these famous hot springs are very expensive to visit if you want to see them all, so I only did a few.

>>18551130
One of the many onsen in Kurokawa.

Japan is a beautiful country

>>18553138
Shame about the Japanese.

>>18553026
I was there on March 2nd. I guess we didn't see each other then. The city is a cosy little place; I loved the twisting pathways up on the hill. I was walking around them at night and it felt for all the world like zombies were going to jump out around the next corner, which was a little creepy, but a lot of fun.

>>18551595
>shitpost repeatedly at someone presumed to be a BR
>HUE HUR I REPOT U
ironic shitposting is still shitposting, anon.

Kumamoto Electric Railway, 1976

Does anyone else remember the rumors that bill gates was building a house in karuizawa?

Was it confirmed to be him and did pictures of the house ever emerge?

>>18555424
http://bunbunmaru.com/wakaba/photos/res/27256.html

At the very end is a google maps link with the supposed house. Tried to post it but for some fucking reason we still have a spam filter.

>>18469271
>>18469567

>>18553046
This is one of those jigokudani right?

What’s the hottest but usable hotspring in japan?

https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/10/21/steamy-onsen-bathing-gallery/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/14/onsen-idol-gallery/

So...any onsen maniacs who can tell me where all these were taken?

is japan just one big fire hazard?

>>18565895

Pretty much.

There are extinguishers and water buckets all over to combat fire. Plus someone walks down the street every night for fire watch to remind people to be careful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gU8W3svTPk

More like this.

From my time in the Aomori prefecture (3 years)

I don't have many pictures on this computer. Most of my photos from Japan are saved on a partially functional external at this point.

>>18462769
>Modern or traditional, urban or rural, landscape or macro, anything is good.

OK /jp/ I have a question and this thread seemed to be at least related....

I have a painting of Mount Fuji (Pic Related) and I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what the kanji signature reads???

I don't know if it is something 'special' or just a piece for the tourist trade. It came from my grandfather and I know he had it since at least the 60's. (a pic of their house shows it on a wall in 1970)
The odd part of that is he served in Germany and France in WWII, but he was 1 of 6 cousins that all served and some of them were in the Pacific and occupied Japan, so maybe they traded trophies or something.....I'll never know the answer to that as they are all too dead to tell me now....

I appreciate any answers you may give, Thanks /jp/

>>18462769
>>18574083

And a closeup of the kanji

>>18574090
そら水?

>>18575116
>そら水?
Surabaya

The googles do nothing but tell me that is the name of a city in Java, but the kanji is pretty stylized so maybe a character is different and making a different word....

~thanks for trying, anyway

>>18574083
>>18574090
try /wsr/

Haruna Shrine, Gunma

>>18584887
Best prefecture, minamikami best town.

>>18584938
Gunma is most definitely NOT the best prefecture.

>>18584943
what is the best one?

>>18584943
Gunma has takaragawa onsen,and excluding cities like tokyo and Kyoto, it is definitely the best.

Spring starts in Akiba

>>18556168
Raining
Natsu no gogo ni...

>>18464208
Do you think that pisses off some deities?

>>18592355
Do you think deities actually exist?

>>18592355
>>18593770
If gods are real, they're probably happy to be thought of in an increasingly irreligious world.

>>18476467
Part of me wants to go to Japan. The other part of me wants to keep it as a mysterious land I can imagine running off to.
Going to Japan is just running away from your problems. It would probably be great for a couple years but it would quickly become routine.

>>18594115
You're right.
>been living in japan for two years

>>18593770
Yes, I think the question makes that rather obvious.

https://twitter.com/michsuzu/status/973013903989923840

>>18594115
I've never lived in Japan, but I have travelled there for a decade. There's shitty stuff there too, like everywhere, it's just less noticeable in the beginning. I love the country but I could never live there, mostly because of the working conditions.

>>18598168
What sort of shitty stuff do you mean? Aside from the obvious, like working conditions. You would think most new startups or tech companies would have more favorable ones that go against the stereotype.

>>18574083
Think it reads "玉泉".

>>18598301
Mainly the working culture, yeah. I earn over double the amount that some of the manual laborers there do, with a normal 40h schedule each week. And four more weeks of paid vacation each year, compared to their one week. Some of them don't even get that.
Aside from that, Chinese tourists flooding the country, making it impossible to go anywhere without hearing one of them shout at each other. I don't know if that's a recent phenomenon, but I definitely notice them more now than before.
Crowded cities (I come from a small town not even 0,1% the populaton of Tokyo), so for me, I could never stay in the big cities. Staying in one of the smaller towns or even the inaka seems much more laid-back, so I guess there's that option.

Maybe a temporary working visa would be OK, or even studying there for some time. I think I would still prefer being a tourist.

>>18476467
If it is an option for you, I'd suggest a working holiday visa to see what it's like to live here. Then if you like it, you can try looking to live here permanently. Otherwise, I would suggest a language school. This would also allow you to try living and working in Japan, while learning the language. If you already know Japanese though, it's kind of a waste of money (was for me at least) but it would still let you come here.
If you're in your 30s with a career and maybe even a family or something, then yeah, dropping everything to come to Japan isn't the best idea. But if you are a dude living at home still, then why not? Even if you end up deciding to go back home, at least you have the experience and can say you did something.
Also Japan is not expensive at all.

>>18602339
>Otherwise, I would suggest a language school.

Seconding this.

Even if your Japanese is pretty damn good, a good language school will still teach you a bunch.

>>18602351
>a good language school

such as?

>>18602339
>it's kind of a waste of money (was for me at least)

not if enrolling at business classes.

>>18602339
>Also Japan is not expensive at all.
You're talking about everywhere but Tokyo, right?

>>18606210
Yes. The first place I lived in was 20,000 yen a month rent and included internet. This is in a city of 2 million. Sure the place was rather shitty, but Japan is hardly expensive unless you are for some reason dead set on living in the middle of Tokyo.

>>18565895

Only when Godzilla show up!?

>>18552698
>>18553046

I was there back in 2006
Took this photo of one of there fun places

the Big Budda is halo?

>>18607996

this is it back?!

>>18607996
>>18608002

And here our it shoes?!

Seeing this thread makes me really bummed that GTA Tokyo never happened.

>>18609960
We dodged a bullet there, imagine if the kind of mouth-breathers that play GTA religiously all became weaboos.
Although I concur that a good open-world game set in Japan would be fun.

>>18552922
We'll see anon, we'll see.

>>18608016
Those look uncomfortable

>>18554302
Why is she spreading her skirt?

>>18617562
That's called a "curtsey"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtsey

>>18617606
No it's not, it's literally just a kid being a kid.
That age they basically have no shame still.

Post ryokan.

>>18621965

>>18621605

>>18622423
Honestly pictures like this being fascinating to weeaboos is proof of just how delusional most of them are.
Japan is a completely ordinary country like any other. There's nothing mysterious about it after you've lived here for a few years.

>>18622495
What's wrong with thinking something that you've never seen live is mysterious and fascinating?

Of fucking course it's gonna become normal after you've seen it a lot of times.

>>18622495
>Pictures of everyday scenes of different cultures are interesting to people who don't see them every day but not interesting to people who do
BIG IF TRUE

>>18622580
>>18622575
Well I particularly pointed out the picture of an ordinary room with an actual TV, it's not like it's a 16th century teahouse of a famous warlord or Kyoto during hanami (actually infested with chinks and not worth visiting). It's good that you acknowledge that it's ordinary, but I'd wager most people ITT don't, like the pajeet earlier in this very thread.
>>18550149
>>18548927
When I started learning Japanese I slowly started growing contempt for weeaboos and it physically makes me sick seeing someone use memes they learned from anime like saying "tadaima" when they got back on Ventrilo from doing whatever they were doing away from the keyboard. My friends did that, they probably still do. I wouldn't know because I slowly started phasing out all contact with them. They're probably still envious that I ""made it" and moved to Japan". and continue jerking off to Touhou and Oreimo.
Some of us grow up, others stay eternal manchildren. Keep yourselves grounded, it's not healthy obsess over cartoons, or rather, don't project your fantasies on real Japan.
If you're a /pol/baby that wants a "based traditional Japanese housewife" because you can't get laid in *whatever country you're from*, just kill yourself. Yellow fever fags are even worse than figure collectors.
You know how whenever someone posts a picture of an average Japanese woman, all the AVfags cry out and say "Ree, that's a cherrypicked class of schoolgirls, I know everyone in Japan looks like Aoi Sora!"? Don't be like them. Actually, even worse might be the ones that see average Japanese women and still think they are goddesses because they are ACTUALLY delusional and don't see what other people see.
Most expats, especially English teachers are actually retarded, only hang out with other weeaboos in their 30's because they never ACTUALLY try to learn Japanese.
If you're actually interested in the real Japan, you're welcome to become another cog in the system, just know that most women here do not look like AV idols, they won't worship you for being white, normal people will look down on you for owning a figure collection, you will make a third or a quarter of what you would back in the US, and you will always be regarded as an outsider, even after you get married to a used old gaijin hunter and have hapa offspring.

Honestly, I got a general interest in Asia from watching a documentary about China, I'll probably start learning Mandarin soon and see about getting a job in Taiwan a few years later. The only reason I picked Japanese in the first place is because I watched a lot of anime as a teen and knew I'd have lots of content to keep motivating my language studies. Turns out I toned down on anime and started almost exclusively watching 3d dramas because the EOP weeaboo communities like 4chan started pissing me off.
There's no denying that Japan is beautiful during certain times of the year, that's why I'm in this thread (looking for places to visit). You'll enjoy Japan more visiting as a tourist than living here. It's not worth the sunk cost, every expat you'll ever meet will tell you this yet hundreds of aspiring Davido-kuns never heed our warnings.

>>18622826
lul enjoy your shit 3d drama

>>18622826
>I live here, you silly anons don't know Japan.

There's a nugget of truth to your message, but as someone who also lives in Japan, you mostly just sound like you're jaded from being the guy you described and slowly growing out of it. It's a fine country, anon.

>>18622826
Without all of the thick contempt, couldn't you just caution towards not getting swept up in pop / entertainment culture? Because that sort of parallel exists in any country that exports entertainment, with Hollywood being the obvious example. Normal people never look like they do in movies or magazines, and often daily life is routine and whatever you decide to make of it.

There's a degree of acceptance that's probably hard to convey on an imageboard. Liking things is rarely bad in itself. Obsessing over things probably is bad. It's cool to watch even a lot of shows and grow interested in a different culture, but like you said you shouldn't treat those shows as anything other than entertainment. Use those shows as a launch pad to learn language or customs or whatever else.

>>18624145
>couldn't you just caution towards not getting swept up in pop / entertainment culture
The guy sounds like that's exactly what he fell for and that's why he's so currently butthurt.

>>18622826
All this salt

>>18622826
>Kyoto during hanami (actually infested with chinks and not worth visiting).
Go somewhere that is not in the Lonely Planet guide book.

Recent trip to Niigata.

A sake brewery, to be exact.

It's ridiculous how much snow they get on the Sea of Japan coast.

2m is totally normal, they told me.

>>18464368
I wanna go someday, but just haven't had the chance yet. Almost took a job there, but I found a place with better conditions in Tokyo.

At a service station on the way home.

>>18628738
Tropical-anon here, how the hell do they remove all those snow? Dig a path out?

>>18625045
>>18622826

All of Japan is invested with Chinese lately.

Everywhere you go you will be rudely interrupted by a bus load of Chinese tourists who lack even the most basic of manners.

>>18628810
Pretty much. I was told they plow the roads so they're driveable, but otherwise they just shovel it by hand or deal with it.

>>18622826
>actually infested with chinks and not worth visiting
>I'll probably start learning Mandarin soon and see about getting a job in Taiwan a few years later
Sounds like you've already started shitting on your new countrymen.

>>18573929
What and where did you like and dislike about Aomori?

>>18633945
>>18633927
>>18554302
I really like these historical photos.

>>18622826
I also live in Japan, but you probably just got the wrong job at the wrong company.

You really should have looked into what a　外資系 is at the very beginning.

I avoided most, if not all, of your woes by just going to a 外資系 from the get go instead of some 社畜 日系企業. (Make sure it's not 外資 just in name, but actually culturally 外資)

I get paid western wages, work western hours, and my bosses have western attitudes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/otarneberg/albums/72157651238720912

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajpscs/albums/72157625669665730/page2

>>18622826
You're what I call Weeaboo 2.0
You are angry and miserable and need to pretend that you're "above" everyone else because you used to be what you hate now.
If you're this easily pissed off you won't last a day with the Chinese (Taiwan included).
Also your friends don't represent everyone who has an interest in Japan, it sounds like you hung out with the worst types.

Loving the historical photos

>>18655299
Eerie yet also comfy somehow

>>18654218
I love old photos like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOGClmmeao

TORII

>>18475805
whoruquot

>>18634697
What sort of work do you do, if you don't mind my asking?

>>18621467
That was a fucking curtsey my dude

>>18663907
Got any WW2 era photos?

>>18664443
Not much because it requires a lot of digging through charred corpses, hacked up chinese women, and propaganda.

>>18664443
>>18669067

WW2 Japan is boring anyway.

Meiji Restoration and Post war period are best.

>>18622826
I can't honestly tell if you're just larping, or just really really bitter. Most of your complaints and warnings are so old they're considered antiques by now. (Hell, some of them didn't even apply when I first went to Japan in the late nineties, let alone today.)

Women don't particularly care about your skin color unless they have a reason to. Yeah, some of them don't date outside their race. Yeah, some of them know their parents are never, ever going to condone it. Most don't give a shit, and more than a few really are interested because you're foreign. (Many of them will tell you this, not realizing that a lot of guys would probably take it the wrong way.) Sure, if you're looking for "actual love" you're in for a rough ride, as you systematically pick though all the gaijin hunters, English lesson hounds, and other undesirables. If you're just looking to get it in, not a problem at all.

The weebs you're worried about misunderstanding the real Japan should be the least of your concerns. They're exactly the sort of people who aren't going to make it across the pond in the first place, unless it's as an English teacher, and I don't need to tell you how long those types last in country. Or at least I shouldn't have to.

And honestly, no one is judging you for having a figure collection. No more so than they'd judge a native in the same situation. The real question is whether or not you're the sort to give a fuck about what anyone, Japanese or otherwise, thinks of your hobbies and lifestyle outside of your own circle of friends. If you're honestly into that sort of crap, and you're surrounded by people who aren't and are judgmental about it, you should probably hang around other people, even in Japan. Hell, especially in Japan. Just saying.

About the only thing you've said that doesn't sound like it's right out of "I've been to Japan! Honest! - A Pictorial Bullshitters Guidebook" is the part about never being accepted. You're right about that. Most Japanese are never, ever going to accept you as a "native" in any real capacity, even if you're a citizen. The differences in skin color, attitude, and culture are just too great. But so what? Seriously, so fucking what? You're not hanging around people who have a problem with your nationality and heritage, right? Then there isn't an issue. The girl behind the counter at MOS doesn't give a fuck. She just wants to sell you a burger. Your boss doesn't give a fuck. He just wants you to do your damned job without stepping out in front of the train on your way home. Your girlfriend doesn't give a fuck. If she did, you wouldn't have a girlfriend.

>every expat you'll ever meet will tell you this
Except for all the ones who won't, in fact, tell you that. Myself included.

You really just sound like a "reformed" weeaboo who's angry, bitter, and a little embarrassed about how you used to act.

>>18660435
Financial industry consulting/compliance services. I guess I work with western and nip clients 50/50 or so.

I lost my desire to live in Japan after I learned that kuro-gyaru don't really exist anymore.

I'll still travel there as a tourist, and get a horrible disease from some roppongi bitchii, but my dreams have been crushed...

>>18676718
This

>>18622826
is a fag

>>18542109
Nintendo is starting to loose its patience
https://soranews24.com/2017/10/08/nintendo-shutting-down-real-world-mario-kart-fraud/

And the authorities are starting to grumble as well
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2134917/hit-and-run-involving-mario-kart-driver-could-spell-game-over

So we'll see, I wouldn't count on them being around by 2020 at least.

>>18688580
I find it bizarre that society accepts that you can own an idea. Copyright shouldn't exist in 99% of cases and while these cart fags are cringeworthy I'll still back them against some pus-oozing tumour like nintendo

>>18688764

>I find it bizarre that society accepts that you can own an idea.

Sorry, that idea belongs to the communists.

>>18689315
I'm talking about intellectual property

>>18688764
>own an idea
You're free to think about Mario as much and however you like. It's when you want to exploit Nintendo's design and PR work for profit that the copyright laws step in. (Not to say that IP laws aren't at times horribly misused, but the basic idea behind them has merit.)

>>18689698
How is this any different from piracy? You're making a copy of a concept (a fat italian plumber in red overalls), you aren't depriving nintendo of usage of that concept by doing so.

I like a lot this one.

Japan is really nice in March.

>>18473579
>Shimanami Kaido
I was driving back from a conference in matsuyama at night and missed it. I am so disappointed I did not get to see much.

>>18680009

>>18698716
She has such a lewd body...

>>18698716
Emergence IRL

>>18702550
I need it

bump

bumperino

Why is this thread so dead?

>>18715348
Haru yo~

>>18676718
>The differences in skin color
the skin color is the last thing that is different. race is not a skin color.

Anyone know any good places near tokyo (within 2 hours maybe?) that are kinda like pic related?

I just want the comfy countryside feel (but not too mountainous)

>>18723975

>>18723979

>>18723982

>>18723986

>>18723941
You'll probably find places most like that in Hokkaido really

>>18723941
You shouldn't have to go very far. Non Non Biyori's backwater inaka town is set in Saitama.

>>18464208
>please show me the path to gensokyo

>>18676718
>He just wants you to do your damned job without stepping out in front of the train on your way home.
Well, some bosses.

That last point you make is an interesting one. A lot of people get uptight about not being accepted as native, and think it's a requirement. Maybe because I was raised in Canada by Brits and see myself as English-Canadian, that whole issue doesn't bother me. I lived in Korea for a while, and never felt accepted as a native despite fluency. I also lived in Japan for a while and had the same thing (albeit with more special treatment). But you know, it never really bothered me. I like being different and having my own perspective on stuff, and it gives you lots to talk about with people who are natives. I would never want to be Japanese, even if I wanted to continue living there.

>>18737155
I find it terrifying that most wealthy and important oligarchs believe culture to be a fixed thing the individual has no power to change. That's not how culture works. Defending your nation's heritage is like trying to dam up a swelling river - you can't stop the water from going where it wants to go

>>18474925

That looks familiar. I took mine 10/27/2017.

>>18738125
About three years after mine.

>>18462769
Wow. Japan looks like shit.

>>18739380
btfo. will japan ever recover?

>>18737352
I wonder who could be behind this post

>>18737352
I think there's a difference between defending/respecting heritage and demanding no change, though there is overlap for some folks.
I like the philosophy of recognize your heritage, preserve that which matters, but carry it into a brighter future.

>>18702550
my man

>>18742715
I should clarify what I meant. I have no issues with people protecting their own heritage through individual action and thought. I likewise have no problem with people coming together for the same purpose to preserve and promote their own heritage. And I don't really care if governments promote a specific national heritage. What I don't like is the idea of "defending" your heritage by imposing it on others. Either by censoring the speech of others or (more insidiously) using authority to compel speech.

However a lot of new people on 4chan are warming up to the idea that this is needed, to make the bad things and people go away. Plus ça change...

>>18743101
I also don't want to get into a thread-derailing argument and won't be responding to anyone who tries to pick one with me

Post more 1950s era technicolour

>>18745684

>>18602351
that is very expensive too cost of lessons and housing and stuff. I presume you have to do all those stuff by yourself :/

>>18744011
We would greatly appreciate it if you could search for those images on your own.

>>18622423
that shit looks comfy but also boring and really poor

does every japanese person in the city live in an apartment or townhouse? are there suburbs and shit? in the rural areas the houses in the burbs seem to be pretty small compared to the US. our suburbs are stacked

>>18751840
In some of the less populated Tokyo wards you can get small townhouses for the equivalent of $300k US

I imagine that on the periphery of smaller cities there are cheaper houses.

>>18751840

I live in a small house about a five minute walk from the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.

Problem is that a house is pricey, and a pain when you have to move for work.

>>18752390
On a tangent, it's always been interesting to know that Akiba is about the same distance from the old moats of Edo Castle. You would never think that selling dojinshi and figs could pay for rents in that area.

>>18752378 >>18752390

what about renting?


unrelated? do japs like black people? not niggers but if a black person learned japanese and geniunely cared about japan would he be a regular gaijin like a white person or would he be a baka kokugaijin

>>18752485
i met this black dude with a japanese wife and kid on the airplane
>inb4 interacial bullshit
and he seemed respectable, as long as you know the language well you will be respected enough to live there probably

>>18752514
it seems really condensed. how do they not have fires all the time or rampant viruses

>>18752518
I used to live in a European city where the (wooden) townhouses were also built together and packed in tight.
You deal with fire by using literal firewalls, having a responsive fire department and learning to live with the threat. Sometimes entire rows of housing do burn down.
You deal with disease the same way any other city does: working sanitation systems, sewers, running water and being anal about garbage collection. Japan also has (kind of) single-payer healthcare, so if you're a citizen you can get basic care free at point-of-service.

im going to japan soon and im new to photography stuff but whats a good starter camera for taking comfy/aesthetic ish photos? sorry if its a wrong thread to ask

>>18622826
Keebler? Is that you?
Wow, you're still such a asshole.

>>18738429
>not thigh high
into the trash bin

>>18752518
>or rampant viruses
Why do you think they are wearing face masks 90% of the time?

>>18752518
After getting their shit pushed in by firebombing in WW2 they don't clad their houses with flammable materials and use firebreaks and firewalls.

>>18752485

Renting varies from $300 a month on up. Looking around $1000 a month for something nice. Place next door which is identical to our house was being rented for $1200 a month. Three stories, but extremely narrow. Two tatami rooms, two bedrooms, two toilets, one tub, and a kitchen/den combo room.

>>18752518

>fires

A pretty serious neighborhood fire watch. Plus there is fire buckets and extinguishers out in front of every other house.

>disease

People here actually stay clean. Even streets are swept and washed.

Plus excessive hand washing and gargling helps a ton.

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>>18755441
>>18755441

>>18752518
Most major cities outside of the United States deal with levels of density akin to that.
Back in the day, people had to live where they work, and shop where they live. So cities were design to be more pedestrian oriented. Whereas American/Canadian cities tend to be more automobile oriented.