/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Stay safe, Jebi's such a bitch.

>>19821176
wow fuck that drive

>>19821176
>>19821383

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DWkHdjRwo

>>19821176
>Try to keep pictures natural looking if possible.

And 2 of the first 3 are post processed to fuck.

Great thread guys.

>>19821959
>Great thread

thanks, have some more

>>19822055
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>>19822073

Oh god, my eyes are puking.

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>>19822438

Anyone got some good shots from Asakusa or Gion?

https://twitter.com/qBNXVem9LQ2yQjj/status/1036959385702944768

>>19824202
Are they okay?

if anyone can identify this shrine I would appreciate it, I'd like to see if it or the vicinity are available to browse on streetview.
I forgot where I saved it from that would reveal its name or location, and twitter filenames cannot be 'backtraced' to the user who posted it.

>>19821465
>that truck driver at the end
Trying to drive that rig across the bridge was a really dumb idea, but I really do hope he's ok

>>19825644
He was probably just a dude trying to do his job, like that poor dominos delivery guy who got rekt. Kind of crazy how many videos there were of people trying to go about their daily lives.

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>>19826197
Thanks. 4k is astounding even on a 1080p monitor, and the sound is amazingly crisp for streaming standards. I can hear the cicadas like they're right there.

>>19825644
Has anyone died in the typhoon?

>>19826716

Last I saw it was like 7 people.

>>19826716
The Hokkaido earthquake has claimed more I think

>>19826716
>>19826851
10 killed and 400+ injured in the typhoon
8 killed and 40 missing in the earthquake

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>>19828880
Looks like a friendly, comfy place to live in.

>>19828944

higher!

>>19828944

h ttp://youinjapan.net/osaka/tennoji.php

>>19821176
MY favorite two photos of my trip

#1

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#2

>>19829333
and a third one

>>19829338
wrong one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C5%ABtenkaku

>>19829624
Where was this one taken, anon?

>>19830954

Tokyo City View at Mori Tower, top open observation deck.

Niigata

h ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/13844213@N06/2461831426/

>>19832888

i love these threads

>>19829221

h ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/kamomebird/42324075220/

>>19833555

35.5615443, 135.1879609

>>19833831

Hokkaido earthquake and blackout (the distant flashes you see in the footage is power lines failing)
https://twitter.com/katou443/status/1037421832222138368
https://twitter.com/WMRM_2011/status/1037410250284883969
https://twitter.com/shimalackyo/status/1037420057863774208
https://twitter.com/saimon98se/status/1037440054212276224
https://twitter.com/kaokko84/status/1037430060079144960

>>19665282
Continuation.

This thread at the time is the best

Anyone have any good pics they took of Osaka/Dotonbori? I can't get enough of that place.

>>19829221
God,Tokyo is insane. I want to live there so bad I can’t stand it.

Stopping here for tonight; the rest will be up some time later.

>>19836493
These are all awesome anon, thanks for sharing.

Anyone got some rotenburo footage or pics please?

>>19836493

Thanks for the pics of Furukawa. I was there many years ago for the hadaka matsuri!

>>19826716
>>19826851
It's now at 11 killed in the typhoon and 35 in the earthquake (3 still missing)

Why hasn't nippon been destroyed yet due to so many earthquakes and tsunamis and whatnot?

>>19842818
They're used to things getting smashed to pieces and rebuilding because of that, I think.

>>19842839
>>19842860
Does shitty run down stuff really look so much better in Japan or am I just that much of a weeaboo
How is it that derelict buildings of the 60s/70s look so endearing in Japan but so disgusting in my own western country

>>19842945
Honestly, I don't have an answer for you.

>>19829333
GLORIOUS NIPPON

Last one for tonight.

>>19842945
Also, I thought about your question a bit more and I guess I have a hypothesis you can think about.

It could be that you mentally associate derelict buildings in your own country with poverty / crime / generally being dodgy as hell and unaesthetic.

While the Japanese buildings are - as the population shrinks and declines and whatever - a product of a bygone era and in most cases quite literally abandoned, and there is a(n admittedly romanticised) sense that we are seeing the process of things decaying with the passage of time, or something to that effect.

It is rather sad in its own way, and I have my own thoughts on that, but I'm not going to shit up this thread with those thoughts unless people care about them.

>>19842945
You're just that much of a weeaboo.

>>19825395
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/colorful-flags-flutter-before-a-shrine-at-chusonji-or-chuson-ji-a-buddhist-temple-in-hiraizumi-iwate-japan-bdprjjd9is5ep49q

>>19842672
Ugh, I thought in japan they had anti typhoon buildings.

>>19850288

They do.

Hard to do anything against a mudslide though.

I wish all these disasters would just move to somewhere that hardly gets any...like Korea. Yeah, Korea is overdue for a real disaster.

>>19842945
For me, it's because they look a million times cleaner and neater than even the non-rundown places in my third-world shithole

>>19850829
yeah, the chinks need some too, many in fact

>>19833253
this one's pretty cool

>>19850803
Japan sinks a ton of money into retaining walls and other public works designed to minimize the impact of floods, earthquakes, etc.

>>19850288
If it's a large enough incident it won't matter much. All those towns hit by the 2011 tsunami had dykes and barriers along the coast, the wave just sweeped right over that shit. Plus there are other residual incidents that cause damage outside of the typhoon itself. KIXs biggest problem now is that the bridge has been taken out by a tanker ship crashing into it.

>tfw flying into KIX in less than a month
Y...yay...

>>19852451
They do, but a lot of shit they do is also shit tier.

>>19852572
How would a howaitto piggu island country like the UK would do it then?

>>19844514
Where is this, my dude?

>>19844514
>>19852738
Nevermind, lmao
I've gotten better at this game

>>19842945
I like western derelict buildings, but I feel you, japanese ones seems to provoke a different feeling. Guess it's cos we're weeabos

>>19852691
Better.

>>19852901
Then go help them.

>>19852943
I can't fix a whole country.

>>19853015
Yes you can. You're white.

>>19852572
That's why I said "minimize," rather than "stop" or "prevent."
Also, a lot of these projects are intended less for disaster mitigation/prevention and more as make-work projects to create jobs, especially in the countryside.

>>19852691
The UK doesn't get typhoons so it's a moot point.

>>19853134
I asked as a hypothetical.

>>19842945
Well you are probably a lot less likely to get stabbed or step on a needle in an abandoned jap building.

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>>19852738
For anyone else who wants to know: Toba (鳥羽市).

>>19822097
some people enjoy that aesthetic, to each their own

Imagine being constantly surrounded by crowds of people but at the same time being lonely as shit. That's what living in Japan feels like.

>>19858555
Being surrounded by that many people must make it at least a little easier to find the odd friend, though.

>>19821176
So did the bridge break?

>>19841804
Where is this?
This glass pot rings a bell.

>>19842945
the lack of shitty graffiti might have a contribution

>>19861378
There's a big chunk taken out of it. They're running bus connections to the mainland so it's evidently still structurally okay and has some useable lanes.

>tfw flying into KIX in less than a month
Fun...

>>19861378
One side of it did.

The train tracks in the middle are mostly okay and the other side is untouched.

Airport is only open to domestic flights now though. I expect them to have the bridge fixed and airport open well before the end of the year.

>>19863047
Literally on the card in the image.
https://tabelog.com/en/aichi/A2301/A230102/23056553/

>>19863047
>>19865137
They have several branches in Nagoya.
http://cups.co.jp/location.html

>>19865137
Literally thousands of cafes called 'the cups' all around japan and the world. None had such strange cups at a glance.
Overlooked the fushimi detail though.

>>19866418
Must get a lot of insects

Not much of a photographer, but a quick one I snapped last spring.

>>19858555
It feels like that everywhere, but at least there's Melonbooks and cheap second-hand figures here.

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>>19873662
simple nice

>>19821372
Install CS please

Anyone got jungles or taki?

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>>19882982
I hope I'm not being incredibly rude by photographing the cemetery.

>tfw exactly three weeks until my trip

These threads are the best thing ever

>>19883690
Nice, homie. I'm planning to take a 2-3 week trip in November. Where in the country are you going?

>>19883980
Osaka/Kyoto/Nara - > Kinosaki-Onsen - > Seto Inland Sea - > Osaka - > Kanazawa/Shirakawago - > Tokyo

Trying to keep things relatively flexible, especially since I hear so much conflicting information on how much time to spend in Kyoto.

>>19882940
Isn’t that the gaijin slut bar?

>>19884728
I have no idea. The reviews seem to be really bad.

>>19883690
that's nice but who are you quoting?

>>19887162
Tha5 must be full of gangsters.

Anyone go to the penis festival?

>>19883690
First trip? Prepare for withdrawal symptoms when you return

>>19896530
It's been about a decade worth of agonizing to get to the point where this trip has finally become viable, so I'm fully expecting the crash when I get back. I'm not going even sure how I'm going to bring back all the shit I'm inevitably going to buy.

Good news is that I have family that work for an airline and it's an increasingly open secret that they'll be introducing Asian flights in the spring so I'll be able to score sweet employee discount flights after this.

How do I move to rural Japan? I'm making this my life goal.

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>>19896530
I'm also going to Japan (for C95) but I doubt I'll want to go back. It's not like I particularly like much about the country outside of otaku culture.

>>19900808
Start planting rice

>>19905799
Sounds gay, I could just move to Georgia to do that

post things.
is it very disrespectful to photograph in the sanctuary?

>>19900808
As far as I'm concerned it's either perfect japanese+engineering skills, becoming an english teacher or a remote job in IT.

>>19912294
I'm going over with JET once I graduate college. Getting a minor in JPN and working as an English tutor is getting me well-prepared.

>>19912305
jpn is? couldn’t find that on the web

>>19912432
JPN is short for Japanese.

>>19912305

Jet is a max of three years though. Most usually finish after one.

>>19912558
I'll most likely try and go over with a private company or with something like Interac. My boss knows people who have done all three (JET, Interac, and private) and says that all her friends who went over with private companies have stayed there for upwards of 10 to 15 years.

>>19912625

English teaching is pretty much a dead end job. Low pay, poor job security, and no room for advancement.

Mate of mine just left Japan after 13 years here because he lost his job and couldn't find a new one before his visa ran out.

At the very least do grad school in Japan and try to get a university level job.

>>19912753
>Low pay, poor job security, and no room for advancement.
So it's like every other job in Japan.

>>19912789

Even worse really.

You are pretty much used as a human cd player, and treated pretty shit.

>>19912802
I'm ok with that. Pretty much like my current job.

>>19912753
>Mate of mine just left Japan after 13 years here because he lost his job and couldn't find a new one before his visa ran out.

Gotta be completely fucked. No experience applicable to a job in Murica.

What'd he do? Get a job at McDonalds?

>>19912558
JET is max five years, but you basically need to be recommended by the school you're at to get more than three.

>>19912753
Yes, it's a dead end job, if you have no other qualifications.
What I'm more worried about is your friend lived in Japan for 13 years without marrying a Japanese woman.

>>19913195
Why do you assume someone’s american just because he posts here? Dumb mutt

>>19915914
>What I'm more worried about is your friend lived in Japan for 13 years without marrying a Japanese woman.

He divorced. Wife wasn't happy with the dead end job.

>>19915930

Well he was right.

>>19899503
If you're still here, Don Quijote is a good option for cheap luggage if you need an extra suitcase. Depending on the airline and what you're buying, it may be cheaper or safer to buy the suitcase and carry it back yourself than shipping it overseas.

Another trick is to take a decent sized hardside suitcase with a collapsible duffel bag inside. Once you run out of space in the suitcase, pull the duffel out of the suitcase and pack your clothes and non-fragile/breakable things into it. Everything else goes in the suitcase. Pic related from my trip, I did the latter.

>>19919673
And to contribute a little other than just pictures of sake and suitcases. I hope you can feel the heat from this image, because it was fucking hot in July.

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>>19841056
This would be a good place for an ero scene in some fucked up horror VN.

>>19919934
T-Thanks. Also, I got distracted by the KC event and now I'm out of the country again. I'll upload the rest when I'm back.

>>19919673
I already have a self-stuffing duffel bag so I was planning on going with that. Didn't consider mailing a parcel to myself while I'm there though, could be a good option if I go way overboard.

>tfw my grandparents just tossed me a couple thousand canuck funbucks for my trip.

Uh. Is it too late to get reservations at Jiro?

>>19923713
You need flawless Japanese and a month or 2 advance.

You want my advice?

Buy a fantass matsuzaka A5 steak, shit is made from Virgin females. Also visit Tsuta and Nakiryu,shit is cheap and has a Michelin Star.

>>19923713
I didn't bother with any michelin places. I went to a sushi place near Hamamatsucho station called 宮葉 and had a great omakase lunch for 5k. Also made a repeat visit to Butagumi in Roppongi, it's expensive for tonkatsu but it's fucking delicious. If you go, make sure to get an appetizer of their croquettes, just make sure not to burn your mouth on them. I did the first time and couldn't taste the tonkatsu afterwards.

>>19924784
This guy has the right idea for an expensive meal, though not sure I'd want steak. A5 grade japanese beef is a miracle of the universe. I had it as shabu-shabu during an onsen visit and have never had better beef.

I rode a motorcycle up and down mt Akagi

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>>19924784
I already live in a place famous for beef so wagyu isn't a huge draw for me. Know any must-go spots for unagi though?

I'm going over after Christmas for New Year. Any good places to go around Hiroshima outside of the touristy spots like the Bomb Dome and the Torii gate out in the water?

>>19924996
Pretty much every sushi restaurant is going to have it, I've never gotten bad unagi, and I'm unaware of any "high grade" unagi.

>>19925016
If you don't mind a short train ride, go over to Kure. See the JMSDF Museum and the Yamato Museum. In Hiroshima itself, go to Okonomiyaki-mura. Basically a building full of nothing but okonomiyaki restaurants.

If you do actually go to Miyajima for the torii gate and are in reasonable shape, and the weather is not rainy, hike up to the top of Mt. Misen. Beautiful views from up there, though beware it will be crowded at the peak. The trail is not, most people take the cable car. The trail starts pretty much from where the stream lets out at Itsukushima shrine and follows it up the mountain.

>>19925041
Oh perfect, I'll make a note of all those places. Thanks anon.

>>19925041
I mean BBQ unagi though, not raw

>>19924996
Any American or Canadian shit is just half breed stuff. Trust me you owe it to yourself to get some authentic a5 steak cooked medium by a Japanese man.

>>19925069
Eel is never eaten raw because their blood is poisonous. It will be grilled, even on sushi.

page 10 bump

http://japanpropertycentral.com/2012/06/the-house-minamiazabu-penthouse-floorplan-now-available/

Are personal chefs a thing in Japan?

This is a great dining room though.

Anyone got some good alley shots?

>>19925735
What if that's the reason I wanna eat raw eel?

>>19931751
Then jump in the bay and catch it yourself. Don't make your mental issues other people's problem.

Now that I have a ticket bought and I'm heading over to grorious nippon in three months I feel like the best thing that will come out of this is the final destruction of my inner weeaboo. At least I'll get some good photos so I can finally post in this thread.

>>19932478
>the final destruction of my inner weeaboo
Visiting Japan will only strengthen that, it's working in Japan that will kill it

>>19932507
>Visiting Japan will only strengthen that
It varies from person to person and I don't doubt that there are people who come back from Japan enamored with otaku subculture, or with Japan in general. I personally know that my ideas of Japan at age 18 were dumb fictions. Japanese girls mostly look like flat-titty gremlins, the food is mostly alright but not superb, the countryside is full of bitter old people and akihabara, nakano broadway & denden town are mostly shopping malls for plastic trinkets and other people's used porn.

There's still a few things I'm interested in, and I don't begrudge people for liking things I don't if it brings them joy. But as it stands it kinda sucks that ramen, the Japan Alps, castle towns and the three good anime made in the past 20 years get lumped in with a ton of half-assed, mediocre content and culture.

>>19932910
> three good anime made in the past 20 years
This better be good

>>19932910
Yeah because sushi doesn’t win awards or anything.

>>19935754
1. Madoka
2. Eva
3. Haruhi

>>19937653
>NGE
>Last 20 years
Anon, I...

anyone in the karuizawa area?

Okay so going to Japan in October. I've been then in October 2016 and shot most of my photos with my Oneplus 3.

Now the problem you can see in the picture is, when it's cloudy Japan looks like it's some 3rd world nation tier. Reminds me North Korea pictures.

So I was digging around on the internet and found nice prices at least nice to me as a European for a Sony A6300.

http://kakaku.com/item/K0000857119/?lid=ksearch_kakakuitem_image

Considering it costs 1000€ here new and in Japan it's 584€ new. Thats quite the discount.

I also like shooting video so the 4k 30fps thing is fantastic. And the other features seem really nice too, the A6500 has touchscreen focus and stabilization, but for the price difference I can buy a real DSLR/SLR gimbal.

I also found out you can hack them to English later.
https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak

I read katakana and hiragana just fine but my kanji are shit tier sub 300 known. Definitely not enough to operate this camera with it's technical jargon.

So basically since you're all nice photographers here I'm interested if this is a good pick, is there any alternatives you'd recommend. This would be my first SLR camera.

Also added bonus is it's really small so I doubt the customs guys here in Europe are even going to look at it.

>>19942450

>Now the problem you can see in the picture is, when it's cloudy Japan looks like it's some 3rd world nation tier. Reminds me North Korea pictures.

The key is post processing and shooting when there is better light.

A jpeg shot at the same time out of a Canon 5d4 wont look much better than that for example.

>Considering it costs 1000€ here new and in Japan it's 584€ new. Thats quite the discount.

A lot of the kakaku listings are web only. Might have trouble getting your hands on it while there for vacation. Yodobashi, for example, has it for 80000 yen body only.

>A6500 has touchscreen focus and stabilization

The a6500 is still worth it. The ibis makes a big difference shooting in low light.

>but for the price difference I can buy a real DSLR/SLR gimbal.

wut.

The a6300 uses the same sensor as a DSLR. I don't know what you mean by "real."

>I also found out you can hack them to English later.

Yes. But you get ZERO warranty support outside of Japan. That goes for ANY camera purchased in Japan.

>So basically since you're all nice photographers here I'm interested if this is a good pick, is there any alternatives you'd recommend. This would be my first SLR camera.

It is a solid camera, nothing wrong with it, especially if you can find a good deal. It is one of the best APS-C sensor cameras on the market. Personally, I'd recommend saving some money and getting the a6000 (though it is getting a little on the old side now-a-days), or splurging some more and get the a6500 though.

As for good camera to look at, a7ii is pretty cheap now. It is a beast of a camera, and can be had for dirt cheap now too.

Can also look at the Fuji mirrorless options. X-T100 is probably the best budget option out there. I am not a fan of X-Trans, so I wouldn't recommend the X-T1 and X-Pro1. They are solid options (though their autofocus is slow) especially if you intend to just shoot jpeg.

But what is most important is the lens. What lens do you intend of getting? What do you intend on shooting?

>>19942734
>wut.
>The a6300 uses the same sensor as a DSLR. I don't know what you mean by "real."
>real SLR/DSLR gimbal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6U3359N0Q

>>19942734
>But what is most important is the lens. What lens do you intend of getting? What do you intend on shooting?

I'm from poor old Eastern Europe. My buget goes as far as 100.000 yen, so the kit lens will have to do for the japan trip.

Later in a few months I can begin thinking about it.

>>19943095

Ahhhh.

Yea, a gimbal is large and awkward though. The a6500 fits in a bag easily.

>>19943105

Kit is probably good enough. Sharp in the center, but the corners can be bad at some focal lengths. The image quality shortcomings are more than made up for by the fact you can pretty much pocket it.

If you want some awesome IQ, the 18-105 f/4 Zeiss is a fantastic lens and dirt cheap too.

>>19821176

Someone was asking about pictures of Japanese Universities in a previous thread.

Here is the place I attend.

>>19943236

My meter is done for, so the exposure is off on some of these.

Post some vending machines, pls

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And a few random Kyoto shots.

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>>19943287

Anyone know any good things to see in Shiga prefecture?

>>19940949
Damn

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>>19943253
Damn those are some nice clouds, no joke

sangyo university

>>19943227
ohh thanks I'll look into the lens.

>>19943621

Portra 100F. It puts out some vivid, beautiful colors.

I tried to expose for the sky as much as much as possible which is why some of the building (the chapel especially) came out looking weird.

>>19942734
Another question when you get back.

So I have here a
Sandisk Extreme microSDXC A1 64GB - 20€
Sandisk SDXC Extreme, 64 GB - 24€

They're both extreme so v30, u3, Class 10 UHS I

Is there any reason to buy a SD over MicroSD? Technically the specs should be the same.

The 彼岸花 are in full bloom now.

>>19945257
Micros are slower and die faster.

>>19946428
by the time he actually runs into any issues that could be had by them he probably has gotten a new device. Besides they are so cheap, it's not really worth caring about

>>19946428
Are they actually slower? I mean they literally both have the U3 and V30 ratings. Both have the same advertised "write speeds" they write on their website.

>>19945257

Class 10 is like 10 mins read/write. That is laughably slow. Most cards beat it by. a large margin. As for speed it is highly variable, you are unlikely to out shoot your card though.

The best thing to do is read reviews and see which is the most reliable.

>>19947074
>Class 10 is like 10 mins read/write.
Class 10 is MINIMUM 10MB/s read/write. Then they decided to stop using those classes and make a new class, the U1 and U3. Class 10 are automatically class U1, but some are class U3 (30MB/s minimum).
Then they decided to make a new class for video in particular, V6/V10/V30/V60/V90 which again corresponds to the minimum MB/s read/write speed.

So as they are both U3/V30 that means you should expect a minimum of 30MB/s read and write from those cards.

>>19947169
Yea, autocorrect somehow turned my 10 mb/s min to mins. I hate this phone.

And even with the newer classifications, 30mb/s is actually pretty slow. Memory stick Pro Duo cards we’re making that back in the PSP days.
Many modern cards are close to 100 mb/s.

>>19947345
The Extreme Plus ones that I have in my camera are Class 10 U1, say 80MB/s on them and get about 45MB/s read/write on a USB2 reader (which is probably about the max you can expect on USB2 anyway).
Most cards can do much higher than their classification rating because classifications have lagged behind technology.

>>19947925

Exactly, which is why looking at Amazon reviews is your best bet. Will have speed test results and you can tell if it has a lot of failures.

Any unique pics from Fukushima?

>>19949845
That's kind of sad.

>>19949845
>taking photos in a panchinko parlour

Don't they throw you out for that?

>>19950900
He's probably the boss of this pachinko parlor.

>>19948879
Define unique.

>>19952768
Not readily available from google images.

I took this picture a while ago on a whim and always liked how it turned out. Is it actually any good? I always liked how the chicken wire in the glass blurred almost to the point where it's not there in the middle of the photo.

>>19949845
I love how this guy who looks like a Yakuza character is playing a GuP pachinko.

>>19822097
May you never happiness in your life and die a lonely, miserable and painful death....

>>19882997
can't tell if underage or baiting

Once I'm done with Tokyo I'll do a trip dedicated solely avoiding big cities, at least the ones I've visited. This one is from Kyoto outskirts.

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>>19954338

Damn dude, you got problems.

Have you seen any weird buildings in Japan?

I have a question, I tried asking google but it couldn’t understand, how high up in Tokyo could you build an onsen, if it was like on the rooftop or a recessed area of a building but definitely outdoors?

What would the temperature be on like the top of a 60 story building vs ground level?

>>19842945
Yes, you are a weeb indeed. First of all, like most Asian modern buildings, they look ugly. For some reason, Asians just couldn't into architecture. Second, they look just as shitty as any other abandoned or just old and unkempt anywhere else. But I like shitty stuff like this. I love it here in Russia, I loved it in several Europe countries I've been to, I like Asian ugly-cunt buildings. Thy have history, they have marks, they are alive.

>>19851123
Why though? They don't have standards and are thieving bastards, their shit's crumbling on its own usually.

>>19961159
I'd prefer chink buildings over "commieblocks" any day desu

Kill yourself out of /jp/, Boris

>>19961297
Yeah, blocks are ugly, but they can look pretty comfy and lived in, especially outside of USSR territory, in Hungary, for example. But in Asia you often have a depressing pile of depressingly grey depressing boxes with depressing small windows. Yeah, they are utilitarian, cheap to make, but fucking shit they look ugly. More so when compared to traditional building, that are simple, but very nice looking.

>>19961320
After you, Jamal(or is it Pajeet?) )

Keep trying to get pictures of trains, but nothing ever looks good.

Only one I like so far, and even then I wish I used a tighter lens.

>>19963438
I too enjoy pictures of trains. Keep at it my dude.

>>19963438
Trains are always good but just stations and tracks are also nice

>>19963438
Hold shift for focused movement

>>19912753
13 years and he didn't apply for citizenship?

>>19970159
Nice la.

>>19970493
nice

>>19970084

wut?

>>19970145

Most long term residents don’t apply for citizenship. You have to give up your U.S. citizenship to do so and it just isn’t worth the trouble.

This was about ten years back too, when permanent residency was also pretty hard to get. Used to be something like 10 years straight in Japan without ever leaving the country. It is much easier now, either through the point system or ten+ years total in Japan.

>>19970493
I wish I could spend days just hiking around the mountains

>>19949845
The life

>>19975429
I'm not particularly outdoorsy but something I'm dying to do one of these days is visit Koyasan/the Kumano shrines/Ise Jingu by hiking the Kii peninsula pilgrim trails.

>>19842945
I think they take better care of their old stuff.

>>19981627