/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I may have something good for these threads soon

visited Japan this summer, climbed Mt Fuji but it was cloudy so this was the best picture I got

this too

>>20678303
looking forward to it buddy

>>20673980
>>20674006
Nice pictures.
If you go back you should do the Suwa Taisha shrine circuit in neighboring Shimosuwa, and there's a Moriya Shrine in Okaya that's become a minor otaku pilgrimage spot for Touhou fans.

Is it possible to live off of 1.9 million yen for a year in Japan. I might be eligible for a grant and a year long internship (engineering) through one of EU-Japan programs. But that's about 50% less than the average yearly salary in Japan so I'm worried if that'll be enough since I won't really have any other income or money.

>>20678857
Are any expenses going to be taken care of for you? Like housing or so on.

>>20678497
Three Yoshida Trails?

>>20679250
I think I'll be in company dormitories. I'm not 100% sure though as this depends on the firm that chooses me.

>>20682026
Okay. If you have housing then it's doable, but you won't really have spending money unless they're mostly supplying meals as well.
I guess if it's just a one year thing you won't have to worry so much about taxes, health insurance and pension as well, so that'll be on your side.

Tenjin Matsuri

>>20678292

Ended up talking to that Henro after actually too, turns out some of the temples sell yokan as snacks for them, shit's surprisingly good hiking food. Like calorie mate, but good.

Heihachimae bus stop, near Takaragaike station on the Eiden

>>20683384

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkan

Huge variety in flavors and types. My favorite is the brown sugar one from Toraya (pic related).

They are also nothing like Calorie Mate outside of the general shape.

Yuki Jinja, Kurama

>>20683489

>They are also nothing like Calorie Mate

Yeah, the fact yokan doesn't taste like powdered dog food helps.

>>20683426
>>20683548
Snow seems to compliment the aesthetics of Japan so well, almost makes me sad that I'll be going in spring instead but at least the blossoms should be nice

>>20687402

You could do the alpine route or the like on the side and get both even in spring if you want.

Hiei-zan

En route to Furukawa

Takaragawa Onsen

Big osusume

>>20689639
>>20689648
What camera are you using, anon?

>>20689683

Couple over the years, Panasonic DMC-FT2 average box when studying for 6 months in 2012 the first trip, then an Olympus EPM-2 which I loved and most of the pics I've dumped were taken with till 2017, then a Sony DSC-HX60V till now as the EPM-2's shutter was on the way out after 4 years and 50,000K plus shots.

First failed trip up Fuji in the rain where it got a bit moist didn't help it either, (had to evacuate full speed down the mountain at the 8th station with everyone due to getting hit by a storm, they really don't care if you're stuck outside in biting rain at 3250m, pic related)

Goshogawara Tachinebuta

Yakushima

>>20689754
Nice.

>>20689597
I'll be around Nagano prefecture in early April, is there likely to still be some then?

>>20678292
Lovely thread sir!

Okay I got everything organised, this should be pretty much everything posted to these threads (and some related stuff from the Aizuwakamatsu cam threads and other random places) since some time in 2015~2016.
It's possible there are random 2hu butts or something in there since I used to save everything from /jp/ to the same folder but I'm pretty sure I sorted it all out.

https://mega.nz/#F!Oww0lAhT!Xb4YvUVb3Jb5P8FlOojh7Q

You can use the Download as ZIP button in the top right to download the whole thing, it's just over 5GB as of now.
I'll put the link in the OP next thread and keep the folder updated.

>>20691269
Nice job my man

anyone got some really rural country farms and stuff
interested in seeing self sufficient people far away from cities

>>20690972
Yeah, in fact the route only properly opens around mid April when they clear the road and create the huge ass snow-wall

>>20689648
More please, is it the best in Japan?

>>20691269
Japan really is a magical place.
3310 pictures! Thank you!
P.S.: #250 is an anime picture.

>>20689601
Why did they put trees on the stairs?

>>20695873
...

>>20693153

Here's a Yamadera and the comfy rural town behind it if it helps.

>>20694185

Bath-wise probably has the best rotenburo (multiple) I've been to, scenery is great, baths are clean, and huge.

The accomodation is a bit aged though and the kaiseki dinner isn't as good as the fancy places in Kurokawa or Kinosaki serve. But was surprisingly cheap so overall definitely worth it.

>>20697028

Oh wait did have just the town too.

>>20697028
>>20697119
I really need to revisit Yamadera. Every season. Maybe this year.

Somewhere on the Kohechi near Hongu

>>20697156

Winter looks prettier, but most stuff does in winter. Plus you don't sweat so much.

Though the good thing about Yamadera in summer if you do go is all the sakuranbo stuff in the area and cherry products in general.

>>20693153

And here's some farms from a speeding train somewhere between Tsuwano and Yamaguchi.

>>20693153

And some on the way to or from Shinano-Oomachi

En route to Shirakawa-gou

>>20693153

This one looks like a rice paddy but don't be fooled they farm sweet tourist zeni here.

>>20678857
>>20682026
Perhaps of some help, though not in ever way entirely serious of course: http://japaneseruleof7.com/tokyo-salaries-all-you-need-to-know/

>>20697028
>>20697119
>>20697156
>>20697237
nice looking countryside however still too populated for what I'm looking for
maybe it's just because countryside living in japan is more clustered (?) due to mountain terrain and stuff but I thought there would be more pictures of homesteads/farms out in the middle of nowhere miles(kilometers) away from other people
maybe >>20697221 but even more rural and more spaced apart from people

>>20697028
Sounds good.

>>20700229
You can find that in parts of Hokkaido

>>20701272
yeah thought there would be more of that in mainland also since population is so concentrated in the cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E__zarjrz0

>>20699771
Nice

This is my favorite photo.

Wish I could find a hi-rez digital version.

Furukawa Matsuri

One of Hotel Kazurabashi's rotenburo, the only one open for higaeri use. Also a big osusume.

Kojima shinden station

Togoshi, Tokyo

Zao, Miyagi

Oku-nikko, Tochigi

Shakubetsu, Hokkaido

>>20696432
let me phrase that more literally for you. Why were they so lazy as to not remove the saplings in the cracks before they fucked up the stairs?

>>20697525
somebody should tell the gentleman that potatoes contain vitamin c and thus will prevent scurvy

>>20697119
Woah, where is this?

>>20706125
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e7940.html

>>20705317
utsukushi

>>20704969
Poor Hokkaido

mt.Fuji

>>20700229
This map should be handy.

>>20678857
That is still above the minimum wage, if you know how to cook and save money it should be fine. Of course it depends on where you will live and how many expenses are already paid off.

>>20706544
all according to keikaku, huh?

>>20705317
they respect trees in sanctuary,so normally don't cut them.

Naha Sunset

Kenrokuen

Hanami party with the Utasu Jinja kannushi and some locals, Kanazawa.

He got pretty drunk.

Shirahama

Iouzan, Akan Mashuu

Shiobara

Keage Incline

>>20709556
Looks alien

>>20713607

Hokkaido has a habit of being spoopy like that.

More Touya-ko ruins

>>20713797

>>20713802

>>20713808

>>20713808

>>20713833

Snowy day today. Matsushima bay.

>>20714941
this would make an amazing folding screen painting

Shirakawa-go

>>20704084
What is higaeri?

>>20720052
day visit, e.g. bathing in a ryokan's onsen without booking a room/staying overnight. Usually like 1000 - 2000 yen.

Somewhere on the Gonou-sen from the Resort Shirakami joyful train.

>>20718203

Judging from the ema, 2012~? Went in 2015 and that creepy cosplayer with the ema with the photos of them and a Hannyuu doll were there too, new ones.

Guy(...?) must come every god damn year...

>>20721601
Well some of them have 2013 written on them...

>>20721601
>>20721827
Yeah, it was back in june of 2013.
Those anime ema confused the hell out of me.
I wonder what they're wishing for.

>>20721601
>>20722310

>>20556637
>>20556650

>>20722310
Well >>20721601 at least is wishing that they'll 'be able to eat a lot of cream puffs'

Strange person.

>>20725147
Is that code for some degenerate behavior?

>>20726604
sometimes a cigar is a cigar

This was in Sapporo over Christmas last year

Rusutsu, probably my favorite ski resort

>>20727022
Can ski through the theme park in winter.

>>20727031
Cool

>>20727014
Sapporo architecture might not be the most beautiful but it is my favorite city to live in the world.

>>20729348
I did enjoy the underground shopping districts

>>20729348
Sapporo is most beautiful when you overlook it at night.

>>20731180

From Mt. Moiwa maybe which I never got to, but it's pretty boring grid I thought from the tower.

>>20731180
>>20733249

On the other hand though, Nagasaki is bretty imbressive at night from Inasa-yama

>>20733249
Yeah I meant Mt. Moiwa, especially on a clear night.

>>20697028
wow nice looks like a great place to backpack/bicycle

>>20693731
how do they even clear that?

>>20736817
Time and effort and heavy machinery

>>20736817
In Sapporo streets you can see these machines cleaning late at night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMgcrlpm44

Probably it is similar for roads

>>20689724
jesus christ they're holding you over the barrel there.

>>20738588
They're probably just sick of people coming in because it's raining and not ordering things.

>>20693731
I know they've been doing this for years and it's probably reasonably safe but I'd be terrified to be in the middle of that. If one of those walls collapsed you're basically fucked.

>>20739074
>basically
Completely.
I believe they're pretty strict on the season length and shit to ensure its cold enough to remain up like that, but again shit happens.

>>20739726
fug that's aesthetic

>>20739074
On the road to Jozankei onsens in Sapporo there are some parts where they clean the sidewalk and the road but between them lies a wall of snow so if you are on foot you are surrounded by a snow wall on both sides.

>>20733249
Best city ever, I dream of mild summers. I hate this humid heat and love cold weather.

>>20739726
I think this needs a wider angle view.

>>20739726
I like how trains in Japan tend to be nice colours, I'm the west they're usually covered in ugly corporate logos or advertisements, if they're not already covered in graffiti

Last year's Shouryou Nagashi at Nagasaki.

Someone actually made a float for their dead wan-chan I maji ka'd.

On top of the old aqueduct between Keage and Nanzen-ji

Around Demachiyanagi on a cold day.

>>20745409
Looks like you haven't witnessed a toy funeral yet.

>>20733249
>>20731180

Sapporo was surprisingly amazing considering it is so isolated relative to the rest of Japan

>>20745930
who wouldn't mourn a fumo?

>>20733249
>>20746520
Any Hakodate pictures?

Does 4chinz strip exif automatically?

I live in japan so i could post inane garbage pics every day if it wasent a fucking pain in the ass to strip

>>20749812
Yes, it does.
So be careful for the orientation tags. Also, you can make batch scripts for imagemagick that make stripping exif as easy as drag and drop.

>>20748236

Yeah but didn't bother posting yet as it was a pretty average hazy day when I was there the first time.

>>20749912

And I was a week too late for the earlier-than-forecast sakura too, so got this wabisabi shit

>>20749912
I'd be terrified of any kind of tsunami or storm surge if I lived on the peninsula

>>20746520
Any good ramen there?

>>20704084
>>20689648
I know it can’t be easy, I just want to say thanks,I love hot springs so much.im surprised some manshon or whatever hasn’t tried putting an onsen/rotenburo on the roof. Imagine bathing there at night and seeing Tokyo glow all around you in the darkness.

Anyone got Awaji Island photos?

Especially the bunraku theatre and the huge puppets.

>>20749917
>tfw will never have comfy star fort surrounding house

>>20744717
>they're usually covered in ugly corporate logos or advertisements,
If you spent enough time in the train thread you'd notice that lots of trains have wraparound ads.
But in the end what's wrong with that? Ads subsidize transit. It means some extra buses on the road or stable fare prices or routine maintenance being done instead of put off

Awashima, one of my favorite chill places.

>>20754504
Numazu, from View-o

Also a good place if you like really sweet mikan

>>20748236

One of mine from spring, 2017. In my case, I only got to see the night view.

>>20754824
This might well be my favourite view, and that's a damn good picture of it. Great job.

>>20754436
>lots of trains have wraparound ads.
Few in Tokyo and Osaka maybe, pretty rare to encounter one even there though unless you're actively hunting for the few services that do it.

>>20754824
Hakodate... Heaven of seafood.
I ate Scallops like crazy.

I don't want to ask a /trv/ natured question, but I looking at booking flights in August and will be happy to finally be able to contribute. Have two lenses for my DSLR too, so you can expect some nice landscape photos too.

Is it possible to go to Mogra without dancing?

>>20754824
Really a very nice picture.

>>20752937
The best

>>20713797
How would you suggest going there? Google keeps taking me to lake Toya

>>20757766
It is near Lake Toya, 15 min bus ride from Toya Station: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e6727.html#section_get_there

I've been culling and retouching all my Japan trip photos, a lot of time brightening them up, reducing highlights and recovering shadows because when I first did them I pretty much just tossed some contrast at them and uploaded.

They're generally looking a lot more pleasing now, and I think closer to how you would have seen with your eyes.

Yatsugatake, Nagano

Yatsugatake, Nagano

>>20689772
Based and junglepilled

Ikegami, Tokyo

Ikegami, Tokyo

Come home, white man.

>>20763878
wuzzat chain hanging near the corner for?

>>20766996
It's a downspout.

Any shots from Aokigahara?

>>20770571
technically any shot of Fuji

Kasuga Taisha during the day this time

That taisha

>>20774647

Kyoto at night from that Taisha

The underground passage of the destroyed Shizugawa Station.

Daishou-in, Miyajima

Last year's Daimonji aka bring-a-better-camera festival

Naruto

Naruto whirlpools, slightly to the left of >>20774688

From on the Iya Kazurabashi

Burning last year's omamori during Setsubun 2013, Yoshida Jinja

>>20770571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQaUGD-MtsQ

From the top of the Daisha?(i don't remember well) moutain, view of Kinosakionsen.

>>20774642
So taisha is Shinto shrine,jinja is Buddhist temple,and kyokai is western church right?

>>20775799
A taisha is a specific type of shinto shrine classified as a "greater shrine", while jinja is the word more generally used for shrines today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_shrine#Interpreting_shrine_names

>>20775799
taisha = 大社 = Great shrine
jinja = 神社 = normal shrine
otera = お寺 = Buddhist temple, but usually they're called just their name + dera 寺 or -in 院

>>20776176
>>20777055
Cool,thanks.

>>20777055
hokora = 祠 = small shrine

>>20780739
what about the little roadside jizo temples?

>>20709556
>>20713797
>>20713808
So Hokkaido basically looks like Russia.

>>20780752
They are called jizo-do（地蔵堂）

>>20780837
okay so what if it doesn't have a jizo?

>>20780923
Do

Tokyo bay area

dzzzzzz

large hokora or small jinja

Kanda Chiyoda ku Tokyo

>>20784842
What happens if you go inside?

>>20785863
It's a sacred place where an object of worship is enshrined. Do you steal into a church and do mischief to the Mary?

This was a temple devoted to kappas, a helpful old lady that lived next door signaled as she could that the temple was closed but I could see the REAL AND HONEST hand of a kappa trough the door.

>>20786862
this is the hand, there were also old b/w photos of whom I think was the US ambassador visiting the temple.

>>20786871
wonder if you can make wishes on it
>REAL AND HONEST
prffthehehe

>>20786871
shhh
nobody tell kasen about this
>>20786862
kappa boobies

>>20783156
>a feeling of melancholy

>>20786871
why is there a wendigo's hand?

>>20783206
Yama life

bump for nips

>>20786913
Damn I miss the times when he was just an endearing clown, and not a grotesque creature with terminal mental illness

Arashiyama early winter lightup

One of the displays from Umeda Candle Night 2012

Another shot from the Inari Ohitakisai

Late Hatsumoude, Ebisu Jinja in Kyoto.

kumamoto

saga

saga

>>20749912
Katamari Damacy

total cliché, but still awesome desu

>>20796545

Yeah but it is a nice cliche.

>>20796852
>>20796545
I was able to make my trip to Nikko to concur with the Reitaisai, it was awesome to behold.
It was also interesting to me, bc there's actually a very similar festival back in my region, were people parade in medieval armour, on the other fucking side of the world. This one was much more solemn and sober, tho, no music at all.

Haneda

>>20802591
where's this?

>>20804463
Osaki Shimojima in Hiroshima

how lovely, thank you

>>20804911
If I had such a view from my house I'd get a telescope and spend hours watching daily life go by and then probably eventually get arrested for stalking or spying

>>20802591
What's the significance of the branches tied to the torii?

>>20810970
I'm guessing Tanabata.

anyone got pictures of those bridges designed to weather floods by the walkways only being attached with cables?

>>20697156
>Yamadera.
oo So thats what's that place is called, went there 3 years ago but it wasn't planned. Ended up doing a random train trip from Tokyo and ended up there. Great place

>>20815339
Honestly can't imagine how you would do that, it's kinda out of the way.

>>20816026
>can't imagine how you would do that
I assume they mean random as in just decided to do it one morning. It's pretty close to Tokyo with the Shinkansen.

Yatsugatake, Nagano

>>20816145
Yamadera is not really.
Sure, Yamagata or Sendai, but then you've got to jump on the Senzan line for like half an hour which goes between the two cities.

Yatsugatake, Nagano

>>20817280
Tall house

>>20816026
>>20816145
By random I mean I literary went on a train that I did't know where it was heading. Did this a few times and found this really cool place in the Tokushima area ( I think )

>>20821495
Then this bus arrived once I got out of the station. So decided to jump on

>>20821509
Last stop at the bus ride no one was on the bus expect the bus driver.

>>20821522
Found this old not sure what they are called and a young lady in her 30's asked if i wanted to go up so I didn't hesitate

>>20821539
Didn't actually know what I was expecting to find up there but saw signs about being careful for monkeys

>>20821558
After lurking around in this (what seemed to be a ghost town an old lady told me it was a ski resort of some kind .

>>20821578
If anyone know where this is please let me know. But this is how I travel around in Japan. Luckily I just got back in time before the last 1 hour bus ride went off around 5pm and made it back to Osaka right before the subway closed down for the night.

A local train station in a small town not too far away from Sendai

>>20821539
The word you want is ropeway. Got any more pics from the top? Looks beautiful.

>>20821593
I wish I had your confidence. Have you ever gotten stranded?

>>20821593
>hopping on random buses in the country without checking schedules where there can be like 3 buses a day if that
brave.
>If anyone know where this is please let me know
Did you get a proper pic of the front of the bus or bus-stop signs or anything?

>>20821593
The location is written on the sign.

It's a rockslide warning for the area of Otoudani river, or Otou valley river (御塔谷川), a tributary of Kamo river (加茂川).

It's signed Ehime prefecture, Saijo city (愛媛県 西条市).

Can't post links since this site sucks but the valley in question seems to be at 33°47'28.4"N 133°08'44.6"E in Google Maps, it's near a ropeway.

>>20796545
>>20796852
Where is this?

>>20817154
Looks like something from breath of the wild

Akibahara

Tokyo, I also believe this was taken around 2006/2007

Does anyone have any other wide open shots of big Japanese cities like these pictures?
>>20749912
>>20754824
>>20804911

There was this great photo of Tokyo on /v/cbg/ and it was beautiful, buildings as far as the eye can see.
I know I could try /wsr/ but I'd rather get ignored here than make a thread there.

>>20825495
I got a few.

Nagasaki

>>20825528

Obviously Tokyo

>>20825535

Tokyo again.

>>20825545
And again.

>>20825549
And a last one.

>>20825556
Like a circuit board

>>20825556
Some ugly ass architecture honestly.

>>20786101
No,but God’s house is open to all there are no spaces a believer can’t go.

>>20821578
Imagine living up here,with nothing but your favorite lovedoll.

>>20823249

Beautiful.jpg

>>20821593
What an exciting adventure. Makes me want to try something similar one day.

>>20821495

You at least checked if there would be a return bus... right?

Abd I thought I was taking risks by walking through a sealed off path at Meiji's mausoleum, getting lost on a forestry path for an hour that seemed to go deeper and deeper into a forest of nowhere, only to eventually escape by finding a hole in a fence it passed by that lead to the car park of the old, shut-down, Fushimi Catle reconstruction that I had no idea even existed.

Meoto-iwa, Ise

>>20831028
Shrine rock right?

bump

>>20833161
married rocks, part of a shrine and considered sacred-ish

On the path up Haguro-san.

>>20824823
Shinjuku

>>20834628
>married

Heh,didn’t know that,I just noticed it was like a Yokozuna belt. The rocks are like the goshintai right?

>>20783189
Jesus, man. We did the same picture.

May last year. I want to come back...

>>20839185
Its a Kanmangafuchi Abyss in Nikko btw

>>20838427
Annnd now I need to visit the Noto-hantou...

Never bothered because >no trains but daaamn.

>>20783189
>>20839185

Wew, didn't even know where it was till you mentioned it, then I checked my Nikko pics...

>>20840075

And special unique snowflake bokeh that surely no one else did too.

Halloween costumes raid the police box

I cried everytime watching this, so beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qndcio-NjYY

It is already 102 years since then.

>>20840075
I just found it interesting that I saw the picture made from the same place where I did it posted on some anime forum. Now theres a third one, cool!

While I found Nikko overcrowded, Kanmangafuchi seemed almost abandoned. Probably they forgot to mention it in the chinese touristic guides

Picrel - Enoshima. I really enjoyed the hiking trails in Kamakura

>>20830937
>You at least checked if there would be a return bus... right?
n-no worst case i'd have to walk for a few hours

>>20843195
I love those kind of pictures overlooking at night. Got any more?

Kiyomizudera autumn light-up 2012.

>>20845921

I think I have that exact same shot. Will look it up when I get back.

>>20845921
That's pretty nice but I wish they would use more natural color lights for their light-up shit.
It's pretty obvious they use orange/red tinted lights to maximize the leaf colors.

>>20840698
blue board, anon. gore belongs on 4chan

>>20842449
I once found what looked like someone wandering around 90s Japan with a video recorder,like a vhs rambalac. It gave me a super nostalgic wave.

>>20851039
>SOLID STATE RADIO!!! BY SONY
>SOLID
>STAAAATE
FUTUUUURE

>>20851039
Why is 80s-90s Japan so damn comfy?

>>20856273
you are a damn retard if you think thats from the 80s. think 50s-60s

>>20840083
Get out reeeeeeeeeeeee

>>20840075
>>20840083
>>20859673
DUDE

>>20839185
I think we are 3 guys here, Im the one who posted the DSC filename pictures
And I ALSO was in Nikko in May last year lmao
Only for one day, It was during Shunki Reitaisai tho, so I really enjoyed it.

I also found it the most "crowded" or at least the most touristy, BUT that's speaking only for Japanese standards... Nothing to do with any tourist trap in Europe, ie, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Granada...
I think the only place in Japan that can get near those levels may be Kyoto I guess (never been there)
Anyway, in the same trip I visited a couple of other random towns in rural mountainous areas and I found them almost as beautiful as NIkko, and 100x times more authentic. I really recommend hopping in random trains like that other anon said, or if you don't feel yourself so bold, at least including visits to less known areas beforehand...

>>20851039
>>20859223
moar

Also
https://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagejapan/pool/

https://www.flickr.com/groups/40_year_old_art_and_photos_of_japan/pool/

>>20859673
>no bokeh
0/10

>>20847615
when they're at peak that is basically the colors they make even with white light, they're very strong red/yellow at peak

>>20862064
Reminds me of that new gofun-go no sekai manga

>>20863560
Reminds me of Houseki no Kuni

Hakone lake.

>>20870806
>>20865452
>Yes 公安調査庁, these posts here

>>20870806
Poor lolis are chilly.

>>20853141
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBkPgZh2RASVMn_fHh0TvTQ

>>20873752
Prime material for vaporwave compilations

Do you anons live and work there? If so, what kind of stuff do you do that leaves you time to get out and actually enjoy the country? Or do you just compulsively go across on holiday every now and then?

>>20873752
DAAAMN thx anon

>>20840075
>>20839185
>>20783189

Lmao, that's literally the same spot of the river photographed by 3 guys in this thread.

>>20678292
Stop showing off asshole!

>>20876737
you what

>>20876462
Spend 2-3 weeks there every year, nothing else better to blow my paid vacation time on.

Tokyo Bay

Tokyo Bay

New
>>20879854