/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Nakatosa... home.

Mutsu's gun.

>>26245377
Holy shit that is a comfy shot. God I wish I could live there but I know its realistically never happening.

>>26260096
Why not?

>>26260640
No job experience neet in my 20s. No clue how I would even go about starting my life at this point

>>26260783
Teach English.
It's not so bad. You'll have to wait until after corona, but it's an easy entry.

>>26262071
only problem is you get paid peanuts through the JET programme and they tend to stick you in the middle of nowhere where most Japanese don't actually need to ever learn English

>>26262192
You get paid enough to live on, even with some luxuries.
It's not a career salary, but it's not meant to be. And being in the middle of nowhere is where you will see views like you are gushing over.
If you want to experience comfy Japan, you're not going to be living in Tokyo or Osaka or another big city.

Kamakurakōkō-mae Station/Crossing (+Sagami Bay, Enoden, & Route 134.).

〒248-0033
Kanagawa Prefecture
Kamakura City
Koshigoe Subarea
1-Chōme-1

I'm a sucker for seaside municipalities.

>>26233377
These are wonderful threads I wish I had some photos to contribute, but I think I've lost them all

some village between Okayama and Yonago.
Taken inside Yakumo Train

Lake Shinji, Matsue

>>26262071
Don't have a college degree desu

>>26276037
Also that other guy you replied to wasn't me

>>26262726
I'd rather get paid roughly 20k/yr just to get stuck in the ass end of Tohoku. Not that Tohoku is bad, its really comfy there, but if I'm living there I'd have to be close to Sendai or at least Niigata

>>26299185
meant to say "I'd rather not get paid." Point is rural is nice to drive through not fun to live in. spent most of my life living in a rural setting and am done with it

When will日本 open up their borders again?
I saved up all my pandemic stimulus checks for a week long vacation there.

>>26310458
most likely within the next couple months to strong business partners only.

God I hope I can get a programming job over there once I complete my degree

>Not a NEET, but I have no clue how to get hired as an airplane mechanic in Japan.

>>26335272
Never going to happen for us, tech companies are dumping office buildings so they don't have to pay for rent. you'll work remotely from halfway across the world instead of getting a visa!

This is our fate, thanks to china virus. I might as well drop out and not finish my degree since they won't be hiring code monkeys

Dumping from trip last year

>>26375589
Kamakura overlooking Mt. Fuji.
>>26375710
Akihabara back street

This pic Imperial Garden next to Harajuku

Sapporo suburb back alley.

Sapporo music club

Yokohama Cruise Terminal

North of Otaru, Hokkaido

Shiba just vibing in parked car in Tokyo.

Outside Kamagawa station opposite Ramen street.

Harajuku Idol's causing a scene.

Harajuku opposite that Line merch shop

Harajuku, some promo

Evening outside Shinagawa station

Security around imperial palace during Reiwa celebrations

Imperial palace

Otaru dock

Otorii

Friendly owner of pretty awesome curry place near Tokyo Tower.

Sapporo University Botanical Centre

Tokyo backstreet

Buttload of herons around Imperial Palace

Shady Shinjuku camera shop

Shinjuku

More Mt Fuji

Tokyo tower

Kamakurakōkōmae Station/Crossing (+Enoshima Electric Railway, Sagami Bay, & Route 134)

>>26379251
It really is beautiful there.

Otorii

>>26379328
ffs not again

>>26379328
(+Mercedes-Benz W123)

It is, and it's an easy day trip from Tokyo Station!

Sapporo

Shichirigahama Beach Sunset (+Mt. Fuji, Sagami Bay, Enoshima Island/Bridge, & Koyurugi Cape)

Shinagawa

Tokyo

>>26377134
What'd you do, ask him to stand outside his shop?

>>26416918
Looks like a small boutique shop.
The owner probably saw him to the door after the meal and outside to say goodbye. Maybe he asked to take a photo.

Oyunuma footbath in Noboribetsu

>>26375305
Ah is that so? I thought a few big name game companies still had offices

>>26439779
What those orange-ey things on the rocks?

>>26416918
He was pretty shocked to see a foreigner in his store and he liked the photos I took of his food. Pretty small inside like a bar just type deal. Was just really friendly and came outside to wave me goodbye which is when I took the shot.

>>26444712
Its sulfur or bacteria from the hot springs

>>26454745
He was shocked to see a foreigner but his store is by tokyo tower? Aren't there lots of tourists there?

>>26262192
Fuck the jet program, go to Nova. It is also shit and soul draining, but it is more money.

>>26276037
You don't need one.

>>26470191
Mate, there's a lot of stuff "near" Tokyo Tower.
A lot of foreigners don't explore a lot, don't walk the back streets, don't try out tiny shops. It's not all that surprising that he would rarely get a foreigner.
Maybe I'll pop in there next time I'm in Tokyo (whenever that is, thanks corona).

>>26483522
There are a decent amount of foreigners working in nearby Kamiyacho, Roppongi, Toranomon, etc. Maybe that restaurant doesn't see much custom from them, but a foreigner isn't a rare sight in that area.

bump

>>26493870
Yeah, but he didn't say a rare sight in the area, he said it was rare to have a foreigner in his shop.

Lots of Tokyo in here, you guys need some green for a change of pace

Some other colors too, mostly grey.

Spider Bamboo forest. The first time that I actually thought I had a Yellow Orb Weaver on my face. Slapped my own face and knocked my glasses off. I fear these guys more than boars and snakes

Creepy abandoned buildings in a small mountain park. They have an abandoned ropeway too. Here as well tons of spiders on face height, guess that shows how many people walk this trail.

Why is it that the sky seems bluer in japan? Is it just editing with color saturation?

>>26569273
Maybe just your perception because Japan = good, other place = bad

Tottori was super cool. I can highly recommend it. Although there isn't too much to do besides taking it easy

>>26569273
Pollution where you are.

Photo taken on top of Aki-no-Kofuji, the little Mt. Fuji of Aki province. God I love the Seto Naikai so much

>>26375589
>Dumping
thanks

>>26352539
>>Not a NEET, but I have no clue how to get hired as an airplane mechanic in Japan.

Are you a yank?
Join the Air force or Marines and get posted there

>>26259534
Explosively dispersed.

Technically a photo of Japan. My flight back to Europe today was almost empty. This is what first class must feel like

>>26685591
Didn't know that planes were this wide. What plane is this btw?

>>26475086
Everything i read says you do

>>26689530
probably a 747

>>26685591
>>26696696
Probably either a 777 or a 787. Iirc KLM doesn't fly the 747 anymore.
The 777 KLM I tool from Paris to Osaka was 3-4-3 like that.

>>26689530
>>26696696
>>26696780
Its a 777-200. Flight was from Osaka to Amsterdam. I always fly with KLM because Schipol can be easily reached from the airport close to my home and their schedules are pretty good.

>>26696780
KLM does still fly the 747, at least as of January
>t. flew on the upper deck back home from Europe

I don't think they were flying them to Japan though, and naturally routes have been cut since. They may still be flowing though, because KLM operates the combi version which carries a fuckload of freight as well as passengers.

>>26704665
How long of a flight is that?
Kind of a /trv/ question but how does anyone handle long flights? I tap out after 5 hours so I have no idea how I'll survive an eventual flight to japan.

>>26714327
I don't know the exact time, but Osaka-Amsterdam is probably in the 10-12 hour range. Depending on where you're flying from, you could probably do shorter connecting flights, but it's honestly better to just get it all over at once. You generally have more legroom on the big long haul planes, and of course food and drink is a step up from domestic/short haul flights as well. You're really making it if you can take advantage of credit card signup bonuses for business class.

>>26714327
Amsterdam to KIX is 9 to 10 hours and KIX to Amsterdam is around 11 hours. My return flight this time was 11 hours 35 minutes.
I always watch three movies and in between I listen to music and rest my eyes a bit. Board entertainment was horrible this time though. Time really flew by. I closed my eyes and put on some music and suddenly two and a half hours were gone.
Depending on when you leave and when you land (timezones and stuff) its super handy if youre able to fall asleep. I can never do it though.

>>26653785
Love those "this is what people in the 80s imagined the future to look like" buildings Japan has
Odaiba is a great spot for those vibes

>>26475055
looks like nova is a good ~5k less annualy than JET?

>>26746373
And generally worse working conditions and hours.
I have a friend working for Nova and basically his monthly bonus depends on never being even a minute late for work. So if the train you take in has someone suicide on the line holding it up for a couple hours one day you lose your month bonus.

The school ALT roles aren't great pay, but they're way comfier than working for an actual Japanese company.

>>26714327
I can't sleep on flights, so I went to the doctor and they gave me shit to knock me out. Kind of didn't work, maybe I should have taken more.

>>26639558
Can wait for the day the nips kick you white pig out

>>26639558
Can't wait for the day the nips kick out those white pigs

They're opening up for business and cultural activities in November, has anyone applied for those visa´s before or know anything about it?

>>26764888
That's another thing I'm worried about. Or what if I took too many and I'm just out of it for the next day or two.

>>26799862
Just don't be a bitch and watch some movies during the flight. Its not gonna kill you. Jetlag sucks anyways. I always arrive at 8am and at that time I am awake for around 16 hours already, but you gotta stay awake until like 7-9pm or else youll mess up your sleeping cycle.

Is there some sort of guide on the different visas?

>>26812195
Check the website for your local Japanese embassy. Or just google Japan VISA, which will likely get you to the website of your local Japanese embassy. This method can also be easily adapted for visa questions regarding most other countries as well, I'll leave how as an exercise for the reader.

>>26714327
For a trip EU to Japan I get a ticket with take-off in the morning and landing in the morning (with the travel time and spin of the planet it works out decently enough). I then simply don't sleep the night before, sleep like a corpse through the trip (possibly interrupted by food), and wake up pretty well synced to Japanese time somewhere over the east coast of Russia.

>>26852480

bump

>>26475086
You'll be very hard-pressed to find any meaningful work without one.

>>26772248
Stay mad, jap boi

>>26852553
bobs

>>26743368
>vs super mario bros
That shit was exclusive to America as far as I remember

>>26276037
you're in your 20s, you have plenty of time to achieve something, you just need to start on it.

>>26260096
From aesthetics alone you could pull off most of it in the Appalachians.

>>26376020
I just want to say I really enjoyed your photos

Anons that have been to Sapporo, how is it? I have this silly idea of living in Japan someday, and what I've read about Sapporo places it pretty high on my list. Keep in mind that I've never been to Japan and that I wouldn't mind the cold weather. The only bad thing I know about it is that, since Hokkaido is a recently settled area, the cities don't really have historical sites and such.

>>27023934
Hokkaido It's a nice place in regards to nature and such, wich awesome sceneries and a lot of hot springs, but as you say, it's also the least "japanese" prefecture in regards to tradition, the way towns and cities are built, customs, historical sites, festivals, so I don't really thing it's a good place to start in Japan...

Pic partially related. Beautiful japanese scenery but not in Hokkaido

Daily bump.

>>27097653
Looks like a midway level boss.

bump

>>26260096
lmao this site is so cringe, dost thou not see that the west is factually superior than le epic ching chong island? why would you people goeth from thine home and family just for le epic road? Tis beyond reason.

>>27130237
Shut up, sperg.

Is Luna going to murder the merchant again?

>>27130237

>page 9

>>27130237
Ye thread beeth titled "Views and Photography of Japan", dost thou seeth not? Thine eyes bear false witness, thou post art for naught.

>>27154269
>dead body reported

save

RISE!

>>26335272
this, currently trying to get my IT certifications all in order to work as a Network or Cybersecurity specialist. Goal is maybe save enough and become a landlord with decent enough passive income to "retire" there

>>26375305
Work from home is honestly ideal, I think there's a digital nomad post on /trv/ right now but you could potentially get to move all around Japan if you can get the right job

>>26376561
that girl dressed for Christmas

K

Yokohama

https://ganref.jp/m/jyo_sea_breeze/portfolios/photo_detail/3416820

what cities have cool elevation changes

>>27285489
Some parts of Kobe are up the slopes of a mountain range, bc the city is pressed between the mountains and the sea, so it can only grow into the mountains or claiming land via man-made islands.
Other than that, most major cities I visited seem to avoid growing up the mountains, even when they have some mountains in the surroundings (ie. theres a small mountain range separating Osaka and Nara).
You can find countless small towns/cities in mountain areas, tho

>>27293739

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYyyhUcFg4

Some guy made a Japanese inspired home.

>>27285489
Not my photo. Onomichi is so beautiful. They have their own little temple pilgrimage, a little castle tower thats visible from the station and really nice observation platform that gives you a panorama view over the Seto Inland Sea and the Shimanami Kaido.
Its also a good hub for exploring Bingo and Aki province, including Takehara, Okunoshima (rabbit island), Mihara, Fukuyama and the Shimanami Kaido Bicycle trail.

>>27328807
Doesn't look too Japanese to me to be honest.

>>27332261
imagine the sodium content

are asians just built different? They consume so much sodium every day and still have good health

>>27332261
Notice both the pickles and the ice are both fake replicas for show, lmao

>>27332723
Well, lactose intolerance in most asian countries has a prevalence of 70-80% the population, while in Europe is around 10-30%
So I guess it's safe to asume there may be a lot of other genetic diferences in the metabolism.

>>27332961
It's really common to use plastic food models in Japan. Makes sense really; means less waste. I do think they often look gross though.

>>27332723
Wrong.
Stomach cancer is a big problem for Japanese people and from the age of about 35 they generally get a stomach X-ray yearly for detection and early intervention and it's largely due to a genetic disposition to it and high sodium diet.
I dated a Japanese nurse for a bit.

>>27338099
Same with Koreans. They won't admit that it's due to salty kimchi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokonoe_stable

>>27349664
Imagine the smell.

what are the best neighborhoods?

>>27338099
High consumption of vinegar (and pickled food in general) also leads to problems in the future.

>>26379251
What camera/settings is this? Lightroom editing? It's really good

>>27400778
Saturation all the way to the right and only stop just before your eyes start bleeding.

>>27375835
they never wash the mawashi

>>26853075
very near Tsuruhashi station , Osaka.

>>27398061
a couple Km around Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum and Takarazuka Grand Theater

Dropping some photos from my 2016 trip.
Meme Pumpkin

I fucking love the Seto Inland Sea

Takehara Bamboo Lights festival. Featured in the anime Takehara

The cat district in Onomichi is really nice to hang out

Found this random building in Harajuku about a year ago.

Man, I miss Harajuku and all of Tokyo. Been trying to move there the past year, but thanks to COVID its been impossible until now.

This sign was so funny to me. Imagine how annoyed the station master was when he had to unlock the box for some dumb tourists who tossed their railpass inside

Cool tree in Onomichi

Awesome photos, anon. Thanks for sharing!

>>27543972
I dont get what people like about Tokyo. Its just a big city, thats it.

>>27542685
Only just noticed my brainfart, the anime is called Tamayura. I went back to Takehara during my 2019/20 trip.

Destroyed road on the eastern coast of Tohoku. They probably wont repair it anytime soon because there is a newer one that goes through a tunnel instead of over the mountain. There were about 6 parts like this.

The climb up Mt Iwaki was pretty thrilling. The ice was slippery and it was a long way down.

View from Mt Okuho, the third highest mountain of Japan. I wanted to climb Kita-dake and Fuji-san too, but both were closed because of corona.

Large Buddha near Aomori

>>27573931
>I dont get what people like about Tokyo. Its just a big city, thats it.

It is advanced city that you will find nowhere else except Japan, China and South Korea. Meanwhile you have countryside everywhere.

Gym full of life like scarecrows.

>>27574643
Advanced how? How is Tokyo more advanced than Niigata or Kagoshima? Shopping is really nice in Tokyo, I'll give it that.

Huge snake at temple 60 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage.

This toilet had a little foot bath next to it. Now THATS advanced.

Shikoku Pilgrimage between temple 20 and 21

Route 55

Winter in the mountains

Cool abandoned car. Managed to get inside, there were some papers from Showa 59, making it more than 35 years old.

>>27573931
I just like huge cities. The feeling of life all around you, the sounds, feeling like there's always something happening near you etc.

Besides Tokyo I also visited Yokohama and Osaka, but for some reason Tokyo just "fit" me better, thats why I wanna move there.

>>27575728
I probably have a inaka-brain now after spending so much time in the countryside. Give me peace and quiet over constant traffic and people around me any day.

>>26376020
No idea why, but this one is cool

>>26375305
I might be wrong, but I'm fairly sure Japan doesn't do a lot of working from home. I'm certain it has increased during these times, but for cultural reasons I'm pretty sure it'll mostly go back to office work after this is over.

>>27576112
I totally get it. Peace and quiet in the country-side can be very relaxing, and some of the pics posted here are downright beautiful. And I'd probably enjoy it short-term, but I just can't live like that. I'd miss the city too much.

>>26379251
Man, there are some beautiful places around Enoshima and Kamakura. Stayed in Koshigoe for a day (close to Enoshima), but despite technically not being very remote, it felt like one of those small coastal towns in the middle of nowhere. Really had that stereotypical sense of Japanese summer.
Pic not mine, just got it off the Enoden website.

>>27542685
>>27573980
My melanin enriched brother.

>>26260783
Learn Japanese. Go there to teach English. Duh.

>>27574653
Lmao. since you went there, you might as well tell the point of these.
An artist made them and put them all over a town, to call atention over the slow death of small japanese villages, due to declining and aging population wich is not replaced.
It's Nagoro Village, in Tokushima

i went earlier this year using a borrowed camera, and plan on getting my own camera for next time i go. Is there any special tricks that i should know about to get high quality images like some of the ones posted here? any equipment recommendations?

>>27616759
Which ones especially?

>>27616759
>plan on getting my own camera for next time i go

Buy it before you go.

You wont get it any cheaper in Japan (plus you wont get a foreign warranty with it), and you want to know how to use it before you get there.

What models are you interested in?

I might eventually visit for Comiket or something, but I'd probably be too much of an autistic mess

>>27574989
That's for midgets, retard.

>>26352539
I wanna try my luck at getting hired as a pilot there.

>>27573931
I live in Lisbon. I love the peace and quiet of inaka, but I do start missing the "noise" of the city. The cars. You might think that all cities are alike but Tokyo is nothing like Lisbon.

For starters, I appreciate asian architecture a lot. You get these really thin and yet very tall buildings you don't see in the west, I enjoy the "cut" rooftops thanks to building code relating to sunlight, I enjoy the way the billboards are set on top of buildings. I also appreciate that the city planners don't think more lanes is always the solution for everything.

I know it's a bit of a meme at this point but I enjoyed every second I spent in akiba, even with all the Pajeets walking the streets.

Driving in the C1 loop in a rental BRZ was amazing fun.


Conversely, I fucking hate Manhattan. Dirty, all the buildings are ugly, horrible roads, horrible people. Cities are cities but they're different, just like how all inaka villages are not the same.

>>27293739
>>27293772
Although comfy, that looks stupidly inconvenient to get around in, even if you mostly do things on foot/bike/scooter.

>>27652467
Cars and scooters don't care about hills. Neither do electrically-assisted bicycles.

>>27652620
Mainly thinking of maintaining the buildings, furniture, etc.

>>26262726
Fuck you.

Zushi is prime comfy. Tsukuihama is not far behind. Some of the friendliest nihonjin I met were from those two Tokyo wards.

Looking out of Zushi beach to see Fujiyama is amazing. The view from the Nagasawa cemetery is so beautiful and peaceful.

It is all amazing. Do not knock the cities just because they are convenient.

>>26379251
>>26379135
>>26376995
>>26377045
>>26245377

>>27617890
Examples above - i mostly just really like the angles and the clarity of the images. All of my photos i took using the automated lighting/focus functions and some of my photos came out good, but a ton of them came out looking kinda shitty.

>>27619329
Of course. I haven't gotten a chance to look around at options (please bear in mind, i don't know a goddamned thing about cameras). I'm sure image quality is not only dependant on the camera, but on the lens as well, and i'd like to go for a bit wider shot. I wanted to upload a sample photo i took, but i'm not sure what settings the person i borrowed it from had it on, but theyre all fucking 12mbs, compared to all these great photos at a fraction of the size. I'm sure looking around i can find an answer for that problem.

>>27331181
iirc nagasaki has lots of little hills and stuff if that's what you're into.

not my pics by the way

Not even sure this is Nagasaki

>>26376561
That crepe place is nasty.

>>27641318
surely you are joking

>>27651412
>cut" rooftops thanks to building code relating to sunlight
how did you find this out? can you please link me to something written about this? i think that's a really good idea for urban planning.

>>27672637
Very well. Initially I learned about this by watching a seriously autistic but actually amazing and educational Cities: Skylines video where the dude actually adhered to legal building laws for his video game city.

http://www.adnic.co.jp/wp/20151216-2
http://www.alatown.com/japanese-building-law/

>>26653730
Do you happen to have a higher res version of this one?

>27130237
schizo

>>26233377
damn that must suck you live in bumfuk inaka. bet you dont have a car and have to walk 50 minutes to the closest konbini for your daily strongs

>>27575356
It's a KP47 Toyota Publica Starlet which was produced from 1973 to 1979. Those papers were most likely from the year it was last registered. I own two Japanese cars from the same era and the only downside is how quickly they rust.

>>27637258
I'm planning on visiting during either Comiket 99 or 100. I would rather go to 100 and do a separate trip in November before. My only concern is if an outbreak happens from the influx of foreign tourists during the spring and travel restrictions are reinstated.

>>27679673
How hard is it to get a hold of japanese cars from that era? Being cars from the 70's I imagine their prices have only been going up and up and up.

>>27679673
I have no idea what the papers are about.
>>27674161
If you live in bumfuck inaka you have to drive 50 minutes to get to the next conbini. Better plan your shopping trips carefully.

>>27679753
I should've clarified as Showa Era. My cars are from the 1980's: a 1987 Honda Prelude and a 1988 Toyota MR2. It wasn't hard in my case since my two cars aren't particularly rare or sought-after, but I shipped them across the country from the West Coast since the survival rate for older cars is much higher in that region. If you are looking for 1970's LHD cars, the only cheap and easy way is to find a popular model (eg. Celica, 240Z, RX-7) in bad cosmetic shape and ship it. If you're looking for something obscure, you'll probably have to import it. Anything over 40 years old is usually beyond the age of being used for commuting so most examples are either restored cars or abandoned cars waiting to be restored.

RHD cars sold in Japan are another story. Because of the Bubble economy in the 1980s, people replaced their cars often which created a large market for exported Japanese cars as most would only stay in the country for around 7-10 years before they were shipped out of the country or scrapped. To my knowledge, current tax regulations in Japan are drafted in a way to incentivize new car purchases after a certain number of years. This along with stringent vehicle inspections confined the market for older cars to only enthusiasts. You can buy a new car in Japan for the price of a 35-year old Sprinter Trueno. 70's cars like Skylines and Fairlady-Zs are already beyond the six-figure mark because there are so few left registered. Most older RHD cars had already been exported to Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom. What the US importers are getting now are the leftover scraps.

>>27679997
I can't read it, but the format looks similar to a mechanics receipt. My guess is based on the fact that paperwork I've found left inside of scrapped cars sometimes gives an indication from when it was last used.

What's a convenient way to resize/compress photos in a batch? Every photo I took in Japan with my DSLR is way too heavy for 4chan and manually resizing them individually in Paint would be way too time-consuming

>>27690356
imagemagick with a batch script

>>27690356
>>27702630
I'll even give you what I use.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/g137dro9cw0i2h9/resizeandorient.7z/file
Drag and drop files onto the batch file.
It destructively modifies the files in place, so use copies if you want to keep the originals.
If the images have the orientation EXIF it will rotate the image based on the tag and strip the tag.
It resizes to fit 1600x1600.
You can easily change the settings by modifying the batch file based on the mogrify options
https://imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php

The countryside has the coolest cars

>>27704126
Those tyres are flat, though.

>take a walk in the middle of nowhere
>havent seen a person or cars in two hours
>see some weird box in the bushes next to the road
>curiosity gets the better of me
>a fucking bowling ball
Japs are so terrible when it comes to littering. The citys might be clean but there is so much shit in the forests and beaches.

>>27657974
>Of course. I haven't gotten a chance to look around at options (please bear in mind, i don't know a goddamned thing about cameras).

I'd recommend taking a look at mirrorless. Sony or Fuji especially (I prefer Sony hardware, but Fuji has some really neat film simulations that are very popular). To achieve the examples posted above either would work though. They just have their saturation bumped up a bit.


>I'm sure image quality is not only dependent on the camera, but on the lens as well, and i'd like to go for a bit wider shot.

The lens is more important than the body if anything. But with a mirrorless body, you can adapt almost anything to be used. And they have been making great lenses for a really long time. Most cameras perform similarly in most situations, low light is where you see a big difference.

Don't buy a body until you know what lens you want. On a full frame body I'd recommend a standard ~24-70mm zoom and a nice wide-ish prime of around 24mm. Note that on a crop sensor body those lenses you need to go a tad wider to get the same effect.

>I wanted to upload a sample photo i took, but i'm not sure what settings the person i borrowed it from had it on, but theyre all fucking 12mbs, compared to all these great photos at a fraction of the size. I'm sure looking around i can find an answer for that problem.

Just google "bulk resizer" should cover all your needs.

>>27712365

Shit like this is absurdly hard to dispose of. You can't really just throw it in the trash. You have to pay for a company to come take it away. Many people find it easier to just dump it (and some fake disposal companies actually charge for removal and then dump it).

>>27712365
This
Went to a lot of beautiful deserted beaches with no one around for kilometers, and they were still full of random debris, polystyrene boxes and so...

It feels like the opposite than here in Europe or the west, where people usually has no problem in littering in the cities, so they're usually full of trash, but they seem to be more councious when in countryside, beaches and other natural spaces, and even angrily call out people who trash the places.

I left the trash out of most pictures when taking photos, but still pic related

>>27714399
many such cases, sad

Some nice houses, vending machine, and storage units across from the river in Urayasu, Chiba (where I live)

>>27714707
Previously mentioned storage units. There's something special to me about the rainy weather in the slightly older kinda inaka places like this

I wish I had taken more, but this one came out nice

>>27673428
Thanks a lot!

>>26233377
Old OP here, I'm glad the threads are still alive, last time I checked a while ago I couldn't find one.
Feel free to make a new thread archive pastebin by the way if you want to keep it up to date.

>>27728713
Glad you're back, OP-kun

>>26378794
from where did this photo was taken? I imagined Mt. Fuji being surrounded by urban building, making it impossible to see a "natural state".

>>27728713
Is there much to do in Toyosato besides the school?
I wanted to look around a bit, but the Summer heat + humidity was killing half of our group, so we just saw the school + inside and then left.

Apologies for the washed-out images. It was too bright to see the camera screen and my sweat got in the eyepiece.

>>27773840
Not really but it's like a 10 minute train from Hikone

>>27773840
Not that I really saw.

>>27775971
>>>/n/1557639
Took a picture of the station by complete coincidence.
None of us realized there was anything to stop for in Hikone, though we were rushing to catch another train regardless.

>>27780604
Hikone castle is one of the five national treasure castles and one of only 12 which still have their original structure.
It's also just generally a nice lakeside town with lots of good food places and old town areas, but with very few tourists compared with other historic towns we visited

>>27783703
I checked on Wikipedia after you mentioned it, thanks for the pic!
$5 we weren't the only weebs to pass Hikone entirely when traveling to Toyosato. Another day, another time.

>>27783703
Castle chat. Who doesn't like castles?!

>>27764241
?????????????????? I have no fucking idea what thats even supposed to mean. Have you ever looked at a map before?

>>27796982
Once youve seen one, youve seen em all. Exception are Himeji, Matsuyama and Matsumoto, but that depends on personal taste. Osaka castle and the park is nice, but only because there is a high chance youll be in Osaka anyways. Ozu, Hirosaki, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Onomichi and Matsue all look really samey and I wouldnt go see them again.

>>27681467
>I should've clarified as Showa Era.
When you've already said the seventies the Showa era doesn't exactly tell us anything more. Your cars are also Showa era, as is an ox-drawn cart.

>>27764241


I... don't even... The picture was taken from maybe 60-80 Kms away, Mt Fuji is big, so you can see Mt Fuji, the buildings are not that big, so you can't see them from this far even tho they may be there in the frame.

>>27797350
Himeji castle was really beautiful, but yeah, I didn't even tried to see another castle after that.
Most of them've been rebuilt several times so ther'es usually little remaining from the original anyway...

>>27816456
Personal opinion, Hikone castle is absolutely worth the visit as well. It's much smaller than Himeji, so not as impressive to the average visitor, but it retains a lot of the defensive features that Japanese castles had in the period. Dry moats, the route across the wet moat and up and under the bridge before finally going a full corkscrew to reach the bridge and gatehouse itself, and the whole path up is a steep heavily slanted stairway. Hikone is one of a handful of castle that retains that last feature. And besides that, the views of Lake Biwa from the keep are quite nice.

>>27816456
>>27821171
I went to Gifu castle because 1. it was close and 2. it contains artifacts and stories related to portuguese missionaries that stayed in Japan next to Oda Nobunaga, but I was disappointed at how modern the interior of the castle was.

I suppose it can't be helped, considering it was destroyed in WW2, but they could at least have tried to be faithful to the original construction. Maybe legal building code doesn't allow for something like that

Inuyama castle isn't as big as the famous castles, but it's apparently the oldest one standing.
The interior is pretty cramped, the stairs are basically ladders.

>>27827294
When I went to Matsumoto Castle they insisted on letting people go up and down the narrow steep as fuck stairs at the same time.

>>27826136
I haven't been to Gifu, but the interiors at Matsumoto, Hikone, and Hirosaki all seemed to be pretty original to me, though utterly devoid of any kind of furniture or features other than small boards giving information about the room or in Matsumoto's case, the period firearms on display. All the interior stairs are the typical incredibly steep almost ladder-like stairways with a lot of space between each step. It wasn't like Kanazawa, which is new modern construction that tries to use mostly traditional techniques, like how they notch the beams so that they both fit together snugly but still have a bit of play for earthquake resilience. Apparently that's something that's survived into modern day Japanese home construction as well.

I think it really depends on when they rebuilt Gifu castle. If it was in the decades after WWII, it probably was just rebuilt to superficially look like the original. It seems like the move back towards rebuilding/restoring these sites to be as close as possible to the originals is a much newer trend that started in the past 30-40 years or so.

>>27847519
Sounds about right.
Requiring people to take their shoes off before entering was also a sign of not being a rebuilt castle.

Already posted in the past several times, but here was the chalkboard in Toyosato school one month after the arson incident.

I took many more pictures in the school, but it is mainly just K-On merch. If people want to see that, just say.

My apartment's balcony. Sorry if its not appealing to some people but I miss it. Rona is keeping me away.

>>27935995
also, there is a good chance I posted the inside before a long time ago, but just in case. I plan on tidying up and taking a lot more comfy photos when I get back.

>>27935995
Are you a foreigner who had the misfortune of being out of the country when the lockdown hit, or was it something else?

>>27936434
yep. although I am still working on a long-term visa situation, so best case scenario would have been sticking around for a few months this year.

This guy escaped from his room and almost made it outside because someone opened the door for him. Zookeepers got him back though

>>27959874
>I heard you talkin' shit

I remember downing a bottle of Bron, sipping on a beer and walking the streets of Kabukicho at night.

i miss it bros. i actually went back to school to get a degree so when japan opens it's borders again i will be equipped with a STEM degree. i suggest you do the same if you have the means


thanks for reading my blog

>>27969084
I'm gonna have an engineering degree soon. I really want to give living in Japan a shot, but it really depends on whether I can find something like an international or smaller company, so as to hopefully avoid the extremes of Japanese work-life balance (or rather, the lack thereof).

>>27936353
I hope you are female or your apartment is gay as fuck

>>27542625
just wanna say I fucking love your photos.
Also someday I hope to see Shikoku.

I'm doing my undergrad thesis on a research project based in Japan, collaborating with a professor in a Japanese university. I will do my grad here, but who knows, maybe I'll do my PhD in Japan.
I love these pictures, unfortunately I can't contribute since I don't have any saved.

>>28038625
ok, and?

>>28041853
And nothing, people were talking about moving to Japan and I talked about it too. Pic to make amends, I got it from >>>/wg/.

>>28038577
Cheers mate. Shikoku is the best. I am not a big city person so I didnt enjoy Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto nearly as much as I did the various places I stayed at in Shikoku.
I can warmly recommend the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage, even if one only does a small part of it.

weird question but anyone got pics of cityscapes with parks with those tall/big (multi story) fences?
kinda like pic related

>>28095959
I was really hoping it wasn't a picture of that.
I dunno why, but I find that sculpture particularly unnerving.

>>28095959
Isn't this in LSD Dream Emulator

>>28096209
I think he's kinda cute