/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I just noticed the Chip 'n' Dale cup

What the hell, the old thread suddenly died really quickly.

>>28122924
It was past bump limit.

>>28125315
Time flies fast

There is a thread over on HR with a bunch of photos, mostly from from Japan. Some/many have appeared here previously but it makes a nice change from it being /s with another name.
>>>/hr/3803040

>>>/int/132880735

>>28216031
would (You) guys like to have a drink with Abe?

>>28239459
Absolutely.

>>28216031
love these guys

>>28122924
>>28125315
there is a plan to move the trains' cam general to another chan; maybe we can move this too!?

>>28234152
>mfw sometimes see these kinds of people taking pics at random spots on weekends

>>28275221
Wait why? The trains cam general is almost a decade old tradition here.

>>28239459
yes but only if he chugs and entire beer and shouts KYAAAAAAA

>>28275221
why not just shift it over to /p/

>>28282330
/p/ has shitty rules.

>>28321842
Ive seen hundreds of tsunami warning signs and so many tsunami safety towers. I wonder if theyve already been there before March 2011 or if they were build as a response.

>>28344352
Some were definitely there before, but a lot has been built in response.

>>28281966
that was because of the iconic Aizu webcam, which is gone now

>>28269210
Fucking dumbass fishes

what do you guys use to quickly lower the file size of the images? I currently upload to pixlr and then resize/save as jpg but is there a quicker way?

anyone been there? is there an actual hotel or is it closed? cant find anything. am i better off asking on int?

>>28483511
Imagemagick. Use the convert or mogrify exe with a batch file so you can just double click or drag and drop files to convert them.

>>28490887
thanks but it uses a command line interface which I have trouble with as it wouldn't recognise my input. I found another GUI program called irfanview so am trying that for now

Kinukake-no-michi in Kyoto

>>28119081

>>28489068
That's "World Kaikan"( ワールド会館) A mall, most busineses are closed, but a few bars, karaokes and restaurants remain open.
It was built in the 60s, bars and karaokes there always had a bad reputation for ties with the yakuza and shady stuff, a lot of businesess closed with the burst of the bubble in the early 90s, and there're been a lot of urban legends about the place since... suicides, murders, dissapearcendes of tenants... Now only a few bars remain open, one of wich is owned by a budist monk, and all the cocktails have budism-related names.
You really should visit if you like places like that (I do) because I don't think it has much time left before it's torn down

It's right next to Nakano Broadway, a famous and huge shopping arcade with a retro feel that has a shit-town of anime merchan shops, including 16 mandarake shops, each one specialiced in one kind of merchan

>>28490887
Irfanview has a built in and easy to use function to batch resize and other basic tweaks
It's a simple and OLD AS FUCK viewer/basic editor.

>>28539334
>>28497163
Sorry that was meant to you; try IrfanView

>>28539397
>>28497163
Okay, I'm blind/retarded and didn't read you were already using it, I hope you like it, I've been using it since I was a child and I have a special affection for it

Pics from the 80s anyone?

Small shrine in Yurihama, Tottori

>>28472350
do you think a cute anime watching girl lives in that house?

>>28566133
no doubt about it

>>28539334
>>28539397
>>28539620
haha no worries anon, I'm finding it pretty simple to use

Somewhere in the Nikko shrine complex

I wish I lived in place with zoning like Japan (or no zoning even better) and build cool stuff

>>28551409
nothing changed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qi8XVP8W0

unless you go 20 more years back:

https://s-h-o-w-a.tumblr.com

>>28680727
Awesome Anon, I recognise some scenes from movies and documentaries I've seen, plus it seems to include some amateur footage.

I love 70s/80s Japan. Maybe the change hasn't been as pronounced as in the west because of all that japanese peculiarities, and in some places and alleys you can almost feel like it's the 80s, but things have definetly changed a lot, I wish they hadn't

>>28680727
That tumblr is also gold

>>28626077
>>28614805
>>28579835
beautiful

Loving this thread so far

>>28757578
where is this?

>>28757647

Same as
>>28119250
it's from an abandoned School in Nara

I have a shit ton of short videos, can someone tell me an online tool to easily convert to webm, remove audio and also trim them (due to posting size limit)

>>28796042

https://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-webm

https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif

>>28801015
Is that Okinawa?
I don't recall seeing palm trees often in Honsu, but the rest of the landcape here doesn't seem that okinawa-esque

>>28757647
This is a great image.
I really like that tree lattice thing they have. Just wish some of those stores were open.

＾О＾

>>28821698
>>28837603
>>28757647
Me too

are accents still a thing in the different regions?
or it all just homogeneous now?

>>28801015
>>28802777
also curious of location

>>28868542
>are accents still a thing in the different regions?
Absolutely.

>>28868542
What do you mean by "still"? Bruh it's been a thing for centuries, it isn't gonna change since you last checked

>>28579835
Heh, just imagine having a trip in Nikko this year without all these tumults of Chinese tourists

>>28626077
Those buildings have shitty insulation. Sound and temperature

>>28868542
>are accents still a thing in the different regions?
Retard.

>>28938480
do Chinese tourists like Japan? I wonder what they think of Shinto shrines

>>28938871
No shit.

>>28938480
I went in 2018, during a festival with parades even, and It wasn't that bad... It's obviously a touristy spot compared with other japanese cities, but nowhere near Kyoto/Nara.
Also, most of the tourist seemed nationals to me, not chinese (unlike Nara/Kyoto again)

pic related

>>28966049
Pic related cont.

>>28966049
>>28966115

Sadly, the shrines were all closed by the time I got up there, I like to take my time strolling arround...
You could still acess the inner grounds of some of them

>>28942571
They like to travel there, but idk whats their view on shinto and religions in general

>>28966049
I also went there in 2018, after golden week. Maybe I was just unlucky. Since chinese tend to travel in huge groups, organized by travel agencies, it's a matter of you entering the facility just after such group and you have to wait in queue for almost everything

>>28942571
Yup, China (including HK) represents around 30% of the total foreign tourism in Japan, followed close by South koreans being around 25%, then Taiwan somewhere between 15-20% if I recall...
All the other countries combined, included USA, EU, and tej rest of asian countries, make up for the remaining ~25%

>>28978455
Oh, yeah I noticed those huge groups in some other places too, they make you feel like you are in some kind of amusement park... the most anonnying park is to see they don't care at all to be treated almost like cattle...
Also, The day I visited Nikko was very cloudy and foggy, and there was this festival but I dont think it fell on a weekend, so maybe I was lucky and there were less tourists than usual.

Pic is a wedding in Sumiyoshi Taisha

>>28986621
>Yup, China (including HK) represents around 30% of the total foreign tourism in Japan, followed close by South koreans being around 25%, then Taiwan somewhere between 15-20% if I recall...
I had absolutely no idea, wow

>>28987391
It's next door, and there are a LOT of Chinese, so...

>>28966049
I had a similar experience. I was there for the Yayoi festival before Golden Week in 2017, and there were surprisingly few tourists. Most of the people did seem to be Japanese. Though Christmas-New Year week of 2019 was an absolute nightmare (not too surprising) on the other hand. Went on a weekday between the two holidays, and nearly everything was a long line shuffling through the complexes. Only a couple of those tourists bothered to make the trek up to Chuzenji though, so that was nice. For Kyoto in my spring 2017 trip I just got up super early to hit Fushimi Inari at sunrise, and after that I went over to Kyomizu-dera while it was still slow and mostly empty.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1nAJEAEpdkYJL

>>28119081
Hey you!
I have a question for people familiar with photographic work from/in Japan.
My gf is extremely into everything regarding photography and japanese contemplative work. I have to admitt she is extremely more versed in the whole japan thing than I am, so sorry if I come off as a noob.
Anyway, I wanted to get her something related to photography of cats or streetlife in japan for christmas and don't know where to start -i.e. where to look for photo magazines, if there're staples in this style from japan, where to ship them, etc.
Any recs or tips for how to proceed would be of much help. Thanks in advance!

Kodaiji Temple, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City

>>28938871
Expected

this garden blends green and rocks really well imo

>>29103119
Weird shape for a Kami shrine!

Any almost dead villages with some character still left in them?

What

https://cascadr.co/blogs/japanesesuburbia

>>28795643
Is that Minoo Falls?

>>28938480
Went to Nikko last year, I didn't see any Chinese there, and it was pretty comfy. I'll post some pics if I find them.

>>29172428
Nope, its some random falls near Okutama, pretty much ignored by others than maybe a couple local hikers a day (like any other of the thousands of non-famous falls in Japan) it I think it's called Hyakuhirono falls or something.
Even in a quiet town like this with so little tourists, there was a couple of relatively known hiking routes around falls, closer to the town in top of that (Unazawa falls was one of them I think) so this one and all the other one I suppose there must be, remain virtually ignored.
I choose this one in particular instead bc you had to hike trough a forest of really tall japanese cedars and I liked the idea.
But, of course, once there things didn't go according to keikaku...

Next bus to the head of the trail arrived in like one hour, but of course, I could read shit in the timetable, so I didn't know.
But a couple of women like in their 50s, with worried faces,started looking at me sitting in the bus stop... one of them approached me and tried to tell me about the bus, pointing at the timetable.
So with the help of google translate and very expresive gestures, she made her point, I thanked her profusely, and told something like "well, what can I do? I'll have to wait!" (walking to the place was about +1 hour anyway)
But she didn't resign to it... as soon as one of those TINY Kei trucks passed by, she basically tackled it told the man (in his 30s) something, the man gestured me to hop in the cabin.
I thanked the woman again, hopped into the truck, showed the man the placed I wanted to go in Gmaps and said something I understood as a "no problem, bro".
The man didn't stop talking for the whole 20min trip, even tho first thing I said was "sorry, I cant speak japanese" In japanese, so I spent 20 minutes just nodding
Once in the head of the trail, I said gooobye and thanks to my friend, started hiking aaaaand inmediatly got lost as I noticed I wasn't approaching the fall at all (I only had the location of the fall itself, not the path to it)
Fortunately, the only soul I encontered in this whole time, was a man fishing in the river who spoke perfect english, and told me I was in the wrong path, I had to go back to a paved road, follow it for like 3kms, then take a mountain path in a curve in the road just before a bridge. Thank you man
In my way there I only passed by a group of like 15 elderly people on a a tour, each and every one of wich greeted me as I passed them, and two couples wich were returning from the place, when I arrived to the fall I was alone there for all the time I spent there.
Such an awesome day, man.
God, I miss when things didn't go according to keikaku in Japan

No sound bc 4chan doesn't allow it, but it was relaxing as fuck

>>29183786
I'll post some pics I took on my way there
I really hope corona chan fucks off, damn

>>29183786

>>29183786
The main river into wich the creek crom the fall led

>>29183786
Sorry for all the typos, my keyboard is dying

>>29171711

>>29183786
wow, really friendly people. looks like they are eager to take care of business and that's an attitude worthy of much respect

>>29183786
>The man didn't stop talking for the whole 20min trip, even tho first thing I said was "sorry, I cant speak japanese" In japanese, so I spent 20 minutes just nodding
Every fucking time. There is not a single Japanese person who can stay quiet during a car ride, they HAVE to talk