Pictures of Japan

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post photos from Japan, taken by you or by others

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Thanks for the new thread.
Posting kushikatsu. Because I fucking love kushikatsu.
Top thing is asparagus. Lower things from left to right are beef, scallop, broccoli, cheese x2, and quail egg.
It’s at a small kushikatsu place in a train station.
If you’re ever at Rinkutown station in Osaka (last JR and Nankai stop before Kansai airport) I can’t recommend this place highly enough.

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Posting more kushikatsu.
Because fuck yeah, kushikatsu.

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from the Enoshima observation lighthouse (the original is 24MB)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dakiny/50604186462/

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Cool pic. I like how you can see all the way to Yokohama Landmark Tower faintly in the distance.

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I'll dump a bunch of my summer vacation photos in a couple of days.

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Glorious shelf-stable hotdog.
Every bit as delicious as one would imagine.

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I fucking love the classic Love Hotel aesthetic.
I also love the kind of overly-superlative names they’re given.
>Be in Namba
>see “Hotel Namba”
Regular hotel
>Be in Namba
>see “Hotel Golden Luxe Dream Splendour”
Love Hotel.

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Looks great! What's your favorite variety?

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Bro I literally can’t have a favorite. There are too many that I love, and I go out of my way to try ones I’ve never tried before.
But for standards, I’ll almost always do broccoli, asparagus, cheese, and scallop. Left bottom on this one is pickled red ginger, followed by scallop, beef, and cheese.
It’s also from the little place at Rinkutown station same as >>41069274

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Please for the love of kami, reorient your photos.

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I haven’t had much chance to go shooting recently, but I have a few snapshits on my phone from around Kyoto.

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What the fuck, that one was oriented properly.

I forgot how shit it can be at times.

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Sorry, bro. I don’t drag an actual camera around with me daily, and 4chan has always had issues with portrait-oriented iPhone pics.
And sometimes portrait makes more sense than landscape, like a tall building.

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As an apology, please enjoy this properly oriented pic of delicious oppai pudding.

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The problem is that the phones don't save the image in a portrait orientation, just save it in landscape and then use a EXIF flag to set the orientation for the viewer.
And 4chan strips all the EXIF tags. They probably should run an auto-orient on it before doing so, but you can also get mogrify from imagemagick and use a script to run an auto-orient (and resize) on your images after you have taken them, or dumped them. It's what I do.

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Nah, I think I’ll just let the viewer tilt their head to the side. Neck stretches are good for circulation, dontcha-know?
I phonepost anyway; I’m glued to my computer all day for work, and don’t feel like spending extracurricular time with it.
I just try to primarily take landscape shots to begin with, as it makes more sense 95% of the time.

Like pic. I also love the signage outside Love Hotels. The 1hr deal is always called “rest” or “nap”
Tried walking into one once (not this one but same area) that listed it as “nap” and asking for 1hr so I could take a nap just to see what would happen.
Of course I was basically told “you can’t rent it by yourself”, which a lot of love hotels do to prevent a dude from renting a room and having another dude come later to meet him, since most of them aren’t about that.

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Water was bubbling up out of the ground here. Smelled of sulfur, probably hot water but didn't check.

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Lake Hibara

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Lake Inawashiro

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Foreground in the left is Bandai town area, past the hills is the Aizu basin with Aizuwakamatsu on the left side and Kitakata slightly visible on the right.

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This train is coming for you.

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is that front or back?

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That's the front. Snow clearing purposes I believe.

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OK, I'll leave it at that.

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Great view. I can see little green patches littered in the town

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Look like a digging tool

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Holy shit it's tools from Doraemon era

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Impressive. But car is needed for groceries

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Doraemon is eternal.

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Looks comfy where is this?

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I wonder if 2ch/5ch have threads like this for other countries and which places do they like taking photos of? I'm guessing sites in Europe?

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>Looks com
I was also interested.
There was a photo of the Oto police box, so I knew it was Aizuwakamatsu.
I think he took a picture near Ashinomaki Onsen station.

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Great dump, thanks anon

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>oppai puddin
lmao, I remember finding one literal sole oppai rubber thing
I have at the very least I was tempted to buy it, you're forgiven anon

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>I think he took a picture near Ashinomaki Onsen station.
You are correct.

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Snowblower most likely.

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They have a board for traveling where practically every viable country has its own thread. I think it's more about talking about traveling than photo dumps which makes sense as it's a text board.

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This thread lead me to look back at some old pictures of the time I spent in Kyoto

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I unfortunately was a bit shit at taking photos, and only ended up taking some interesting pics on later part of my trip,

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Tho if you guys wouldn't mind me showing up on the picture, there are few pretty interesting ones, with people in them, and some story behind them.

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These are just from the former royal palace park in Kyoto, and one of the things I really doing was going out to explore, this was one of those eventful days that I went further.

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I remember this place. It was a kinda overcast rainy day when I went through there as well. And really fucking empty.

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One thing I really admired from japanese culture, their portals and roofs in old architecture, is really something of awe.

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Nice composition.

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All those first pictures were more of just the park surrounding the palace area, really fucking wide gravel roads, but a ton of paths between the park itself, and I think I have a few picture of those too.

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The Palace portals, maybe someone has the proper name for this.

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Just one really older decrypt place, for some reason I really wanted to know what this is.

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This is one of the most serene places I've been to, even when bustling with people, supposedly the royal palace's garden.

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Premium shot!

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More on the park side that leads into the main thing.

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This is another part of the same park, but closed off to tourists, I wonder what lies behind.

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I particular alleyway that I really like, but unfortunately, even though I like the explore a bunch like this, I didn't take too many pictures.

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I think this would be it for today, I try to scavenge more pictures tomorrow, but if you guys are fine with some semi personal pictures, there are interesting bits. Like for example halloween stuff.

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cheers anons,

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What year was this trip? I feel like I'm in a time machine

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This year.

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I love the little standing-only noodle shops on train platforms.
I also absolutely love and appreciate the brilliance of the vending-ticket method of buying food at eateries.

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I have a stack I can dump from when one of my wife’s coworkers showed us around Nara (her hometown), but I’m going to have to resize most.

The Great Buddha Hall is insanely huge. I think (not positive) it’s listed as the world’s largest wooden structure.

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These stones line the long stairway/walkway going up to the temple.
Apparently you can have one dedicated for a temple donation of ¥300mil

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And of course I took a pic of this because even by unintentionally funny Engrish standards, I found it unintentionally funny.

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Main gate to the overall complex.
There are two big statues “standing guard” inside the gate

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First statue

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And the second statue.

There is significance in how one of them has an open mouth and the other’s mouth is closed.
They are supposed to be saying あ and ん, symbolizing “beginning and end”. So, quite literally, a direct Japanese equivalent of “Alpha and Omega”.

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Passed this when walking from the temple/Buddha complex to a hotel for lunch.
Apparently the pond was originally dug by order of Hidenaga Toyotomi (Hideyoshi’s brother).

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Nara Hotel, built 1909. Western-style 5star hotel which also offers some Japanese-style rooms.
Insanely good food, with both Japanese and western style restaurants.

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A couple of the western course menus

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the course menu we were treated to.

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One of the dining rooms of their western restaurant

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Place setting for their lunch course menus.
If you’re western, when you go to a place like this people at nearby tables will try to discreetly glance at you, and see what utensils you’re using when and how you’re using them.
Because of course you’re automatically an expert in formal western dining, and I guess they want to be reassured they’re doing it correctly.

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Main stairway leading up from the hotel lobby

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2nd floor sitting/lounge area overlooking the lobby below.
It’s difficult to get the scale from the photo, but those wooden “railings” are only slightly over knee-high. So they’re going to do precisely jack shit to prevent your clumsy ass from a nice long fall to the lobby floor below.

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>>41128060
very reasonable price

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>>41128167
For a light course set of those ingredients, I agree.
Though their dinner course sets are basically double what lunch costs.
So as the lunch “Kasugano” I had was ¥7865, the dinner “Kasuga” is close to ¥15000.
Pic was the lunch appetizer

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Also if visiting Nara you must try “kakinohazushi”.
It is an old form of sushi and was originally a narezushi, but now it’s just vinegared. But it does taste more strongly of vinegar then most styles, as it is still meant as preservation rather than just flavor, same as how it’s wrapped in a persimmon leaf because of supposed antibacterial properties.
They say it’s good for 7 days unrefrigerated, and that refrigerating it will ruin the texture.

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>>41128098
>Because of course you’re automatically an expert in formal western dining, and I guess they want to be reassured they’re doing it correctly.
Did you gaijin smash unintentionally?

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>gaijin smash
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>>41131768
Nah, I have proper table manners.

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I’m guessing he meant doing something dumb

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>>41134324
Japan really is the best place for AR shenanigans.

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Hanami at Osaka Castle

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To clarify, that isn’t Osaka Castle itself, they are “turret” defensive buildings on the castle grounds

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Vending machines at night are so damn comfy.

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Degenerado.

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Horrible imitation

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>>41139439
Imitation of what?
I’d say “pre-assembled/condiment’d ambient temperature hotdog” is its own product category.

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>>41128154
Sue them

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Ripped off
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Leafs have antimicrobial properties

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>>41139540
Do japos are so dumb to eat thos? Its not a real hot dog. Not even for a shwlf stable one.

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>Ripped off
You retarded, boy?

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>>41139951
Yes, sir. I am a fat stupid american citizen.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4PGSC1Ewo
I've been enjoying quite a lot these "walking exploring" videos lately. I particularly like this one where he had small talk with waitress, but also stuff like cozy alleyways, isekayas. And since I'm learning, something that I could immerse in conversation would also be nice. Do you guys have any recommendations like this?

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Why people is allowed to film everything?

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No conversation in this one, but it’s a favorite of mine.
https://youtu.be/4zr-ZHYZhxQ
Nachi Falls and its shrine/temple complex was the first historically significant place I visited in Japan. At 4:50 he walks past the parking lot we parked in, and everything after that is like watching a memory in video form because he literally follows the same path down to the falls and then up the hill to the complex as we did.

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>>41140243
Sounds retarded.
The girl looked troubled by him when she was reciving the cup.

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Virtual Inception

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>>41139900
It's food. If it's edible, then it's okay. You must be some Euro to fail to understand this.

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>>41139900
>sausage
>bun
>ketchup
>mustard
What’s “not real” about it?

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You dont get it. Its not a real hot dog.

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>>41141937
Yeah, there's too much real meat in it.

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>>41142020
Looks so bad

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>>41142089
It’s literally $0.89USD
Show me a better looking 89cent hotdog.

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Public space

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That's normal, she just really wasn't interest, the other one seemed more into it.

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>>41140304
I'll check it out.
Meanwhile, this link is more of a br gaijin who goes about talking shit all the time, but the opening sequence is just the most comfy shit I've ever seen, even stills like this from a alleyway close to some isakayas, and just watching people coming and going and talking whatever.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1573678661

As a side note, he also does decent narrating content, and he goes mostly to these very obscure and sometimes even more underground places. But sadly what I would like is some immersion content to also try and listen the native speaking.

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>>41142089
Yeah, it looks awful, probably doesn't taste great either. But only a murican to state "real hotdog" are great. They can be fine for some quick fast food, but that's about it.

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>>41143435
Man that's awesome, great framing too.
I was watching some pewdiepie vlog the other day, and started wondering, how hard/expensive is for a foreigner to find some traditional hotel, onsen included, on some more rural and traditional areas of Japan? I mean, is it possible to find those or are those just a stuff from studio ghibbi?

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>>41143655
As long you actually can talk to them in japanese i don't think they really would mind, althought i have always thought they would have slightly disgust for lending the towels and bathrobes to a gaijin.
As long as ryokan goes i guess anything outside of tokyo should be the same, of course they will look different like this one that is special.

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These were lovely to look at. Thanks anon.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Fuji_from_Osaki_Park_(Zushi).jpg

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>BR
They have the shittiest takes about Japan. Also can't shut the fuck up with their poverty language.

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>>41143655
Finding and staying at them is easy. You can literally find them on booking.com and similar.
But if you speak no Japanese and they have no English-speaking staff, you might not enjoy it to the fullest.

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>ryokan
So that's what they are called too

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Nice, what about hot spring baths, are they relatively common too?

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>are they relatively common too?
In regions with a lot of volcanic hot springs, sure.
But sometimes people get confused with terms when booking.
“Onsen” just means the baths. And some places are just onsen.
“Ryokan” is an inn. While a lot of ryokan do have onsen, many don’t. So you can’t assume.
And also, many ryokan actually have private onsen. They tend to be more expensive, but are great if you want privacy. Or have tattoos. Or are wanting to bathe with a girl.

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Great tips anon, so a way to describe something that both would be: 温泉の旅館?
>Or are wanting to bathe with a girl
Yeah, one would think, what a waste to go an actual hot spring and not relieve some of unique hentai scenes.

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Sure, though you shouldn’t have trouble finding English language booking sites, and you’ll usually see it as “Ryokan with indoor/outdoor hot spring bath” or “Ryokan with private hot spring bath”
>and not relieve some of unique hentai scenes
Or if you’re traveling with a significant other. It would be a shame to not enjoy it together.
Onsen are way too damn hot (at least for me) to do anything hentai-related in the water though.
At least with a private one like pic, you can control the temp by adding some cold water.

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>“Onsen” just means the baths. And some places are just onsen.
Look out for 天然温泉.
As the name suggests it is for onsen using natural heated water only.

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This is good advice too.
I haven’t personally run into any places with “onsen” that wasn’t a hot spring, or at least piped their water directly from an underground hot spring, but it is technically possible with how Japan legally defines the term.

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Posting another ryokan pic because this thread is comfy as hell

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Imagine being a Ryokan worker and having to handle so many cum stained sheets close to your face.

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>>41162212
That looks like it would be a very nice view if it weren't for that construction.
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That applies to pretty much any hotel worker.

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What's more splendid than breakfast at a ryoukan?

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idk why 4chin isn't showing these pictures facing the right way; I've already edited them the right way up.

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This entire group of pictures was taken from some trees upon a hilltop shrine overlooking the bay.
One of those shines you'd never know was even there if not for spotting the remains of an old pathway in between the bushes from the corner of your eye

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When I took this photo it was my last evening there and I was crying my ass off because I couldn't bare to leave and I was as drunk as drunk could be. Somewhere in Saitama.

Fin.

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Do you think a Chinaman see pictures like this and their hateboner for Japan turns flaccid ever so slightly?

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>I've already edited them the right way up.
Probably didn't remove the orientation tag, or edited them in an app that used the orientation tag for rotations.

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China is Japan's biggest source of tourists.

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I really miss Japan. Lived in Hokkaido for a few years.
Call me a weeb or whatever but that country truly is the best place I've ever lived.

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>He thinks they aren't spies
Oh to be naive.

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>I couldn't bare to leave and I was as drunk as drunk could be
Fuck I know that feel.
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Still haven’t made it to Hokkaido but am planning a visit this winter.

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>>41164620
If they're paying tourism dollars, they're tourists.

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Also, how many millions of spies do you need in Kyoto?

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>>41164927
Yuans, anon, Yuans. Not all of them are vassal Hong Kongers.

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They're studying geisha information leaking tactics.

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>he thinks Tokyo is the capital
Lol it’s all for show. Along with the elected government.
Kyoto is where the emperor secretly meets with all of his prefectural Daimyo and the true ruling of Japan occurs.
It’s also where the underground Gundam manufacturing facility is.

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hai. can confirm my 大 ochinchin turns into smol chinchin

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The view from the bath/deck made up for it. Didn’t spend much time in the room itself anyway.

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God damn entitled Kyotojin and their pretention attitude!

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This was the first pic I took the first time I went to Japan.
I arrived late the evening before, was super late by the time I got to the apt I was staying it, plus hadn't really slept in like 2 days. Just had a few drinks and crashed.
This is what saw the next morning when I stepped out on the balcony.
It was my “holy shit I’m in Japan” moment.

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Still haven’t tried one of these. Not sure I want to.
>here’s your loaf of bread, bro-sama

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>>41158343
Ryokan means a Japanese style hotel.
Onsen is a term that refers to the phenomenon or place where hot water gushes out from the ground, or the hot spring itself.
It contains sulphur, salt, is alkaline or acidic, and is believed to be good for health.
A bath means normal warm water.
For business, a regular hotel bath is fine.
The purpose of a onsen is to bathe in it, which is why the location and ryokan are decided.

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>>41162212
Aren't ryokan the more traditional hosting in japan styled buildings, like proper tatamis and wooden walls?
This looks nice, but its more of modern/hipster vibe to it.

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>The purpose of a onsen is to bathe in it, which is why the location and ryokan are decided.
Decided what? I don't get what you had correct over the quoted post.

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I can try to post a few from my 2019 trip. Unfortunately I am not a great cameraman.

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This one was from a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park.

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Ryokan can be traditional, modern, Japanese style, western style, and any mix/combination of those and anything in between.
That one in particular had a variety of rooms, the one in the pic was “mixed”.
Western furniture, but futon/tatami for sleeping, and the room containing the shower/bath which opened to the balcony was entirely wooden (pic).

The best analog between “Ryokan” and “hotel” would probably be comparable to “Bed & Breakfast” vs “hotel”.
You stay in a hotel because you need a place to sleep in order to facilitate doing other things.
You stay in a Ryokan/B&B to relax in it. It *is* the destination, for the most part.

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This was near Ryogoku Station, looking at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It's near the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena which is where they hold major sumo tournaments.

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This one is from the same area. Some sort of walkway to cross over the street, as I recall. Something about the view of the city here really spoke to me.

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>>41169047
If you’re referring to the definitions in >>41157805, I thought it would be more clear I referring to “onsen” as “just the baths”, it was meaning “just the *hot spring* baths”. Sorry about that.
The entire point was to clarify that not all onsen have rooms for guests to stay in, and not all ryokan have onsen.

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I forget exactly where this was, I just happened upon it while walking to my hostel.

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>Something about the view of the city here really spoke to me.
That would be the 7&i sign indicating that it has both tobacco and alcohol. One stop shopping ftw.

Seriously tho that’s a neat scene.
Were you a big ass weeb growing up? Anime fan and whatnot? I only ask because I was (and still am to an extent), and I can’t help but admire streets/views that have that same quintessentially Japanese aesthetic as what were common backdrops in so many anime.
It’s difficult to describe. Almost like a feeling of childhood familiarity/nostalgia for something that wasn’t actually part of my childhood except in “drawings”.

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>Were you a big ass weeb growing up?
I suppose you could say that. I have several siblings around my age, so when we were all younger my parents - both of whom worked full-time jobs - would frequently just plop us all down in front of the television set and put on a show or movie to keep us entertained. This, among other things, exposed me to Japanese media very early in life: for example, I was just the right age to ride the wave generated by series like Sailor Moon and Pokemon coming to the West. I was also introduced to Japanese video games around the same time - our babysitter, who happened to be an elderly woman and her retired husband - was a huge fan of the Mario series. My local grocery store carried the English version of Weekly Shounen Jump and by total happenstance I picked up a copy without really knowing what it was just to entertain myself on a long plane flight; I became an avid reader, purchasing the magazine every month for about three years or so before I started following various scanlation groups online in places like MSN. I still remember the exact copy: September 2003. As I grew older I started watching more anime, especially through Toonami and Adult Swim. Suffice to say I had a lot of exposure to Japanese media during some very formative years.

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>>41170287
>The best analog for “Ryokan” would probably be “Bed & Breakfast”
>Ryokan can be western style
Holy fuck that has got to be the most retarded thing I've read in a long time.
You have literally no idea what you are talking about and should promptly kill yourself, you retarded tourist

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>>41170959
You’re being silly, anon.
I’m not sure why you’re so upset on a personal level when some basic checks would show you what’s correct.
“Modern” ryokan are a thing.
“Western style ryokan” are a thing.
And the fact you’d disagree about B&B being the closest western analog to a ryokan is extremely strange. Suggest a better one, then.
And for the love of whatever, please understand how silly you sound when you use “tourist” as a derogatory (assuming you’re another westerner living in Japan). You come across as a self-hating gaijin who is more concerned with showing “Oh I’m not like those other gaijin!” than someone who actually wants to depend their knowledge of their adopted home.

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>>41170959
You’re being silly, anon.
I’m not sure why you’re so upset on a personal level when some basic checks would show you what’s correct.
“Modern” ryokan are a thing.
“Western style ryokan” are a thing.
And the fact you’d disagree about B&B being the closest western analog to a ryokan is extremely strange. Suggest a better one, then.
And for the love of whatever, please understand how silly you sound when you use “tourist” as a derogatory (assuming you’re another westerner living in Japan). You come across as a self-hating gaijin who is more concerned with showing “Oh I’m not like those other gaijin!” than someone who actually wants to deepen their knowledge of their adopted home.

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>>41171091
I guess another better way to describe instead of B&B, would be term inn, which isn't really used for modern hosting anymore. But it makes sense if you compare it to what a traditional Ryokan would be.
I would the reason why they are the main end destination would exactly because they are like a historical setting in itself, that you can literally immerse yourself in. Also I would guess that the best would have traditional/rural places to visit in the vicinity, like temples, shrines, some nature leisure, perhaps a natural hot spring like I mentioned before, and perhaps some of those seasonal kimono wearing festivals.

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>>41171332
>what a traditional Ryokan would be
That’s the thing though. I mean if you’re staying at old historical ryokan that’s one thing. They are old Japanese style because they’ve been around since then.
But there are also plenty of “modern” ryokan with rooms furnished with western appointments, because there are a lot of Japanese who associate that with “luxury”, and they want to enjoy what they feel is a “luxurious” stay rather than a living history lesson.
Now of course I completely agree with you; given the choice, I’d much prefer to stay in a tatami room with floor seating/tables, and would enjoy every minute of the historical immersion. But that doesn’t always apply to domestic Japanese travelers.
It’s why you’ll see many “destination” hotels in Japan offer a a distinct grouping of “western” or “Japanese” style rooms.

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>those pieces of cabbage on the side
dont know i just find it funny

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>>41173913
Double-dipping prevention device.

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Japan loves Denny’s and makes gatcha out of it.

Of course, Japanese Denny’s is full of all the American classics Denny’s is known for, like pasta, gratin, Hamburg steak, and whiskey highballs
https://www.dennys.jp/pdf/menubook-st.pdf?0906

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>>41179158
>31 page menu with pictures
I love Japan

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>>41179158
>American clubhouse sandwich/sando
As much as Japan loves shortening borrowed English words, and they expand “club” into “clubhouse”

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>>41179260
Clubhouse just sounds cooler

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Cold ramen with pork box meal..
Carelessly abandoned by someone on the shelf behind a toilet in a bathroom stall of Shin-Osaka station.
RIP nevar4get ;_;

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>>41179400
RIP

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>>41179400
I'd take it. Food is food.

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have you ever secretly take a photo of japanese people before? like couple, children, officer workers etc.

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Newfag here. Just want to ask, what kind camera's are you guy's using? I'm thinking about going to Japan myself for some photo's but not to sure what camera to use. I have film camera but not too sure if it'll look like >>41103814

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>>41182258
All the images starting with _THE and _UGH (and the Bandai Climb) were taken with a Nikon D7100 and almost all with a Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX HSM lens.

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>>41163458
what car is this?

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>>41179158
I really think Denny's is the worst of the big family restaurant chains. Would definitely pick Jonathan's, Big Boy, Royal Host, etc. over it.

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>>41183087
Frankly I was shocked the first time I saw a Big Boy in Japan, considering it has all but disappeared in the US.

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>>41184576
So are Lawson's and Tower Records. Japan is somehow a haven for deprecated American brands.

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>>41182970
I guess the car is a nissan silvia.

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>>41184618
I did know about Tower, I just thought Big Boy was kinda weird because it was a heck of a lot more “obscure” than Tower.
I also thought it was neat to see Toys R Us.

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>>41185464
>Toys R Us
They're back from the dead in the US.

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>>41185490
They didn't die in Japan.

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>>41185490
Like with an actual store? I mean they have an e-commerce site but I thought that was it.

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>>41186395
I don't think they have any big box stores like they used to, but they do have smaller physical stores in some malls now. But who knows if that'll last since malls are dying left and right too.

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>>41184618
>Japan is somehow a haven for deprecated American brands.
Like Coke fans.

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>>41117977
>I also absolutely love and appreciate the brilliance of the vending-ticket method of buying food at eateries.
Can you elaborate anon. I have heard that once you get the ticket you still have to hand it to the guy running the stall for your order to actually get started anyway.

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>>41193059
>you still have to hand it to the guy running the stall
Well yeah, but it removes having to give someone an order, removes any miscommunication, etc.
it also helps keep prices down because the owner doesn’t have to pay someone to stand there and take orders and make change. It enables some of these tiny shops to run with 2 or even just 1 employee.
And the line goes more quickly, as of course it’s quicker to just insert money, push button, take change/ticket than is to be politely greeted by cashier, verbally place order, hand money, be politely thanked by cashier, he handed change, and whatever else.

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>>41193059
I guess this photo is a shop on the conventional line platform of Shin-Osaka Station.
Buying a ticket is easy.
Just check the price and press the number button on the curtain.
"冷" in the small blue menu means cold.
Only one thing you have to tell the clerk.
It is "udon" or "soba".
The ticket only specifies the toppings, and the noodles are specified verbally.

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>>41193549
Don’t forget the most important button of all

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Ah I forgot to mention; you were correct, I did take that at Shin-Osaka

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Burp

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>>41198591
Ah, another fellow enjoyer of the finer things in life: Sneaking into abandoned, derelict buildings.

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>>41206853
This was someone's home with no family alive/who cares isn't it?

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>>41206853
What's the device on the shelf? An... oven?

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>>41207016
Looks like a showa era toaster oven

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Here one of my favorite photos - I took this one on my first Tokyo travel on my last night there after some very fun karaoke with some friends.
Still can't believe I managed to shoot this kind of low exposure image on my oneplus phone (which is notorious to fuck up dark scenes) while being drunk as skunk. A very comfy Kawasaki back alley.

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>>41206838
I see you're a man of culture as well...
Posting some more of this school, built in 1952 and abandoned in 1998, wich was sadly torn down a year ago or so.

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Anon from before, whats the bump limit again for the board?

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I might be comfortable with dropping some more personal photos after that.

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>>41209634
>torn down a year ago or so
Chances of experiencing Non Non Biyori in the real world are ever diminishing.

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>>41212148
>Non Non Biyori
I was just watching that, though I would say the anime vibe wouldn't be so much of abandoned places, I do hope to see some very rural japan areas too.

Pic is Kyoto river, I lived very close to it, and one of my past times was biking up river till I couldn't go anymore.

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>>41212257
I just loved to see how clear crystalline the river was. Always dipped my feet or head in it.
Pic related, people used to cross this easily, but during changing seasons, water level was just a bit too high for it.

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>>41212274
I think this was a lake even further upriver, though I didn't know where exactly because I was taken by friends.

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I think what like most was mix of new and old, in the bang middle of one of those alley malls, I entered a tiny way which lead to this hidden corridor.

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Which lead to this garden area. (view is coming out)

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Funny masks at the way in, felt like being spirited away.

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Also in the same gallery in the dab middle of the city, a graveyard.

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On some other random alley, something interesting.

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And I think I might've been trespassing property then, but I couldn't stop exploring.

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This was like a traditional Villa thing, and I can't people would actually live there, but it looked like an amazing place.

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Heck, they even had their own little temple tucked away in the corner.

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Another cemetery hidden away.

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Now for the promised more personal pics, Halloween was a fun time.

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This cute very elusive girl.

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The bae of my dreams!

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Shit I can't tell which photos need orientation.

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Funny story, that I don't actually remember how or why.

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ガラナ

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For this I cannot avoid to show up.
Very funny story, so turns out one of the few jobs you can do as a filthy gaijin with a tourist visa, is to go on these schooltrips to talking english with highschoolers.
So in this trip, me, another resident gaijin, and bunch of authentic stereotypical japansese male teenagers.

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But it was kinda cool and really opportunity to getting paid and visit a touristy location at the same time.

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ps. the golden temple at the background.

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Pretty nice actually.

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Another funny story, took the cute gyaru on deito, but completely misread the location.

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Found a completely off skirt place, ventured up river again, while she was all dressed up and probably afraid of being murdered.

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But I have to say the best part was the pubs and izakayas.
Pic related was granted the nickname of shinkansen

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A bunch of retarded gaijins in the curabu

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How the night usually ended...
I saw this way too much in japan.

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Yet another one.
It was kind of crazy actually, to go on a night out on Osaka, and go back by train the other day, without actually know fuck all of where you are.
I'm amazed I managed to get back home the few times stuff like that happened.

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A couple of qt students talking to me.
I don't think it was actually this time, but I remember one that were about 6 actual high schoolers, I wasn't paying much attention, but then they called me "kawai" and asked a few things.

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Well that's it folks, dunno if anyone is gonna see those.
Fun fact that this was eleven years ago, and checking up on /jp/ now got me really nostalgic about it. I spoke fuck all japanese at the time, and because I had near zero prospect of ever being able to go back and live there again, I gave up on studying before even starting.
Now 11 years after that what felt like fever dream, I'm actually learning nihongo.

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>>41212257
Although you seem pretty cringy and normalfaggotry, I will let it slide because some of your photos are pretty cool and although you're a faggot, I'll tell you one thing: You've got sovl, kiddo.

Sounds like you really doubled down on the perma-drunk baka gaijin nippon experience; and that's something I respect to a certain degree.

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>>41212148
I'm actually currently teaching at an elementary school with 13 total students.
It's pretty Non Non Biyori.

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>>41214490
Fucker didn't even care about hiding the faces of anyone, including his own.

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>>41214490
Yup, well that was 11 years ago too...