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ne1 here been to japan? what are some cool things that you can do? some great places to go to? |
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Id really like to go, im not into all that anime culture stuff, but i really like the look of the place, |
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You can masturbate and you can go to the bathroom in Japan or you could visit their historical museum about human logs in unit 731. |
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please dont read the logs of 731 if you want to sleep |
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you didn't write where you are going actually so there is no point recommending spots in osaka when you will be to tokyo only. basically there is so much shit to see that even if you'll stay in tokyo alone for a month you won't be bored. anyway three things i definitely can recommend which aren't necessarily obvious: - if you want to drink cheap, drink whiskey. srsly. beer is pretty expensive (even more so because it's pretty weak). cheap sake and shochu is disgusting. even the cheapest japanese whiskey is pretty alright still, and pretty cheap. - check out this guide, lot's of weird and unusual spots. found the used panty store in tokyo thanks to it: - this one's more obvious, but if you will travel by train (and you should in japan) you absolutely need a japan railway passes. |
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do Caucasian men get groped on the train? |
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involuntarily |
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right i'll have 50 quids worth then |
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tokyo subway rush hour should be your happy place then |
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Why dont you have anything to drink? Choose one...making you Better feeling.!!! |
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do you mean those guys in white gloves who stuff you in the trains like they are trying to close a sock draw |
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osaka and tokyo ive been before and done loads of shit in 2008 i had a three week rail pass and went all around hiroshima and up to yamagata i loved drinking in tokyo and going to the nightclubs meeting randoms and stuff it's good fun thinking of going back for a month next year sometime japan is awesome |
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did you get hassled at all or are people there as polite as the stereotype, |
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in osaka stayed at a hostel where there were homeless people nearby one night a guy followed me trying to speak english with me couldnt get rid of the fucker eventually he got bored and left me alone |
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ah how easy is it to get around if you dont speak Japanese? |
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become a ninja or something |
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disguise yourself as vending machine |
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lol |
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was it by any chance in shinsekai umbroman? osaka is pretty bad turf. it has some of the worst neighbourhoods in all japan. i remember when we were staying in a cheap ass hostel in shinsekai there would be fights between homeless all the time, a lot of yakuza roaming around and the air was basically tense. i also remember that one day somebody had to try to mug me, as i found my backpack zippers open after some time. gladly i had nothing of value in my backpack. there was also nothing worth seeing there imho. still osaka was a pretty big deal for us as it served as a homebase for a lot of our trips to sights around, like kyoto, nara, wakayama, koyasan etc. i would really like to go there again as well, but this trip we had was really the time of my life and i was always afraid that the next trip would be underwhelming as it wouldn't be as good as the first one. my favourite place was definitely nakano, especially the broadway. i have spent most of my time in tokyo, feeling totally dissatisfied with akihabara. if there is one thing i that i regret than it's the fact that i wasn't open enough to people, wasn't talking / bothering them at all. not that i would be able to do it the next time, but everytime i had an encounter with a local it was pretty awesome. i very fondly remember sitting in yoyogi park with a beer minding my business when an old drunkard started rambling to me. funnily enough he had the bet english of all people i met during a month in japan. we got into a lengthy discussion about sex, religion, polish cinematography and what not and all that time he was buying me beers altough i could see that it should be the other way round. it was pretty gut wrenching when we parted and i was saying something like "maybe we'll see each other again" and he was like "no, we will never see each other again". i have some piece of paper where he scribbled a few japanese proverbs and their english translations. wonderful memento. |
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hyperflake - one thing that's important to know (and not obvious) is that english in japan is non-existent. furthemore even if someone knows engllish and starts talking to you, you will not understand a word. on the other hand - it's manageable. people are helpful to the point where they will call some relative and give you their phone to talk to them, or even tell you wrong directions only to help you lol. that's basically why i would never go there alone. on one occasion i got into an argument with my friend and we parted ways for a few days. i never felt so alone in my entire life as i couldn't talk to absolutely anyone. there is no point learning japanese for one or two trips though, imho. |
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meet yoshimitsu |
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no i did Japanese as my general studies in college i was terrible at it, im not very good at languages as i spend a large proportion of my time mute, i suppose gesturing would help a bit or stay with a japanese person with good english, thanks for the reply very indepth, are you writer of some sort? |
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not a writer, god no. who would want to read rambling like that? as for being mute i actually think that japanese might be the language where this isn't such a big hinderence. remember that in japanese you basically pronounce things exactly how they are written and there aren't a lot of exceptions. compare that to some more exotic, or even european languages. gesturing makes you look like a bit of a fool imho because it seems very impolite. not to exagerate the problem. you basically CAN talk english with japanese people, you just have to know how. and you have to get (via context) what they want to tell you. we were staying over couchsurfing with this wonderful australian girl and she thought us a little trick. basically talk like you would talk in english, but just add "o" or "u" to every other word. i though she was joking, but the next day i could already use this. i was buying a pack of cigarettes and i was like showing the shopkeeper the pack and saying "kent lights". she's like wtf man baka gaijin gtfo. then i remembered what that girl said and i'm like "kento lighto" and she's like DOOD WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO FROM THE BEGINNING and she gives me the damn cigs. i felt like a damn fool (and racist) afterwards but it was working wonders for most of the trip |
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thought = taught gew=few (whoever remembers that meme on here) |
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james joyce was pretty popular i can just imagine me saying " needu toileto papero quicku nowu, explosiveu arseo" |
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the problem is rather that even if someone in japan understands the words you are saying, he doesn't necessarily understand their meaning because their mindset is so different. just to name a few examples - one of our friends who was with us was a vegan. everyday it was quite the struggle to find some food for her, as basically everything in japan has at least some hint of meat in it (wide use of broths). anyway for the longest time we were convinced that we lack the communication skills and that's why it's so difficult. but even when we had a native ask a shop keeper for us we had some struggles. those shop keepers understood perfectly that we want something without meat, but simply couldn'y understand why the fuck someone would. with those explosive shits - i'm curious if it would be similar. do asians actually have stomach problems? that would be like the worst thing ever to have on those squating toilets. personally i felt amazing all time through eating lots of weird stuff. back in europe, that's when it hit me hard. |
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yes i see what you mean, more of a cultural thing than a language barrier. |
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go out naked and proclaim yourself the president of japan |
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