/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I live in Japan right now.

I'm Japanese, by the way.

>>962796
How does it feel to live in a country that's so many weeaboo's wet dream?

I'm going there for the year to study abroad in 52 days.

>>962796
>>962807
Heroes.

>>962807
Your mere existence is an insult to humanity itself.

>>962807
Hopefully you will end up in a barrel of cement.

>>962817
>>962821
Your mother was a hamster.

OP here, more from my trip. It's the Kyoto Train Station.

West exit out of Shibuya Mark City.

>>962794
I won't go to Japan if only because I can't learn moon around here. Though waking up and seeing Mt. fuji through the window would be fucking awesome.

Crossing in Shinjuku.

>>962827
Mt. Fuji out of a (train) window.

Did you take the pic for the legs?

I'd fuck the first three girls on that bench from the left

... and I'd let that guy fuck me

>>962832
Goddamn Mt. Fuji is fucking sugoi. Yeah, I said sugoi. Preposterous.

An empty train, a rare sight.

Internet Cafe I stayed at, paid top dollar to upgrade from a reclining chair to futon.

>>tonberryking !vzc9TxEtRo
fuck off

Store in Akihabara, those who have gone may be familiar with it.

Street crossing in Osaka.

>>962866
Looks like Yodobashi Camera.

Delicious fucking curry.

>>962866
3 more days till P4. Can't wait till I get my copy.

I´m Half Japanese.

I go to Japan once every 1-3 years.

For around 2 weeks - 2 months

>>962886

Indians wish they could make curry this delicious

>>962896
Not even the Japanese in America can unfortunately. You gotta go there yourself to get the real good shit.

>>962894
r u hot

Cooking show in Japan.

>>962886
Curry joint in the Akihabara JR station, right?

>>962903


Well yes, its around +30° around vienna right now

>>962903
If you dig dudes...

>>962905
Negative, I believe that was a curry joint near a museum in Kyoto.

Pr0n store in Akihabara. Basement floor of course lawl.

>>962905
that place always smelt great every time i got off there

Now that you guys got on the topic of curry, do you guys know anything about making curry at home? Packaged food, homemade, etc.

I'm leaving for Hirakata-cho (near Osaka) on August 25th and not returning until after Memorial Day weekend of 2009. STUDY ABROAD, FUCK YEAH!

OP here, I'm jealous about you study abroad fags, I want to go back ;_;

>>962922
You can buy packaged curry almost anywhere, but it'll definitely be in an asian market. Instructions are on the box.

S&B is the best.

I believe this is Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, correct me if I'm wrong. Also the gaijin in the black jacket is a furfag I hung out with. I didn't realize it till he gave me his email, "bitterlilraccoon"

You fools! Everybody knows that Curry is a british dish!

Tee hee!

専門は日本語おおおお！！！！！

>>962935
too bad he didn't jump off that "stage"

>>962935
Hey, I've got Kiyomizu too.

>>962843

LIES I SEE A LEG

>>962948
OP here, I took this from the building in your picture.

>>962956
Yeah but Japanese people have no souls, so he doesn't count.

River in Kyoto.

>>962964
ouch.

>>962961
I went during a considerably less green time of year. That and my camera sucks.

>>962794
I too have went to Japan to take boring pictures that only me and my immediate family would care about.
Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
Chiba's really nice and clean.

>>962971
take me down to the cities of the future

>>962968
I'm here to one-up you.

>>962969
At least you still got pictures, the place is fucking memorable.

More Kiyumizu.

The night I took this photo this guy showed up at my hotel late at night to stab me to death.

>>962979
NICE PUN!!
also, just curious, is that an automatic filename? or did Death Cab do a concert in Kyoto on the same day?

>>962979
OP here, you know I never really saw any buildings of technological importance except for Subaru. I never could find Sanrio, Nintendo, Sony, etc. :(

>>962979
The person I went to Japan with went to Kyoto just to take a picture of the Nintendo building and then rail pass it back to Tokyo before the trains shut down too.

>>962866
Sofmap ;__;

>>962905
have they rebuilt the bit adjacent to the JR station? The 'department store' sort of died in 2006 or so. The first floor used to have pretty good cheap curry and yakisoba though.

>>962985
DCFC is automatic.

I took a good shit in this toilet.

>>962994
okay, just wondering. thanks.

>>962990
Wasn't finished when I was there, but that was a year and a half ago now.

>>962988
I actually went on a whim when I learned my hotel was down the street.

I forgot where this is.

>>962998
Odaiba or one of the other "reclaimed" islands, from the look of it...

OP here for the last time. Park in Harajuku. Thanks for posting in my thread.

if any other study abroad fags are in here, what schools are you going to?
Kansai Gaidai right here.

Favorite pic of the trip. I have a soft spot for amusing coincidences.

>>963011
Except for maybe this one....this is what happens when you photograph at 170 MPH.

i really need to visit the moon one day...

>>963011
Me too, r u mai future waifu

>>963019
ノ！　マイン！！

Kiyomizu fuck yeah, back from trip in 2006

Also, lulz in Osaka.

>>963033
are you supposed to swallow the water, or spit it back out?

>>963028
Let's get married.

i has been to the moon

>>963036
>lulz

Fuck off.

>>963038
sweet, my AIM name is weightsdownso. or would you rather use skype?

>>963042
id hug her

>>963042
what the FUCK

Also, C70 fuck yeah.

>>963050
You're not online.

アメリカは、暴力に満ち溢れている。

>>963063
I was Away, sorry.

>>963065
うそ

>>963066
No it shows you as offline, make sure you have buddy list only off.

>>963070
Thanks, i r dum -_-

>>963065
あんたは日本人じゃない。誰かを騙さない。

>>963065
あんたは日本人じゃない。誰もを騙さない。

>>963081
サーセン

>>963088
２ちゃんねるへ戻りなさい

OHHHH!!!! YOU JUST GOT TOLD, HOME SLICE!! GET YO ASS BACK TO FUTABA OR WHEREVER YOU CAME FROM. SNAPPITY SNAP SNAP!

>>963110
Go back to /b/

I might as well post one of my pics from Japan.

On the 3rd floor hallway at the Holiday Inn Tobu in Narita-shi.

Looking outside of Hamamatsuchou station

>>963328
Malt Beer? Why do they have a nigger drink?

Been living in Tokyo for quite awhile and I'm still 18.

Inside the Metropolitan Space Art in Ikebukuro.

>>963358
>>963346
>>963328
Problem is that I wish I could've stayed longer, but my funds are limited, so I could only stay for seven days.

My camera takes shitty pictures at night.

>>963381
Everybody's camera does. That's just the nature of the problem. Night time necessitates high ISO (which is noisier), low shutter speeds and a tripod or some way of keeping the camera stable, not hand-holding it.

>>963571
easily solved with a low end DSLR or a big flash

>>962817
>Your mere existence is an insult to humanity itself.
Goons and 4channers are the only people with this virulent anti-Japan rage (because they're embarrassed to admit they liked anime when they were younger or something so they go into a disingenuous fit of rage every time someone mentions Japan in an imgboard about Japan)

Like your average person might not care about anime or modern Japanese culture but still won't start flipping out in disgust whenever Japan comes up; that's total goon behavior.

>>963578
Like so many bazillion wannabe photographers I have a Rebel XT with that 50mm/1.8 prime lens. Night time hand-held shots are still shitty unless you crank the ISO up to 800 or 1600 and you have it on the largest aperture, then they become barely acceptable.
The problem isn't quite solved, it's just mitigated kinda.

>>962917

FYI they have like ten million signs around the place telling people not to take photos, and for good reason.

I go to japan often when I get vacation time, but for some reason I have never felt the urge to take photos of random people on trains without their permission.

>>963042

I've seen those hug guys a lot they seem to be a fixture of the bridge now. The whole area between harajuku station and yoyogi is always full of the friendlist people and I am not even talking about sundays here. I remember making my way to meiji shrine once and some artist dude came up to me with really good english and just started talking to me and showing me around the place without any prompting what so ever. Probably because of the shear volume of tourists in the area but w/e.

>>963750
Maybe because he was attracted to you like that guy in your photo.
His grin is creepy and his zipper is magically unzipping itself.

>>963585

FYI most of the time they aren't even serious posting when they japan rage and are being a parody of themselves.

Also FYI I think you're quoting entirely out of context.

FYI

>>963752

Jesus I've had this pic for so long and I just noticed that thanks you faggot.

>>963761
Dude how did you not notice how incredibly sketchy that guy looks before.

>>963608
use a tripod? i brought mine when i went to japan.

>>963763

Yes it's hard to imagine how weird looking people blend in around harajuku. Also coming from where I live the kindness never ceases to overwhelm me when I am in Japan and I overlook these things.

Also sketchy people with ulterior motives I notice are the dudes who approach me in east shinjuku/kabukicho/in areas you expect them.

whut Japanese curry? Try an Indian curry, Japanese curry is just spicy gravy.

>>962796

>>963788
You got to pay attention. There are alot of traps in Japan.

>>963811

And on that note there are a lot of ugly foreign fangirl dipshits who go to harajuku thinking cosplay is the same as it is back at their western cons.

Walking to Kanazawa Castle in Ishkawa.

>>963848

Who's the 3D american pig disgusting in front of you?

where's the grass n shit growing out of the streets and sidewalks? they sterilize the ground or something before they lay that shit down? shit looks crazy

:3

I came.
I saw .
I conquered.

Pic related.

More pictures.

>>963869

It's hard for grass to grow where there isn't any exposed ground 98% of the time

>>963006

Why are you calling meiji-jingu "park in harajuku" even the most shitty guidebooks can identify the biggest shrine in all of tokyo. You strike me as a very insufferable person.

>>963328

heeeeey I stayed at that hotel too!

>>963857
she was from iceland, and gross, and annoying, and i had to live with her. fail

Every foreigner in Japan hates other foreigners in Japan because they remind them of themselves.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/20/71-being-the-only-white-person-around/

>>963950

This is very true, but from what I've observed it's more a distaste towards recognising themselves as "belonging" to a expat community because they're all trying really hard to fit into japan and to assimilate themselves into the society. The pressures of just living there seems to make them cringe at the idea of relaxing for a second and becoming one of those "rude ignorant tourists", everyone wants to be the exception.

However I have never gone to japan on anything but a temp visitor visa, so my reason for hating most other whiteys is that they tend to be utter morons. Especially Australians their hideous shameful drinking culture combined with the japanese drinking enviroment is just painful to watch, ugh.

I'm back with another pic of my trip.

>>963978
qft.

When I was over there for vacation, most gaijin were complete utter morons. I remember trying to explained a couple from cincinnati how to read military times and they couldn't even understand it and don't get people started on how they couldn't even understand the simple rail system.

Why is it that when people go to japan up to half of their photos are of the rail network

Wow public transport what a wacky thing only in japan guys! - american tourist

>>963990

I saw this female backpacker at shinjuku station once at the ticket gates booth talking to the JR dude waving a ticket in her hand getting all confused about why it wouldn't work and getting even more confused over why her english isn't working.

They seriously can't make their transit network more tourist friendly. On top of that every guide book in the world will take efforts to explain the rail network for you complete with maps there really is no excuse.

>>963994
That's the only rail pic I have.

Now have some delicious crepes. :D

>>964006
those crepes in front of tokyo tower are so fucking good.

I mean they even print tickets in both english and japanese for services with reserved seats is there any other rail network in the world that goes to such lengths?

>>964017
Germany's also pretty helpful, as public transit goes.

>>964025

Germans are just damn helpful full stop. It helps that german and english are pretty close and that use of english is so widespread in germany but still, great guys.

>>963994
There are always pictures of the transport system because you spend a sizable proportion of your time on a train (literally, it's too convenient NOT to use...)
Since it's such a mythical beast to get anywhere also, it's somewhat a celebratable situation when you finally reach your destination...
Then you have to remember on which lines you can use your JR rail pass etc etc etc...

>>964043

Rail passes too, JR even have rail passes anticipating that it would be better if tourists didn't even have to think about how it works and give them a one size fits all option.

The idea of multiple rail companies in one area seems to be a real hurdle for a lot of people, JR for places clearly labeled JR doesn't sound too tough for me.

>>964006
those crapes look fucking good

>>963328
if your going to japan you should get a picture of the panty vending machines if they really do exist.

>>964061
Oh no, it isn't but even today I tried using the Odakyu line with a JR pass only to have the gates slam back at me... I did consider using a gaijin blast and just powering on through but I decided it would be better to go and pay... It was only Machida to Sagami-ono so 120 I didn't think was so bad...
I guess it didn't help that I was half asleep also

>>964074

Why there are like dozens of pics of them all over the internet

>>964078

Man, I was half asleep once and not watching where I was walking, chucked my ticket into the machine just to have it slam back at me and then I looked up realized that I was at the entrance to the shinkansen. I apoligised to the gate lady and felt pretty damn embarassed.

Still my point stands it is nothing close to the rat maze that people whine about.

>>964079
true but they are also old pictures

>>964111

Only the freshest pictures of used panty machines will entertain this man, quick expats get to work.

panty vending machines were banned years ago, that's why there are no "new" pictures.

>>964101
That I will agree with. I don't find it hard to navigate at all, but this is my fourth time here and this time I'm here for the next 13 months. I expect by the end of it I'll be navigating like a Japanese and *gasp* maybe even sleeping!
I did manage to fall asleep today on the train, but I was getting off on the last stop so it wasn't exactly like I was doing it for real (ie sleeping and waking up at my stop)

PS I just took this photo. I'm in a friend's apartment right now while I look for my own. I don't have a bank account yet so the apartment I want may not be possible for me. Pity, really...

GPS location is

N 35 33.479
E 139 42.917
398m above sea level

Someone come visit me tomorrow night!!

>>964145

It's funny how they took action against them yet allow used panty/uniform stores to stay open. Also they still exist, they're just in places where it's hardly the most wacky perverted thing in eyeshot. These places generally don't allow photography too which I see you faggots DISREGARDING SO DAMN OFTEN LIKE THE CLUELESS FOREIGNERS THAT YOU ARE.

>>962796
Are you a natural born Eleven? If so, why the fuck are you on 4chan?

I didn't find the railway system that hard, you can always just spend a minute or two looking at the map with romanji to see where you want to go anyway, and everything is color coded.
but what was hard to navigate was fucking shinjuku station, especially if you have to switch between various rail and subway lines.

>>964157
I clearly fail and forgot to attach the photo. Let's try that again, shall we

>>964157

Probably the only thing about the trains that really amases me is the passengers. They can seriously just fall asleep standing, like right there in a crowd on a moving train, keeping balance and shit. Not only that, they always wake up just before their stop it's like their alarm clock is ingrained from their daily commuting activities.

Also they deal with being on a packed train well, the trains where I live don't get close to half as packed but they are still worse purely because the people who ride them don't know how to squeese up and not pretend like the entire carrage is to themselves.

I'll be going there in a few days to meet relatives and buy stuff.
Half-moon half-britfag.

Be prepared to melt; it's pretty hot, humid and sticky out here...

>>964190

what's so unusual?

>>964262
What about in hokkaido?

I was considering teaching english out there, how are the people, climate, etc?

>>964314
Never been myself so I can't comment on the people, but it's a popular destination within Japan for Japanese. I know quite a few people who were excited about their trips to Hokkaido past/future...

As for the weather it's a good few degrees cooler than mainland Japan. I should imagine that it's somewhat more bearable.
It gets colder in the winter, though! Days on end of snow that actually sticks!

>>964190
>Not only that, they always wake up just before their stop it's like their alarm clock is ingrained from their daily commuting activities.
I always manage to do that, I don't know how. I just end up waking a stop or two before I'm supposed to get off of a train.

Also, I went to Japan last month. It was quite fun.

>>963346
So THAT'S why I didn't see any when I went out last year.

Also, I saw this in a Nagoya related group on Failbook

>If any English speakers out there are free on Monday afternoons, I have a private student to give away (as I have too many classes at uni now, I cannot do week days).

>She is a very bright 6 year old girl in Honjin. They paid me 2000 and hour but you can charge what you want really.

This is how you get with a Japanese loli.

Right, when I was in Japan, I saw a lot of girls with eye patches.

What was it for? I heard eyelid surgery is quite popular, something to do with changing their eyelids to a double fold, but I'm still not sure.

Anyone who knows care to enlighten me?

>>964542
>facebook

Fuck off.

>>964761
Power levels, dude.
Power levels.

>>963328
OH MAN IS THAT BOSS COFFEE?
MAN I FUCKING LOVED BOSS COFFEE.
NOW I MISS JAPAN ;_;

>>965190
So you like BOSS Coffee.

Well, have all the Suntory BOSS in the world.

Pic related.

>>965245
Boss has been the boss of 'em all since 1986.

i went. got back a month ago. filthy third world country with advanced electronics pretending to be a first world country, full of miserable quiet people.

>>965266
You either have a very poor understanding of the term "third-world" or a very good understanding of Japanese politics....

I live in Osaka now. More specifically Kishibe, which is 4 stops on the Kyoto line from Umeda. I'm going to work now. IT's raining today...shitty.

I'm back.

Liberty Lady on Odaiba

Been to Tokyo (jiyugaoka) and Hakone.

04/2000

Spent ~5000$ on video games and artbooks.

>>966994
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torpedo anyone?

You just wish you were as awesome as I am.

>>967188
the weeaboo levels are off the charts

Yes, I have lived in Japan many weeks overall, and that's where I got most of my figurines. I can see how many people are weeboos, but the most superior part of Asia is my motherland, much better than all others combined.

>>967282
Khazakstan, rite?

>>963811
The ultimate japanese traps.
Hizaki and Jasmine are confusing my sexuality

Diapers!

>>967378
wut?

All I see is a lot of /trv/.

Nice pics, OP.

>>967426
Quit being butthurt.

Kinosaki Onsen town for the mother fucking win. Promised the English speaking ryokan owner I will visit again with the wife and kids next time (I was 20 at the time). Can't wait to go back, after I get my better job lined up it will become a annual event.

>>963980
OP here again, I was there from 5/1-5/8, maybe we ran into each other haha.

OP here with another picture.

>>962866 I loved that store! they had a 105 inch tv for 5,600,000yen

>>966953 I went there too, the same picture also had a good view of the rainbow bridge

korea is better.

don't you want to visit korea?

South Korea is a bunch of paranoid fucks that will not take US beef, fuck Korea.

>>968285
>>968290
forgot the sage.

I vacationed in japan recently. I became railfan from taking so many trans while traversing the country.

>>968290
not really

>>968290
>>968285
Ew.

OP here, since we're talking about other countries, here's a picture from my trip to the Philippines.

great store

took this a couple years ago

>>968335
that's a nice Filipino house

took this a couple years ago.

took this a couple years ago..

took this a couple years ago...

took this a couple years ago....

took this a couple years ago.....

took this a couple years ago......

I took this picture last thursday.

>>968356
lmao.

I post this picture a lot, but here it is again, since I live in Japan.

Nami no Ue shrine, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

>>968371
not Japan

I really tried to resist the urge to rain all over your parade but I think your stupid obsession with Japan is driving you all insane. Japan pales in comparison to America. Search your hearts and you'll find this is the truth.

>>968484
0/0

I had sex with all of these women.

>>968514
How much did it cost you?

>>968514
That must have cost you a shitload of money

>>968939
Well, the cost of the flight to Narita and the rail pass was a lot. But other than that I didn't pay anything. Guess I'm just a smooth operator.

>>966953
What the fuck is up with that?

I went to Odaiba and saw that and the first thing I thought was, what the fuck? Seriously.