Post Japan.
The three lucky cats compel you.
>>15551151
How do you even get trees that green?
Japan is actually an extremely boring place to visit. Idk why you guys hype it up so much.
>>15551190
I don't know about that, anon. I've been to Japan five separate times now, and I loved each experience. I hope to live there someday.
>>15551190
Because it looks nice. If you think all these photos are boring then obviously don't go.
>>15551181
Probably a filter.
>>15551141
I want to go to the bunny island!!
Can we post our own crappy pictures?
>>15551181
photoshop
>>15552996
please! It feels more real that way. Rather than looking at a catalog for tourists.
akihabara radio center
akihabara radio center なう
>>15553196
Me pulling the cart.
>>15552938
>>15553183
>>15553196
>>15553703
>>15553876
What are these wires is it a common cause of death in Japan?
>>15553913
most commonly know as electrical lines or power lines they probably arent underground because of the earthquakes n shit
>>15554004
Wow so cyberpunk it's like in Ghost in the Shell or something sasuga Nippon cool Japan!
Oh, it's one of these threads again.
About fucking time.
Post some Summer pictures of Japan, weebs.
>>15554050
>>/out/
>>15554004
Power lines actually sustain less damage during an earthquake if they're underground. They keep using old, above-ground, powerlines because it would cost a lot of money to replace them. Pretty short-sighted if you ask me.
>>15554284
Small countries really should just use underground. It makes sense in a country like the US cause we're so huge to use above ground.
>>15554176
That subchan doesn't exist. Did you perhaps mean /r/outside?
>>15554501
It does exist, he just messed up the link.
>>>/out/
>>15554050
We also have them in the UK, a lot of the UK has it, like 80℅ I think
>>15554744
>℅
Is that birtish english for %?
>>15554932
Even the real life tomorrowland has favelas.
Shin-okubo, battleship building
So how's the weather in japan as opposed to say, East Coast US?
Does it vary between regions? Is the island big enough for that to even be significant?
>>15555121
Why do I love how all the wires look?
>>15554776
Isn't british english just english?
>>15554776
No my Google keyboard has that instead of percent so I thought it was the closest and used that, shitty American Google keyboard for ya
>>15555499
Yeah it varies between regions. Seasons like rainy season end at different times depending on the location. Hokkaido's weather is noticibly different than kanto.
>>15555499
Is Florida's weather different from Maine's?
Mount Aso,Kumamoto Prefecture
>>15559621
Forgot Text, this is in Ito, Shizouka-ken.
>>15551181
Are real trees never that green?
>>15560060
Don't you think they are very bright? It looks like a painting. But I don't know much about trees, maybe japanese trees look like that or something.
oc
kyoto
be comfy /jp/
>>15560101
The contrast might have been increased but can't really be sure.
You could also probably obtain this effect without post processing, it's more to do with lighting condition and exposure length than with the trees themselves.
>>15560326
So pretty, it could work as a wallpaper.
Onomichi shopping district during tanabata
>>15554284
Replacing a pole can be done in an afternoon, a break in an underground cabling system can take weeks to find, dig up the road, and fix.
>>15561636
>>15561639
>>15561645
>>15561639
I'll name that one Melancholy for the Gundam Cafe, a true masterpiece.
>>15561649
Are you taking these yourself or did you find them somewhere?
>>15561776
The Melancholy of Gundam Cafeteria
>>15561776
the original author called it "contemplation", you are better at choosing names than him.
>>15561813
Took those myself two months ago.
>>15561917
I usually hit a random word generator a bunch until I hit something I like. Naming is hard.
Also it's hip to name things with a single word (although I think his is better too).
Forgot the name of the shrine, i got picture of the festival a few days ago on my camera
>>15562551
What a large tea.
Japanese punk rock bar. I had the time of my life there.
By the way, I've still got 4 days left on my JR Pass and I was thinking of going to a smaller town just to wander around and take pictures. Any recommendations?
>>15564034
Are you looking for plants or are they always scattered between buildings and hallways and everywhere?
Reminder that BOSS is the BOSS
>>15564331
Not him but Japan is quite green
Taken a few minutes ago in a residential area
>>15564331
No plants, no life.
>>15564338
Thank you BOSS.
>>15564338
Who'd buy cheap shit like that? Probably tastes like ass.
>>15551204
Please reconsider it.
t. 日本人
>>15551181
Trees can be pretty green at the right time of year. Although picture might be shopped.
Does anyone wanna go swimming?
>>15568197
That's not a pool. What is it?
>>15568224
It's a pool, just a weird looking one. Also, I didn't notice the stork when I was there.
>>15568238
It's green and has odd tubes. I first thought it was a fish hatchery or something.
But I see.
>>15568246
It could be they use river water there. There was one nearby.
Since you guys like powerlines so much.
>>15568238
>stork
It's a heron, anon.
>>15568421
You learn something new every day.
>>15554365
Japan isn't really a small country.
Its definitely feasible in Switzerland, though.
All of Japan looks just like the midwest why would you bother going.
>>15571126
Because it reminds me of the midwest, but with shrines.
>>15555499
South-Canadian winters in the north, almost Floridan tropics in the south. A fair bit colder and rainier towards the west side, warmer on the Pacific. Quite diverse for such a small landmass.
>>15564319
Just got back from a motorcycling trip from Ise. Not exactly a small town, fairly remote and is a bit touristy, but the shrine was gorgeous. Recommended if you have the time.
>>15571126
No americans
wonder how many tourism spots were ruined by earthquakes (like this one was popular to students taking entrance exams).
>>15572048
I am getting a car in japan soon. How do the toll roads work. Do you have to stop and pay at each booth? Is there some sort of chip I can get that just auto scans and I get a monthly bill? What are the price ranges?
>>15572148
>How do the toll roads work.
So basically there are two ways of paying tolls.
1) Go through the green lane, grab a ticket from either the auto ticketing machine or from the dude. At any exits or mid-route tolls (which exist to keep record of how far you traveled, I guess?), once again go to the green lane. You hand the booth guy your ticket. He'll tell you whatever you owe, and you pay it then and there. Some of these places take credit card, some only take cash./
2) Go through the purple electronic tolling lane. Only obstacle is that you need to prepare an ETC card (usually applied through your credit card company as any tolls are charged directly to your monthly credit card bill) and an ETC deck (bought and installed at any Japanese auto goods store).
>What are the price ranges?
Depends on how far you're traveling, on what road, and at what time you traveled.
For example, Ise to Tokyo in one single ride cost me about 8,000 yen. However, there's a 30% discount if you drove during the weekends, or on the weekdays if you passed a toll on a single leg of the trip between midnight to 4 AM.
The highway toll for my trip from Tokyo to Matsue, which was considerably further away than Ise, got bunked down from 12,500 yen to 8,500 yen since I started my trip at three in the morning.
>>15572028
Interesting to relate is the fact that since the Japanese language and people generally came from the south (north of Honshu, and all of Hokkaido were Ainu) Japanese people never experienced climate region V until the last couple hundred years or so.
French cheese and especially camembert in shop
3-4 are definitely french the rest i never saw it anywhere and looks fishy
>>15563157
4 u
>>15577769
Export only brands probably
>>15577769
I've never seen so much cheese in one place in Japan in my life.
From a bridge to the imperial palace
>>15579434
I was lost in Tokyo and ended up in this foreign food shop
>>15578534
yes i've checked most of those are international only (the brand or just the fromage itself, kiri; président & boursin do make fromage in France but not those shown here)
From inside the shinkansen
Shin Osaka JR line
>>15576988
Enoshima?
>>15584598
damn, i knew i had seen this place somewhere
do you happen to know where is this located?
>>15585693
I only know it's from an island town which doesn't help much, sorry.
Fireworks today seen from the walls of the Osaka castle sorry for shit quality it was far away
I did some half blogging here
>>>/qa/596676/ with more pictures
hi
Moe Uzumasa chan
Advertisement for the 2017 EVA train in Osaka.
They really hype it.
>>15584598
How come cats look alike all around the world?
If you told me the left one was my childhood cat I'd believed you.
sorry for shit quality, taken from phone
it's the entrance to a sumo wrestling event
>>15588480
I-I wanna ride the fish train...
>>15588460
I thought this was Africa from the thumbnail
So strange looking at these photos as a resident of Japan/Tokyo. You get so used to seeing it all around and get accustomed to it that you end up forgetting their exoticism.
>>15572232
>8000 yen
>basically 80 dollars
Holy fuck, gotta love the USA. Our tolls are so much fucking cheaper than that garbage. Hell, in most places our highways don't even have tolls.
>>15590647
Pretty much.
Someone in the last thread said Europe could look just as exotic and posted a picture of Prague to prove it. It looked very "meh" to me since I pass by baroque buildings and gothic cathedral/churches every day. Familiarity dulls everything I guess.
>>15590967
It shows
>>15572232
>>15590967
Road tolls are fucking weird. Just raise taxes 0.1% on everybody and you won't have to bother with that shit.
Just recently went to Kyoto.
>>15593515
>>15593518
>>15593401
>>15590967
Might it be because how popular trains are in Japan? Nothing in the States is used as much.
>>15590967
>>15593401
>>15593539
I blame the geographical difference. If you've ever driven through Japan, it's just mountains fucking everywhere. Obviously it costs more to dig a tunnel or build a bridge and maintain those structures than you would with a flat road.
Trains just make sense because Japan's landmass simply isn't that big and pretty damn reliable.
>>15595546
Wow, this looks really strange.
>>15598738
Slightly longer exposure, which is why the moon looks so bright. The beam of light at the center right is a car moving along.
Akihabara in 2000, in the best resolution year 2000 has to offer.
Akiba radio center in 2000
I took all of these pictures myself.
>>15604345
Thanks, dude. You got anymore?
>>15604060
Where is this?
Post more cats
Love these threads.
Also, whenever I want to look at pictures of Japan's urban jungles I load up flickr and look for "通り" or something. It's a great source for these kind of photos.
>>15607718
>guro
>>15607909
meguro is a district in tokyo you fucktard
>>15607718
I really like this one, very nice colors.
>>15554932
Holy fuck some of these photos look hyper realistic and not even like photos to me
>>15608106
took 1 hour to download that pictrue with my telephone connection modem, i was really hyped for this after reading this comment and it was very disappointing actually
there goes my monthly bandwidth
>>15572232
>driving in Japan
but why?
>>15610576
So you can pretend to be british without being anywhere near England.
>>15610588
if you're American and homesick I guess
Badass election poster.
>>15564338
my local asian marts said its a bitch to get BOSS since half the time its backordered, or expenisve as hell from their distributors.
that being said, my local shops have known me since i was a preteen up untill now, and will always score me a few cans or packs on the side. They know I'm always good for finding them new customers, who like to spend lots of money on high profit items. like kimchi, anything pocky, pocari sweat, candy, snacks, and ramen.
and grannys homemade onigiri. after shows back when i was a teenager we would pass out in their parking lot till granny and the rest showed up, and buy food to give us enough juice to drive home. she would make us drink miso soup, and eat rice to make sure we were good to drive.
>>15571069
>>15571069
is that pepper lunch place really as good as some people say it is? Ive heard of it from some weebs who praise it like the good of god.
It is strange feeling
I live in Japan and have never tried to take a picture of those things
But I remembered that I took tons of pic when I travelled to foreign country
So, my boring daily life is somewhat interesting for people from another country……
>>15612909
wow, this duder needs to clean his waifu
>>15551141
I went to the Imperial Palace today.
I am not good at taking pictures though.
>>15554284
Maintanence and repair is much quicker and easier on above ground lines.
A few areas in Japan have below ground. Gion is one of them.
>>15564863
It does
>>15613086
Never tried pepper lunch myself. That particular pepper lunch closed around 2013(?) so it can't have been doing that well.
I'm planning a trip that will probably take place early next year in Janurary or Feburary. I want to go to Hokkaido. Apart from asking /trv/, are there any tips you can please share?
>>15615380
Press shift for focused fire.
>>15572232
then there's europe, we don't even have tolls anymore within europe, not a good thing though...
Is going to Japan without fully understanding Japanese a bad idea? Is it going to be like trying to play one of those H-games and dropping it out of frustration?
Not that I'd be able to go, anyways, since getting a Visa for going there is impossible since I'm from cokeland.
>>15607718
you have a larger size version of that?
>>15615590
Japan gets a fuckton of tourism, do you honestly believe even a good fraction of them knows any Japanese? Now go away.
>>15615660
Unfortunately not.
>>15615590
If you only want to do tourist stuff then you don't need to know Japanese.
A lot of places and directions, in train stations for example, have roman character names written as well these days. If you're going to learn anything just for tourism learn kana I guess. It's simple and quick enough and would help a bit for things in katakana especially.
>>15613154
>not good
But this photo is good.
>>15566688
>foreigners are not welcome
>gaijin don't come
>white go home
>>15617476
Aperture wasn't wide enough. Too much is out of focus.
>>15617949
Thought it was intentional, but that works too.
Looks like an image that'd be put on the top of a Wikipedia article.
>>15584598
This.
A half-wild outdoor cat whom I was bringing food died likę month ago and she looked identical to the right one ;_;
Man looking at these threads really makes me wish for & dream about being a minimal wage slave-ALT living in Japan!
>>15613154
It's my new desktop background. its a good pic.
>>15619135
Fucking AC always getting in the way.
>>15619135
casual 3ds playing.
I can't remember when the thread was, and I can't find the images I saved anywhere on my hard drives or on Warosu (pretty sure Warosu was down when this thread was up), but I'm certain there was a thread here sometime within the past 8 months that had a bunch of Japanese photography from I think the 1960s - 1990s. Did anyone here save any images from it? I wish I could remember the location names posted along with those photos, maybe those would make my search a little easier.
>>15621358
I have some of the images I think. I can upload them to mega for you if you want.
>>15621430
That looks like one of them. And that would be fantastic, thank you anon.
>>15621452
https://mega.nz/#!M84V0Z6C!ESFoELujPLU3iGDvzquTftjvgSP7vqmY4ute2q8DiHY
This might not be all the images from the thread because I might have saved only the ones I liked. Also there are a couple modern ones because the thread started with those before that one guy image dumped.
>>15621470
That's okay, thank you so much anon. I really appreciate it.
>>15621470
>>15621597
If your so inclined. Check here.
http://www.panoramio.com/user/1613055
wow japan is ugly
>>15625358
Not if this girl can do something about it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKxmKqbbUM
>>15568973
Yeah but some of those pics are in a city, really dangerous to have those lines above ground in such a high density area.
Japanese engineering on display in Kabukichou backstreet.
I really love small alleys like this one.
>>15629753
I really hate small alleys like that one.
Expensive
>>15629861
I think they are cozy.
>>15553913
have you never seen power/telephone cables? what part of the world do you live in?
>>15629870
Seems like you have to pay more for a piece or small one than for a whole one in Europe.
>>15629870
That's actually pretty cheap.
>>15629911
there's always one faggot who has to ruin the spirit of the thread
get out
>>15629911
You pay 15 bucks for a watermelon?
>>15629938
Last time I looked it was around 2500 yen for one that size.
>>15629951
Are you saying 25 bucks is better than 15 bucks for a fucking melon?
>>15629957
He's saying that it's cheap since it was more expensive before.
>>15629938
>>15629957
It's what happens when you have a tiny country with very little in resources and rural areas becoming ghost towns.
>>15551141
>>15629957
Of course but it's still not cheap, is it.
>>15629870
To be fair, most fruit is imported in, that is why it is so expensive in Japan while fish and rice are cheap as dirt.
>>15551181
HDR mode when HDR shouldn't be used.
i love the small city streets. compared to other world cities, america has pretty large and spacious ones.
Fukushima.
Fireworks festival in Fukushima was last weekend.
I need to go out with my camera more. I haven't been taking that many photos around Fukushima while I have been here, certainly not as many as I took when I visited other cities.
>>15631670
>>15631680
I'm surprised, according to wiki there are only 290,064 people in Fukushima. I guess you can't compare everything with Tokyo and Osaka.
>>15631724
Fukushima definitely doesn't have the same big city feel. It is more of a sprawling city that hasn't built upwards as much.
There's still quite a lot of fairly vacant area in the western, southern parts and around where I am, in Minami Fukushima, there is the odd vege field or rice paddy amongst the buildings.
Oh right, I took these a couple of weeks ago when I visited a local temple.
Abukuma river.
>>15631680
Some other festivals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5Yp0D4Z70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISAsN92fZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMbLsi7yZk
I am headed down to Kyushu next weekend. Hoping to try some astrophotography since I should be out in the boonies.
>>15551190
because different people like different things, salty, i know.
I meant to be out for two hours and ended up being out for five when I met an Ingress playing businessman who must have been slacking off work.
I'll probably start buying my rice here. 300yen for a kilo and I've been paying about 1000 for two.
In case there was any doubt where I am.
>>15633336
33°C? No thank you.
>>15633316
I went walking along Kamogawa today.
There will be alongside a festival there this weekend, might try to go.
>>15633458
>>15633462
>>15632374
Please photograph the planets, kudasai.
where i live
>>15634180
pic from skytree
>>15633957
AYYYYY!
There is some sort of festival alongside the river this weekend. I might go check it out.
>>15634222
There seems to be surely a festival!
If the old Western building is good because there is many it, please visit Kyoto
>>15634195
That's quite the view!
Is that like a bridge every 2 blocks or something?
>>15634328
Yeah, there's pretty much bridges like that all over Tokyo. Especially where I am near Tokyo Bay.
>>15633316
>>15633325
>>15633375
Reminds me a lot of my time in rural France.
>>15634320
I live near Doshisha University.
It has a bunch of old (and new) brick buildings that just look fantastic.
Probably the most beautiful college campus I have ever set foot on.
>>15634180
You live in the towers? What's the size and rent like?
>>15635897
Yeah, it's a "tower mansion". It's pretty expensive. About 2300 usd/mo. It's a 2LDK, about 58 m^2. The building is also brand new, less than a year old, and there's a bunch of useful services.
>>15636656
where is this?
>>15637613
Not him, but those filenames are latitude/longitude coordinates. Just enter them into a map application to find the location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°07'45.2"N+132°49'05.2"E/
>>15637854
nice gnome
i'll visit you someday japan
>>15637940
I want to visit it and shit on the street to show japanese my true gaijin power.
>>15637294
Yikes, that is expensive. What kind of job do you have if you don't mind the prying?
>>15638582
Sad part is that rent isn't bad compared to living in the Silicon Valley...
>>15638642
Yeah, my friend lives in silicon valley and he pays nearly 2k for a studio apt...
>>15638582
I run an online company, and we're expanding into Japan with the help of some people here... Basically making websites and that sort of thing.
I get the fun job of traveling back and forth between Japan and LA every few months.
>>15637925
Japan, land of tiny people.
Shinjuku golden gai during the day
It is so boring compared to pretty much every other tower, but I love Kyoto Tower for some reason.
Tokyo was stinking hot today.
Few photos from my foray in Tokyo today.
It's quite amusing/interesting that they put up wind chimes around this construction area.
Outside JR Kanda station. There seem to be quite a few small restaurants around here. Seems a good place to get something to eat.
Visited the Radio Center in Akihabara for the second time, this time I was actually after some things.
>>15639645
Maybe so blind people can tell something's up? Who knows.
>>15639672
I think it was more the idea that hearing a wind chime makes you feel cooler, even though it isn't helping in any real way.
And seeing it was like 33~35 degrees in Tokyo today the workers could have done with all the feeling cooler they could get.
>>15639690
I see, thank you.
>>15639645
Its to make you (or i guess the workers) feel cooler. They also run water over the street in front of construction sites (like many businesses tend to do on hot days) for the same reason.
>>15639690
It was up to 37 today in Kyoto, and that was excluding heat index.
I walked like 10 kilometers in the heat too, came home soaked.
>>15638656
Beautiful shot anon. That sounds awesome.
>>15637294
>About 2300 usd/mo
I am looking at renting a three story house in Kyoto pretty much right next to the imperial palace for only 1500 usd/mo
Bridge over the tadami river.
what the hell I wish I were japanese now
>>15644373
I've been on the Tadami line. One of the bridges was damaged due to the quake in 2011 though so it only goes from Aizuwakamatsu to Kaneyama station and back. Not sure if it goes over that particular bridge in your photo still. It's hard to tell from the air if it matches any bridges I went over.
>>15644467
If I had to pick a bridge that looks like that bridge it would probably be the one here
37.484429, 139.671191
>>15644467
>>15644474
We have a winner. That photo has GPS data actually, it was taken at 37°28'39.9"N+139°40'25.0"E in 2013.
From shirakawago today.
Ryugasaki suburbs
>>15648071
Today? Damn, you must be enjoying this a lot. Do you have any other pictures of the village or just this one? I've always wanted to save close-up pictures of the houses, there's something in the architecture that makes them beautiful. Kinda looks like huts, but aren't, really curious thing.
>>15638869
Do you mean before the fire?
>>15649542
Yes this is from 2014. As far as I know this row (明るい花園五番街) was untouched by fire though.
>>15551181
saturation - 100%
>>15577669
Omiya?
>>15629719
Wonder where she is now. The only reason she even "exists" is because of this photo.
>>15653445
That's a building of Zenmyoushou temple (善名称院) in Kudoyama (https://www.town.kudoyama.wakayama.jp/).
>>15653594
Thanks, anon. Great photos.
Bump limit reached. This was a good thread guys, see you for the next one whenever it happens. I'll be waiting.