Pictures of Japan

>>15717695
>What about pictures of Japan makes you immediately realize that your looking at a picture of Japan

Those gross-ass power lines all over the place. Also the kanji.

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When I travelled Japan, the road seems to be very dark everywhere as if they were freshly paved.

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I had the chance to join a family for rice planting in Kyoto

About time you fucking nerds and weebs made another of these threads.

Jesus fuck, it like, only took fucking forever since the last one expired.

The most iconic and easily recognisable things about Japan:

>Well maintained, bright road paint
>Vending machines of drinks every 10 steps
>Bright vertical signs in big cities
>All power lines above ground

>>15717768
I missed these threads. They're very comfy, and soon to be nostalgic.

Own picture dump incoming.

>>15717768
>>15717833
B-but there is a thread 日本の風景 up right now.

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Bonus picture: summer soundtrack.

>>15718010
I should've looked at the catalog a bit more...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeRB45Bxn0
A video consisting of clips I took while being in Japan for a year.

>>15718505
It'd be cool if it had a lot less pencil stuff. Otherwise decently aesthetic.

>>15717989
What are these? What purpose do they serve?

>>15718829
a small shrine to whoever, or whatever. there are a lot of them in kyoto, in small streets. unsure about elsewere

>>15717726
I didn't mean the kanji and shit. Even without it you can instantly tell it's Japan.

Why does Japan look so clean and "compact"?

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>>15720785
It looks compact because it's small. It looks so clean because it mostly is, especially compared to western cities.

>>15720810
I disagree that it's small, there are some serious distances within the country. However, it is very densely populated.

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>>15721283
Its more on different ideas and philosophy of Urban planning.

Europe, Asia, Americas, all have different approaches to city building and planning and they build around those ideas

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>>15718505
I know gee when I see it

>>15722334
Install Gentoo

>>15724295
>about 5 years ago, don't know the meme
>a friend tells me to install gentoo
>I actually do it

At least he was impressed.

>>15726773
there is literally nothing wrong with Gentoo

>>15717695
>What about pictures of Japan makes you immediately realize that your looking at a picture of Japan btw

Someone almost getting hit by a truck

>>15717883

Honestly the asian district in LA doesn't look that different from that, so I wouldn't say it automatically makes me think of Japan.

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This seems like a good thread to take shelter from typhoon number 9 in.

>>15717883
Ha. I'm going to stay a night at that capsule hotel next month.

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Let's see if someone can correctly identify this castle before I get back.

>>15721630
>no forests
I don't understand how people can live without trees. I'd die.

>>15727800

They have lawns and a few trees in that park, what are you complaining about? You some kind of tree-hugging hippie?

>What about pictures of Japan makes you immediately realize that your looking at a picture of Japan btw?

I tried to include things that were not too obvious

overhead wiring
road mirrors
clean small streets with properly painted lines
cube shaped cars
ductless split AC units
rectangular beige or pastel colored apartment blocks
long pedestrian crosswalk lines on pavement
horizontally mounted stoplights
side gutters on streets
yellow pavement dividers
hilly areas with heavy lush vegetation
small width rusty train rails
concrete tetrapods
narrow clean alleys
vending machines with actual sample product illuminated in the display window

>>15727800
If you want a forest, you go to a place that has one, away from the city. Hell, even Shinjuku has a park that looks like a forest.

>>15727886
not even him but that's all artificial shit

why would I care about a single miserable tree in the middle of a concrete jungle? the american standard of just sprinkling trees in urban shitholes is a joke
I rather just have more parking space

>>15721630
Suburbia is a literal hell if you're not a schoolkid with plenty of friends nearby

>>15728032
>clean everything
The one thing I admire most about Japan is its cleanliness. LA may as well be a nuclear wasteland comparatively

I should have been born in Montana or Idaho

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>>15728304
>The one thing I admire most about Japan is its cleanliness.
Honestly I think this is overstated.
True, you might have to look a little harder to find rubbish and shit in Japan but it's still there

>>15728304
>The one thing I admire most about Japan is its cleanliness.
My ex boyfriend always complained how filthy Shinjuku looked, and thought the Netherlands (my country) looked more clean. I guess it depends where you look. I think Japan looks cleaner in general for sure, but I guess the cables don't really look as neat, as in the Netherlands.

>>15727609
It's a palace of Japan's emperor.

>>15735601
Looking at your grammar, I'm guessing you're Japanese. Which should mean that the answer is correct.

>>15735630
Don't you joke with me whitey or I show you!

>>15727609
Looks like Himeji Castle.

>>15728368
>>15735078
It's very relative I guess

Los Angeles may as well be half open sewer. We've got garbage on every single freeway and if the streets aren't covered in old gum and motor oil then they're pocked with potholes and cracks

I think the sun here just turns people into assholes

>>15727609
Hey, that's the aizu wakamatsu castle, i recognise it
had seen it in that video where the mayor says that the city doesn't have a dangerous radiation level

>>15736849
Google tells me you're most correct!

>>15736401
>LA

It isn't the sun. It's all the spics and niggers.

Is it possible to buy a train in Japan?

For instance,if someone like Bill Gates wanted his very own train to get around Japan in,could he buy a luxury sleeper train to take him around on the Japanese rails?

>>15737300
I doubt it, that shit is way too organized for someone to step it and fuck everything up. They'd get stuck some sort of bureaucratic hell for sure.

>>15737334
Private rail lines exist though.

>>15737376
There are some abandoned lines too, if you could pick one up before it gets too overgrown.

these threads are good for wallpapers

I usually notice it's Japan when I remember I'm browsing /jp/

>>15737613
Japan has a metric fuckload of forest.

>>15735663
>Don't you joke with me whitey
Assuming I'm White... Well technically you are about 50% correct. No hate, but it's just exactly like how my Japanese friend types in English too. lol

>>15736913
This grammar too btw.

>>15736401
As much as I want to visit the USA sometime, I can imagine the streets also not being so clean in the big cities. But I guess it can't be worse than Paris.

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>>15735078
I'd say Japan is cleaner in the main streets and areas for sure, but yeah for shinjuku if you go to the back streets in kabukichou some places are utterly filthy. It happens in roppongi too to a lesser extent.

>>15728368
I think it deserves credit based on it's cleanliness to population density ratio

>>15727800

Well I live in a desert, there's no choice but to have no trees.

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I want to attend a Japanese high school.

>>15740923
Why are they teaching communism in a Japanese high school? Looks like two nukes weren't enough

>>15740986
What do you mean?

>>15740246
It's not even overstated, the place is fucking spotless.

>>15738967
No.

Be o kay o bai doh kay da
Be o kay o bai doh kay da
Be o kay o bai doh kay da
TAITO STATION! GO!

>>15736401
To be fair it never rains, so everything just sits and piles up over time.

>>15737300
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E655_series
Charter train, if you're important/rich enough. JR is notorious for disliking non-scheduled movements, but private lines are generally fairly accommodating if you've got the $$$. They generally provide their own rolling stock tho.

>>15717695
Small, compact cars and buildings.
Extremely clean roads and sidewalks.
Those mirrors.

>>15740923
They would bully you the same way.
Look at this no hair punk he don't even wear shoes in class. He would punch you everyday and make you sniff his dirty socks just because the sport class he is taking is not enough for him.
How about that delinquent 2 column from left 3 sit. He made a fucking shorts out of his pants. If he see gaijin there's no way he would just ignore it. Every class break would be like a boxing round from bell to bell.
And if you think that at least one of so many unattractive girls would like you that is too naive. Of course they all would just stick to those 2 dominant alpha males.

>>15717695
There isn't trash all over like filthy America. Everything seems neat and clean.

>>15740986

Because the PTA is heavily influenced by the Japanese Communist Party?

>>15741484
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E655_series
Pretty cool.

>>15737702
And also has a lot of buildings, look at those gray areas.

>>15718520
>facebook

>>15737702
Because those are mountainous areas

>>15741720

>implying a western beefcake can be bullied by rice munching nips

>>15740923
>mfw 600 lbs deadlift and 440 lbs bench press

he would not stand even a single chance lmao

>>15740923
I don't. From what I heard it's hell.

>>15717695
>What about pictures of Japan makes you immediately realize that your looking at a picture of Japan btw? Japan just has this signature look.

Probably because we're all fucking obsessed with Japan and could spot anything Japanese a mile off

>>15740986
>Why are they teaching communism in a Japanese high school?
Ignoring one of the major political movements of the 20th century would be incredibly negligent.

>>15744332
Doesn't the government write the textbooks though?

>>15717833
And the strangely old fashioned walls, guard railings, road/sidewalk split, mirrors.

I love the round mirrors on the road, though thats probably not unique to Japan.

>>15750021
Textbooks are written privately, approved by the government, and individual school districts choose from the list of approved textbooks.

>>15750021

Besides what >>15750094 said, the PTA also is all-powerful.

That being said, communism is more tolerated in Asia than in the west because a lot of communism's ideals mesh well with eastern philosophy on conformity and especially Confucianism.

>>15737702
Japan actually implemented the world's first forest preserve system because the peasants were chopping down trees for firewood and fishing boats that the daimyo needed for their giant wooden castle pissing contests. That system never went away, so Japan still has a huge portion of its land area occupied by forests.

>>15750100
I understand that the teacher's union may have a lot of political power, but my own experiences with unions is that most members tend to ignore a lot of the overt political propaganda unions push and only really deal with the union when it comes time for a strike vote.

Basically, I guess I could see how individual teachers would be able to cherry pick from textbooks and give slanted lectures on communism, but I can't really see union radicalism at the top trickling down into the classrooms in any significant amounts.

Remember the fights over the national anthem? When the government decides to give the union the finger on mandatory singing of kimigayo? The union kicked up a stink and a few teachers got fired but most teachers just rolled over and went along with new government policy without any real effective protest.

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>>15727609

I went there too.

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>>15750474
it's the c2 loop ! ! !

>>15717766
How was it? This photo looks like a dream.

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>>15752119
It was 100% comfy
The kids (about 15 of them) were collecting a large amount of frogs in a bucket while the adults(also about 15) all helped out. The kids then dumped all the frogs at once and you had a stream of frogs just flowing down the irrigation canal. The host also provided a meal made with their own harvest from last year.

They had a secret kinda underground stream behind the home that had fresh mountain water to soak your feet or wash up after. I spoke no Japanese and understood none, but they tried to communicate as best as they could in English.

Did not take a lot of pictures on that day.

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I was pretty surprised when I recognized the theater in subarshiki nichiyoubi.

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Fuji-san

>>15750455

I thought it was because it was cheaper for Japan to import lumber than to cut down their own trees.

>>15750695
>I understand that the teacher's union may have a lot of political power, but my own experiences with unions is that most members tend to ignore a lot of the overt political propaganda unions push and only really deal with the union when it comes time for a strike vote.

Speaking as someone in a labor union and whose parents were both union workers, we generally give far more of a shit when it comes to voting on contract renegotiation terms than striking. Striking doesn't happen as often as people seem to think.

>>15755720

Isn't old man Fuji due for an eruption? Granted "due" for eruptions means "maybe in 100 years"

>>15755837
Whose fucking idea was it to build a city under a fuckhuge volcano anyway?

>>15755889

Back when it was Edo it wasn't nearly as big. Plus it doesn't erupt very frequently.

Also, Fuji is 60 miles from Tokyo. It's not like people can't evacuate in time.

> Fuji due for an eruption
isn't over a hotspot anymore. but it is on the plate that is getting sucked into the ocean.

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>>15755973

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place gonna sink soon.

>>15749365
>he didn't watch fast and furious tokyo drift

>>15755973
>>15755980
>>15755991
>>15756016

So really, the lesson is to go see Japan before a giant chunk of it is underwater.

But hey, Kyushu will be fine.

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>>15756143
but then kyushu might just float away due to that large fault line.

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honshu might become 3 islands

>>15756143
The only permanent thing is change.

All looks kind of similar to Taiwan if you disregard the Japanese text. OP's pic might as well have been taken in the rural part of Hsinchu.

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i don't know about you all but this picture always makes me feel some way

>>15750474
great color

>>15757447
are they generally more accepting of Koreans there relative to Chinese?

>>15756143
>>15756223
>>15756235
And then Osaka will finally be top dog in Japan!

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>>15757447

>>15717695
Any town with over 5,000 people in Japan is literally a fucking concrete jungle, there's more asphalt than actual grass festering up the joint. Also, houses and cars in Japan have a slightly different look than houses and cars you could find someplace else.

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>>15759129
The cars seem to look very boxy to me. I like Japan for the waterways or just bodies of water which kinda serves a decorative purpose almost everywhere.

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>>15759206
>Akiab's Trip cut-out outside a sex shop
This is wonderful.

>>15759206
I recognise that store.

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>>15759206
You really need to go portrait for that store to get a real appreciation for it.

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>>15717944
was standing in the exact same spot

>>15728304
>The one thing I admire most about Japan is its cleanliness.

Someone's never been to Tokyo/Osaka/Kawasaki or any other Japanese city.
The countryside is clean in any first world country.

>>15761736
crap, sorry 'bout the size

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>photobombed by a bird

>>15761769
You could shoop that out, or even just crop it out. Go from bottom left corner, there's a bunch of green down there that wouldn't be missed if you cropped it.

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>>15761769
I know but I like to keep my pictures the way they are so that I have an excuse to go back and do it right.
Same with this one. It would look a lot better if it weren't for the overcast.
Better come back next year.

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>>15761612
I was trying to sneakily take the picture of the debut poster to watch after my trip. Did not disappoint.

Japan is in danger:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/lens/20160829.html

>>15761769
It's not a bad thing: to show the reality of nature is best. I hate when people say "I have to make sure this piece of trash isn't in the frame" or something like that.
To show reality is the best thing ever.

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>>15763847
People on some boards usually call it autism but I was simply raised to be critic, always looking for ways to improve and when you walk a couple of hundred steps with 32 ℃ (95 °F) just to see Fuji-san being Tsun can be a little frustrating.

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>>15764551
I know that feel.

>>15754400
Were you doing WWOOF?

>>15727886
Liking forests doesn't make you a tree hugger. Definitely doesn't make you a hippie either.
Pleb.

>>15718520
So that's what a 6 tatami room looks like.

>>15761695
damn the promotion for shin godzilla is pretty big I guess.

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>>15764599
Nope, the airbnb host of my guest house knew the family and they needed the help. It was just a one day thing