日本の風景

>>16334019
Do you know Ryoma Sakamoto?

>>16334464
Do you know the Muffin Man?

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>>16333989

This thread sucks.

Should remake and rename it, something to do with OC Japan pictures.

>>16347297
Kyoto Tower is not the biggest tower but it certainly has its own charm.

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I went to Fukushima Inari Shrine yesterday and the queue for prayer was at least 200m long.

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People lining up to buy new year lucky bags at dospara in akiba last weekend. The line actually went around the block.

>>16356490
This is a very nice photo framed really well.

>>16356490
This photo is kino.

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Today I went to Fox Village.

I still need to post my photos, so I won't upload many of them until I have fiddled with them.

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http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2013/03/hiking-nokogiriyama-chiba/

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Hidden Will O' the Wisp.

Do you work there as a no-life salaryman?

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Today I went to Yamadera.

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The view from Yamadera's main viewing outpost today.

>>16333989
>>16333992
>>16334001
Who ever built these buildings had no taste in good architecture.

Japan is beautiful.

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>>16372530
They may not be beautiful but they are completely serviceable.
I don't see the complaint.

This here is bad taste though.

Japan is ugly.

>>16374389
Looks like Lavender Town.

>>16374479
You're ugly.

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Japan in a parallel world.

>>16372530
Most modern architects don't have good taste.

>>16375640
complete and utter truth. just like 99.9999999999% of interior decorators have the aesthetic sensibility of a sour wet fart.

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So I just went to Sky Tree.

Kinda cool, but I prefer Tokyo Tower, it has more character. Sky Tree felt sterile.

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>>16380697
I prefer the Tokyo Tower too.

For one thing, it is vertical.

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>>16380845

Yea, 4chan rotated it after I uploaded.

It is a shame it was a foggy, rainy mess of a day. We were originally just going to the planetarium inside, but everything was sold out so we said fuck it and went up.

>>16381043
>Yea, 4chan rotated it after I uploaded.
No it didn't. It just stripped the EXIF data which had the rotation value in it.
Your photo was never portrait.

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>>16381043
And the Skytree has some pretty good views on a clear day. You really realize the extent to which it is just city around you as far as you can see, except the Tokyo Bay.

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But Tokyo Tower is better, especially for night shots, because you are more among the buildings.

Still, I would like to see a good sunset from the Skytree.

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The beer vending machine is awesome because it has a Drivers License reader for age verification and also an intercom so if you don't have a Japanese Drivers License you can press the intercom button to connect to some call center that will then use the camera on the intercom to ascertain that you are of legal age and allow you to buy beer.

You know you've become weird when you start playing videos taken from a car driving on japanese highways as a kind of screensaver

>>16381328

I have been wanting to try one for the hell of it. I just renewed my license too (which sucked btw).

A lot of the beer vending machines in hotels don't even have an age check.

>>16381077
>>16381043
>>16381067
these are NICE!

>>16381067
It still manages to look like old Japan somehow.

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>>16381079

Yea Tokyo Tower has a way better location.

>>16356490
Absolutely gorgeous. Do you have anymore?

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>>16384663
Unfortunately not.

>>16381328
shit, if they had those here in the states, my dad would just put a tent up behind them and live there till his liver gives out.

>>16381410
I use the lotto machine like that here in the states. it works as long as you have an ID that has a bar code on the back.

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Kitazawa Flotation Plant

https://www.visitsado.com/en/spot/detail0091/

>>16381328
but i have a cute babyface :3

Fuck my life

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Posting more photos from Yamadera.

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>>16406500

Nice snow shots.

Wish it would snow he. It kinda did today, but didn't stick.

>>16410972

I'd bump the saturation down a peg and straighten it, but otherwise a fantastic image.

>>16410972
I think the saturation is fine, you just need to straighten it a bit.

>>16393217
Show them your fully grown adult dong, that'll convince 'em

>>16415473
>>16415482
>>16415489
Look, mate, I would have gotten around to posting them here as well.
I'll post photos from the train later on.

>>16415558
sorry

>>16415489
>>16415482
>>16415473

It finally snowed here in Kyoto.

I was gonna go out and take pics of nanzenji, but it was way too fucking cold. I am from the Southern U.S. so I am not used to having an actual winter.

I might try early tomorrow, but I will probably be too damn lazy to go out in the cold again.

>>16416455
Looking at your forecast today would have been the day for it, honestly.
Tomorrow looks like it is going to be windier, and wind makes it feel so much worse.

I don't usually have snow where I am from but I was just out shoveling snow around my apartment block. Yesterday out at Aizu-Wakamatsu and Aizu-Kawaguchiko was real fucking cold but gloves, scarf and a beanie go a long way to making it bearable.

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These next three were taken from the train >>16415482

>>16416493

I doubt the snow will look as good tomorrow anyway.

I prefer fall to be honest.

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>>16417035
>>16417031
>>16417030

Lake Inawashiro?

Was this over a bridge on the train?

>>16417035
>>16417030
>>16417031
Damn, it's like scenery right out of a Christmas fairy tale movie.

>>16418605
Lake Inawashiro is huge mate, and the train doesn't go that near it.

You just posted the train I was on.

>>16417030
>>16417031
>>16417035
It's a fucking frozen wasteland.

>>16420716
You mean a winter wonderland.

>>16417030
>>16417031
>>16417035
Looks like the perfect place to kill oneself.

where is this? japan?

Better thread here:
>>16389769

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>>16430110
That thread is just reposts from older versions of this thread.

Is it cold in Japan right now?

I don't like the cold.

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>>16430542

It warmed up quite a bit today.

>>16430752
That's cold as FUCK.

What about in southern parts of Japan? You know like Nagasaki and shit.

>>16431108
>9 degrees celcius
>cold as fuck
It was like -5 Celcius with a realfeel of -12 when I got back to Aizuwakamatsu after taking these
>>16417030
>>16417031
>>16417035

And the next day got to a maximum temperature of 0 in Fukushima.

Today we got to 7 degrees, which was great because most of the snow has melted off the roads now so driving is easy again (and then we are going to get another 10cm or so of snow this weekend).

>>16431133
I hate cold and I hate Winter.

>>16431133

Yea, I enjoyed the 9 n8ce and warm.

No need for gloves or a hat or even a scarf.

>>16430231
They sure don't care for the yellow line

>>16431198
They only really care about it, and the station staff only really warn people about it, when a train is coming.

Otherwise it is fairly free rein. At some stations it is nearly impossible to get past some of the stairs/escalators without walking over the yellow line (especially if people are waiting around them).

>>16431184
>>16431133
>>16430752

Where are you all original from? Because it seems like you guys are used to cold weather in general. Or have you guys just been in Japan for a long time now?

>>16431234

Totally not used to warm weather, I am from the South. I never saw snow until I came to Japan.

It is just that 9 and 0 is a huge difference.

>>16431234
I am from New Zealand, from a city that almost never gets snow and often has double digit temperatures in winter.

This is my first winter in Japan and I generally like it. You just have to put a couple layers on and wear a scarf and everything is fine.

>>16431297
>>16431234

To add to this, the cold isn't so bad. I am fine once I get up and get dressed.

The worst part is Japanese houses have shit insulation and no central air/heat.

Everyday I wake up and it is as cold outside as it is inside. I hate having to get out of bed.

>>16431385
Yeah, it's pretty much this.

Every morning I wake up and my futon is so fucking warm its hard to get out. But luckily my room is tiny and I set the timer on the aircon to come on half an hour or so before my alarm goes off so it takes the chill off a bit.
My place is nowhere near as bad as some I hear of though.

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How about a house in the countryside /jp/?

>>16449608
Okinawa?

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>>16451642
Hachiman shrine in Wakinosawa, Aomori.

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>>16431108
>That's cold as FUCK.

bite me

>>16445867
>"How about a house in the countryside /jp/?"

plz Izanagi yes

>>16356490
Nice.

>>16454923
Is this like the Japanese version of a wet Tshirt competition?

>>16356490
Where is that?

>>16454923
>>16456007
http://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/343783.html

Okay...

>>16401663
cat

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>>16456266
>Where is that?
I'm not sure actually.

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>>16445840

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLnxO75bO3E

>>16456266
>http://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/343783.html
I have more body hair than all of the people in those photos combined.

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>>16431309
I havent seen another kiwi on here in maybe 3 years. How did you get over there?

>>16469594
The usual, English teaching.

>>16374479
Fuck. You.

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I just got back from my vacation/job scoping visit in Japan and would love to share some pictures if people are interested.

Unfortunately the pictures are just on my phone so they won't look too good.

Pic related; walked to Tokyo tower from sky tree, took all damn day and was freezing as hell. But damn seeing that glowing tower rising in the distance as I got closer was quite the sight.

>>16471654
Ah, my apologies, 4chan flipped my picture and I'm not sure how to fix that. My bad.

>>16471656
4chan didn't flip your picture, your picture was never portrait it just had an EXIF tag that told viewers to display the image rotated.
4chan just stripped all the EXIF data out.

>>16471660
Is that so? I actually don't know how to fix that lol. I never use my phone to post so i'm at a loss.

>>16471665
You can't fix it with your phone and phones don't usually have an option to actually take the photo in portrait mode without using EXIF to set the orientation.
You can use applications to strip and rotate files once they are on your computer. I use mogrify with the -auto-orient command to do it.

>>16471684
Damn, I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do that much since I'm lazy as hell. Well maybe I'll get around to it.

Thanks man, I appreciate spoonfeeding me lol.

>>16471686
If you want to use what I am using then these are the files.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/bb6dwqtv4dv45c9/autoorient.7z
The mogrify exe from imagemagick (renamed to zmogrify so it sits at the bottom of the directory) and a bat file named zstrip (for the same reason) that you just drag and drop image files onto and it will strip the orientation tag and rotate the image to match the orientation that was specified in the tag (the thumbnail fucks up though but I don't care).

>>16471745

To be honest, it is year 29 of the heisei era and 4chan should do that by default.

>>16471807
I'd rather they didn't.

I want my images to be the way it took them, not for other services to try to compensate for the stupidity of the orientation tag.

>>16471444
If you dont mind me asking, was it difficult to get in, and so on? I was intending to apply once I finish at university.

>>16473893
I got in. That should be answer enough for you.

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>>16473893
Is English your native language? Do you have a university level diploma? Do you have a pulse?

Welcome to JET!

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This is the park behind Meiji Jingu, excuse my shitty phone cam.

>>16476018

They filter out some of the super weirdos, but those can apply to Interac.

>>16476111
It's a nice park. I went there on a Sunday and people were out having picnics and drinking beer.

>>16475923
>>16476018
Ok, thanks.

>>16476018
>>16476311

I thought they only actually accepted like 1/5 of the people who apply, are there just tons of people that apply despite not meeting base requirements? On the website they specifically say only about half of the applicants even get to the interview stage, they could be lying though I guess.

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>>16476018
I was stationed in Nipland for 4 years. I could use an excuse to go back

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>>16480021

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>>16480030

>>16480021
Look at THAT ikemen on the left.

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http://www.panoramio.com/user/576920?photo_page=4

Stop posting pictures with gaijin.

Arigato.

>>16486217
It's ''arigatou'', you uncultured swine

>>16493705
Actually it's ありがとう.

>>16493632
Damn gaijin destroying property and then taking images.

>>16417030
>>16417031
Do you have larger versions of those?

Is there anything beyond teaching for a 外人 to do for work?

>>16495039
The gaijin even cursed it with his black cat of ill omen.

>>16495332

Become a salaryman slave worker.

Work at a University teaching something other than English.

>>16495039
I bet the cat did it.

>>16480021
Is it as bad as the bigdaikonstories blog mskes it out to be?

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Been living in Japan 5 years straight as of this coming March.

Ask me anything.

>>16497016
If you haven't been living in the same city all the time which city do you like the most?

>>16497179

I have been living in the same city, but have been all over.

Favorite is Kyoto by far.

>>16495515
>Work at a University teaching something other than English.
This sounds nice but I imagine it's very difficult to get such a position.

>>16497016
What made you come to Japan?

How have you lived there for 5 years straight without having to inevitably come back to the States (or wherever you're originally from)

>>16497016

Teaching English? Or did you do something more interesting.

>>16497549

You need a PhD. And a decent resume of published works/research projects.

>>16497553

Needed to do an internship to graduate uni. Did it through my schools summer study abroad program. I fell in love and came back right after graduation.

I came back once or twice to visit, but not for longer than two weeks or so. Visa renewal and such is all doable inside Japan.

>>16497707

No.

Well I teach on the side at a university, but thats not my main goal. Currently working towards PhD.

>>16499232
Feel when too dumb for a phd

>>16499232
What's your field?

>>16499491

I did too. Never planned to do so.

But now here I am.

>>16499625

Global Studies.

>>16500209
>Global Studies.
Sounds like a meme field. Good for you though, you give me hope.

Any tips on a young undergrad looking to follow a similar path?

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>>16496819
I don't know about JET. But in the military, Japan is awesome. You just wish you weren't in the military. Make those weekends and holidays count

>>16500209
You're lucky. I would love to do Asian studies - Ive taken some college courses on the subject - but Im locked in the STEM field.

>>16500321

>meme field

I guess, kinda.

As for tips, talk to professors as much as possible. If you are interested in a school, find a professor who matches your interests and contact them directly. They are really good advisors, and many are interested in actually helping students.

>>16500338

>but Im locked in the STEM field

Not really. You could come to Japan and join a grad school with that as your undergrad major.

>>16500376
I heard from a friend of a friend who works at my university that trying to do a postgraduate course cross faculty (in this case Asian studies falls under arts, physics under science) is difficult at best. Is that really not the case? Because I'd be interested in doing that if its possible.

>>16500385
>I heard from a friend of a friend who works at my university that trying to do a postgraduate course cross faculty (in this case Asian studies falls under arts, physics under science) is difficult at best. Is that really not the case?


It is the other way across. If you are missing a general STEM background, you really can't do a graduate course at that level.

Global Studies is so specialized that it is actually doable. Rare that people cross, but it is an option.

I am pretty sure I have heard of English STEM courses in Japan though, may want to look around a bit.

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Ryugujo Spa Hotel Mikazuki

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>>16500493
They let you into the women's section with a camera, huh?

>>16500606
They're all wearing towels in the baths so it was a staged shot.

>>16501184
They seem to be employees of the hotel.
And, the left one and next one seem to be part time workers.

>>16501981
Also entirely plausible.

>>16410972
Can you tell me where did you take that picture? I think I took that train trip last time I went to Japan.

>>16505016
Yunokami Onsen Station(Aizu Railway) according to the station-name display boards

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Kawachi Fujien

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Religious town on the mountain Koyasan (Mount Koya)

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雲海

>>16506660
I stayed in a temple when I went there, I don't remember if it was that exact one though. I need to go back to see the gravestones at night, which I didn't do last time for some reason.

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>>16431309
>>16469594
I'm also from New Zealand. Also thinking of doing JET once I graduate.

>>16508787
When do you graduate? We might end up in the same shipment.

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>>16508804
At the end of this year. It's only if I don't get accepted into my postgraduate course though. I hear JET can be quite difficult since you often live in rural areas away from people who speak English.

>>16508812
Probably not then, I'm not going to be done for another 1.5-2 years. Best of luck with your postgrad though.

Going to tour around the Hokkaido, Tohoku and Kanto areas in April, anything I should know/check out?

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>>16508812
Maybe you should learn Japanese.

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>>16510113
I can communicate decently but far from fluently.

>>16510143
I'm sure you will have support for anything that requires fluency. Otherwise you can get by with broken Japanese, and the best way to turn broken Japanese is to spend time solely around Japanese people. And to get drunk.

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>>16510693
This is true

What's the deepest onsen in Japan?

Does anyone know?

日本人がいると聞いて

>>16519600
いないよ

>>16519068
Do you want to include natural hot springs?
Obviously, most of the ones that are actually govern by a shop will be of similar depths because they are man developed but there may be some fairly deep natural ones.

>>16479885
most of the people that apply are utterly insane and have a restriction on their travel because of their potential to be a threat and or danger to themselves or society.

some of those fuckers looked like they were wheeled out of an insane asylum covered in shit yelling BUGSBUGSBUGSBUGSBUGSBUGSBUGSBUGS!!! and joker laughing.

I was the only person that would help my little cousin that admittedly was a weeaboo from hell, was very pretty and tiny as fuck.

I drove her to the big interview thing in i think it was january 09 or so. I told her I would be her moral support, and shes going to do just fine.

we walk in there and that shit was animal house meets a furry convention meets monty pythons meets benny hill. shit was a zoo.

she was ready to have a heart attack, but i told her to harden the fuck up and walk tall and kick ass. she met with some THICCC black woman that wanted to eat her like ice cream, the nthis very FLAMBOYANT tennessee williams sounding motherfucker who said they would send her a packet with all the info, she was a shoo in for the program, and sell everything you own, you're going to japan!!

no packet no nothing. she got phone calls from the THICC woman every night wanting to trade sex for getting her into JET. after the first night she started recording it all, but never got in for being the nail that was sticking up.

>>16520306

Is this some sort of copypasta? There's no way that's real, even if there's probably a higher proportion of cringy weebs than usual.

>>16520409
no it happened. there were so many fucking insano weebs from hell. it was horrifying.


you cant even begin to imagine the smell.

>>16520306
>>16520421
This is entirely possible because the applications are generally done through conventions that you go to in order to learn about it, get some simple interview stuff done, etc
But you can apply without going to those conventions.

>>16520132
My understanding was that even the natural ones have some man made sculpting, takaragawa onsen for example. I was just rereading a manga chapter, monster museums 31, if it's relevant and they had a very deep bath and it got me thinking about how wide and deep certain baths actually are.

>>16523427
if I die and am reborn I want to be a cat in japan

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>tfw arriving in Japan by ship

>>16523532
Are you in the navy?

>>16415473
>>16415482
>>16415489
>>16417030
>>16417031
>>16417035
Breathtaking.

>>16525318
Japan has a certain aspect of one of the world's heavy snowfall area

>>16525601
And
one of a top land of earthquakes in the world
one of a top land of tsunamis in the world
one of a top land of storms in the world
one of a top land of volcanic eruptions in the world
one of a top land of hot and humid summer in the world

but, it has fertile land rich in water but small

I think that these formed Japanese national traits

>>16525779
Why is Japan so the best?

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Ico-chan wagashi is kawaii as fuck.

>>16525804
it is the spirit of 'shoganai'

The Japanese Islands themselves were formed by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

>>16525804

because it's imperfect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

>>16525939
The Japanese Islands themselves were formed by the BURNING SPIRIT of the Earth.

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Hey /jp/, I just got back from Shikoku to attend a yuyuyu event.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHWKQQhhD3A

>>16530250
Honestly surprised it didn't start eating her sunglasses and skirt.

They will do that.

Anything sitting around, especially anything thin and whiteish in color they will go after.

I don't have a lot of interest in the pictures that the taken place is not clear.

>>16532191
That's only the prologue if you know what I mean.

Has anyone done backpacking across Japan apart from that one German guy who hitchhiked everywhere? Looking at doing so for a month either end of this year or end of next year and going around the place. Would be staying in hostels. Or is this the sort of thing I'd be better to ask /trv/

>>16530250
She attracts only bucks.

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Nagasaki lantern festival

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>>16541643

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Does anyone have that youtube video where it's just a train going through Tokyo with some nice music in the background? I saw it before in a thread like this but I don't know how to look for it again.

>>16546223
https://www.youtube.com/user/cat2525jp/videos

>>16546243
This is it, thank you. Now I have even more I can watch on top of that.

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Snowed in Kyoto last night.

Went out this morning and took some pictures at the gosho though it was already melting. Here are my three favorites.

Feedback welcome.

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>>16549053

Honestly I am not liking what lightroom does to the colors.

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>>16549056

This is actually my favorite place to take pictures. Think I posted fall an heavy rain ones from this same spot.

>>16549056
>>16549058
These shots have bad composition but look nice. Are you using lightroom? I havent used it yet but I intend to pirate it tomorrow or something for a competition.
The first photo si fine.

>>16549074

Yea, I was gifted it by a friend. Barely know how to use it.

Tips on composition?

>>16549082
>>16549058 on this one the focus is the structures and the shore right, but you have alot of the lake showing busy with reflection. I would crop off maybe the bottom 1/4 of the photo. I would also consider taking cuttings of both the left and right side, one showing the building and one showing the thing over the water.
Cropping and rotating to get straight lines is a good start too that you can do on>>16549056. It also seems like youve overexposed the trees in the background but I have trouble with that too and theres no real solution for it unless you take multiple photos and splice them together. Maybe cut off some of the top of the image so that the amount of image thats water is in a 1:1 ratio with the amount of image thats not water

>>16549106

>on this one the focus is the structures and the shore right, but you have alot of the lake showing busy with reflection. I would crop off maybe the bottom 1/4 of the photo. I would also consider taking cuttings of both the left and right side, one showing the building and one showing the thing over the water.
Cropping and rotating to get straight lines is a good start too that you can do on

Good point. I kinda wanted to show off the building and snowy trees on the left. Cropping the busy right side and water might be a good idea.

> It also seems like youve overexposed the trees in the background but I have trouble with that too and theres no real solution for it unless you take multiple photos and splice them together. Maybe cut off some of the top of the image so that the amount of image thats water is in a 1:1 ratio with the amount of image thats not water

I was trying to properly expose the snow, so I kinda forget about those others trees. It was so cold I could barely use my hands they were hurting so much. I bumped up exposure in post too which did not help.

Thanks for the tips. Will mess with them again later when I get home.

>>16549056
Drag down the highlights.

>>16549082
Play around in Lightroom, drag the bars around to see the differences it makes and then try to make the image look as close to what you remember.

I would say drop the exposure by -0.3 on them, second one needs the highlights pulled down, rotate the second and third a bit so they are more level.

As for composition they're pretty much fine.

>>16552101

>nature, temples and shrines

Kyoto.

And it is possible, but it can vary quite a bit, so you could still miss it.

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I'm somewhat pour of this. Ok, not scenery per se, but it's in Ueno.

>>16367510
Can I use it to make a meme for /r9k/, please ?

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>>16554934
Could I even stop you? It has to be funny though.

There's also this one if you want more conflict, though there are people in it.

Actually it would crop quite well for a wallpaper on my ultrawide.

>>16554961
>Could I even stop you?
NO but I prefer to be polite and ask; thank you for the second picure.

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>>16549056
It's been a while, but IIRC Lightroom ditches the camera profile and applies it's own which tends to be brighter. It should be at the bottom of the develop settings, where you can change it back.

>>16520421
>>16520306
Very good.
This means that as a good looking sensible polite guy I will have good chances of getting the job.

>>16554961
Comfy as heck

>>16485782
この絵はどこに撮りましたか

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>>16569614
上野動物園の前

>>16351020
Even longer than the queue to the Ise Grand Shrine when I went on a sunday morning.

>>16569687
そっか、ありがとう

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>>16381079
Not any of those who have posted so far, but when you mentioned the sun set from Sky Tree, I suddenly felt like contributing.
Too bad it was cloudy and a bit foggy the day I went.

This thread makes me happy. Love you fags.

>>16569614
×どこに
○どこで

>>16497016
How do Japanese people treat you? Have they ever behaved racist towards you? Can you speak Japanese fluently?

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>>16570089
My nigga

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>>16581843

>How do Japanese people treat you?

Normal I guess. Helpful if anything. Always try their best to accomodate what they expect to be non-japanese speakers.

>Have they ever behaved racist towards you?

No. Most rascist I have come across is overhearing some guy asking his gf if all gaijin stink and getting berated by her for it.

>Can you speak Japanese fluently?

No. I can get by though, most daily conversations, school, work, drinking, etc. I am fine. When it comes to overly technical conversations I have issues.

My listening/reading is way better than my speaking/writing. For reference, I have only passed JLPT N2. I could probably pass N1 if I dedicated a few months to it, bit I don't have the time.

>>16588473
How long did it take you to get to your current level of fluency? Im on the verge of starting Anki, but speaking it is much different to reading it, I would assume.

>>16588713

About a year and a half from just knowing little more than hiragana and katakana to passing N2.

I suck at languages and was rather slow though, most in my program did it in a year or so. I kept bombing the Kanji section of the JLPT.

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Sadly the original was way too big

Has anyone ever entered Buraku areas?

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>>16590868
It's difficult to know where they are in the first place, they don't really look any different.

>>16593531
That picture is way too high resolution for such poor quality.

>>16594033

>1200x1600
>high rez

That is rather low, actually.

>>16594225
High resolution relatively speaking.

I know that 1600x1200 isn't very high, my camera takes pictures at 6000x4000 after all, there's just rarely any point in keeping the photos at 6000x4000, and part of that is because I am often using lenses that aren't sharp enough.

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I just recently read an article that Tokyo started considering putting overhead cables underground. I hope that does not happen, the batch of poles and cables have a nice charm.

>>16594349
Might be kinda localized.

I don't really imagine them putting everything underground. And there are also places that don't have any above ground.

In many places there's just no room to put things under ground because there's like no curb, like the road you posted. Just dig up the road and put the cables under it? I am pretty sure that is a terrible idea because it makes access even more annoying than usual.

>>16594365
That too, and since Japan is prone to earthquakes, it'd make the system more vulnerable. I will try to dig up the article but I believe it's an effort to make Tokyo "prettier" by western standards. Which is something I get more and more annoyed by. 2020 will be a hard year to survive.

>>16594545
Yeah, would probably be focused on metro areas then.

>>16594349

I had read of Kyoto doing it to more places, but this is the first I have heard of Tokyo.

Usually only touristy areas anyway.

And can you imagine how awesome the inside of those underground maintanence tunnels must look?

>>16594794
>maintenance tunnels
Nigga, they probably just dig a trench about a metre deep, stuff the cables down there and then cover it up again.

>>16594794
That reminds me, I really need to check if there are public visits to Tokyo's water drainage system. That thing is beyond human.

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A snow monkey Tokkuri's one-year record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI-kaoIg3VM

>>16594844

I've seen parts of it open here in Kyoto, full cramped but human sized tunnels.

Not sure if it is at keypoints or everywhere though.

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Monbetsu in Hokkaido

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>>16596221
Like a lot of towns in Hokkaido, the architecture isn't distinctly Japanese.

>>16596227
Looks like plastic houses. Kinda cute.

>>16594545
Mate power lines aren't pretty by any standard

>>16597550
I love them

>>16591083
Do you understand Japanese?
There are many in Kansai region and Kyushu region, especially Kyoto.

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Just passed this building yesterday. It's beautiful.

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>>16599648
Can't say I really looked into it much. There was some fuss a few years back when Google released old maps of Tokyo that revealed old tanner areas.

All I got from that was that buraku areas in Tokyo were around Sanya, Asakusa and other places, but the exact areas were hard to determine.

>>16590868
What's that? I can think of multiple things honestly.

>>16601630
I, too, dislike old hags dressing up in school uniforms.

>>16498104
Where is this?

>>16602931
It's in Kyushu, 33°04'39.0"N 131°08'27.1"E

Just looking a little in street view and the place looks really fucking nice.

>>16603293
Wow cool. Thanks!

Can you see Tokyo tower and the sky tree from Nakagin capsule towers?

>>16601630
Enjou kousai.

>>16604031
Doubt.
Tokyo tower would be blocked by the shiodome cluster, and sky tree by the vastness of the city and surrounding buildings.