日本の風景 / Views and Photography of Japan

>>17215247
Was it like 200 degrees outside that day?

>>17215449
I think that's a window.

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Byodoin Temple

>>17215449

Yep.

Just a typical day in Kita-Kyushu.

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From the Ootori danjiri in Osaka

>>17218343
Man that is just gorgous. Seaside Japanese towns are awesome. I would love to visit one

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https://tofuist.tumblr.com/post/153320452379

>>17219792
If you do you should visit some in the north east, that whole area is suffering from a lack of tourism because of the stigma attached to the 2011 tsunami and power plant meltdown

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Just got some bad news that I'm unable to at the end of this year as originally intended and will have to wait until next year.

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Hey anons,

I went to Osaka castle a few weeks ago, it was nice.

In Hiroshima today, excited since it is my first time here.

>>17220061
Hiroshima is pretty nice. The castle is nice but it is kinda hilarious how there is no railings or barriers at all on some of the walls you can walk along.

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http://thekimonogallery.tumblr.com/post/161889366270

>>17221114

Didn't get a chance to go to the castle.


Just Itsukushima (at low tide) and the dome.

>>17221194
That sucks. Itsukushima itself is nice to spend a whole day at if you can.

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Fushimi Inari best taisha.

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>>17221929
Definitely top tier.

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Osorezan, was a strange place.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jpkxyaA_YI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gySVM1vaisc

it's raining

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>>17215238
How uncanny, I took the same photo in roughly the same spot last year.

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Temple and Tengu.

https://youtu.be/3dNJdXdaSrk

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>>17221231

Oh yea, I wish we had spent more time. We were with a tour guide who lived on the island. Our tour was supposed to be a few hours long, but was cut short because no one had eaten yet.

Low tide was kinda neat, but I wish I had gone during high tide. I had purchased a CPL filter for it and everything.

The stream like water in this picture comes from a natural spring.

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First sight of Hongu Taisha after walking the Kohechi for 4 days.

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>>17233048
And just one month after I was there too, Fuji certainly looks more impressive with the snow although I like how it seems to merge into the distance when it doesn't

>>17233647
Looks pretty empty, when I was there it was packed and the torii was undergoing some kind of maintenance unfortunately

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>>17234232

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>>17234232

It was actually pretty busy, you can see the crowd at the Torii in the distance.

They were actually repainting the pieling of that Torii, here is a picture of it.

I really wanna go again, but wont have a day off until August. It will be crowded as fuck so I will probably go somewhere else.

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>>17236734
Looks like they cleaned a lot of the barnacles off too. This is how it looked back in 2014. People used to stick one yen coins amongst the barnacles.

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I have too many of these to post so I'll stop after two or three.

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>>17236852

That looks like the middle pieling, it was partially replaced a few years ago. They haven't repainted it yet. Here us a shot of it.

The coins actually hurt the paint, so we were told not to do so.

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>>17233048
You'll see this a lot

Foe example >>17215215

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>>17233048

So are we posting our Fuji pictures now?

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>>17236879
Yeah, was the middle piling.

>The coins actually hurt the paint, so we were told not to do so.
Makes sense.

>>17236921
Pardon my ignorance but where was this taken from? The 3 consecutive ridges fading more and more looks really nice with the shipping setup in the forgeround

>>17236972
I'm going to take a wild guess and say Shizuoka.

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>>17236972

Nihondaira Hotel.

>>17236965

I wanted to go through it on a boat so bad though.

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Kyoto is best city.

>>17236921
That picture is extremely beautiful and you should be very proud of it

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>>17239724

It is my favorite so far, but i fucked it up.

I woke up stupid early to take it after a late night and wasn't paying attention. It qas mistskenly taken at iso 6400 instead of 100 like I should have.

>>17242477
What camera are you using?

>>17243756

That one was taken with a Sony a7ii with an adapted Secret Handshake (Minolta 28-135mm f/4-4.5).

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>>17216279
Uji is a nice place.

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Anybody have pics of Daigo-ji specifically of the kondo? I need it for some research, hopefully of the interior... Do they even allow you to take pics of that?

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

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Snapshits incoming. Say if you want more.

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>>17236860
Shirakawa-go?

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poster

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>>17265915
I remember them from my trip in 2014.

Glad they've become a regular thing!

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>>17265926
>>17265915

They also sell train cards.

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>>17265926
>>17266100
here　comes　a　new　challenger?

>>17260231
I don't think this looks very nice honestly, not what I want to see when looking out of the window.

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This thread makes me feel feel nostalgic. Reminds me of Rodger Swan and old-school to middle-era [adult swim] aesthetics, too.

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>>17269308

>>17275228
I thought the exact same thing

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>>17251573
Me again, actually if anyone happen to has and is feeling generous enough, I'd really appreciate pics of the interior of Toshodai-ji's kondo. I was barely able to find anything and most were very small in size. Would be greatly appreciated.

>>17261076
I want more! Good shots.

>>17284507

Pictures of the inside of a temple/shrine are usually not allowed.

>>17285030
Ah man that's sucks. I really need it for drawing purposes. Maybe I can try my luck if I ever get to go on a trip there and ask permission for like a few minutes.

>>17218343
nice

The more of those pictures I see, the more it makes me want to travel to japan.

I just got back from Japan I'll upload photos soon when I've organised them

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Back from a trip to Kumano and Ise.

I'll dump photos of the highlights.

Starting with Kumano-shi station area.

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Small town with a lot of old buildings and abandoned stuff, but very scenic.

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鬼ヶ城, a nearby attraction.

It was raining that day, but still some amazing scenery.

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The famous Nachi Waterfall. Absolutely worth a visit.

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Don't smoke in bed, boys and girls.

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The Maruyama 1,000 rice fields, way up in the mountains along the Kumano Kodo.

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Got lost AF after that, and wound up going down into there. This is a hotel apparently, but nobody was there.

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Okage-yokocho, outside the Ise Inner Shrine

>>17292626
That path looks safe.

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>>17292695
It's not at bad as it looks, fortunately.

I even passed some senior tourists along the way.

>>17219877
unfortunately, tourism was really bad up north even before the earthquakes

>>17275228
Why doesn't Kyoanus have any sort of creativity?

>>17293418
Define "creativity." In a modern day setting creative liberties aren't going to be taken with the design so much as the color scheme, and working heavily from reference streamlines production. A background not drawn form reference like that would take longer and not be especially better.

>>17293243
Problem is most people go to Japan once and that one time they travel the obvious Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima belt which is all in the south/west

>>17220061
What a shot! Were you actually in the water?!

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Starbucks Coffee Kyoto Japan

>>17294652
I'm not gonna lie, that's pretty well done.

>>17294652


京都府京都市東山区桝屋町３４９
starbucks.co.jp


ttps://www.cnn.co.jp/travel/35103805.html

>>17294652
Some video
https://youtu.be/fQRt56aZnnk?t=256
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9PFLqyEEyU

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>>17265830
Yup, here's the suspension bridge

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>>17295201

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>>17295224

>>17295054
Thank you　VTR

>>17295377
Not quite sure why that rotated...

>>17292643
Maison Ikkoku. Nice dude, good find.

>>17292695
I've seen worse in France, higher up and without railing. I still wonder how that was a proper path. Crazy stuff.

>>17295383
Orientation EXIF tag as always.

>>17285624

Do you want to draw the structure itself? Or the inner temple thing itself?

この気もは日本に行きたことがありませ。

>>17292597
>>17292605
Japan is a land with unparalleled natural beauty with a government that jizzes concrete all over it

>>17308828
Japan is both one of the most densely populated countries on the planet and one of the most forested, look at the disgusting urban sprawl in new world countries and compare that to the denseness of Japan and I'll think you'll say they've done a pretty good job at preserving nature

>>17308828
To be fair, this happens in a lot of rural towns. Not just in Japan, but it seems a lot more pronounced because of the stark contrast between pre- and post-bubble eras and the declining countryside populations.

>>17304994
制服を汚れちゃうよ
早く立てて

>>17304994
F

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I saw a maiko.

I fucked up the exposure though, so it looks terrible.

>>17309077
>>17309086
As a government debt otaku my understanding of the issue is that a lot of these public works projects serve one of two functions:
1) Extensive use of berms (>>17233048) and retaining walls (>>17292648 along the houses in the center right, >>17292653, >>17260183 in the background where the road turns) to cope with landslides and centuries of agriculture. They're also used in combination with the massive sugi plantations Japan uses to maintain forests. Most of these are necessary to prevent or mitigate disasters
2) Make-work projects of dubious quality (the breakwater in >>17292605, paving of entire riverbeds such as in >>17261097 rather than judicious use of retaining walls and fill, frequent road resurfacing in rural areas) that create jobs and inject fiscal stimulus into the countryside and the pockets of LDP allies who own construction companies

>>17265915
>>17265926
>>17266100
I want to get Saki Matsuga pregnant in a dirty public subway toilet and leave her with the baby!
Just kidding!

>>17311855
So cute.

>>17311855
It has a 80-90s look though.

>>17313224

It was taken with film.

>>17312975

She is.

Looked to be around 16-17 or so. And from eavesdropping her conversations, she seemed to be with a professional photographer who took photos of her often.

If you wanted, you could actually hire a maiko for a photoshoot. I wonder how much it costs?

>>17314596
>f you wanted, you could actually hire a maiko for a photoshoot. I wonder how much it costs?
You could get paid to take photos of a ma*ko

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Japanese police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-Jb-TiheQ#t=49.044439

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These were taken about 3 years ago in Tokyo, but I doubt too much has changed.

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>>17328319

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>>17328330

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>>17328343

>>17328319
Maybe nothing, possibly everything.

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Anyone interested in pictures of Gion Matsuri floats and preperations?

I took a bunch of pictures during assembly. I messed up exposure on a few though.

>>17329672
Sure, I'm actually trying to decide which festivals would be the most interesting to see as part of planning when to go back again

>>17329672
I'd love to see some.

That's one of the festivals I want to see most.

>>17219891

I liked this image the most. Thanks for posting these, they really make me feel like I'm there.

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>>17330344
>>17330072

I totally fell asleep and meant to do it earlier.

Anyway, Gion festival is one of the biggest. it takes up most of the month of July and originated in something like the 800-900s. It started as a prayer to the gods to ask for help with a plague.

Around the 10th of July they start building the floats, so I went out and took some pictures. It is a mix of different floats through different stages of construction.

Tomorrow they do the actual parade, but I might skip it since it is so damn crowded and hot.

This post feels like a blog post.

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>>17330558

They start assembly standing, then lay it on its side to insert the mast.

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>>17330564

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>>17330567

They let everyone watching tie on these white things. I think I overheard them saying there was over 800.

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>>17330574

After firmly attaching the mast they raise it up again.

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>>17330581

Once standing they start assembling the upper level and adding all the decorations.

Don't have many shots past this point because I had class and couldn't go out to watch it.

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>>17330583

I do, however, have a bunch of shots of completed floats.

This is the Kabuto one (the finished version of the one I am quoting).

>>17330590

This is the Kikusuiboko (Chrysanthemum). seen here:
>>17330564
>>17330567
>>17330574

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>>17330593

And I lost my image.

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>>17330599

This is the Naginatahoko, the lead one every year.

If you are male, you can actually go inside it.

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>>17330606

The ceiling of the interior is heavily decorated.

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>>17330610

I used an old 135 film camera (that is actually older than me!). Film used was a mix of Superia Premium 400 and X-tra 400

These are rather low rez scans, with no correction other than maybe some white balance for a handful that were way off and a bump in exposure for the roll or two I fucked up.

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>>17330612

There is a tea ceremony offered at the Kikusuiboko once a day during the three days leading up to the actual parade. The neat thing is you can keep the chrysanthemum shaped plate you are given a snack on. It changes color every year.

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>>17330616

It was quite crowded, but I got a shot of the woman making some tea.

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>>17330622

Here is a float shaped like a boat.

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ocha no mizu

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>>17330632

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>>17330636

This is about it, I have a few more but they are just more of the same.

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>>17318448
the Japanese police I've seen are stern-faced dudes on bicycles who stare at me as they ride past

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>>17330644

Oh here is an upskirt (how lewd~~).

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>>17330654

And here is a wheel.

Oh that earlier maiko shot is mine too.
>>17311855

There are tons out during this time. Some in the full kimono getup with painted faces, and some more casual like that one.

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>>17330663

And a close up of a hubcap.

I am out of stuff now.

Thanks for always sharing, film-Anon. You're a good photographer, and the film adds some character.

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>>17330635

>>17330645
Are they that way to all foreigners or are you black?

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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170717/k10011061661000.html?utm_int=all_side_ranking-social_002

>>17334375
Holy hell thats creepy.

>>17334375
that aint comfy

>>17304994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYoeovuXID4

Anyone got some /comfy/ Shikoku?

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>>17354063

Define /comfy/, Matsuyama islands and mountains?

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>>17354063
>>17354497

Or Ushioni from Uwajima?

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>>17354063
>>17354497
>>17354499

Or perhaps giant wooden Shinto dongs from Uwajima?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgCzfrAmsY
It is a lot of pictures

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>>17354501
why do they have a giant wooden dong?

>>17355543
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5580.html

There are crazier penis festivals and such at some other shrines.

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Can I see some /comfy/ pictures of Akiba, anons?

>>17354497
>>17354499
>>17354501
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IT'S ALL COMFY

>>17357210
>Akiba
I think that city is much more of an exciting place than a comfy area.

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>>17357651

Well here's some Kochi-jou

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>>17357651
>>17358172

And the Sunrise Seto at Takamatsu.

>>17358181
That's one bulky train. Or is it just the angle?

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>>17358200

It still fits on Japan's narrow gauge, looks a bit bulkier than most I guess being a sleeper and all, maybe a bit taller?

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>>17358181
>>17358212

And the anti-/comfy/ rock hard nobinobi carpet 'beds' which are all you'll get on your JewR freepass.

>>17349472
Very nice

>>17358233
I disagree, this looks minimalist /comfy/.

>>17358504
It's not when you're lying on it for 8 hours+, I've done it enough times to know.

>>17358524
Oh jeez.

>>17354063
Speaking of Shikoku, do you need a car to get around, or is the public transport decent?

I was thinking of visiting next year.

>>17358876

Look at the rail map, you can get to the bigger cities and their sites via bus/train obviously, but some shit in the countryside will need a car of course unless you're doing organised bus tour group filth.

>>17358876

Depends on where.

An international license (good for six months, any longer than that and you need to get a Japanese one) and car rentals are easy to do.

>>17358233

Shame it ain't tatami.

I was not allowed a rail pass, would sure be nice to see the rest of the country though. So far all I have seen is a fraction of honshu (Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo) and a small inaka town in Kyushu.

>>17330667

I went around and took some snapshots of the ato matsuri floats too. I'd go to the parade, but I have two finals to give that day.

Wanted to go to the night festival, but I haven't had a chance.

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>>17359066
>Shame it ain't tatami.
There's always those ridiculously expensive new luxury excursion trains the various JR companies are rolling out, like Train Suite Shikishima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhBY_DEaRxs

Get your own two-level room with tatami onboard for a couple of days for only like $5,000 uguu~
>I was not allowed a rail pass
So you're an eleven then, moon citizenship is better anyway.

>>17359107
Different guy, but you're ineligible for a rail pass if you aren't in Japan on a tourist visa, iirc.

I work here, so I can't get one either.

>>17359140
That's an easy one though, just hop to Korea and reenter as a tourist and take a holiday before leaving Japan.

>>17359107

Yep, this guy is right.
>>17359140

I am not an eleven, just a dirty gaijin.

>>17359148

>before leaving Japan

Not planing on doing that anytime soon though.

>>17359148
I'm pursuing a career here, so I won't be leaving anytime soon, maybe ever.

And besides, leaving and reentering would take so much time and money that you'd be better off paying full fare or using any deals the rail companies offer for Japanese people.

I hope this is the right thread, since this is sights of Japan, sorry if it isn't.
https://youtu.be/V8FAyy7GrD4

>>17359359
Good video, but slightly wrong. We are in this for pictures mostly.

>>17359359
>>17360123
Videos are fine but try to keep it to stuff like this
https://youtu.be/p4vkrY3Yo0g

>>17334375
That looks awesome.

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>>17215207
Here was a shot I took the other day

>>17367854
Orientation tag strikes again.

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札幌で花火大会

>>17368156
何時か札幌行って見たいなぁ…
田舎を除くとして、どうやら日本一安楽都市
行った事ないけどね (笑)

写真ありがとう

>>17372954
I don't think I have ever seen the こと used in ～たこと in kanji.

>>17373303
Can't imagine any native would take issue with it. One Japanese friend of mine writes 此処 in kanji, there are few (if any) inviolable rules with this sort of thing.

>>17368156
Is there any particular season/festival that is the best time to see fireworks in Japan?

>>17378306
俳句を書いた：

ワロタんだ
それにしてもね
なぜですか

>>17378200
Summer.

Basically every city has at least one major fireworks festival around the end of July, start of August.

>>17261080
Went to Japan and on the first day I got lost and ended on this street, instantly recognized Shinjuku!

>>17384272
>>17384275
These two are amazing. Your photos are all great.

>>17384435
Are these file names the latitude/longitude of where the photos were taken?

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TOKYO & Mt FUJI

>>17292685
My dad likes snoopy alot. Ill send it to him thanks!

>>17292597
Anyone have more from this general area (Wakayama, Nara, Mie etc)?
I absolutely love the mountains and seaside aesthetic it has

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>>17399015

What info? Kumano/rural Kansai is pretty nice, if you want a nice experience in the area try one of the Kodo trails, hit up the Kumano Sanzan. Hotel Urashima has some pretty great baths too if that's your thing, Kawayu Onsen where you can dig your own in the riverside is interesting too.

All in all the region has some nice charm and isn't too run down as you see in a lot of inaka resort areas that may have had their peak in the 60s - 80s (Shirahama I'm looking at you).

>>17399050
I meant pictures

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>>17399062

Well okay, here's random mountains along the kohechi.

>>17399075
Thanks, looks lovely

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>>17399062
>>17399075

And the bay at Kii-Katsuura.

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>>17399101

Aesthetic Ise.

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>>17399112

And a bonus Imperial Princess/head priestess being driven across the shrine's sacred bridge in her Toyota Century, just as in ancient times.

>>17399124
>>17399112
I love Japanese trees, they look so photogenic.

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>>17399140

We can go bigger.

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>>17399151
We can go wider.

>>17403761
>>17403834
>>17404131
I love when shows put this much work into their setting. I remember haruhi was put together similarly
http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Stalking_Haruhi_Suzumiya

Next year I'm moving to Japan again. But the waiting is hard. How should I spend the next 7 months?

>>17407742

Stocking up on JAV videos.

>>17407742
studying the language

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5BtWLD2wM

>>17410434
Been doing since 2010.

>>17412491

Since 2010? Should be fluent by now.

I wish I had time to study, grad school leaves no time for anything else really.

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neighborhood

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>>17304994

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I snapped a few shots with my pocket camera on the way home the other night. The atmosphere was pretty cool in the area I walked through, made me feel like I was in one of the Monogatari works.

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>>17418724
This is somewhere between Sotokanda (basically Akiba) and Asakusabashi, btw.

I was already hearing the Bakemonogatari OST in my head during this walk, and when I turned the corner and saw these repeating power lines I really expected to find a half-dead vampire around the next bend. Instead I just saw a gaijin Gothic Lolita, which was almost as cool.

>>17384252
I feel i will mess up crossing this bridge somehow.

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Woo! I just got my first real camera!

A picture of the street in front of my apartment because it's too late to go anywhere.

>>17423162
It's pretty, I hope you'll post more

>>17423162
Nice. Makes me feel like playing Yakuza again.

>>17418735
>>17423162
How safe is it to walk out at night in Japan?

>>17425388
Completely safe. Stuff like muggings just doesn't happen in Japan

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>>17423833
Thanks! Here's another I took last night.

>>17425388
Super safe.

>>17425388
Really safe, so don't come and break it.

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Went to akiba for some new SD cards today.

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>モーゼスさん
Tasted good though.
>>17426892
Shit, it was properly rotated in my phone...

All these pictures made me to want to live in Japan even more.
Do you think a person with Computer science degree from German Uni could find a work in Japan?

>>17426919
>Shit, it was properly rotated in my phone...
4chan strips metadata of jpgs now (aside from on /p/). Rotation data is sometimes stored in metadata. It's better to just run it through an image edit software real quick to delete the metadata yourself, and rotate it correctly in my opinion.

>>17427288
No doubt but you should find work in Germany instead.

>>17427288
Anybody with a degree from anywhere can find work in Japan.

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>>17219792

https://www.flickr.com/photos/enoshiman/15091897987/sizes/

Any requests for areas in Tokyo or the surrounding prefectures?

I've got a week of vacation coming up, and no plans to go anywhere at the moment.

>>17428255
What did this anon mean by this other than to get our hopes up pointlessly?

>>17430853
He means anyone with a degree can find work in a shitty eikaiwa, whether working in such a shitty low paying job surrounded by shitty kids is worth a residency visa is questionable though.

>>17430434
Enoshima

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>>17431233
Went a couple years ago, but I can post some pics if you like.

>>17431187
You generally need to have your entire education in English to be hired for English jobs in Japan though.

>>17431187
>>17431383
Also, the kids are great and fuck you. It's more the adults that are the problem when there is one.

>>17431383
Well yeah, but don't think there are that many ESLs on 4chan in the first place.

>>17431385
>any kids
>ever
>great
TOP_KEK.jpg

In any case they're definitely not worth some shitty 150,000 yen/month salary.