I miss Japan. I went there at the end of 2015 with $3000, and

This is what I want to do OP but I'm still saving up money.
Would like to go to the country and do what did at least.

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>>35313516

Does this work if you're too stupid to learn other languages?

>>35313516
>wasting $3000 on something that doesn't last
smart

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>>35313516
I know this feel anon.

I went to Japan around this time last year and stayed for 6 months, learning japanese in Tokyo. Best 6 months of my life. Japan is so comfy. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of returning.

>>35313516
Did you end up spending the entire 3k, I've been wanting to go back to Japan for as long as my visa lasts, 3 months Americuck. Just want an idea of how much I might need.

>>35313628
Good luck, anon! It's worth it all. I'd recommend Nara if you like the nature side of things. It's a joy at night to walk around.

>>35313645
Easily. I speak next to no Japanese and survived just fine. English is practically a second language over there, so you'll be able to read all signs and displays. All you might need to know is how to announce that you have a reservation, and maybe how to get somewhere. Rest assured though that most people in Tokyo also speak at least limited English if you need help.

>>35313681
My memories last, anon.

>>35313732
>My memories last, anon.
That's just something you tell yourself to feel better about all the money you pissed away.

>>35313727
I actually had a couple hundred bucks left over. I survived on chump change for most days, so I always had money left over from my 'daily allowance'. Used some of it to buy presents for peeps at the very end, but I was still left a good couple hundred.

>>35313681
experiences always outlive material things
I doubt you're going to remember what phone you had 20 years from now but you will most likely remember an awesome holiday

>>35313765
At the end of the day, it's your prerogative. But by the time I got back home, I had learned to be more independent, and had experience going about business by myself on the other side of the world. Is it a life skill I could learned without spending $3000? Maybe, yeah. But I don't regret anything.

Can you really survive so long off of $3K? How tight is that? I want to travel sometime.

>>35313890
Not OP.
When I lived in Japan I made do on roughly 100 pounds every 1/2 weeks; but didn't have to pay for housing.
It's way cheaper than you think it will be

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Just traveling from my home in New York to Japan and back would cost about $1,500 on the cheapest flights available. It's also a pretty expensive country, right? With prices for food, travel and accommodation roughly equivalent or greater than here in the US. I guess I could consider more of a homeless type lifestyle while I'm there to save money. Since it's so safe I could probably be comfortable sleeping outside as long as it's not too hot. That's probably what I'd do if I ever had the money.

Although... if I was traveling way over there anyway I'd probably want to visit a whole bunch of other countries while I'm there too. Hopefully I'll be able to save up a fat load of cash to waste traveling around that hemisphere sometime in my 30s. Not just Japan and east Asia, China, Russia, India, Austrailia, check it out while I'm still a fairly fit young guy. Save the expensive visit to Europe for when I'm older and less robust.

>>35313681
I first went to Japan 10 years ago and the experience changed my life for the better.
It was more valuable than uni was imo.

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>>35313732
>English is practically a second language over there

Huh? I guess the tourist's view of Japan is slightly different. There's actually barely anyone there who speaks English, because all they ever did at school is multiple choice grammar questions.

It's just that the few people who speak English happen to be employed at tourist locations and hotels.

Try opening a bank account in Osaka, you go into a large branch with 10 to 15 employees in the room, not a single person can form even a simple English sentence. Thank god I spoke basic Japanese.

>>35313981
What did you learn in Japan?

>>35313890
>>35313955
OP here, you can get hostels from $20-40 AUD per night. Add on some food and random stuff, and you can end up spending only $50 a day if you're frugal.

FYI, I think I worked out my earnings (just over $3000, pardon) gave me a daily spending rate of about $90 a day, split over 30 days.

If you know how to live cheaply, you can get by no problem.

That said, that $3000 was my in-country funds. I still had to shell out separately for flights and my travel pass (3 week universal, which ended up being around $800 AUD). So assume around a $4000 - 5000 all-together sum.

>>35313989
All of the signs in the major cities at least had helpful English variants, and I had quite a few people coming up and asking me (in stunted English, mind you) if I was trying to get anywhere and if they could help.

This gets worse as you leave the cities, but as you say, not everyone is a 1:1 fluent. But there's enough English around you that making out where you are at least is pretty simple, even for someone who doesn't speak a word of Japanese.

>>35313516
check your first world privilege

>But my point is - robits here can travel to Japan
no. third world scum can't.

>>35313684
How did you get in and what did you do there?

>>35313955
When I was last in Japan I paid $675/month for a tiny room with a shared kitchen and washroom in Higashi-Shinjuku, which is in central Tokyo.
Food prices are similar to Canada, which is slightly more than in the US but not unmanageable.

>>35314032
Nothing formally, it was just tourism. Life skills, confidence, experiencing a different culture.

>>35314059
Into the school?
Just applied. Didn't need to know any Japanese to start there, but they encouraged to know Hiragana and Katakana (which I already did). School was Genki JACS Tokyo.
Met a ton of people from all over the world. Spent weekdays studying, with occasional trips to Akihabara and other nearby districts. On Fridays our class would go out for Karaoke and drinks. We'd also meet up on weekends, and occasionally go out to the countryside and stay in a ryokan for a weekend.

>>35314038
$50 a day is a lot of money...

>>35314070
You can rent like that if you're there on a tourist visa? I thought there was all kinds of shit involved in getting an apartment in Japan as a foreigner. Like, even just setting up the utilities and stuff.

>>35313516
Can I get lots of Jap pussy there?

>>35313989
Why were you opening a bank account in Osaka?

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If there are any robots in Japan right now, I'm down to chill and smoke some herb with you. Or if you just wanna talk, that's cool too. I'm in Osaka if anybody's interested.

>>35314038
Yep, Japan is definitely very helpful when it comes to accessibility. Most signs are in Japanese, but the important ones for finding your way almost always have a latin transcription for foreigners.

Which cities did you go to? I lived in Osaka, which is not much of a tourist region, so I guess it's probably better in places like Tokyo or Kyoto. Even the people who asked me if I need help finding the way didn't speak English, so it was good that I spoke enough Japanese to at least explain where I need to go.

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>>35314158
Because I lived there.

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I want an excuse to study there, what are some fields which make sense to be "studying overseas"?

For those wondering, I'm 20.

>>35313981
>changed my life for the better.
how did it change your life?

>>35313516
>3000 dollas, on the cheap
fuck off normie

>>35314155
Guest houses, basically a house converted into rooms, usually rented by tourists or Japanese uni students.

>>35314199
>in Japan
>still shitposting on /r9k/ and trying to /soc/ your shit up to find friends
Yeah no I think I'm better off saving my money OP

>>35314157
Depends on you. Many robots are able to, and many report that they can't.

>>35314340
Why not just use the post office?

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How much money would you need to bum around Japan indefinitely?

>>35314514
I taught English privately for 4000yen an hour so you could always supplement with that.

>>35314560
What was it like? Is it true some of the teachers look down on TESL teachers?

Lived in Japan for a number of years. I do not recommend people to move there. Unless you can somehow land a job as an expat at a global corporation, your life there will suck. Everything (bar housing) is expensive as fuck, most of the work (read: 99%) available to foreigners pay absolutely shit, and unless you're Chris Hemsworth you will get dirty looks from Japanese people. The people aren't all that nice, and are passive aggressive as fuck. I'm not a faggot with yellow fever so the women did nothing for me.

OP, your delusion comes from the fact that you were jobless and traveling. If you had to work there, I guarantee you would have hated it there.

>>35313732
>English is practically a second language over there, so you'll be able to read all signs and displays.
>Rest assured though that most people in Tokyo also speak at least limited English if you need help.

This is so untrue. Even in Tokyo, your average person absolutely cannot string a complete sentence in English, let alone carry a conversation. I can't imagine how bad it is in other cities like Nagoya. It's funny, I went to Japan with this delusion, and once I got there I was greeted with people who couldn't speak English. Trying to find an apartment, registering at my local ward office, etc. was a nightmare. This is in stark contrast to when I went to Frankfurt and 75% of the people there spoke decent enough English. If you want proof Japanese suck at English, just look at their average TOEIC scores.

>>35313684
Where exactly is this pic from? I want to live there before offing myself

>>35314472
It was the post office, I went with the post bank because it seemed by far the most common one.

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>>35314514

>>35314560
Good idea!

>Get BJJ black belt
>Learn Japanese
>Pay off student debt

Then:
>Save up 10kUSD
>Fly off to Japan
>Teach English/martial arts ad nasuem
>Master Japanese to the point of letting my English degrade
>Meet Anri Okita
>Japanese creampies ever after

>>35313765
So you're saying that every cent you ever spent was on things that lasted indefinitely? How can you be so retarded, dude? It fucking amazes me just how retarded someone can be in this day and age.

>>35313516
where did you get a travel pass and how much was it?

>>35313516
Same. however, Japan is awesome to visit. To stay and work... dont think so

>>35314612
I did it in cafes and advertised on metropolis and craigslist so I didn't have any exposure to other teachers. Honestly I didn't see myself as the least bit qualified, but my students were satisfied enough to keep coming back.

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I want to study abroad for at least one semester, would be fun.

>>35313516
I'm having kind of a ruff night anon, and I always wanted to travel there myself.
Tell me about Japan. How was the smell? What did you do everyday?

>>35314705
I hope you're trolling. This post is sad.

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>>35314730
I assume he's talking about the JR Rail Pass

>>35314136
How much would it cost to do something like that?
I don't really have any money saved but I'd really want to do this in the future

>>35314403
Maybe he used to hang out on wizardchan or something.

>>35315027
Depends how long you want to do it for. 6 months was really expensive, I forget how much exactly (since my parents helped to pay), but you'd be best off checking out their website for prices and the like.

I'm going to Japan for 2 weeks in a few months. What places did you go for that cyberpunk feel? I'll be around Tokyo and Kyoto.

>>35315078
This is quite a lot. What was your situation living wise? Private apt, homestay? If homestay did you cook for yourself?

>>35315243
Housing was organised by the school, who give you a choice of homestay, guest house or private room. I went with guest house; lived in a room that was about 3x4 meters big.
Most of my meals were cheap stuff from convenience stores, occasionally I'd treat myself to a meal out. If I had school over lunch break I'd go to a ramen shop to eat. Food is really cheap, and very few things actually taste bad (avoid hamburger bentos)

>>35314424
It's not a bad deal in that case but I wonder if you could travel everywhere in Japan comfortably on day trips only.

lol @ blowing 3k on a shitty trip where you literally just walked around cities and stayed in garbage lodging

my parents work for an airline so i have lived my whole life being able to fly for free

travel is fucking overrated. you hit a point where you walk out of the subway and you're standing in the middle of munich or tokyo or singapore or wherever and it's not 'cool' anymore. your life isn't a jason bourne movie, you're just some random white dude wasting his time feeling "cultured" while staring at FUCKING BUILDINGS

people always like to hit you with the "travel the world! you'll enjoy life more if you ~explore~!" kind of bullshit and it's a telltale sign of someone who only travels once or twice a year and still thinks hanging out in airports or looking at some shitty mountain in the alps is cool. you don't somehow expand your horizons, whatever that means, by wandering around somewhere else. you will not come back with an appreciation for the diversity and universality of the human experience, you will come back with useless minutiae like "they keep the highways pretty clean in austria" or "beijing smells like burning ass" or "everyone in lima will try to steal your shit if you speak english in public"

the entire travel industry (from transport to lodging and everything in between) is designed to milk the money of idiot tourists like you.

what i'm saying is that i've "seen the world" and it was not worth it whatsoever. just stay home and kill yourself. you'll save yourself the hassle.

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>tfw lost an opportunity to stay in Osaka for 3 weeks just for the cost of the flight
>probably not going to have enough money/time to travel there in next 6-8 years
Thanks for suggestions, lads.
fuck my life

>>35315411
this is the tastiest bait ive had in a while

>>35315411
>hurr durr i spent my entire life traveling and eventually got bored of it so it's overrated

>>35315411
>what i'm saying is that i've "seen the world" and it was not worth it whatsoever. just stay home and kill yourself. you'll save yourself the hassle.
God damn, I really like you, Anon.

>>35315411
yes, welcome to life, where literally everything you do is a pointless timewaster.

it's all equally pointless, so feel free to waste your time however you want!

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I've been twice to Japan. Once 2 weeks, once 3 weeks, both times to Tokyo and Kyoto, with a trip to Osaka. I remember it very fondly. Pic related is some funny alien I saw in a store underground.

>>35315583
Oh wow man, what a funny-looking alien! Definitely worth $3000 to see that!

>>35315504
you could spend thousands of dollars going to ostensibly 'different' places on the globe or you could spend zero dollars stacking rocks on top of each other in the corner of your room. you will achieve the same degree of enlightenment or personal growth from either activity.

>>35315447
let me put this in language you might understand

you know how when you read enough manga you realize that it's all the same? like someone took a small list of anime tropes and randomized the list a bunch of times and then mass-produced the output?

the world is like that.

at the end of the day it's up to you if you want to keep reading a bunch of shitty manga, all of which is basically the same thing, but it's a waste of your time and your money and you might as well commit suicide.

>>35315634
>it's a waste of your time and your money and you might as well commit suicide.
How do you feel about doing tons of drugs and having lots of sex with someone you like?

I'd rather live there for a year if I could, but I'm too fucking poor and don't have my degree yet so it's pretty much out the window

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this thread is killing me, I'm waiting to hear back from a language-school application for this summer. going back is all that keeps me going.

>>35315661
i wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for either of those things

>>35315617
It's just one of the shitty images I took, I thought somebody would get a kick out of it but apparently not. Obviously I didn't spend that much just to see a random alien in some retro underground store.

>>35313684
>>35314643
After 20 minutes of scrolling around in Google Maps, I can tell you it's a random alley in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo. 5 Chome-13, maybe? Not sure how Japanese street names work.

The large building in the picture is a hotel called the New Green Okachimachi - searching for that on Maps should bring it right up.

>>35315717
How are you so good at finding buildings in Google Maps? Did you search for some of the text seen in the picture?

>>35315634
Yeah? Everything gets boring when you do it a bunch. You really don't see why it might be valuable for someone who's never left the country?

>>35315758
if you read any amount of moonspeak it's not hard at all. you find one of those signs and figure out where that business is located and then crossreference it in maps/streetview until you find the right place.

spending 20 minutes doing this simple task is embarrassing

>>35313516
Sorry to sound stereotypical but did you go to any manga shops or akiba?

>>35315786
i don't think anyone needs to piss away their resources to learn that everything everywhere is the same bullshit dressed up in different "cultures"

>>35315758
>>35315793

Top kek, I can't even read kana. Reverse image search suggested Ueno, and I just opened up Maps in earth mode and scrolled around the district looking for those particular street markings.

>>35315833
You could also do it to have fun.

>>35315793
>>35315861
Alright, that's a shame. There's a building I want to find the location of but it doesn't have any text anywhere in the picture.

>>35314705
>Picture of Chinese tourist town

>>35315867
nothing is fun, anon

>>35315885
Post it and let the /r9k/ detective squad have a go.

>>35315905
If that's true for you, you're right. Suicide is the only option.

>>35313516

I'm saving up money to go over there, and once in Japan I know how to get a job.

The only question I have, and it's a rather stupid one that shows my inexperience, is this: what the fuck do you say at the customs once you arrive at the airport?

I mean, you get there, go through the customs or whatever and they ask you what your business in their country is, how long are you staying, where are you staying, show them funds, or what the hell do you do?

Like I said, I know where to get employed but obviously I'm not gonna tell a customs official I'm looking for work there. Do I just say I'm visiting, but if he asks me to show him a hotel booking or whatever and I have none, wat do?

Help me out with this pls

>>35316102
Customs probably won't ask to see anything unless you're on a visa of like 3/6 months+. You could probably just say you're staying with a friend if they do ask for where you're staying

>>35313681
>hoarding money until youre old and cant do anything with it
not smart

>>35313516
>$3000 dollars

>cheap

We're not richfags or spoiled mommy's boy, you autist. I got bills to pay and school to study for.

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>>35313516
STOP SPREADING YOUR LIES OP

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT PIC RELATED WOULD BE THE AVERAGE ROBOT'S FATE IN JAPAN

>>35316259
I adapted well. It forced me out of my shell.
Japan is for robots who want to better themselves

I spent 3 months there bike touring about 10 years ago, and kept my expenses to about 10$/day by sleeping in parks and such. I'm sure with inflation it's more but it is definitely possible to do it for cheap.

>>35314636

This is the most accurate post in the thread. I spent 3 months in Japan visiting my girlfriend who was teaching english over there and also traveling a bit on my own.

This may go without saying here, but compared to more traditional destinations (Paris, Florence, Honolulu, etc), Japan attracts people for a lot of strange reasons that don't really coincide with the idea of a vacation.

-It is not like an anime.
-It is not a utopia
-You will not be "Aesthetic" there
-You do not have a thing for Asian girls, you are attracted to the idea of being coveted for once in your life without putting any effort into bettering yourself, and simply by virtue of being foreign (which you will not be)

That being said it's a very fun place and I loved my time there. I'm debating on going back this summer for a few weeks.

>>35316259
God I want to fucking kill this guy because he reminds me of myself

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Come home gaijin-san

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WaO7n8GdmU

>>35316446
What if I do want to better myself; like Japanese culture outside of anime and media; and want to find an asian qt who I can relate to?

Am I naive?

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>>35316706
Oh my lord, they're ugly as sin it self. What in the goddamn, did we do this to them? I'm done with this weeb shit, anime, all of it.

This is kind of tangential, but has anyone here worked for Japanese people? I applied for a job at a sushi restaurant and I'm kind of scared it would be hell.

>>35316781
It's Akihabara. Where all the weebs hangout. At least I hope this isn't all of them.

>>35316781
some of them are alright in my book
would go out with them

>>35316887
>>35316905
That fat American had to be one of us.

>>35316706
Looks like I have no choice but to sex them.

>>35316763
>>35316763

I don't know if you're naive necessarily, you just sound lonely. I wouldn't move (or travel) anywhere just for the sake of finding a gf. You gotta learn to make yourself happy. Nothing wrong with self-improvement

>>35316926
He may be one of you but he isn't one of me. Tbh I'd fuck about three of those grills.

>>35316979
Finding a gf isnt a priority for me though.

On top of that I hate where I live and have grown tired of it.

>>35316781
I found all of them quite attractive and I don't have yellow fever.
Are my standards low?

>>35314199
>herb
>Japan

Ok buddy

>>35317032

So you're just asking if it's possible to get a gf there? Yes. However, let me say from experience the language barrier gets pretty old really fast.

>>35316706
God, his accent is so fucking cute. Trying so hard to enunciate and still not getting very close.

>>35317144
I'm going to learn Japanese 2bh. There's some nip games I want to buy on my Vita and PS4.

>>35313681
Food doesn't last, it's just as much a waste of money iyam

>>35315709
I thought it was a funny ayy anon
other guy might just be jealous you went to japan or something

>>35313516
Sounds fun but im too scared of everything. too scared of booking hotels or going outside. I'll just stay over here for now.

>>35313516
I think the most pressing question here is what job allows its employee to take off for an entire month? Or are you just some rich kid whose parents paid for his trip?

>>35317064
Your standards are low brah. I have yellow fever and I found most of them unattractive.

>>35316259
I did this. I spent 3 months in Japan to walk around Tokyo and playing arcade games and browsing the same stores in akihabara. Spent probably half of the 3 months in my room to play games/internet. Wake up late to not see other guests. Come back late so other guests don't think I'm weird and actually doing stuff in the city.

If you are a true robot, it's actually hard to break out. It was fun though. Like seeing all the people and riding the trains is cool. I eat out everyday but it's all take outs. Don't want to sit in because I don't speak the language.

The highlight was probably you know sometimes in anime the character get ridiculously sick because of a cold and you are like wtf, it's just a cold. Yeah. I experience the Japanese cold and felt like dying.

>>35315411

>i did something until i got sick of it so it means that you shouldnt have to do it, because I did and no one matters except ME. How dare you like something i dont like


Liked the "humble" brag though

My Dad had a saying." He wouldn't walk around the block to see the 8th Wonder of the World." Of course he was right, but now anyone can see anything through a monitor.

>>35313516
>japan is a shithole
>old cunts run everything and actively hate the modern world
>you will always be an obvious outsider
>you will never be truly accepted

japan doesn't have to play by the same rules as the rest of us, and that makes me angry

I went to Disney world with a good school friend who is really in to theme parks and goes pretty much yearly. He took me around, showed me all the good stuff and generally we had a great two weeks. Now he's a normie and it's like he's a different person entirely and I'll never experience those two weeks again. I know it was only Disney world, but being there with somebody who knew so much about the parks and enjoyed them so much made me feel the same.

>>35313684
How good was your Japanese after 6 months?

>>35319798

Afaik everyone in japan will see you as "that foreigner". You will never be able to have a real human connection with someone in Japan as long as you arent Japanese as no one will see you as little more than "that foreigner". Especially girls will only want you because you are taller than Japanese men and muh gaijin fetish.

If any of this isnt true feel free to correct me but from what i have seen it sounds like this is what a foreigner will experience in Japan.

>>35319953
You can speak better gook then the japs, go full weeb and grasp their culture and act like one of them, and store owners still openly resent your existence, you'll be denied housing and work and treated like a baka idiot foreigner forever.

My problems with the country are all /pol/ heavy. Japan is isolationist, raciest and jingoistic, quality's every other first world nation is vilified for- but for the slant-eyed fucks its "just their culture"

and that enrages me

>>35319953
This is somewhat accurate, not 100% though. The people who see you as a novelty are the same people who would have ignored you otherwise, human connection is possible and your novelty is a good opener.

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>>35315161
For Tokyo, it's not really cyberpunk (honestly just walking around Ikebukuro and Shinjuku will give you those feels) but whilst you are there you must check out Koenji and Nakano, both are super Japanese and comfy, and there aren't as many tourists as harajuku and other places etc. No matter what you do though, you will love it. I've just got back after three months and it was the most incredible experience. Make lots of good memories and have fun anon!

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I WANNA SEE SHABANI

>>35316259
kek, having stayed in a few capsule hotels i totally sympathise with escaping to the bathrooms to eat crisps at 2am on the toilet because you don't want to make noise or get crumbs in your bed but you're too hungry to sleep

the rest of it luckily i am not that bad, i did go to dubai for a visa run and get all hyped up to hire a prositute for the first time but then i bottled it and went to bed at 10pm on my own every night.

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>>35319953
... Unless you're also Asian. They tend to be more receptive to other fair-skinned Asian races like Korean and Singaporean (not mainland Chinese)

For one thing, they call
>westerners - gaijin
and
>other light-skinned Asians - gaikokujin

The difference is stark. Gaikokujin means foreigner and gaijin means outsider.

As a Singaporean Chinese who studied Japanese and backpacked there, it was loads of fun talking to the locals.

Pic I took at sensoji shrine. Will share more pics if requested.

>>35320102
I see my self as a pretty typical 'pc leftist cuck' or whatever, but it's apparent to me that what you said is very true about Japan's problems with their culture. They're sexist, racist assholes but most tend to overlook that while idolizing them.

weed is ultra illegal there though, and really trains are the only reason I'd want to go

>>35320600
I've no issue with national pride. Japan can be as drow-ish as they want. It's when they are the only first-world country able to act like this that we have problems.

A burgerclap puts up a "no foreigner" sign in his shop. He's going to get vandalised, fined and probably worse

openly refuse to rent to non-natives in Australia? odds are you'll never rent anything to anyone again

speak out against immigration because your country is more then 80% barren, life-killing desert and liveable land is precious? You sir are the problem

everything you or I gets shit on for saying or doing the nips are lauded for. It's childish but the unfairness of it is the problem

>>35316881
Yes my boss is japanese and a higher ranking coworker is japanese. Uhh from my experience there both really quiet for the most part. Guess it depends on the person theyre not all the same

But shes very hard working. Shes always on the move. But shes also very short with you. Very direct to the point. Doesnt want to hear what u have to say.

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COOK THA MAN SUM FUCKIN EGGS BITCH!!!!

>>35316763
Yeah, you are Tbh.

>>35320775
Food industry or more officey? Food asians are nuts and hit people

>>35321072
Food industry if a very high stress job. no im in not in the food industry. I work retail at a Post Exchange (AAFES) on a military base in America. Im a civilian. Lots of Japanese come back here from wherever (mostly Osaka) with their army husbands they met overseas. And they take jobs. I work with Japanese, fillipino, and korean women.

Cute asian chicks come in all the time to the store. I havent worked up the courage to talk to any yet. I have an inferiority complex

>>35320741
Pretty sure most people are starting to give Japan shit for it and even advocating for open borders because muh low birth rate and need more workers typical globalist excuse.

>>35315411
God bless you anon
()orginal()

>>35320492
I thought Japanese hated Chinese and Korean? But they're okay with Taiwanese. Not sure about all the other countries around them

>>35321340
I'd like to see japan try and handle a real problem. Send them half a million Syrian career rapists and watch as their proud little shrines are destroyed and historic shithole villages become no-go zones for the nips. Because if we're not allowed to take issue with it then nobody should

>>35321691
Japan already accepted like 21 refugees and half of them had to be deported because they started raping and fighting people the moment they came.

>>35320632
Japan has one the best train systems in the world.

America can't compete. What little running trains we have are always fucking late and have to make stops because freight train companies own majority of the railroads and their cars take priority.

>>35321691
I'm happy for Japan. Why should the last bastion of homogeneity and monoculturalism die just because "boo hoo why doesn't HE have to do it?" It's not like Germany was forced to accept a trillion refugees because Japan wouldn't

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>>35316706
>I want to absorb his language and culture to myself
The fact that Asian guys don't regularly snap and go full Elliott amazes me.

>>35313516
>$3,000
>Cheap

Fuck off.

>>35321941
There's no logical reason, it is pure jealousy. I understand and admit that, but it's not going to stop me from wanting either nippon to drown in shit like the rest of us, or be the first of a resurgence in nations securing their borders and becoming separate entity's again

I'm going there in a week. Any recommendations for thing to do in Tokyo?

>>35322066
Just move to Japan, enjoy being a rare foreigner while looking down on other foreigners ruining Japan

>>35320741
>>35321691
Unfair, but Japan is doing it right, nearly ever other 1st world country is not.

>>35322091
Apparently Shibuya is pretty neat

I'm saving my shekels to travel to japan next year. Before Akiba is purged for Olympic tourists.

>>35313516
>wasting a WHOLE fucking 3K on a trip to weeboland
>Not staying in your own room in your own comfy house, listing to music, fapping, watching movies, playing videogames and just being /COMFY/
>actually going outside
>"You gotta just EXPLORE dude, its like a real adventure xD LOL"
This is not like your generic animus anon, traveling is garbage and waste of money

>>35322066

I dont hold a side in this debate, but unlike Japan the West is absolutely responsible for refugees and it is only fair that we open our borders to them. Our governments have for more than 15 years now been very busy with destabilizing and bombing the shit out of the region, while people here are cheering on it from behind their computer screens. Im not saying if we should or should not bomb these countries, im just saying that if we do we should be willing to accept the consequences.

>>35321835
>and half of them had to be deported because they started raping and fighting people the moment they came.

Source? I find it hard to believe since such a low number of refugees + the in depth nip refugee system in place would have vetted those refugees to make sure they can come to Japan.

>>35320492
>The difference is stark
I don't get it. Aren't foreigners outsiders?

>>35322400

>he thinks 3k is a lot of money
>he resents being poor and worthless so much he tells himself that things like travel are bad so he doesn't have to deal with the reality of his wretched life

How do you 3rd world tier poor people even afford computers? Do you steal old XP machines from dumpsters or something?

>>35322116
Beyond my regular bullshit I'm not weebish enough to want to live there. I like "The West"

>>35322256
There is perhaps a limit, we need to clamp down hard on immigration and maintain our culture. But also remember japan enjoys a host of unique problems as a result of it's stance- an ageing population and decaying birth rate. I can't say if this is a result of japan itself or the isolationist stance but it's clear they are not a perfect example. Just a better one then what we have.

Fewer immigrants- official or bust

Zero tolerance for border hoppers and boat fags. If 200 refugees want to try and guilt their way in by starving on the sea, let them

stringent citizenship requirements. If you can't speak English fluently then you can fuck right off

now this would be stupid hard but the payoff would be nations that are whole and healthy again. Not drowning under a weight of ingrate goatfuckers

>>35322445
This is the part where you call me something silly and I call you a nu-male cuck. Because I don't give a flying fuck what the civilised world's been doing to the middle east. Maybe we're directly responsible, maybe islam and 3rd world shitholes will always breed widespread factionalism and violence. Either way the world gains nothing from open borders. Those places stay fucked and spread their shit to us and others. We need to pull back entirely, let them work it out or enforce peace. No talks, no suggestions. Just a "sort this shit out by 2020 or we're going to wipe you out and start over

>>35322791
This is a norman everyman mindset. What is so great about being someplace different? travel is not an inherently exciting thing. particularly to the robot. My "big adventure" would be going to the city, staying in a decent hotel for a couple days and a few select activity's I can't enjoy at home

>loose my virginity to a whore
>experience a big cinema
>minor shopping. See if there's nothing worth buying offline
>gird my loins for something like theatre or a concert

>always wanted to go to Japan for a while
>shit with money and always spend it on video games/figures
>even if I were to save up to go I'd blow my whole budget on gunpla/figures and arcades

I'm 23 and going nowhere. By the time I get my act together and go I'll be in or around 30 anyway, which is depressing.

I just went to North Carolina to visit my sister.

I love it down there. Everybody is nice, friendly. They like guns considering my state would outright ban them if they could.

The summer heat and the moderate winters are nice too.

My dad is going to retire and wants to move my family. However, my parents want some super nice home for like 200k in Raleigh which isn't happening. They hate every single home they see and it's too much money for them anyways.

They keep prolonging moving and the home prices are going up like 7-10% annually over there. Eventually, we'll get priced out.

I had a job opportunity down there but turned it down due to the low pay. I could've done it but my family persuaded me not to and take a shitty job with a 2 hour commute to NYC. I quit recently because it was that terrible and physically hurt me so bad I wound up in the ER.

Could we get a home? Of course, it would just be about 10-15 minutes from the nearest grocery store.

I'm so tired of living in NJ. It's too much money; there are no jobs unless you're an engineer or doctor; and it takes too long to get anywhere. Where I live, it takes me roughly 20-30 minutes to go about 4-5 miles due to traffic.

>>35323029
NOOOOOOORMIIIIIE LLEAAAAAVE

>>35322922
>What is so great about being someplace different? travel is not an inherently exciting thing.

t - has never travelled

Your big adventure is autistic as fuck, for someone lashing out and calling people normies, your imaginary holiday sounds like an actual normal persons idea of a somewhat boring weekend

>>35323057
How am I a normie?

Because I have a family and had a job?

>>35323079
>woa looking at that mountain sure is cool and epic
>woaaaa look at that scenery by the beach, just dammn
>woaa so rare food!! woaaaa
>woaa so culturaly enriched tempelss woaaa
>woaaaa look everyones squinting their eyes!!!
>woaaa look there look there a building
>woaaaa look look!!!
anon plz, there isn't anything fun about traveling, its boring and monotone as fuck

>>35323187
That's why you go to places that are different, dipshit.
Traveling to the next city over isn't going to be interesting.

>>35323187

t - autistic, angry failure who has never been anywhere and invents ludicrous gibberish to keep himself from crying hysterically over how utterly worthless he is.

>>35323197
just look at a picture on google images if you wanna see something different, you dont need to pay THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS just to """experience"""" it

>>35313516
>My parents paid me to be a nuisance in foreign countries: The Post.

>>35323241
Sounds like fun

>tfw rich parents

>>35313516
WAITO PIGGU GO HOOOOOOME
originally

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You fat fucking retarded virgin men

You don't realize that you will basically be overlooked the entire time in Japan, EVEN IF you speak Japanese almost perfectly.

Have you never seen those J vloggers about their encounters with Japanese people and how they act around foreigners?

You'll just end up disappointed, regardless if you went to Tokyo, the Japanese haven for foreigners

>>35323311
What if I'm 6'5" and somewhat handsome?

>>35323232

>being so omega and pleb that you think le internet has everything you could ever need maymay is a legitimate excuse for being an impoverished loser

>>35323349
Says who? Your mom?

>>35323349
fuck you, superior japanese women would never want to date pig like u

>>35323368
Said the 9/10 gook who sucked my cock

>>35323372
I'm going to take that as a yes

>>35323311
>You fat fucking retarded virgin men
>You don't realize that you will basically be overlooked the entire time in Japan, EVEN IF you speak Japanese almost perfectly.
>Have you never seen those J vloggers about their encounters with Japanese people and how they act around foreigners?
>You'll just end up disappointed, regardless if you went to Tokyo, the Japanese haven for foreigners

This is hilarious to me. I'm short and ugly. I'm overlooked everywhere I go.

That's not a reason to not travel.

Traveling is just about changing the monotony of your life for a week or two and giving you something different to look forward to.

>when westerners "try to find themselves" in foreign countries
lmao

>>35323232
It's called living life and having fun, but whatever floats your boat.

I'm going travelling myself soon. I currently hold the opinion that it's pointless and a major waste of money but I've never properly done it so opinions are based on speculation, taking the activities I'll be doing there and reducing them to pointless sounding things, "herpa derpa Muh noodles, Muh culture" In reality though when I'm there, seeing it all with my eyes, tasting the different food, the subtle things that you can't really understand unless you do it, I hope it will help me in my depression somehow. I've lived a very monotonous life so far.

>>35323394
>when bitter losers shitpost on a virginity board because they can't manage to get their shit together enough to buy a plane ticket and book accommodations
I genuinely feel bad for you

>>35323488

It will give you a boost temporarily. I've never traveled alone. Always with my family or rarely a few times with friends.

I want to go to South America alone to fuck borderline aged hookers and hike up the mountains but I doubt I ever will.

I need to lose my wizardry naturally first I feel like. I can't lose it that way.

>>35323488
> I hope it will help me in my depression somehow

it won't. i have been all over and if anything it just makes it worse.

>>35323557
Cool. I pretty much assumed this anyway. Doesnt make sense that a place could change me, only I can. By understanding my mind, learning shit, improving. Or most likely in my case, killing myself eventually.
>>35323528
Same, hookers feel like cheating.

>>35323444
>living is paying to escape your life for a few days
>living is working to pay for those slivers of escape

I'll travel when there's something I want to experience. I find no novelty in other places when the same money could make my home more comfy. For the 3k we're all fixated on I could transform my room most of, if not all the way into the Persian rug hippy den I've always wanted it to be

>>35313516
>travelling from place to place with a travel pass, booking hostels as I went.
>just being on your own for so long
I know this feel my friend, it's the comifest feel.

>>35313516
Late to this thread, but ohh well. OP, you have no idea how bad I want to go back. I'm alone in the US. I miss Tokyo.

>be me, summer of 2016
>get selected to go on a 2 week Trip hosted by Uni in Tokyo
>travel, food, and housing all paid for by Uni in Tokyo
>my college gives me $200 spending cash
>the college put together a schedule of events, but every night we get free time to explore the city
>the first few nights I chill with the other Americans
>they were terrible, no respect
>loud and obnoxious on public transport, cut people in lines, stood on both sides of the escalators, were more preoccupied with themselves than with realizing how their actions affected others
>after the second night, I decide to go out o my own
>decide to explore the area in which I was staying (near the higashi fuchu station)
>see a bar with an Irish flag and decide to check it out
>no one in it but the bartender
>step in an order a beer
>start talking to the bartender, his name is Anzia

>>35323916
>he tell me a bit about himself, tokyo, and Japan
>have a good time and tell him I'll be back
>show up next night, but 3 guys are sitting at bar
>open with "Hi Anzia" and he replies "hi Nato"
my name is Nate and they pronounce it as Nato
>guys sitting there find it funny that Anzia knows my name
>the guys seem friendly and all know each other
>try to be polite, but don't want to annoy them
>look at English menu and see "Tennessee whiskey: Jack Daniels"
>tell them that's where I'm from and order them all a round of Jack
>all of a sudden they start taking a liking to me
>get introduced to all of them: Tatsurou, Mogi, and Ito
>stay up till 2 am drinking with these guys
>none of them are fluent in English so they all work together to piece together how to communicate with me
>try to tell Anzia about Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey
>struggle for the longest time with it, but eventually move onto other topics
>have a genuinely good time with these guys
>find out that they are all in their mid 30s and have families
>decide to meet up again the next time they are all off work>we meet again and have good time
>Anzia pulls out handle of Tennessee Honey
>the four of us at the bar work on drinking it all night, eventually finish the handle
>have another amazing night with these guys
>decide to meet up one more time before we leave

>>35323939
Sounds great anon. Should have went kareoke and got some qt girls to come

>>35323939
>meet up for the last night, Anzai has new handle of Tennessee Honey
>we finish it
>before they leave they give me a present
>its full of Japanese candy, snacks, and hachimakis
>they thank me and call me their friend
>before leaving I give Anzai $50 for the next time they come in
>he won't take it
>bargain with him, and allows me to pay for their first round of Tennessee Whiskey
>come back to the US
>no longer have a bar to drink at
>no longer have friends to drink with
>even though we couldn't understand each other very well, we all connected in a way that I could never do in the US. I don't consider myself to be an autist, but I have a hard time relating to others sometimes. I told the Japanese program guide about it, and he was shocked. He said that most older Japanese people do not talk to younger generations, let alone foreigners. Reguardless, I miss my friends and wish to be able to go back to Anzia's bar someday and drink with them.

Anyway, if you ever find yourself in East Fuchu, check out the White Room if you want to have a few drinks. Pic related, it's the door.

>>35324069
forgot pic

>>35324061
I met some nice Filippinas at the college in Tokyo. had some great evenings with them.

>>35324114
you forgot it again. I want to see this bar - that story sounded great.

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Been going there since 2012 for new japan shows and travel. Absolutely love it every single time I've been, going back there for G1 finals this year.

Definitely a robot friendly country.

>>35321485
Depends on demographic really. Most the time they're just neutral unless they have strong political leanings

>>35322680
Yes but they'll let you into their social circle more easily if you're Asian. Most the time at least.

>>35323916
>>35323939
>>35324069
Congrats faggot, you've officially become a pet Gaijin!

>>35326643
beats nothing.

Anons story sounded cool. Every relationship starts with something and "ooo gajin san wa hen da yo ne" isnt any worse than anything else.

poorfags sure have infested this thread

whats wrong phams cant afford that shitty steam game?

>>35326749
wrong board anon
ORINGASDIHADAS

>>35326749
>>35326785
tbf the comment wasnt out of place - people itt saying youre rich if you have 3000 shekels.

I just watched a documentary film called "The Birth of Sake". It's about a bunch of Japanese guys who work in a Sake brewery and the work they do. It isn't explained in great detail what they're doing as it's not a Richard Attenborough style documentary.

It's supremely comfy.

>>35315411
>i'm so spoiled and bitter about it so please don't enjoy this thing
I've spent 15k in the last two years traveling to the US several times
How does it make you feel planebot
How

>>35326963
Low key documentaries are the best.