I am going to Japan next year. What do you think I should do while I’m there?

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gamerweeb1 said:
What activities should I partake in to get the full weeb experience? Mainly looking for responses from people who have actually been to Japan.
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Go visit any shop or store near the marine base in Okinawa. You haven't experienced Japan until management asks you to leave a store because your foreign face bothers the native customers.
 
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Since its your first time, you'll probably have an amazing experience no matter what you do. Japans the top tourist destination for a reason. Everything theres cheap and theres so much to do you can have a great day with no planning. Almost every restaurant is going to be good due to the tough competition.
I recommend doing a tokyo to kansai loop. Don't stay in Tokyo the whole time. Take the shinkansen to kyoto, osaka and back. You can make day trips to kobe, nara, etc. Don't get the JR pass, its not worth it, especially with the price hikes. Akihabara is nice to visit a few times, but its a trashier part of town imo and the hotels there suck. Theres weeb streets in every major city now.
Stay off the public transit in the mornings during rush hour and stand to one side on the escalators.
 
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Absolutego said:
Nara is awesome. Though you will come to realize deer are fucking STUPID. Get the yakitori if you go, they kick ass at it.
I'd say target Kyoto over Tokyo because tbh like 95% of the tourist areas in Tokyo are just shitty sexpat sex districts when they aren't soulless shopping centers like Shibuya.
Maybe Akihabara is worth it for both the really cool electronics markets they have that make Kowloon Walled City look spacious and planned out, and because that's a local heavy metal scene. All sorts of really cool instrument and record shops in that neighborhood.
Hiroshima's nuke memorial is very powerful and worth a visit even if a lot of it is historical revisionism on how bad Imperial Japs actually were.
Onsens are horribly overrated and mostly a lot of ugly old people looking uncomfortable, would not attempt again
You are probably going to see some ancient Japanese couple change JR train cars if you deign to sit near them so be prepared for that.
OH and find a reason to get a haircut, Japanese barbers are something else, legit the best haircut experience I've ever had. TBH the shave was more amazing than the haircut, I've never had a better one, there wasn't a single hair south of my eyebrow by the time that lady was done with me.

EDIT: People also meme about the sushi in Tokyo's various train stations but I'm going to be honest, you could probably fetch something equally amazing, weird, and delicious at a random truck stop that borders the Sea of Japan for 1/5th the cost. Pretty sure the best sushi I had in the entire country was in Toyama.
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I’ve heard Hokkaido is actually really neat if you want to see nature and avoid the sprawl. Picturesque, people are nicer than Tokyo nips, and typically there are English speaking Russians who’ll give you a guided tour if you buy them lunch.
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I’ve heard Hokkaido is actually really neat if you want to see nature and avoid the sprawl. Picturesque, people are nicer than Tokyo nips, and typically there are English speaking Russians who’ll give you a guided tour if you buy them lunch.
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Hokkaido has been a hot target for weebs lately because one of the recent "overly earnest cardboard cutout falls in love with a genki gyaru" romcoms is set there and is basically Hokkaido tourism propaganda.
I can't vouch for anything personally that far north because I never made it past Sendai because the area was on fire/drowned during the brief period I lived there
 
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Absolutego said:
Hokkaido has been a hot target for weebs lately because one of the recent "overly earnest cardboard cutout falls in love with a genki gyaru" romcoms is set there and is basically Hokkaido tourism propaganda.
I can't vouch for anything personally that far north because I never made it past Sendai because the area was on fire/drowned during the brief period I lived there
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I’ve heard nothing, but good things about it besides getting a lot of snowfall. I know someone who works in agriculture that lives there now and he basically said it’s like a mix of Alaska and the Midwest. People are Japanese, but there is less performative BS.

Supposedly they have some gun culture because it’s not all sprawl and you can shoot an Arisaka at ranges up there rather than the gay faggot airsoft ranges in Honshu.
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I’ve heard nothing, but good things about it besides getting a lot of snowfall. I know someone who works in agriculture that lives there now and he basically said it’s like a mix of Alaska and the Midwest. People are Japanese, but there is less performative BS.

Supposedly they have some gun culture because it’s not all sprawl and you can shoot an Arisaka at ranges up there rather than the gay faggot airsoft ranges in Honshu.
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Theres no snow during the spring. Instead theres a lot of green, flowers fields and such.
 
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Assuming you’re staying in a city, pick a direction and start walking while avoiding main roads. That’s how I saw the most interesting things that weren’t attractions.

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If you’re going to Hiroshima be sure to walk around at night.

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Find out what designer drugs are legal at the moment and get your hands on some & get together with local people. They keep appearing all the time since it doesn't take too long for them to get illegalized every time a new one makes the rounds.
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