Turning Japanese...

[hummingofevil]

I'm a massive wimp so couldn't commit to more than a few weeks but want to go Japan.

Any tips?

Ideally someone in here will invite me to stay at their's with my wife ASAP but if not would like to do the following:

- Cherry Blossom season
- Pro Wrestling at Koraken
- sumo
- big fuck-off train journey
- Mt Huji

I also hate flying so what is best/cheapest way with stop on way? I fancy LA as fantasy holiday but is that too much the long way round. Xx

[popcorn]

Classic trip is to go to Tokyo (see the modern mad metropolis stuff) and then take the bullet train to Kyoto (see the traditional stuff, temples and geisha etc). Never been to Mt Fuji but I think it's sorta between Tokyo and Kyoto so you might be able to fit it inbetwixt.

The cherry blossom blooms at different times in the country, and is slightly different each year. It only lasts a week or so in each spot. If you want to have a go at scheduling your trip to coincide with blossom you can use the cherry blossom forecast site: https://www.japan-guide.com/sakura/

I live in Tokyo. I live in a tiny box so I can't offer you and your missus anywhere but would be happy to go for a drink and show you some sights or sommat. Send me a PM.

[Sebastian Cobb]

nvm

[Consignia]

Shit Museum: https://ale-box.com/unkomuseum/

[Jittlebags]

You've got to respect a nation that invented bukkake.

[ToneLa]

Look out of a window on a high floor in Tokyo at night and slip on some shades, for you will feel truly, utterly cyberpunk. Can even imagine there's nanobots in your blood.

[Pijlstaart]

Hotsuki-maru! Hoji haji gangubiru!

So much to do. Rake some lines in a sandpit. Go "pom pom pom" in a 7-11, dispose of dozens of layers of packaging surrounding individually wrapped mung beans. Get bladdered with midderu-manager in a wardrobe-sized bar, leave him crumpled on floor. Bow at a big wooden penis, maybe ride it down a hill. Swim in imperial palace moat. Have overpriced gift fruit confiscated at airport. Kodakai dekkeru! Jingbai! Waddle about in wooden shoes and leave shoe dents on their prize rattan mats. Live in small box. Get led off beaten track by frog with big paper lantern. Handstand. Say "nani!" or "Huuuurggh" when handed a bill or at a checkout. Fanny about in dressing gown, giggle under umbrella. Gift shops. Toiletries.

[Jittlebags]

Ganbarimasu!

[ToneLa]

Vending machine knickers or bust.

[popcorn]

Vending machine knickers or bust.

When I was a small boy my dad went on a business trip to Japan and brought me back a book (in English) about the country's curioisities. The only thing I remember from it was the used pantsu vending machines. And, of course, since then they've become a well-known tale in the west.

I've been in Japan for almost four years. The first thing friends back home ask is "Is it true about the pantsu vending machines?" I've never met a single Japanese person who's heard of them, and I've never seen one myself (and I'm not afraid of wandering into shady basements in Akihabara).

For a long time I assumed it was a myth, but I met an ex-pat here who told me he'd found one in some porn shop, and showed me a photo. He also showed me a photo he'd taken of the front door of the shop, which had an angry message in broken English forbidding western journalists entering after some Canadian news channel did an expose on the sinister Japanese sex trade etc. I wish I could find that photo now. It made me feel quite sorry for the shop.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Hotsuki-maru! Hoji haji gangubiru!

So much to do. Rake some lines in a sandpit. Go "pom pom pom" in a 7-11, dispose of dozens of layers of packaging surrounding individually wrapped mung beans. Get bladdered with midderu-manager in a wardrobe-sized bar, leave him crumpled on floor. Bow at a big wooden penis, maybe ride it down a hill. Swim in imperial palace moat. Have overpriced gift fruit confiscated at airport. Kodakai dekkeru! Jingbai! Waddle about in wooden shoes and leave shoe dents on their prize rattan mats. Live in small box. Get led off beaten track by frog with big paper lantern. Handstand. Say "nani!" or "Huuuurggh" when handed a bill or at a checkout. Fanny about in dressing gown, giggle under umbrella. Gift shops. Toiletries.

Bow Wow Wow reconsider album title.

[Jittlebags]

Is showing fannies now legal in Japan? I always find it funny when a demure young lady's clacker valve has been pixelated, but her tea towel holder is there in all it's high res glory.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

The Vapors were one of my favourite two-hit wonders, along with New Muzik.

[popcorn]

Is showing fannies now legal in Japan? I always find it funny when a demure young lady's clacker valve has been pixelated, but her tea towel holder is there in all it's high res glory.

If by tea towel holder you mean a cock (not sure about this) then no, they're both still censored.

Which is strange because if you ask me ten men ejaculating onto a woman's face is much ruder than a vagina or a penis.

[Jittlebags]

Sorry, should have been 50's tea towel holder, aka chocolate starfish, aka bumhole. At least I think that they weren't pixelated. I need to look at some pixelated porn to clarify this point.

[Jittlebags]

Although I notice that Lakeland are still selling them... £5.99 a pair.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Ah, is THAT what those things are for? I never knew. I always thought they were there for you to put a finger inside and pretend it was a Japanese girls arsehole.

[popcorn]

I see. I was picturing something more like this.

[Jittlebags]

Ah, yes, that is quite cock-like.

[Kelvin]

I genuinely assumed this thread was about Ant and Dec.

[monkfromhavana]

Classic trip is to go to Tokyo (see the modern mad metropolis stuff) and then take the bullet train to Kyoto (see the traditional stuff, temples and geisha etc). Never been to Mt Fuji but I think it's sorta between Tokyo and Kyoto so you might be able to fit it inbetwixt.

The cherry blossom blooms at different times in the country, and is slightly different each year. It only lasts a week or so in each spot. If you want to have a go at scheduling your trip to coincide with blossom you can use the cherry blossom forecast site: https://www.japan-guide.com/sakura/

I live in Tokyo. I live in a tiny box so I can't offer you and your missus anywhere but would be happy to go for a drink and show you some sights or sommat. Send me a PM.

Mt. Fuji is best seen from a distance. Just stay in Tokyo rather than actually go there (I climbed the fucker nearly 20 years ago and it's all a bit pointless).

[flotemysost]

I'd highly recommend getting one of these before you go: https://www.japan-rail-pass.co.uk/?currency-code=GBP&ap=b6021as&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3M6bkOW94AIVT5PtCh0Wiw0VEAAYASAAEgIwTfD_BwE

It's not cheap, but once you're there it'll allow you to travel across all of the Tokyo subway, and most of the bullet trains as well (possibly not the highest-speed ones, depending on which price band you go for). Saves the hassle of dealing with ticket machines etc. when you're there.

I did as popcorn suggested, a few years back - Tokyo, Mt. Fuji (which is on the outskirts of Tokyo, so can be done as a day trip), then bullet train to Kyoto (this was all covered under aforementioned rail pass), but there are loads more places I'd have loved to explored.

South Korea is only a couple of hours' flight away, so if you're going for a few weeks that could be worth checking out too.

I doubt I'll be able to afford to go back any time soon, I'm incredibly jealous.

[hummingofevil]

Thanks guys. I never plan ahead for everything but am going to plan this to go next spring. Setting up my piggy bank today.

[ToneLa]

For a long time I assumed it was a myth, but I met an ex-pat here who told me he'd found one in some porn shop, and showed me a photo.

I've always thought they were real! Ah, my dream has come true. Well, if that was my dream.

[popcorn]

Rail pass

It's not cheap, but once you're there it'll allow you to travel across all of the Tokyo subway

Not completely true. Only lets you use JR trains. But that's most of em.

[BlodwynPig]

I'm a massive wimp so couldn't commit to more than a few weeks but want to go Japan.

Any tips?

Ideally someone in here will invite me to stay at their's with my wife ASAP but if not would like to do the following:

- Cherry Blossom season
- Pro Wrestling at Koraken
- sumo
- big fuck-off train journey
- Mt Huji

I also hate flying so what is best/cheapest way with stop on way? I fancy LA as fantasy holiday but is that too much the long way round. Xx

Got cherry blossom right here in Canada

[BlodwynPig]

I'm going to Hiroshima in September, I've just realised. Any tips for that region?

[popcorn]

I'm going to Hiroshima in September, I've just realised. Any tips for that region?

The museum is amazing, and almost free.

Miyajima, a small island covered in shrines and whatnot, is a famous tourist attraction very close to Hiroshima. I was expecting it to be a big tourist trap but it's still surprisingly magical and mellow. Ended up being the highlight of my friends' trip when they visited a while ago.

[Neville Chamberlain]

I'm going to Hiroshima in September, I've just realised. Any tips for that region?

Stand outside the Hondori Shopping Arcade and, before you know it, you'll be invited for a blowjob opposite the A-Bome dome!

[dr beat]

Re: Tokyo. Go to the Meguro Parasitological Museum and check out the world's biggest tapeworm.

In terms of flights, you could get a cheap flight with Emirates via Dubai. Decent airline in my experience but it does make for two long flights. My preference would be to try and connect via Heathrow, Amsterdam or Paris. You feel the benefit of the last leg home being a short hop (although De Gaulle is not the best designed airport).