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No. 1955497
>General living
>Do you live in Japan?
Yes
>Are you currently studying, working, or both?
I’ve been working at a youth theater company for going on 5 years now
>Are you a nikkei or full gaijin?
I’m a white burger
>How is life in Japan as a woman?
Very easy in my experience, people don’t harass me on the street like the unsavorables in the city at home. I haven’t experienced overt sexism (or racism) but also I don’t date so idk
>Do you plan to stay in Japan for long?
I really don’t know
>Language
>Do you speak japanese?
I’m good enough to do my job and have surface level Japanese friends but far far far from fluent. It’s my bad for not studying. If the conversation isn’t full of vocabulary I don’t know my listening is very good I think, and people have complimented my pronunciation/natural way of speaking. But the biggest thing holding me back from full potential here is language (I didn’t study because every year I think I’m gonna move back the next year so it won’t be worth it to study)
>Share tips, recommendations, complaints
Travel via hostels not hotels, do night bus instead of shinkansen (if you’re able to sleep on buses). Do not do any animal related cafe/zoo/thing except maybe cat stuff, they are all miserable.
The worst thing about Japan is the constant fucking inescapable NOISE and SWEAT. multiple recordings playing overtop eachother, beeping, car noises, yelling directions pointlessly, everything. The summers especially in my area are brutal and feel like 6 months long, and once they’re over they blast the heat on the trains and in buildings so you’re sweating in your cold weather clothes.
No. 1955629
>>1955596Not true, this is what copers who can’t live here always say
>>1955598Like another race of people? Wow so terrible
No. 1955633
>>1955629>Not true, this is what copers who can’t live here always sayCoping with the fact that most foreigners in Japan live in tiny apartments with undignified jobs and next to no rights? lmao
>Like another race of people? Wow so terribleLet's not be so disingenuous
No. 1955637
>>1955633All the foreigner engineers I know make the same salary and live the same lifestyle as Japanese, and they don’t even speak the language. “Most foreigners” are English teachers and IT monkeys and they make no less than what they deserve. Cope.
What rights do you even mean?
I even know a foreign guy that literally stabbed another guy and only got a few months in prison. You’d think such a terrible place would deport his ass.
No. 1955641
>>1955639Again I ask, what rights?
There is no way they were kicked out for no reason. Could you explain?
No. 1955938
>>1955596Maybe if you live there long term and need to get a lease, job, etc. I imagine it can be difficult. Though I’m friends with a couple who moved there, both are tanned SEA from Europe and they both have good jobs and have a good lease on the outskirts of Tokyo. They both speak Japanese like natives though, so I dunno if that helps. Anyways it’s fantastic for tourism, stayed there for 1 month earlier this year with no issues whatsoever. My nigel is mixed and nobody was rude to him, and I have an English only SEA-American moid friend who stayed for a month alone and a lot of random salarymen were really friendly with him. You’ll be fine.
>>1955843This is literally every country
>>1955888I want service workers to be nice to me, I don’t like being glared at by an angry fatty who begs for tips at every other casual restaurant. Japan is good for that, it’s not an exaggeration to think that it’s infinitely nicer than many western countries. Yes there are European countries where people are more friendly such as Spain, but you also have to deal with pickpockets and more blatant sexual harassment (don’t let this scare you off though, I’d also recommend visiting there). Also if you speak Japanese and don’t look like a slob, you can make friends in Tokyo/Osaka especially even while visiting. It takes a bit of effort though. Usually having a common hobby helps.
No. 1956039
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I want to go and stay in one of those Tokyo Disney hotels (at least while I'm at the parks) soooo bad.
The hotels in their Disney world Florida parks are also really gorgeous, but I love how themed the Japanese ones are.
No. 1956040
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Looking at planning a trip for 2025—I'd love to visit in the spring to see the cherry blossoms and other outdoor gardens but man the flights are crazy expensive. Like $2000-2600 vs $1300-1400 during other seasons so I'm looking at potentially going in September or October. Less hot, there'd be nice autumn foliage, kids would be in school so less foreign and domestic tourists hopefully, etc. Have any of you nonas travelled there in those months?
Also, is the Golden Route still the way to go for first timers? Some of the locations on it seem like they've been completely overrun by visitors although that's kind of inevitable. I wouldn't mind learning some basic Japanese if it meant I could go off the beaten path a bit to avoid massive crowds like picrel. I don't know how anyone could enjoy a trip when they're jam packed like sardines with thousands of other people all trying to look at the same things
No. 1956376
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What is your favourite ramen shop? Do you have recommendations, or opinions on certain spots?
No. 1957322
>>1957272Moving to germany with my moid exfiance was a mistake. Out of all the places you could try, you're going for a pornsick women hating country that will discriminate against you for being a foreigner, being a woman, not knowing the language, and being tall?
You also really believe your moid will refrain from participating in japan's ultra degenerate porn culture? You should think about what you're gonna do if you find him with gravure magazines of underaged girls or if visits a soapland. Why does he even want to go there?
No. 1970062
>>1969565Also meant to say practice reading and writing above.
It depends on the trends but L (sometimes XL) if you could find it) fit; punk clothes fit better but goth lolita not as good, sadly.
I think there are still shops that sell free sizes like goodwill but you have to hunt for it. I brought a lot of my clothes because I lived there for a bit and I was also on the lower end of my BMI at the time so clothes from Japan weren’t too tight. However it’s been over 10 years so they may have expanded sizes for foreigners or you have to learn how to sew.
They do have dressing rooms but they’re kinda sketch around foreigners and make you wear a bag over your head if you have makeup so it doesn’t transfer to clothes kek.
No. 1970634
>>1970062Shops make everyone wear a bag over their heads because it's more hygienic, has nothing to do with being a foreigner. I've used the fitting rooms countless times and never even remotely had an issue.
>>1969565It depends wildly on the style of clothing you're looking for. I personally tend to like looser fitting styles so as an American of average height/weight its not a problem, but if you're into the frilly department store brands that skew smaller, it can be hit or miss. It's totally fine to ask to try things on if you're unsure.
No. 1985656
>>1976371The temples are nice, you can skip the deer, I agree with the other nonna. They're kind of scary kek they're very aggro about getting those biscuits from people.
Tangent but when I was there I saw one deer that was being shunned by the others that was clearly unwell and had some sort of sever skin condition going on… Makes me sad when I recall it.
No. 1986884
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>>1986194For working holidays it's a law to be under 30, see pic.
>>1986244>The thought of going back to my country, having to find another job there, having to find another apartment, etc. after the fact makes things complicated though so I get her.For me it's kind of the opposite. Of course I'm no longer young but I still have nothing going for me (well except my job…) I have no bf, no children, I only rent an apartment, I'm still kind of "free". I'm scared that I meet somebody one day and then feel held back by that or that I go out of my way to never meet anybody because I constantly have that dream in my head. You also see many couples going to Japan but it's always just the gf following some guy while he goes and buys waifu figurines, not exactly appealing kek
No. 1986891
>>1986884I'm free too in that sense but the housing market in my city turned to complete shit ever since the pandemic was declared and it keeps getting worse and worse, so finding a new place that's not overpriced after a long trip could be very hard. I'm single, have no kids, etc. so that's really the only issue but it's a pretty big issue.
>For working holidays it's a law to be under 30, see pic.nta but you're right. However there are people above 30 who apply for language school in Japan and these school to all the work to help these people get a student visa. From what I've seen that means the Japanese classes cost a lot more than the exact same ones for younger people who already have a working holiday visa, since they don't ask for the schools to do more work beforehand.
No. 1986928
>>1986891>From what I've seen that means the Japanese classes cost a lot more than the exact same ones for younger people who already have a working holiday visaIt's probably insanely expensive and on top of that you just know that the other "students" are likely mostly 50yo moids.
Maybe it's still possible for me to go, just no idea how atm. When I was younger I simply never researched something like that, and even if I had, back then 30 seemed so insanely far away.
Housing is extremely expensive in my country too and rn I live in one of the most expensive cities in europe/the world, plus my apartment is tiny and shitty, so I feel like it couldn't become much worse than that.
No. 1986929
>>1986049I’m a big hater when it comes to Japanese animal welfare, but really I think Nara and the monkey park at Arashiyama are the only places I think must have happy animals. The deer come down from the mountains every morning, I think the monkeys must be the same. They aren’t caged like everything else. The deer biscuits seem to be made of decent ingredients too.
But man everything else is so depressing. Being an animal in Japan is bleak. Otters and owls kept in tiny cages all day, all night. Zao fox village was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life. Pet stores selling 400000yen kittens and no joke 6000-50000yen Guinea pigs, which all just get killed when people don’t buy them. Animals exist here to be something to take pictures of and that’s it.
No. 1987133
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>>1987088Yup sounds the same as Higashiyama, home of the famous handsome gorilla. The gorilla exhibit was ok. Everything else was awful. Elephants and bears pacing back and forth, walking in circles. 90 degree heat surrounded by concrete. And Japanese people see nothing wrong with it.