Has anyone visited Tokyo,Japan?

It's one of the top places that i've always wanted to visit. I'll hopefully go in the future, but for the people who have been there, how was it? It seems really peaceful to me.

Spent a week there. Not sure one of the most densely populated cities in the world is peaceful. The cities outside of it certainly can be though.

How long is the flight from the East Coast?

How long is the flight from the East Coast?

entropyecho

[QUOTE="entropyecho"]

How long is the flight from the East Coast?

Pirate700

Damn, well, there goes that idea.

No, it seems like it might be a cool place to go though, the one part I'm worried about is how much Japanese food I'll have to eat, never really cared for Chinese, Japanese, etc. food.metroidprime55

I know they have some western fast food restaurants over there like McDonalds. Then again if you hate fast food that might not be of much help for you.

The thing I'd be worried about is how well I'd be able to do things over there without being fluent in Japanese at all.

Nope and don't want to just too many people for me.

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"]No, it seems like it might be a cool place to go though, the one part I'm worried about is how much Japanese food I'll have to eat, never really cared for Chinese, Japanese, etc. food.JML897

I know they have some western fast food restaurants over there like McDonalds. Then again if you hate fast food that might not be of much help for you.

The thing I'd be worried about is how well I'd be able to do things over there without being fluent in Japanese at all.

Depends where in Tokyo:

Shibuya Terminal - is the most famous spot, people call Japan's "Time Square" As someone from NY. I found it quite impressive, but there isn't much to do there except take a few photo's and eat. There's also a nice shopping district nearby, but I'm not really fond of Japan's taste in fashion.

Roppongi - This is where all the night clubs and foreigners are. The girls there are more willing to mingle with you than most places in Japan. If you want to party, this is where you go.

Akihabara - Geek's paradise. I spent most of my time here, lmao. There's just so many game shops, trinkets and weird stuff here I enjoyed just looking at the chaos of it all. If you love Anime and games, you're almost obligated to come here.

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"]No, it seems like it might be a cool place to go though, the one part I'm worried about is how much Japanese food I'll have to eat, never really cared for Chinese, Japanese, etc. food.JML897

I know they have some western fast food restaurants over there like McDonalds. Then again if you hate fast food that might not be of much help for you.

The thing I'd be worried about is how well I'd be able to do things over there without being fluent in Japanese at all.

No, but I can not spend a day without fantasizing about living there. I wish I was Japanese because Japan > America and Europe. In Japan you are accepted for who you areSyrupNinja

So you've never been there but you know this to be true?

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]No, but I can not spend a day without fantasizing about living there. I wish I was Japanese because Japan > America and Europe. In Japan you are accepted for who you areJML897

So you've never been there but you know this to be true?

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy. So Japan is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

I didn't actually VISIT Tokyo, but when I went to Kyoto with my dad, our plane landed in Tokyo. From what I saw, it seems nice, but the people make you wish you were isolated somewhere. They are very dissaproving of foreigners, I guess.

Too crowded. Head up north to Aomori province or Hokkaido if you want peace and quiet.

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[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]No, but I can not spend a day without fantasizing about living there. I wish I was Japanese because Japan > America and Europe. In Japan you are accepted for who you areSyrupNinja

So you've never been there but you know this to be true?

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy, is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

Isn't Japan fairly xenophobic though?

I can't speak from experience but I highly doubt it's the paradise you make it out to be.

Isn't Japan fairly xenophobic though?

I can't speak from experience but I highly doubt it's the paradise you make it out to be.

JML897

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.

[QUOTE="JML897"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]No, but I can not spend a day without fantasizing about living there. I wish I was Japanese because Japan > America and Europe. In Japan you are accepted for who you areSyrupNinja

So you've never been there but you know this to be true?

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy, is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

Dude, you really need to go there. I was in Kyoto for 3 months on a business trip with my dad when I was 15. After the first month, when the glamour of being in Japan wore off, I started to realize how many of the people seemed to hate me or find me suspicious because I was American. It's very disturbing, especially when you follow native customs and they yell something very incriminating at you. I bought a T-Shirt from a novelty store and just as I was leaving I heard him say "Baka Gaijin" just as I was leaving. I know enough Japanese (and I know very little) to know that meant something along the lines of "stupid foreigner". I didn't even do anything while I was in his store. I just walked in, waited for an elderly couple to move, grabbed a shirt from this little box, paid for it, and said thank you as I left (in english, something tells me he would have been even angrier if I said domo), and left. Very few genuinely nice people there, mostly people just putting on a smile because they just don't want you there. Aesthetically, it was nice. For the people, most of them were terrible. It was just the Hotel manager, some kids who were my age I hung out with occasionally over at a gameshop (whose owner was pretty kickass), and some random passerbys who were truly nice. Trust me, it may seem nice from the outside, but unless you have actually been there, you don't realize how xenophobic most of the people I met really were. They are as nationalistic and arrogant as any other country, maybe worse.

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

[QUOTE="JML897"]

So you've never been there but you know this to be true?

WiiCubeM1

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy, is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

Dude, you really need to go there. I was in Kyoto for 3 months on a business trip with my dad when I was 15. After the first month, when the glamour of being in Japan wore off, I started to realize how many of the people seemed to hate me or find me suspicious because I was American. It's very disturbing, especially when you follow native customs and they yell something very incriminating at you. I bought a T-Shirt from a novelty store and just as I was leaving I heard him say "Baka Gaijin" just as I was leaving. I know enough Japanese (and I know very little) to know that meant something along the lines of "stupid foreigner". I didn't even do anything while I was in his store. I just walked in, waited for an elderly couple to move, grabbed a shirt from this little box, paid for it, and said thank you as I left (in english, something tells me he would have been even angrier if I said domo), and left. Very few genuinely nice people there, mostly people just putting on a smile because they just don't want you there. Aesthetically, it was nice. For the people, most of them were terrible. It was just the Hotel manager, some kids who were my age I hung out with occasionally over at a gameshop (whose owner was pretty kickass), and some random passerbys who were truly nice.

[QUOTE="JML897"]

Isn't Japan fairly xenophobic though?

I can't speak from experience but I highly doubt it's the paradise you make it out to be.

SyrupNinja

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy, is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

SyrupNinja

Dude, you really need to go there. I was in Kyoto for 3 months on a business trip with my dad when I was 15. After the first month, when the glamour of being in Japan wore off, I started to realize how many of the people seemed to hate me or find me suspicious because I was American. It's very disturbing, especially when you follow native customs and they yell something very incriminating at you. I bought a T-Shirt from a novelty store and just as I was leaving I heard him say "Baka Gaijin" just as I was leaving. I know enough Japanese (and I know very little) to know that meant something along the lines of "stupid foreigner". I didn't even do anything while I was in his store. I just walked in, waited for an elderly couple to move, grabbed a shirt from this little box, paid for it, and said thank you as I left (in english, something tells me he would have been even angrier if I said domo), and left. Very few genuinely nice people there, mostly people just putting on a smile because they just don't want you there. Aesthetically, it was nice. For the people, most of them were terrible. It was just the Hotel manager, some kids who were my age I hung out with occasionally over at a gameshop (whose owner was pretty kickass), and some random passerbys who were truly nice.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

Because Japanese are taught respect and not brainwashed to be arrogant and obnoxious, Japan has a lower crime rate. But the US is, or at least was before the current administration began to radically change the government and society policy, is the best country on the planet for the last 25 years or so.

SyrupNinja

Dude, you really need to go there. I was in Kyoto for 3 months on a business trip with my dad when I was 15. After the first month, when the glamour of being in Japan wore off, I started to realize how many of the people seemed to hate me or find me suspicious because I was American. It's very disturbing, especially when you follow native customs and they yell something very incriminating at you. I bought a T-Shirt from a novelty store and just as I was leaving I heard him say "Baka Gaijin" just as I was leaving. I know enough Japanese (and I know very little) to know that meant something along the lines of "stupid foreigner". I didn't even do anything while I was in his store. I just walked in, waited for an elderly couple to move, grabbed a shirt from this little box, paid for it, and said thank you as I left (in english, something tells me he would have been even angrier if I said domo), and left. Very few genuinely nice people there, mostly people just putting on a smile because they just don't want you there. Aesthetically, it was nice. For the people, most of them were terrible. It was just the Hotel manager, some kids who were my age I hung out with occasionally over at a gameshop (whose owner was pretty kickass), and some random passerbys who were truly nice.

Well, for one, I can tell know matter what I write or post, you'll continue to pull off a weaboo persona to counteract me, and second I don't hate people who like Japanese culture (most of my friends are obsessed with it), just the ones who treat the Japanese as some kind of Gods because they were made fun of as kids for liking Japanese things so they believe that by going to Japan, they would instantly fit in. Unless you have actually been there, don't go preaching how great Japan is to the people who have actually been there.

They have better culture, etiquette, eduacation, and many more.

SyrupNinja

Japan's also a better place to grope girls on the train.

No, but I can not spend a day without fantasizing about living there. I wish I was Japanese because Japan > America and Europe. In Japan you are accepted for who you areSyrupNinja

I've spent months in Japan and I'm a huge Anime fan, I'll tell you now that Japan is not the wonderland of approval you think it is. They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people. Life is subjected to the same trends, popularity contests and social prejudices as it is in western cultures.Think being an Anime fan gets you laid? A geek in Japan is treated the same as everywhere else.Life in Japan is nothing like the slice of life Animes you've seen.

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

[QUOTE="JML897"]

Isn't Japan fairly xenophobic though?

I can't speak from experience but I highly doubt it's the paradise you make it out to be.

metroidprime55

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.

Do research kid , Japan is much less sexist and racist research hate crimes there much more common in the US. So stop talking down to me I know my **** and I used to take Taekwando until my grades suffered.

This guy who never visited Japan is telling people who actually visited Japan that they're wrong about their experiences?

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

Dude, you really need to go there. I was in Kyoto for 3 months on a business trip with my dad when I was 15. After the first month, when the glamour of being in Japan wore off, I started to realize how many of the people seemed to hate me or find me suspicious because I was American. It's very disturbing, especially when you follow native customs and they yell something very incriminating at you. I bought a T-Shirt from a novelty store and just as I was leaving I heard him say "Baka Gaijin" just as I was leaving. I know enough Japanese (and I know very little) to know that meant something along the lines of "stupid foreigner". I didn't even do anything while I was in his store. I just walked in, waited for an elderly couple to move, grabbed a shirt from this little box, paid for it, and said thank you as I left (in english, something tells me he would have been even angrier if I said domo), and left. Very few genuinely nice people there, mostly people just putting on a smile because they just don't want you there. Aesthetically, it was nice. For the people, most of them were terrible. It was just the Hotel manager, some kids who were my age I hung out with occasionally over at a gameshop (whose owner was pretty kickass), and some random passerbys who were truly nice.

WiiCubeM1

Well, for one, I can tell know matter what I write or post, you'll continue to pull off a weaboo persona to counteract me, and second I don't hate people who like Japanese culture (most of my friends are obsessed with it), just the ones who treat the Japanese as some kind of Gods because they were made fun of as kids for liking Japanese things so they believe that by going to Japan, they would instantly fit in. Unless you have actually been there, don't go preaching how great Japan is to the people who have actually been there.

No such thing as a weeaboo... Because I want to live in Japan I want to be Japanese? I am white and I accept that... I hate the internet alot of times and it sucks people are so judgemental. I said hi to someone in Japanese and was pushed down and called a *****. Even if Japan has segregation I would rather live there.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]
How do I know you did not make that up to slander Japan because you hate "weeaboo" serious **** off I can like it better if I want kid. They have better culture, etiquette, eduacation, and many more.

SyrupNinja

Well, for one, I can tell know matter what I write or post, you'll continue to pull off a weaboo persona to counteract me, and second I don't hate people who like Japanese culture (most of my friends are obsessed with it), just the ones who treat the Japanese as some kind of Gods because they were made fun of as kids for liking Japanese things so they believe that by going to Japan, they would instantly fit in. Unless you have actually been there, don't go preaching how great Japan is to the people who have actually been there.

No such thing as a weeaboo... Because I want to live in Japan I want to be Japanese? I am white and I accept that... I hate the internet alot of times and it sucks people are so judgemental. I said hi to someone in Japanese and was pushed down and called a *****. Even if Japan has segregation I would rather live there.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]
How do I know you did not make that up to slander Japan because you hate "weeaboo" serious **** off I can like it better if I want kid. They have better culture, etiquette, eduacation, and many more.

SyrupNinja

Well, for one, I can tell know matter what I write or post, you'll continue to pull off a weaboo persona to counteract me, and second I don't hate people who like Japanese culture (most of my friends are obsessed with it), just the ones who treat the Japanese as some kind of Gods because they were made fun of as kids for liking Japanese things so they believe that by going to Japan, they would instantly fit in. Unless you have actually been there, don't go preaching how great Japan is to the people who have actually been there.

No such thing as a weeaboo... Because I want to live in Japan I want to be Japanese? I am white and I accept that... I hate the internet alot of times and it sucks people are so judgemental. I said hi to someone in Japanese and was pushed down and called a *****. Even if Japan has segregation I would rather live there.

I'm not saying your decisions wrong. Go live there if you want. I'm just telling you it's not some perfect land of acceptance, it's just as racist and segregated as anywhere else in the world.

They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people.

Blue-Sky

Posts like these are making me much less enthusiastic about my potential future trip there. It kinda makes me appreciate America more.

I'm sure I'll eventually still go and enjoy it but that's really lame.

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"][QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.

SyrupNinja

Do research kid , Japan is much less sexist and racist research hate crimes there much more common in the US. So stop talking down to me I know my **** and I used to take Taekwando until my grades suffered.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people.

JML897

Posts like these are making me much less enthusiastic about my potential future trip there. Hearing this kinda makes me appreciate America more.

[QUOTE="JML897"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people.

metroidprime55

Posts like these are making me much less enthusiastic about my potential future trip there. Hearing this kinda makes me appreciate America more.

I sortof agree, I wouldn't really consider myself to be patriotic. It's just nice to know I can go into pretty much any store/restaurant here and they won't reject me because of my race.

That said, I also think the cultural mixing here is something to be proud of.

[QUOTE="JML897"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people.

metroidprime55

Posts like these are making me much less enthusiastic about my potential future trip there. Hearing this kinda makes me appreciate America more.

WEABOO ALERT! WEEABOO ALERT!

It looks like we got us a weeaboo in this thread guys.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

They are very xenophobic - Some shops even have a black X on the outside to let you know they only serve Japanese people.

JML897

Posts like these are making me much less enthusiastic about my potential future trip there. Hearing this kinda makes me appreciate America more.

I'm sure I'll eventually still go and enjoy it but that's really lame.

To be fair. Very few shops have them and the ones that do were probably not reputable in the first place.

Xenophobia is a bit of an overstatement. I don't know if you've seen that Korean video of a woman meeting a black person, and she screamed for her life but that's real Xenophobia. In Japan, Their reactions are a little more natural because they're just not exposed to different races like we are. Their reactions are mostly positive out of curiosity. I've actually had a random stranger come up to me [because I was Black] in the middle of the street to have a conversation. He spoke no english but was so adamant in getting to know me, it was pretty creep and funny lol.

Roppongi has a lot of Africans and Europeans, so the Japanese people there are a lot more open than other parts of Tokyo.

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"][QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.

SyrupNinja

Do research kid , Japan is much less sexist and racist research hate crimes there much more common in the US. So stop talking down to me I know my **** and I used to take Taekwando until my grades suffered.

Japan is a lot more sexist than the US and the rest of the developed world. Women are objectified and essentially have the mindset to not complain about it.

In general, Japanese people are artificially polite to each other. Everyone has the mentality to never, ever show any kind of disrespect or negativity and if you do, you will be looked down upon. By negativity I don't mean like calling someone a jackass or being blunt, I mean something as insignificant as going to a restaurant with some friends/acquaintances and complaining about the food. The amount of perpetual ass kissing that goes on is mind numbing. As a foreigner, it's incredibly difficult to keep up with that pace which is one reason why they have so few foreigners.

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"] They're still xenophopic, there are a lot of people who will tell you this. Japan isn't a paradise, it's got it's fair share of problems, it's a good country but seriously it's not like great chosen land where everything is perfect and everyone is free, no country is that way.PS2_ROCKS

Do research kid , Japan is much less sexist and racist research hate crimes there much more common in the US. So stop talking down to me I know my **** and I used to take Taekwando until my grades suffered.

Japan is a lot more sexist than the US and the rest of the developed world. Women are objectified and essentially have the mindset to not complain about it.

In general, Japanese people are artificially polite to each other. Everyone has the mentality to never, ever show any kind of disrespect or negativity and if you do, you will be looked down upon. By negativity I don't mean like calling someone a jackass or being blunt, I mean something as insignificant as going to a restaurant with some friends/acquaintances and complaining about the food. The amount of perpetual ass kissing that goes on is mind numbing. As a foreigner, it's incredibly difficult to keep up with that pace which is one reason why they have so few foreigners.

Good insulting others is wrong, again understand why some people like those who like being rude prefer other countries. I have my own preference.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]
How do I know you did not make that up to slander Japan because you hate "weeaboo" serious **** off I can like it better if I want kid. They have better culture, etiquette, eduacation, and many more.

SyrupNinja

Well, for one, I can tell know matter what I write or post, you'll continue to pull off a weaboo persona to counteract me, and second I don't hate people who like Japanese culture (most of my friends are obsessed with it), just the ones who treat the Japanese as some kind of Gods because they were made fun of as kids for liking Japanese things so they believe that by going to Japan, they would instantly fit in. Unless you have actually been there, don't go preaching how great Japan is to the people who have actually been there.

No such thing as a weeaboo... Because I want to live in Japan I want to be Japanese? I am white and I accept that... I hate the internet alot of times and it sucks people are so judgemental. I said hi to someone in Japanese and was pushed down and called a *****. Even if Japan has segregation I would rather live there.

[QUOTE="SyrupNinja"]

[QUOTE="JML897"]

Isn't Japan fairly xenophobic though?

I can't speak from experience but I highly doubt it's the paradise you make it out to be.

metroidprime55

No they are not, nowhere near as racist as this hellhole I inhabit. I want to run away to be in Japan I would love any job there. I would scrub toliets I do not care.