Anyone want to go to Japan?
I have this awesome, but old, Japanese guide book about living Japanese style and I so want to go, not a package tour, a real poke-around. Who wants to come along, even for just a few minutes, in imagination?It all sounds so incredibly exotic. Chapter headings include
*exchanging greetings
*using the bath and toilet (Japanese ones ARE different!)
*using the public bath
*typhoons and earthquakes
*travelling on the cheap (I'll quote from that one in comments)
*visiting a hot spring
I posted a video, then deleted it, it was all street markets and Western-style entertainment, thanks but no thanks, got that here.
Anyone been? Even better, lived there?
Comments (58)
Well, I guess second time lucky. I'm glad you did it in English. I cannot read Japanese.
You in?
Travelling overnight on a longdistance bus or train will save the cost of a hotel. Buy day passes for exploring.
We could stay in koku-min shukusha (government guest houses) - cheapest option - or min-shuku, which seem to be the equivalent of B&B. In cities, capsule hotels offer the thrill of sleeping in a bed like a capsule coffin. Mmmm. Maybe not.
Many temples, though, offer accommodation, and you might even be able to work off part of the bed and board. Temples, people!
Cheapest food is in the dining halls of libraries and city halls.
While travelling, we could buy ekiben, station lunch boxes, without leaving the train. Bit of a lucky dip, perhaps
Back later with my coffee.
The prefecture surrounding the nuclear zone is off limits to visitors I hear Cat
I knew a japanese girl way back, she was a lucky dip
Ive been on the bullet train its Amazingggggggggg (York rail Museum) :)
I used to watch Tv from tokyo on satellite, fascinating I say, from STRANGE Vending machines ( google that but be ready for some VERYYYY odd stuff!!!)
I saw how they make japanese food, Niso Duop I made once it was. velly-Niso :)
So Cif/Viv, where are we off?
I have a friend works for JAL we. probly get some cheap tickets, cheaper in the. luggage hold hahaha
Then it will be yes, yes and YES.
You in?
Suppose it will also be radiation treated.
What do you mean I must research? You're sitting with the book.
(toes outward)(in case you wanted to know)
Get involved, M. le Chat. You Googled haggis, you can Google a mountain with a funny name (oh, and they have awesome love hotels. You should look at those too)
a friend of mine that was a u.s. marine in Japan told me
that one day nature called he needed a bathroom badly
he entered the first McDonald he saw, for his surprised there was
no toilet but a hole with 2 foot marked on the floor
so that what he said
I'd rather use a shrub in your back garden.
You have to be clean before you get in the bath. And you don't HAVE to go to public baths!
You'll have to negotiate use of the shrubs with my bulldog. She's quite possessive about them.
Apart from the golfers who play from roof to roof, of course. FORE.
Pull your leg occasionally, maybe ...
They did all that stuff you mentioned and were spoiled rotten.
But I applaud your lack of squeamishness
So are you coming along with Lucy and me?
Malaysia I found a bit rough in comparison to my friends' Japan experience.
Nite all!
Wonder if he has a single dad ...
12 minutes ago
Viv was a spoiled little rich kid. She's gone.
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Oh, I thought she was preggers and was sent off to the nuns.
into a mature Woman.