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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Oh! I can contribute (lovely) content! I have one of this company's boxes in my garage, it is the cutest company logo ever 
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Satsuki Kiryuin posted:Yeah I get you, and I didn't get sick once but I have traveled a shitload in my short life so I just assume my immune system is used to foreign crap being shoveled in it. I really liked it but I think I was a little more adventurous. A lot of folks in my unit would just sit around the barracks and drink while bitching about how Okinawa wasn't <HOMETOWN>. It also helped that I was in the Air Force and could own a car.
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Have some mood music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYrV4I1b6xQ And please more cyberpunk looking pics, japan looks baller.
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fyodor posted:japan sure is wild about automobiles!        
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Fast food in Japan is interesting for the Japanese take on food you've seen before. But fine dining is a much better way to eat, at least compared to Australia. It's cheap and of high quality. OTOH their electronic ordering systems can be an issue if they don't have an English option, and smoking in restaurants is alive and well.  Oddly enough there is almost a complete absence of other Asian cuisines, the main ethnic cuisines seem to be French, Italian and Mediterranean.
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Tehdas posted:Oddly enough there is almost a complete absence of other Asian cuisines, the main ethnic cuisines seem to be French, Italian and Mediterranean. Funnily enough one of the best Italian restaurants I've ever eaten at was in Sapporo.
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univbee posted:Funnily enough one of the best Italian restaurants I've ever eaten at was in Sapporo. Similarly there was a Mexican restaurant on Okinawa which was amazing.
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Come on man read the thread title. Tokyo would seem way to crowded to be enjoyable.
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 1gnoirents posted:vending machines everywhere. pretty much the exact kind in that last picture. like , everywhere, outside, no matter what. you can survive off vending machines, and well too. they have so many vending machines its a major power draw on their electrical grid     Egg Vending Machine:   "I found a vending machine in Japan that puts your face on figurines." 
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Darth123123 posted:Come on man read the thread title. Honestly my favorite part about Tokyo was that it wasn't crowded, compared to most other capital cities in Asia. Like, walking on the sidewalks without people walking into you was great.
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I need to go through my pics from Japan when I get home. Not sure if I got a picture of them but they also had rice vending machines (paid by the kilo, you supply your own container), and the hospital had an auto-cooking vending machine (e.g. you paid 300 yen for a hot dog and it went through a nuking/cooking process so you got it in like 90 seconds or something).
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Accretionist posted:"I found a vending machine in Japan that puts your face on figurines." Why do we not have this?
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univbee posted:I need to go through my pics from Japan when I get home. Not sure if I got a picture of them but they also had rice vending machines (paid by the kilo, you supply your own container), and the hospital had an auto-cooking vending machine (e.g. you paid 300 yen for a hot dog and it went through a nuking/cooking process so you got it in like 90 seconds or something).  More cyberpunk-ish photos and/or gifs of various locales within Japan: Tokyo:     Kyoto:  ????: 
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The_Franz posted:This looks more like a horror movie prop than a practical tool. It's a maebiki oga ("large saw", also called a whaleback saw in English) and was used to make very straight cuts in very large slabs of wood before mechanised sawmills became a thing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY41NE79lgY Badass! 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've always loved traditional Japanese carpentry tools but there's no point in me buying any because I'm too much of a useless klutz to ever put them to good use. If you like that, you'll love this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1pvUlQgYtk
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Nara (known for deer): This one actually uses the lights.       Hokkaido:  The Blue Pond  Toyama:   August 1, 1945. 173 American B-29s firebombed this big producer of aluminum, destroying 95.6% of it. Context -- a clip from the excellent documentary The Fog of War. The man being interviewed was involved in war planning and the firebombings were sort of his idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxXFwIPGHk
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Making some bamboo arrows for Kyudo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyejbipavWw
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AMINAL posted:Have some mood music mega drive loving rules and I want to go pet a deer in Nara now
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KFC's Japan marketing campaign is probably one of the most wildly successful things they've ever done. Xmas in Japan means a $50 KFC meal and every single location sells out months in advance.
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Also, this is a Japan-based English language news channel which freely livestreams. It's pretty solid, actually. Just a bit ago they ran an episode of a great documentary series about Japan called BEGIN Japanology, of which quite a few episodes are on youtube. For example, their Vending Machines episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5EV3zs7vE
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KFC Japan: A promotion that would never work stateside: All-You-Can-Eat Day   ¥1200 for 45 minutes      
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So Japan is really just mcdonalds, wrestling and KFC then 
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Zzulu posted:So Japan is really just mcdonalds, wrestling and KFC then We own them.
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We nuked them, burned down tokyo, and installed military bases all over their country so that a militaristic administration could never come to power again.
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simplefish posted:If you like that, you'll love this: I could sit and watch related video after related video for hours even though most of them don't seem to have subtitles in any language I can read. There's something incredibly relaxing about watching skilled craftsmen just quietly doing their thing.
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punny western chess has only 6 pieces, mighty Nippon Shogi has over 500!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0Y26iTPSM
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More from Hokkaido (that big northerly island): After 17 meters (18.5 yards) of snow    Another from Nara:  Narai-juku in Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Japan:  Akashi Kaikyō Bridge:  6,532 ft central span, the longest of any suspension bridge in the world.
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Mentat Radnor posted:The Buddhist temple complex at Nara, Japan is one place that I really want to visit during my life. Don't forget the tens of thousands of hyper-aggressive deer that roam the grounds. And all the deer poo poo. Apparently, deer used to be sacred in Nara, which caused a population of fearless semi-domesticated deer to evolve around the temple complexes. They'll literally chase you down and grab your clothes for food.   
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 Japanese Macaques, or "Snow Monkeys." The northerly most non-human primate around.           They like the hot springs, as you can see.
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Tokyo was neat. The people were mostly aloof which was a weird shift from the Taiwanese and mainland Chinese going out of their way to talk to a foreigner. I look like a homeless person so I don't take it personally, Japan.
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This really small rural area in Hokkaido got absolutely wrecked because mother nature does that sometimes (fortunately this one was midday when everyone was away so no injuries). Instead of rebuilding they relocated everyone, and left the rubble there as a kind of "this is is what the aftermath of a seismic event looks like" tourist attraction.    This was once a straight road (there's a slab of road at the top of that hill)  The vendors who set up shop there also had Wasabi ice cream. Goes down cold and then you get an immediate rush of heat up your esophagus. 
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