Exactly a year ago i was in the plane to japan for my first visit. I had a tiny little appartment for the month i was there, just a few stops from Ikebukuro in Itabashi. That way i had a space which was "home" while i was there. I also visited a friend in Osaka, and did a bunch of day-trips and hikes. Besides all the usual touristy stuff, i also went to see a whole lot of bands. I love live music, and there's a massive music scene, not just the superstars we hear about in the west, but all the small bands which play in livehouses for 50 or 100 people.
I very much want to visit again. Maybe in late summer or autumn for the prime hiking season. Or in winter to go skiing. Or just anytime to go see even more bands.
Hot Springs or 温泉(おんせん) complimentary in hotels sometimes
Almost all of the Kawaii stuff there (I'm looking at chiikawa)
Tokyo and Osaka with all my merch shopping (and my shopping budget is gone within 2 hours...)
Fukuoka and the scenery there as well as Marine world with dolphin shows that I go to every time when I am in the area.
Hokkaido and it's milk icecream (even though you can get it at any 7 eleven or a lawsons) and snow in mid January
I have been many times and I love cherry blossom season there (even though it is terrible for hay fever people)
Anyway, my most favourite thing is the covinience stores. Everything is cheap and you can live off the 500 yen dollar bento boxes and there are sometimes 700-1000 yen lottos with popular animes such as Ferrien and it also has necessities such as tissue boxes and as a tourist, I lived of those each time I visited.
There is too many things to love in Japan (except for the working conditions and low wages I heard of)
Planning for a 2 week trip in 2029 and 3 month trip in 2035 with maybe some additional 2 week trips sprinkled in between. My kids will be adults in 2035 so my wife and I can leave them alone for 3 months lol
I have been once. This april/may for three weeks. We made a trip from Tokyo to Kanazawa and Kyoto to Hiroshima and back via Okayama. To be honest, I kinda miss it. I will definitely come back, and that time, go to either Kyushu or Miyagi, and Osaka. For time reasons we didn't go there (although we did go to Takayama, some random village in Gifu where it rained all day:).
Born and raised in the muggy tropics of South Florida. Relative humidity is almost always 100%. It's like walking in warm soup. I imagine Japan gets hot, but not like the 105-110°F heat index we've had daily for the last week.
Born and raised in the muggy tropics of South Florida. Relative humidity is almost always 100%. It's like walking in warm soup. I imagine Japan gets hot, but not like the 105-110°F heat index we've had daily for the last week.
And I thought the European heatwave of a month ago was extreme (I'm not the best with fahrenheit but I'm guessing this is about 40°C)! Although Japan also seems to have extreme weather sometimes. I saw on social media that they've been getting extreme heat and extreme rain in about the same week! This is the exact reason we went in the spring (although we just missed the cherry blossoms:/)
The actual temperature is usually 35°C, but because of the humidity, conditions feel like that 40-43°C. It usually like that daily during the summer and early fall.
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