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Title: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:24:36 PM
I'm afraid of insulting people.  I guess they are not friendly with gaijin?  I'm reading up on this, but the literature I have is so vague.  Sum up some etiquette for me, or useful suggestions.

WHAT is the legal drinking age?  (I'm under 18)
HOW do I approach a prostitute?
WHAT is good for the nom noms?

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:25:50 PM
welcome to eb.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:26:16 PM
Appreciated
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2008, 09:27:58 PM
Welcome to eb, as well.  We've got quite a bit of posters how have lived and still live in Japan.  They will probably post and give you the information you seek.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:28:31 PM
i hear the massage parlors are pretty good place to start.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2008, 09:29:19 PM
How long are you staying in Japan? 
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 23, 2008, 09:29:47 PM
If you want to know about BJ bars, dcharlie is your man.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:30:05 PM
DCharlie is a millionaire who lives on a boat in Tokyo harbor because they won't let westerners inhabit the cities.  He should know just about everything relevant to Japan.  

Don't listen to FoC on the subject, as he was kicked out of the country.

Is he a pedo or can I say hi?  :lol
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Shins on January 23, 2008, 09:31:00 PM
What's taking you to Japan? Business? Pleasure?

Both?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:31:10 PM
How long are you staying in Japan? 

9 days?  It's very short, but the itinerary is packed with crap
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:33:05 PM
you might wanna toss that itinerary out the window if it's your first time and you have no idea where to go.  a couple friends of mine went last summer (first time) and they didn't get to do 1/2 the shit they wanted.  prioritize the things you REALLY wanna do in case you don't get to some of them.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 23, 2008, 09:34:39 PM
You should visit Cafe de Bore.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2008, 09:34:57 PM
How long are you staying in Japan? 

9 days?  It's very short, but the itinerary is packed with crap

I agree.  Itineraries could sometimes take the fun out of traveling.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:35:32 PM
you might wanna toss that itinerary out the window if it's your first time and you have no idea where to go.  a couple friends of mine went last summer (first time) and they didn't get to do 1/2 the shit they wanted.  prioritize the things you REALLY wanna do in case you don't get to some of them.

Lucky for me then, that someone else is budgeting time for me.
That's not true, all I want to do is go to the Nintendo Museum and spend the week on that electronic street.

It's with school and I have to see temples and waterfalls and BS.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:36:13 PM
You should visit Cafe de Bore.

:rock and take a picture while you're at it.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 23, 2008, 09:36:49 PM
you might wanna toss that itinerary out the window if it's your first time and you have no idea where to go.  a couple friends of mine went last summer (first time) and they didn't get to do 1/2 the shit they wanted.  prioritize the things you REALLY wanna do in case you don't get to some of them.

Lucky for me then, that someone else is budgeting time for me.
That's not true, all I want to do is go to the Nintendo Museum and spend the week on that electronic street.

It's with school and I have to see temples and waterfalls and BS.

How old are you?  You sound like you're 13.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Vizzys on January 23, 2008, 09:37:02 PM
enjoy your pilgrimage to teh nerd mecca
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:37:10 PM
You should visit Cafe de Bore.

:rock and take a picture while you're at it.
Is it in Tokyo?  Or is it an old evilBORE joke?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:39:23 PM
it's real man.  groo took a picture of it.

(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/641/kc3a0021vo9.jpg)
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Bloodwake on January 23, 2008, 09:40:53 PM
Genuine place.

Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:42:36 PM
I'm 16 actually :/

I'll try to sound older.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: demi on January 23, 2008, 09:42:42 PM
synbios??
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:45:00 PM
enjoy your pilgrimage to teh nerd mecca
That's what I've been calling it.

Lol, Mecca.
Oh, Mecca.
Mecca.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 23, 2008, 09:46:33 PM
So you just want to go to Japan for the Nintendo Museum, Akihabara, booze and prostitutes?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:48:38 PM
So you just want to go to Japan for the Nintendo Museum, Akihabara, booze and prostitutes?

Well, what I want is significantly different from what I'm going to get.

I'm going to get a strict and time-budgeted gloss over of tourist Japan.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Shins on January 23, 2008, 09:48:38 PM
booze and prostitutes

Doable domestically, if not regionally.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 23, 2008, 09:49:25 PM
So you just want to go to Japan for the Nintendo Museum, Akihabara, booze and prostitutes?

Well, what I want is significantly different from what I'm going to get.

I'm going to get a strict and time-budgeted gloss over of tourist Japan.

Is it like a school trip thing? Are you going with classmates?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: demi on January 23, 2008, 09:50:39 PM
Robby and I are considering making the trek to moonland.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:52:11 PM
Yeah I should have made that clearer in the op.

It's a school thing.  I'm going with like 80 kids.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: hyp on January 23, 2008, 09:53:18 PM
booze and prostitutes

Doable domestically, if not regionally.

i think he wants some sushi though.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: drew on January 23, 2008, 09:54:45 PM
manboob mecca
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 23, 2008, 09:56:27 PM
SoCalifornia
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Shins on January 23, 2008, 09:58:08 PM
i think he wants some sushi though.

My question now is what manner of double entendre to respond with.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T234 on January 23, 2008, 09:58:40 PM
booze and prostitutes

Doable domestically, if not regionally.
One of the dudes on this here forum lives in a place where you can't (legally, but we did it anyway) do the former. :-* :-*
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Shins on January 23, 2008, 10:00:17 PM
Great Googlely Mooglely.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 23, 2008, 10:02:03 PM
I want to go to Japan  :'(
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T234 on January 23, 2008, 10:02:46 PM
I actually got that tag by googling the name of one of our more illustrious members *cough* Himuro *cough*, and finding him pretending to be faking like he was from singapore  :lol :lol :lol :lol

EDIT: I'm soon to change my tag to Means Serious Business after I drive all the way from Kentucky to New York just to deliver a (now almost completely on the fritz) TV set.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 12:13:49 AM
Bah, sp0rsk has been living in Japan for TWO YEARS and he hasn't seen the sights or gone to the temples.  That stuff is for loooooooosers.  Winnars go to Akihabara and TGS.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Bloodwake on January 24, 2008, 12:33:53 AM
booze and prostitutes

Doable domestically, if not regionally.
One of the dudes on this here forum lives in a place where you can't (legally, but we did it anyway) do the former. :-* :-*

Dry counties can go burn in hell.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 24, 2008, 12:36:51 AM
The reality is I'm going to end up going to the nicer cultural parts of Japan.

Which is cool, but I really wanted to get 360 games that didn't fit my NTSC. [sp?]

DCharlie, you live on a boat?

I'm going to get a boat one day.  It will be christened, "Animal Magnetism"

yes.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T234 on January 24, 2008, 12:42:25 AM
booze and prostitutes

Doable domestically, if not regionally.
One of the dudes on this here forum lives in a place where you can't (legally, but we did it anyway) do the former. :-* :-*

Dry counties can go burn in hell.
I'm glad I don't live in one. Check yer PMs please, some shit changed on my end.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 24, 2008, 01:18:16 AM
Where are you going in Japan? Just Tokyo? Nara and Miyajima were both incredible, is your group going to either place?

The wife and I are starting to plan our return trip to Tokyo for Spring 2009 to view the cherry blossoms. We're hoping to hit up Kamakura and Nikko, along with spending time in all the areas of Tokyo we missed on our two week trip back in July 2006.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 01:31:05 AM
The reality is I'm going to end up going to the nicer cultural parts of Japan.

Which is cool, but I really wanted to get 360 games that didn't fit my NTSC. [sp?]

www.ncsx.com my nucca
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: bork on January 24, 2008, 01:37:31 AM
Bah, sp0rsk has been living in Japan for TWO YEARS and he hasn't seen the sights or gone to the temples.  That stuff is for loooooooosers.  Winnars go to Akihabara and TGS.

Wait what the fuck?  Really?!   :o
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 01:41:06 AM
Bah, sp0rsk has been living in Japan for TWO YEARS and he hasn't seen the sights or gone to the temples.  That stuff is for loooooooosers.  Winnars go to Akihabara and TGS.

Wait what the fuck?  Really?!   :o

For real.  There was a thread that some moron made on GAF a few months back where he was talking about how he wanted to go to Japan and he'd "never leave Akihabara."  A few of us sort of shook our heads and tried to convince him of the importance of doing sightseeing and trying to get a feel for the culture of the country you're visiting, until sp0rsk stepped in and angrily boasted that he hadn't gone to a single historical site or temple in all the time he'd been there, didn't see any use for it, wasn't planning to ever do it, and reproaching us for trying to make the OP feel bad for just wanting to hang in Akiba.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 24, 2008, 01:41:20 AM
If I went to Japan I'd hang with Ichi. We could buy some hookers and bang them in the temple  :-*
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 01:42:19 AM
If I went to Japan I'd hang with Ichi. We could buy some hookers and bang them in the temple  :-*

If you came to Japan, I'd definitely hang with you. Just don't tell dcharlie. :shh
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 24, 2008, 01:43:44 AM
Do any Japanese women hit on you?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 01:45:06 AM
Just students.  :'(
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Eric P on January 24, 2008, 09:02:39 AM
i lived in japan for three years (81-83, father stationed at camp zama) and in retrospect the best parts were the temples and such.

though the times we went to the tokyo toy show ruled too.

i was obsessed with gundam then.  i found a scrap book i had which was all stickers from the movies and photographs of gundam floats and baloons from festivals.

that and sentai shows
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T-Short on January 24, 2008, 09:12:01 AM
I'm going soon too, probably May again. I'll hang with dcharlie and Groo, if they don't have too much of this "work" business.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: bork on January 24, 2008, 09:44:47 AM
Which is cool, but I really wanted to get 360 games that didn't fit my NTSC. [sp?]

I didn't see this addressed.  Sorry to tell you this, but there's not going to be a way to play Japanese 360 games on your U.S. system.  Not that it matters anyway, since there's really nothing out here that you'd want to play that isn't already out in the States.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: bork on January 24, 2008, 10:13:25 AM
I've met DCharlie, Cormacaroni, Groo, and Sho Nuff before.  They're all cool dudes.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T-Short on January 24, 2008, 10:21:53 AM
I'll vouch for dcharlie being easy to get it on with

I'm always happy being around someone of my own vertically impaired stature
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 10:28:29 AM
How short are you guys?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 10:39:34 AM
No, seriously.  I'm 5 foot 11 inches, which is above average in Puerto Rico.  How tall are you guys?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Ichirou on January 24, 2008, 10:45:45 AM
My best friend's 5 ft 8.

I just realized you're shorter than Himuro.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T-Short on January 24, 2008, 10:55:36 AM
i'm like 5'7" - 5'8"
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Eric P on January 24, 2008, 10:58:47 AM
here's a question.  I know that asians are generally short, or considered short.  when i was growing up in japan, i was larger than other kids my age, so i always thought the sterotype would hold true

when i visited Hong Kong recently I was just above agerage height (I'm 6'2") which is what I am here in the states.

is there a dispairty between chinese and japanese in that regard?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 24, 2008, 12:12:11 PM
Holy shit you guys are small. I'd dwarf you  :'(
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T234 on January 24, 2008, 12:21:29 PM
Not me PD.


6'1 235lb here.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 24, 2008, 12:29:36 PM
Not me PD.


6'1 235lb here.

I'd expect nothing less from a man named after a norse god :bow

Southern bred bois  :-*
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2008, 12:56:50 PM
NIHONGO YATTA!!! HAI DESU DESU DESU DESU
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: T234 on January 24, 2008, 01:55:53 PM
Not me PD.


6'1 235lb here.

I'd expect nothing less from a man named after a norse god :bow

Southern bred bois  :-*
It's complicated, but my mom is a comic nerd and my old man watched too much college football commercials in 1985.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 24, 2008, 04:09:54 PM
5ft 6 - which is short as feck

Me too g, we could be butt buddies.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 24, 2008, 04:11:21 PM
And I heard gays weren't predatory.




LIES!
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 24, 2008, 04:14:05 PM
And I heard gays weren't predatory.


LIES!

I ain't no queer! 


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:shh subtext in progress
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Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 24, 2008, 04:15:47 PM
You ain't ain't a queer.


is you?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 24, 2008, 04:17:43 PM
You ain't ain't a queer.


is you?

I ain't knowin' that I ain't ain't no queer-homo-cigarillo ain't no.

AIN'T!!

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k, now I'm confused.  ???
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Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 24, 2008, 04:18:41 PM
haha you were confused long before now.



AMIRITE?
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 24, 2008, 04:32:22 PM
haha you were confused long before now.



AMIRITE?

(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/milo-nosexallowed.jpg)

"Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will SUCK IT UP!"
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 25, 2008, 10:55:28 PM
So I leave in under 12 hours.

Ramping up for the longest plane ride EVER
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: bork on January 26, 2008, 12:52:45 AM
NIHONGO YATTA!!! HAI DESU DESU DESU DESU

You know what my favorite thing about wapanese morons is?  No one even says "desu" after everything when they speak.  So I wonder where that came from.
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 26, 2008, 01:00:51 AM
NIHONGO YATTA!!! HAI DESU DESU DESU DESU

You know what my favorite thing about wapanese morons is?  No one even says "desu" after everything when they speak.  So I wonder where that came from.

"DOOOMMMOOOO HARDU GAY DESSSSSSSSSU!....FOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!"
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Vizzys on January 26, 2008, 01:02:28 AM
hard gay lol
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: Tauntaun on January 26, 2008, 01:04:10 AM
Hard gay's the man, I want to meet him.  :hyper   :hump
Title: Re: I'm Going to Japan!
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 26, 2008, 01:13:05 AM
So I intend to persuade a group leader to take me to Cafe du Bore, but it is unlikely.
I'll try to stay posted at each internet cafe.
I'll try and follow my uncles advice: "First cute japanese girl you see, go up to her and say "You like-a white boy?'"