Comments on: 10 Things You Must Do In Japan

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:34:58 +0000

I just spent two fantastic weeks in Japan, I saw as much as I could away from the normal tourist attractions as well as the usual tourist stuff. When in shops they were very helpful and in the train station fantastic and the police were great. Taxi Drivers are not the best, I gave one a map with an adress on it written in English andJapanese and she still did not know where it was. The second taxi was a little better he did his best and only missed the hotell by a blokc, very nice bloke. In all I loved it, BUT! Unfortunatly it was spoiled when on the second last night I got lost for 3 hours and NO ONE would help me find my way, they just wave me off or ignored me completely, I even asked a taxi driver and he just put his window up and ignored me. Turns out they all ignored me was because my hotel was only 3 blocks away, all they had to do was point. I unfortunatly could not find a police officer to help me out

Yes I was asking in Japanese, not the best at it but when I am home and someone who does not speak the language tries to ask me something I do my best to help them just like I help anyone who asks for help.
My opinion is now if you want Japanese people to be nice thay have to be paid first.

Now that said, I still say EVERYONE should go and see it. Just keep a map handy and photograph key landmarks so you can show people to help you get back there

Sorry for the quick randomness but I am packing for my flight and thought i would type this before I left

Cheers

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:02:18 +0000

4th trip to Japan on August 11th

Go to visit the Japanese friends I met drinking with friends at a University in Canada(never been to university myself). Unfortunately this time i can only stay for a 16 day bender, unlike my last two trips,which were one month benders. Asahi Super Dry for life! Oh, I’ll be the big white guy walking around enjoying public drunkedness with my handy 1 Liter travel size beer can. ehehehe

By: Philo

Philo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:10:58 +0000

Nice blog I go to Japan in August for the third time.
Great country

By: Ookami

Ookami — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:10:21 +0000

wow… i randomly decided im going to japan… mybe three months? ya lets do it, im poor enough thank you very much

By: Emilia

Emilia — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:26:04 +0000

Nice stuff! Enjoyed reading it.
Off to Japan in two weeks and will try implement these tips for sure. Esp. eating as much as sushi as I can =D

Cheers.. take care and thanks for the Finland remark =D

Emiliiii -the reindeer in India

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:59:12 +0000

i am in yokosuka right now, i am a journalist/tv broadcaster in the navy. Sucks i kno im a dumb foreign idiot in the navy right? wrong i like to learn the language, i have been all over japan and i love it. i kind of like it more than the U.S. only not as much culture diversity. Pretty much the only good thing about the U.S. The train system they have here is awesome. The food is soooooooo much healthier than U.S. I am a fitness buff and eating japanese food helps me everyday with my workout routine and diet. Very easy to get those six pack abs with japanese food. It should be a recommended diet. Alson another thing is how nice all the japanese are to you if you are not a dickhead to them. I have not made one enemy with a japanese person. They are really big into the texting and cell phone thing. So definitely get a prepaid phone when you get there if you are staying for more than a week. I have a phone book on my cell that had maybe 20 of my american friends in it. I have been here for about 6 months and have 336 japanese friends now in my phone book on my cell phone. Also the streets even in the bigger cities are a lot safer than americen streets, or anywhere else i have been really. i had a girlfriend that walked from the train in tokyo to her house its a 20 min. walk at 130 am and she has not had trouble with anyone ever. and she has been doing that for 13 years. One thing to take away from japan is how nice the people are i think and how they will always help you out with the train and if you are alone in a bar, somebody will always come up to you and say how is it going or try and talk with you. I love japan and definitely recommend it to others.

By: ryugakusei!!

ryugakusei!! — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:51:14 +0000

Ok one thing that is a must do in Japan would have to be take Purikura (sticker photos), you go into a photobooth with your friends, take photos with cute backgrounds and then decorate them!! It is so much fun and they are so cute!
Also if you are still in highschool you should come on japan for exchange. I’m from Australia and I’m 15 and have come over here to school for a year. Actually though school is all in Japanese and kanji so I don’t know what we are stduying!! Haha but I have cute Japanese school uniform and have joined club activities at school, which train everyday after school and on weekends too btw, I’m in kendo> Also if you are here in summer you must go to a summer festival, they are great and many people wear yukata and theres dancing and food and a lot of fun ^^
Also living in somewhat the country (morioka, iwate) … foreigners get looooked at wayyy to much!!!

By: ryugakusei!!

ryugakusei!! — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:49:06 +0000

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:41:21 +0000

Watch the sunrise (goraiko) from the top of Mt. Fuji. Breathtaking! I had to climb it twice due to bad weather the first time, but it was worth it. Equally rewarding was getting a driver’s license, but that took three tries….

By: linda

linda — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:09:45 +0000

Loved the read from all. My friend and I go to Tokyo next year for only one week ,we already have the Rail ticket just need to sort out places to go, looking forward to trying new foods