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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 00:31:44
December 31 2008 00:29 GMT
#1
Now I got your attention, this is mostly a rant on Japanese temples lol, advice is at the very bottom

Japanese temples are stupid. Seriously. Japan is a country that is extremely good at rebuilding its shit (think about Hiroshima), almost all of their older buildings have fallen at least once, instead of planting trees or building something useful, they would reconstruct it and declare it as a world heritage site and attract hundreds of thousands of loser tourists from all around the world to take retarded pictures and post in their blogs. Now, this wouldn't be a problem if they were all in one place, but no, they are scattered all over Japan, and even Japanese people take their bullet train across their tiny island just to see a couple of reconstructions of supposedly famous buildings once built by random Shoguns/Buddhists/emperors.

There are essentially three types of buildings in Japan -- Castles (former residences of Shoguns), Shinto shrine (these really random structures erected at random places) and Buddhist temples.

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Looks great right? Now, imagine if you see a hundred of them. They are seriously scattered across Japan (concentrated in Kyoto and Nara), and temples in Kyoto look just the same as temples in Asakura or Kamakura, except those are only an hour away from centre Tokyo.

Don't ever assume all the temples are different. They’re not. See a couple in Tokyo and be done with it. Seeing all temples in Japan is like trying more than one Starbucks and expecting McDonalds -- they are not different!

If you are planning on visiting Japan, don't go anywhere other than Tokyo, it's not worth it (unless you are a billionaire and have years to waste, even then...). Visit Asakusa and Kamakura for cultural stuff, visit Hakone for hot-spring and see mountain fuji, visit akihabara to see girls dressed in maid costumes, and spend the rest of your time in Roppongi/Shibuya, they are seriously the best part of town (for single guys under 30 anyway).

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fonger
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United Kingdom1218 Posts
December 31 2008 00:33 GMT
#2
They look pretty damn cool to me dude.
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
December 31 2008 00:36 GMT
#3
On December 31 2008 09:33 fonger wrote:
They look pretty damn cool to me dude.

But they're all the same lol
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
December 31 2008 00:39 GMT
#4
I agree, but Kyoto has value if you go during spring or autumn where the colors are on an entirely different level, and it's something you can never get in Tokyo.
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
December 31 2008 00:40 GMT
#5
I'd rather visit Japan to see "cultural" stuff in the country instead of getting lost in a city life I can have here. Former residences of Shoguns? Hell yeah.
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GhostKorean
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2330 Posts
December 31 2008 00:42 GMT
#6
I'd rather see a picture.
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
December 31 2008 00:44 GMT
#7
On December 31 2008 09:39 thedeadhaji wrote:
I agree, but Kyoto has value if you go during spring or autumn where the colors are on an entirely different level, and it's something you can never get in Tokyo.


Kamakura has lots of red leaves, and it's nothing special if you are from Canada lols.

But yea, Sakura is great, too bad I missed it
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ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
December 31 2008 00:44 GMT
#8
I'd attend an anime convention. Still, I wouldn't mind visiting those places.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24719 Posts
December 31 2008 00:44 GMT
#9
I want to visit all the castles, and jump from rooftop to rooftop like Rikimaru.
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
December 31 2008 01:03 GMT
#10
i went to sendai fukushima during summer and it was awesomeeeeeee
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jodogohoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada2533 Posts
December 31 2008 01:09 GMT
#11
Why go to japan when you can go to korea?
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
December 31 2008 01:20 GMT
#12
Yea, I agree the rest of Japan outside of the major cities isn't that impressive. If you're into culture and stuff it's really cool but all the temples start to look the same and going 2 hours out of the way to look at a temple (other than the super famous ones, like the Golden Pavilion) it's not really worth it.

I wish I can enjoy some of the nightlife sometime though.
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
December 31 2008 02:02 GMT
#13
On December 31 2008 10:09 jodogohoo wrote:
Why go to japan when you can go to korea?


I've been to Seoul, Tokyo is definitely better -_-;;
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Savio
Profile Joined April 2008
United States1850 Posts
December 31 2008 03:36 GMT
#14
I'm looking forward to touring Japan later in life with my wife. I might even life there are few years as an Air Force doctor on one of the US bases there.
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Savio
Profile Joined April 2008
United States1850 Posts
December 31 2008 03:38 GMT
#15
Here is a question for those who have been:

Is sushi in Japan better than sushi in the US? I would guess so, but then again, you can get some pretty dang fresh sushi in California and other places along the US coasts.

I love sushi and wanna know if it is better in Japan and what the price is roughly (more expensive, less expensive or what). Also, is it significantly different than what we have in the US?

Thx
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-31 07:54:34
December 31 2008 07:52 GMT
#16
On December 31 2008 12:38 Savio wrote:
Here is a question for those who have been:

Is sushi in Japan better than sushi in the US? I would guess so, but then again, you can get some pretty dang fresh sushi in California and other places along the US coasts.

I love sushi and wanna know if it is better in Japan and what the price is roughly (more expensive, less expensive or what). Also, is it significantly different than what we have in the US?

Thx


In short, it's not on the same scale.

I've had sushi at Morimoto's (ex Iron Chef Japan and Iron Chef America) when I was in NYC, I'd expect it to be almost top if not top American sushi (I haven't had anything as good in NY).

Then I went to Japan... the quality is about a notch higher. Super market sushi tastes like sushi you would get from sushi restaurants in NA, sushi at regular restaurants (not sushi bars) are only slightly worse than high quality sushi in NA.

And then there are sushi restaurants... the prices run sky-high, but you can bet your ass that those are the finest sushi on earth. I've been to a couple of really good ones (most of them are in Tokyo, one in Kanazawa, a port city). The best sushi I've ever had was at Tsukiji, which is where the huge fish market is (I have a blog on it). Lined up for an hour and half outside of the sushi restaurant starting from 6:30... but the sushi was AMAZING, best thing I've ever had in my life.

The cost of sushi at tsukiji is much lower than ginza (similar quality) -- ginza being a couple of streets over, and I paid 3500 Yen for eight pieces, very cheap for the quality.

edit:

There are definitely more types of fish, but no rolls.
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clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
December 31 2008 07:53 GMT
#17
basically like korea since all the temples are the SAME FUCKING THING lol wow
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jodogohoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada2533 Posts
December 31 2008 23:27 GMT
#18
lmao i was watching an anime and even the characters were like, fuck why are all the temples the same

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Duke
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States1106 Posts
December 31 2008 23:59 GMT
#19
"visit akihabara to see girls dressed in maid costumes, and spend the rest of your time in Roppongi/Shibuya, they are seriously the best part of town (for single guys under 30 anyway)."


WHY ARE THERE NO PICTURES OF THIS?!
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
January 01 2009 01:31 GMT
#20
I think I posted some pictures of Shibuya. Bringing cameras to clubs = gg
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