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fandomsecrets2015-08-19 06:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-08-19 06:49 pm
[ SECRET POST #3150 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3150 ⌋
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Re: Working in Japan
To really get the most of your time in Japan, give yourself plenty of time to explore and have fun and make sure you try absolutely everything new that catches your eye. That said... combinis might seem like a great place to eat at first, but they basically all sell junk food, and many an English teacher has been shocked to realize they've gained 15lbs in a few months just eating from convenience stores. If you're really down on your coin, you can also just hit up one of the department store style food courts (usually found under major train stations) for the free samples and essentially be able to have a free lunch.
The best way to keep yourself healthy in Japan is to learn to cook and to find a 100Y store that sells fruits and vegetables; otherwise, buying them can be prohibitively expensive. If you're a coffee drinker, you might want to drop the habit before you get to Japan. Coffee runs from $25-$50/lb there, and although there are coffee chains that sell really interesting drinks and snacks (my favorites were Seattle's Best and Tully's Japan operations) it isn't really tenable to keep up a morning coffee habit. Switch to green tea while you're there.
Finally, Japan has some great places to visit that take a while to get to, so while you're there make sure to get the seishun juuhachi kippu (seishun 18 ticket) which gives you free travel on all JR rail lines throughout Japan. It's an extremely economical way to travel during Golden Week, and a tradition amongst English teachers who don't want to spend money. A warning: travel from Tokyo can take quite a while if you are wanting to visit Kyoto on the SJK fare, so make sure you have something to do on the trains.
Hotels are expensive to stay in, and hostels are few and far between, so the best place to stay overnight (or in a pinch) is at a manga kissa. A flat rate gives you a few hours of stay in a booth which often has reclining chairs for people to sleep on, and unlimited drinks from the self serve soda fountain.
Above all, this is going to be a rare experience in being a minority (if you aren't one already). Cherish it. It will give you an incredible perspective on how it is to be a exoticized, demonized, treated as a status symbol, and so much more. It will be a genuinely life-changing experience, and while that may be uncomfortable at times, you will thank yourself for doing it later in life, I can promise that.
Re: Working in Japan
(Anonymous) 2015-08-20 07:17 am (UTC)(link)Re: Working in Japan
It will be worthwhile though, if that's what you're wondering. Definitely that.
Also a really great chance to have a lot of NSA sex with people and discover that part of yourself, if that's what you're into. ;p