[ SECRET POST #3490 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3490 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

If you're not a big traveler then Japan will annihilate you. The culture difference is too vast, and do not underestimate how disorientating it is to not even recognize the alphabet on advisory signs. Take some time to try Europe first, France, Italy, or Germany, where you'll be able to ease into not recognizing what is going on without it being a whole completely different culture with virtually no shared cultural components.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't see why people say Japan has such a "vast" culture difference. It's practically considered the most "Western" country of Asia. It's really not as exotic as all that except maybe if you go very rural. Tokyo is not really that much different from, say, London (I've lived in both).

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Language is a big difference. Pretty sure I'd have a harder time in Tokyo than in London.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. But you'll also get that in Italy, or France, or Germany.

(especially Italy, in my experience)

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't have trouble in Italy. There's some frame of reference for romance languages. As opposed to Japanese or Russian or Greek or any language that doesn't use the same alphabet. For me, anyway.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree. Those countries have far higher numbers of tourists in the bigger cities and there's more infrastructure to accommodate people who don't speak the local language. Also, the signs won't be in kanji.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I've been to Japan and Germany and I disagree. There are plenty of places even in Tokyo where signs and such aren't written in English.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Even if it is the most "western" country in Asia, that's still a relative term. I'm Asian but have lived in the U.S. for most of my life, and I can tell you that going back "home" is a pretty damned foreign experience to me, so I'm pretty sure that it's going to look exotic and have lots of culture shock value for someone who doesn't have my background.

I'm also not sure how you could say that a city where the main language is English is "not really that much different" from a city where the main language is Japanese, including a large portion of the signage.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea why you would think that of Japan. Hongkong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Phillipines are all considerably friendlier to new travelers. One thing I haven't seen anyone in this thread address is the metro system in Tokyo, which is unique in that not only is it vast (I lived in New York for years and was still overwhelmed upon first arrival), it also consists of about a thousand different lines *run by different companies* whereas almost all other metro systems in other cities only have different lines.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

STOP.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but it's sensible advice to consider and I don't see any reason why ayrt should be silenced.