Visiting Japan? Ask your questions here!

[transman]

konnichiwa nihonkitty-sama.hajimemashite

im travelling to japan next year and am looking for qaulity backpacker places i can stay in like tokyo,osaka,kyoto and the shukoku island, can you give me information on where i can look.
also is there any vounteer programs for visitors to japan?

arigatou gozaimasu

if i need to ask you more then i write to you.

[ukiyo]

Hajimemashite.

Sorry I don't know anything about backpacking but I found this website about backpacking in Japan that could help you:

http://www.the-backpacking-site.com/...-overview.html

What kind of volunteering are you thinking of? Do you mean in the earthquake region?

[kaspric]

Is there a long-period weather forecast for Japan?
One of my hosts worried me about typhoon season... I wanna sun!

[ukiyo]

I think long term forecasts are always innacurate. The rainy season is over so you will see sun if you come. Even if a typhoon comes it only lasts for a day and it actually makes it cooler. The sunniest time period would be the winter though.

This is a good website for weather in Japan: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2273.html

[transman]

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

Hajimemashite.

Sorry I don't know anything about backpacking but I found this website about backpacking in Japan that could help you:

http://www.the-backpacking-site.com/...-overview.html

What kind of volunteering are you thinking of? Do you mean in the earthquake region?

thanks nihonkitty

the type of volunteering im talking about my have to do with helping the elderly,orphans of the japan earthquake,festival volunteering or environment vounteering.

[kaspric]

Thanks for all support!
I'm going now to the airport, see ya in Japan! :-)

[ukiyo]

Please take many pictures and post them here!
Have fun

[kaspric]

ただいま!

Japan-is-amazing!;-)

[ukiyo]

Are you back in Poland? Tell me about your trip I am interested . Did anything in this thread help you?

I am curious about everything, what did you like, what did you not like...your impressions..the food etc.

[kaspric]

Yes, I am!
I'll write, but please - tomorrow :-). I'm after 13h travel and 7h time-change, so now I must sleep some hours, I'm totally exhausted ;-).
Of course I will make a photo thread too when I find myself in 12Gb of pics.
Oyasuminasai!

[kaspric]

So lets go!

First - yes, some things in this thread was really helpful :-) - rental mobile phone (I took SoftBank one), some advices about taking pics of Tokyo, about weather (yeah, I escaped from Tokyo... it's a hell in August!).
Finally I got 2 week JRPass and it was really good decision, I used it pretty much. It was around 45000Y and according to Jorudan Site I made travels for... 105000Y.
What places did I visit?
- Tokyo / Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ueno, Ginza, Monzen Nakacho, Kiba, Asakusa and more // Roppongi Hills observatory (!), Metropolitan Gov. observatory, Ueno ZOO ;-), Hibiya Park, Imperial Palace areas, Hamarikyu and more... public bath
- Yokohama / Minato Mirai, Chinatown and more // Landmark observatory (!)
- Kamakura
- Karuizawa and near towns - Komoro, Miyota, 2 popular (for Japanese, not foreigners) waterfalls
- Himeji
- Kobe and Sannomiya / Kobe waterfront and city center
- Osaka / Castle, city center, Namba
- Kyoto / some temples, Fushimi Inari Torii
- Okayama / Castle and japanese garden
- Onomichi / hills
- Hachinohe / unfortunetely I didn't have time to see the sea :/

It was amazing trip. I really reccomend all of you CouchSurfing. It gives a possibility to see places not popular for foreigners (like Onomichi, Komoro, public bath...) and making friends. Really love it!
I don't want to write too much here, I will make a thread with pics and write there more impressions.
PS I love Japan! ;-)

[ninehills123456]

suggets me a palce where we can have unlimited hookah

[ukiyo]

You saw so many things...you saw Himeji? The castle is under rennovation isn't it? I am interested in your food too lol.

Looking forward to the thread.

Originally Posted by ninehills123456

suggets me a palce where we can have unlimited hookah

Sorry, no idea.

[kaspric]

Sorry for delay :-). I wanted to wait for making thread... and it took much more time than I thought. Here it is!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...8#post83462718

It's on polish forum and first post is only in Polish (it's about things you know about because of "Visiting Japan" thread, like where I was etc.), but if you want I will make every description in English too (or maybe not every description, but the ones you could be curious of - which will tell you smth about my feelings and view about Japan). So please write a reply there to make me sure, that it's worth of translating.
Of course I'm looking forward for your questions about my trip - maybe it will be better in that thread. Feel free to use English (or Japanese haha) of course.

I will make sets like 10 pics in reply, so please be patient - this thread will be alive for some weeks or months :-)

About Himeji - yes, the castle is under reconstruction... but it was very comfortable to live there and go to Osaka and Kobe by shinkansen or Rapid train. The station in Himeji is in city centre, so I didn't have to think "where is my hotel?".

Japanese food is VERY good. Really - some dishes like Ramen are very similar to polish ones. And there was no food I couldn't it. And I love Garigarikun, cheap and good ... but I will write about everything in my thread, so this is enough here.

[ukiyo]

You can make a thread here too :P

[kaspric]

hah, if you need, I can, but I prefer one thread, 2 times less work ;-)
PS isn't it 5.40am in Japan? Shouldn't you sleep right now?;-)

[ukiyo]

I keep getting asked that here..I don't live in Japan right now!

Yes please make one here We need more activity in our picture subforum! Just copy and paste the pictures into both

[kaspric]

don't live in Japan? Unlucky ;-))))))

Ok, I'll make thread, but after posting some more pictures on polish forum ;-)

[ukiyo]

I've lived in Japan and all my life and it is good to study abroad to experience something else

I'll look forward to your picture thread.

[transman]

hello nihon kitty

another qeustion. i plan on going to asaka and kyoto within the next 6 months and want to know do the locals speak standard japanese like tokyo or do they have a different dialect?

also are you japanese?