>>2885364 >hurr durr I like animu, I go to japan first :) These faggots should be denied entry upon landing Go to England or somewhere else in Western Europe first where the rules and customs are somewhat similar and you don't have to deal with a significant language barrier. I'd even recommend Thailand before Japan for someone who has never been abroad. Japan is not a normal country and has a lot of autistic rules and behaviors that first-time travelers are going to struggle with.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)00:53:54
>>2885371 I'm fine with dealing with said rules. If anything Im saving Europe for second.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)01:05:24
>>2885289(OP) Don't come to Japan, overtourism is ruining the country and making life difficult for the locals. Japanese people are too polite to be openly hostile, but foreigners visiting Japan should know that they are not wanted and are merely tolerated.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)01:06:51
>>2885373 I've been waiting for 30 years to come to Japan. But youre right that foreigners are ruining for those like me who want to go to experience its culture. Instead of telling me not to come, tell me what to do to be the best gaijin ever.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)01:21:09
If I were ranking European cities, London would be number 557 right between Kiev and Chernobyl.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)01:26:50
>>2885374 >tell me what to do to be the best gaijin ever I am. Travel to some other countries closer to your native culture first, and then go to Japan. >>2885378 Nobody cares about vodka-infused opinions, Ivan
>>2885415 How far is Japan (the city) from London? i'm used to long distance, i'm from Texas
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)08:11:24
>>2885289(OP) Everybody makes Japan their first trip and locals are sick of it.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)08:12:13
>>2885289(OP) >I'm thinking Japan and London as my first trip. don't listen to the other retards both are great first time travel destinations
there is absolutely nothing wrong with Japan it's easy to navigate, tourist spots mostly have english speaking people around or just use your phone as live translator
>Any international travel tips? learn a few basic phrases like "Good Morning / Evening", "Thank You" and "Please" in the language where you travel to goes a long way look up what type of plug outlet they have and take the correct converter observe how locals do stuff before fucking things up yourself and be respectful research the local payment (some countries operate mostly on cash, others some App, mostly Visa / Mastercard will be fine)
if you have the funds, go to higher end hotel for a few days concierges can help you plan anything and will speak English great to get an initial overview if you don't want to plan too much yourself although ChatGPT/Gemini etc. give good plans as well (just verify everything)
don't stress to much and enjoy your travels anon
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)08:50:07
>>2885422 First-time travelers are annoying and cringe. I don't blame the Japanese for getting sick of tourism when they have to deal with so many retards on a daily basis in the major hubs. >>2885423 >both are great first time travel destinations London, sure. Japan really isn't though.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)09:11:15
>>2885428 >Japan really isn't though why? there isn't a single valid reason in this thread and no, muh japanese people will be "annoyed" is not valid, not even true
on the contrary there are so many things that make Japan a great first time international travel choice >easy to get around, google maps routes you well, just need a public transport card (in iPhone directly) >language barrier nothingburger unless you want to go to some obscure rural place >super safe >good food
even boomers can pick up travel guides for local customs so I assume someone visiting /trv/ will be able to read on of the literal thousands of online visiting japan beginner guides and everyone knows how to use translation apps
sometimes /trv/ really has the worst kind of gatekeeping kek
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)11:29:16
>>2885429 >and no, muh japanese people will be "annoyed" is not valid, not even true Every single day, the news is nothing but people being annoyed with foreign tourists and 90% of people saying they want tourism to end. Speak to any person in Japanese and all they say is they want tourists out.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)12:05:32
>>2885374 >tell me what to do to be the best gaijin ever Your presence itself becomes the nuisance. The locals don't want to waste time trying to communicate with you through google translate, most businesses cater to a small group of local regulars, who don't want tourists to invade their spaces. You don't know how to eat Japanese food and will probably turn your nose up at most of it anyways. Every time I've met up with a friend from overseas visiting Japan, I've regretted it, because I end up having to hold their hand the entire time to prevent them from bringing shame on me. People blocking escalators, talking on their phone in the train, letting their kids treat crowded commuter trains as jungle gyms, trying to wear swimsuits in the onsen. Japan is an elf society and westerners are absolute barbarians in comparison. If you want to be a "good gaijin," literally enroll in a Japanese language course for a couple of years and learn about Japanese customs and manners. The country is not an amusement park or a backdrop for your photos. Unlike Thailand, Japan is not a "land of smiles" and they're not happy to play host. They'll be polite to you; because rigid standards mean that they *have* to be polite, but you must understand that this politeness is "tatemae" and is not representative of how they really feel about you (which for most Japanese people is going to be resentment or anger). There was a time when foreign visitors were enough of a rarity that it didn't really bother anyone, and it was kind of a novelty, but that time has past. It's gotten really bad in the last few years.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)12:37:16
>>2885445 >b-but my propaganda news outlet and made up statistics your turbo weeb autismo just makes you think this most regular japanese people literally don't care only some specifically touristy places are genuinely overrun
also if they dislike tourists, it's usually hate for Chinese and South (East) Asians
>Speak to any person in Japanese and all they say is they want tourists out. yes I did/do to 2 Japanese friends from Uni and they told me they don't care now what?
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)13:50:01
>>2885450 I live here. You don't. Nobody gives a shit about people at "your Uni", kid.
>>2885374 Anon forgot to mention that the greatest nuisance with tourists in Japan is the fact that they’re loud and don’t speak Japanese. Imagine working at some shop and all of a sudden every fifth customer looks at you cock eyed and unable to communicate with you
If you want to be the absolute best tourist possible, the name of the game is to not create any disturbance/hassle of any sort, you should fully blend in.
Study the language seriously and try to use it as much as possible, don't just default to speaking to employees in english and force them to switch to english for you. If you're struggling to communicate with someone about something, you've created a hassle.
Research into the places you want to eat, beforehand, so you know what to order and how to order. If you're trying to figure out things on the spot, you've created a hassle.
Look up reviews or otherwise make sure a place is foreigner friendly before going in. I intentionally avoid most small / local places. Leave those for the Japanese, or at least only go if you're capable of decent Japanese. Stay with the places that are openly accepting of you. A good rule of thumb is that if the store's sign is entirely in Japanese, with no English, it's most likely not the place for you.
Most tourists make no effort to blend in, visually. They're surrounded by a hundred Japanese dressed in pants and dark colors and they're just strolling through in shorts with a bright pink shirt, tons of visible tattoes, etc. If they notice you as sticking out, you've created a hassle.
If you're in a resturant talking loudly with your friends, and locals keep noticing noticing english behind them, you've created a hassle.
If they walk past you and get hit in the face with the scent of your deodorant or perfume, you've created a hassle.
Copy what everyone around you is doing.
Look up various videos/guides around culture, or "unspoken" rules and make sure not to be ignorant of them.
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Anonymous05/29/26(Fri)21:16:08
>>2885507 >Look up reviews or otherwise make sure a place is foreigner friendly before going in. I intentionally avoid most small / local places. Leave those for the Japanese, or at least only go if you're capable of decent Japanese. Stay with the places that are openly accepting of you. A good rule of thumb is that if the store's sign is entirely in Japanese, with no English, it's most likely not the place for you.
HAHAHAHA WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU PAY FOR THIS SHIT HAHAHA. the obsession white people have with asians is so embarassing
>>2885457 >>2885445 >>2885446 I was believing this anon to begin with but the more he kept yapping the more I realized the type of person he is.
They definitely don't hate tourists as much as they hate fat, smelly, autistic neckbearded pedos who live there permanently and never leave. I mean at least tourists have the decency to go home.
>>2885569 No, they literally hate tourists. Japanese people are tired of their peaceful little post-work oases being invaded by morbidly obese Americafags covered in tattoos wearing Disney ears ruining their spaces. If you come to Japan, please limit yourself to Ichiran ramen, the Pokemon center, and universal studios. You’re not wanted anywhere else.
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)15:49:20
>>2885374 don't listen to those weebs who act like they're the true defenders of Japan. Just don't be a Logan Paul-tier retard and you'll be fine
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)16:38:52
>>2885569 You're quoting different people, but people really are sick of tourists. There's lots of >japanese only hate chinese!!! not whites!!!!!!! cope, but chinks aren't even visiting Japan anymore due to diplomatic bullshit. All the stuff people complain about on the news, social media, and real life are whites and jiggaboos. Mostly whites since they're the ones doing pull ups on shrine gates and inside trains and doing nigtok dances every fucking where they go.
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)17:00:06
>>2885694 I was not saying that they do not dislike tourists, just that they most definitely hate the otaku pedo permanent residents more.
It doesn't matter to me either way, I'm not so enamoured by tranime and Jap culture that I have a desperate urge to visit. I would probably only go there if I was invited by a local.
>>2885704 >mentions that whites and jiggaboos are causing issues Yeah legit I can believe this
>not a single mention of stinky south asian bioweapons lmao You guys have very subtle yet damning ways of outing yourselves.
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)17:14:33
>>2885711 Redditspacing has a way of outing itself. Jeets cause problems but there's 100x more whites than jeets. And jeets can't do a pullup, so there's zero possibility of them doing pullups on shrine gates. But keep coping that people love you. Nobody wants you and your redditfingers.
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)17:20:57
>>2885704 I can’t find the article but they started putting up more dress code signs around shrines and temples for gaijin too kek
>>2885714 >downplays jeet behaviour >doesn't deny that he's a jeet >gets defensive hello sarrr
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)18:23:50
>>2885536 Based. I went to Japan last year and I was that loud annoying American that spoke English everywhere. What the fuck these Jap manlets gonna do? I guarantee during my trip there that I fucked more Jap sluts than anyone posting in this thread. I have a big dick and I'd call these Japs whores while pulling their hair and pounding them doggy style. Never wore a condom and I lost count on how many women I creampied. Japan is a joke
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)18:48:18
Jeets pretending to get any pussy again
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Anonymous05/30/26(Sat)19:12:34
>>2885289(OP) >London why? I'm British and this is a terrible idea, are you Indian?
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)00:21:12
>>2885711 >be nation with notorious lolicon culture >pikachuface.jpg when foreign pedos visit >"NOOOOO U BAKA PIGGU THIS SACRED CURTURE IS ONRY FOR GRORRIOUS NIPPON PERSON NOT FOR GAIJIN TOURIST!!!!!" lol lmao even
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)01:25:59
>>2885711 why are you speaking with authority on the matter while admitting you have no experience with the matter? I've been living in Japan for close to a decade, and I can state with certainty that post-covid, attitudes towards tourists took a sharp turn for the negative. Pre-covid, I don't think anyone gave it much thought, there were never really enough tourists to be a nuisance and they were more of a curiosity. Now they're a plague and a menace to local institutions and peaceful living.
>>2885803 >why are you speaking with authority on the matter while admitting you have no experience with the matter? Because it's human nature to be repulsed by the idea of strangers from a strange land living in your land permanently? Only mind broken westerners feel otherwise.
>I've been living in Japan for close to a decade, and I can state with certainty that post-covid, attitudes towards tourists took a sharp turn for the negative. But I didn't disagree with any of that.
>Now they're a plague and a menace to local institutions and peaceful living. The issue is that you think these things don't apply to people like you.
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)11:48:21
>>2885876 500k is less than one percent of the country lol
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)11:53:31
>>2885876 >The issue is that you think these things don't apply to people like you. You’re right, I don’t think they do. I speak the language. I’m a member of my community. I’m married to a Japanese woman and soon we will have little half Japanese kids going to Japanese school. I’m 100% not in the same group of people who come to Japan to treat it like a theme park and eat tamago sandos and buy Pokemon merch
>>2885880 They don't mind that you married a Japanese woman?
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)14:12:54
>>2885880 >I’m 100% not in the same group of people Are you a foreigner in Japan? If yes, you are in the same group. You will never be Japanese, and you're just as bad as a jeet living in the west.
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)15:30:28
>>2885901 > They don't mind that you married a Japanese woman? It’s not like they’re marrying their Japanese women. And unlike gooks Japanese people don’t seem to be territorial over their women. I’m just doing my part to keep glorious nippon populated, and creating the hapa master race
>>2885289(OP) Anon dont listen to any person telling you not to visit Japan. Japan was my first travel destination and it was the single greatest decision of my life. I have since been back 4 times, for about a total of six months spent in Japan. I've also since been to Europe, mostly in Italy for 2 months, and Hong Kong twice for about a month and Japan has been the most hospitable and easy to travel by far. I have not seen absolute kindness and generosity as a traveler anywhere but Japan.
Pic Rel (terrible censoring I know but Im not going to dox them) I met a young man on the Shinkansen, 2 years younger than me. We became friends and he invited me to his house. We had a cook off battle where we both made pasta dishes and his family judged them. I had to defend my honor as an Italian chef when he said he makes better pasta. I had only spent three weeks in Japan when I met him. Oh and before we made dinner, I was backstage at an all girls band performance, as his family was part of the teaching staff, and I was telling a bunch of high school QTs "otsukare".
These losers below, they will never have a Real Travelers (TM) experience like this and are projecting onto you their misery. Please go to Japan.
>>2885362 >>2885373 >>2885422 >>2885428 All of you should be perma banned from /trv/ for being waste of oxygen losers. You are projecting your own insecurities on all tourists. You think all Japanese hate tourists because you look in the mirror and see the tourists they actually do hate. You all are incapable of understanding human emotion and thus think every act of kindness and courtesy is forced. You are simply unable to tell. So you assume everything is fake because it must be!
And here, my first visit to Japan, I was messing around taking pictures in a park that Clannad used as one their locations in the anime. An older Japanese couple approached me and was excited that I was using a film camera. We talked a bit in broken english and I explained to them I was visiting an anime location and then I offered to take a picture and send it to them. To this day one of the best pictures Ive ever taken on film. I still have a standing offer to visit their house for tea as thanks.
You dont need to speak any Japanes at all other than; Yes, No, Thank You, This One, That one, one of those. Thats it. This is 90% of the communication you need.
It makes no sense to tell people to travel elsewhere first anyways. You arent going to learn anything in London that would "prepare you" to visit Japan. Japan is traveling for toddlers. Its traveling on easy mode. Every train station, every airport, every major store, everything is in English already. Japanese boomers still worship America. So if youre white they will like you.
I have countless other stories and experience I had in Japan that have not been matched anywhere else Ive traveled. These losers >>2885362>>2885373>>2885428>>2885422, are just brown and jealous or social rejects and jealous. Japan is the PERFECT trip for first time travelers
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)18:47:17
>>2885933 Japanese were really kind to me on my trip too, old and young
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Anonymous05/31/26(Sun)21:53:48
>>2885933 >>2885930 you're white and the seethers are all dark skin brown
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)00:35:12
>>2885933 >>2885930 Beautiful posts anon I feel as though the poo invasion is going to make it impossible to have this kind of experience in the future unfortunately
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)00:50:14
>>2885933 >These losers >>2885362>>2885373>>2885428>>2885422, are just brown and jealous or social rejects and jealous. It's like some kind of autistic gatekeeper personality type. I've encountered a lot of people like this on the archlinux forums desu and a fair few on various 4chan boards. Now that I think about it, it's usually in threads about some autism adjacent topic where I see this archetype the most, so it makes sense why there are so many of them here.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)01:31:46
>>2885975 The overtourism in Japan is already destroying the ability to have these kinds of spontaneous encounters with Japanese people. You're no longer a curiosity or a rarity, you're just part of a flood of millions of foreigners inundating Japanese infrastructure, neighborhoods, and lifestyles. >>2885977 The only value you people bring to Japan is the contents of your wallet. Japan should start charging $1000 for tourist visas, and I fully support price gouging tourists and discriminatory business practices barring tourists from most places. It's not like you guys do anything but come here to eat konbini food and buy plastic pokemon garbage anyways. Imagine you're the proprietor of a small local ramen shop. For twenty years you've been serving your community, you have a solid group of regular customers (who are all neighbors), you've watched some of them grow from children to adults. All of a sudden, due to factors outside of your control, your neighborhood becomes inundated by foreign tourists. Some dumb tattooed-up white bitch holding a fuzzy mic in her long-ass nails makes an instagram video about "ohmigawd you guys, you just HAVE to try this hidden local gem restaurant I found next to my airbnb." All of a sudden all of your regular customers are gone, they don't want to contend with the line of backpack-wearing western clowns queuing in front of your restaurant every day. These customers have no idea what they're doing, they don't know how to read the menu or what you sell. They demand english translations or handholding. They make bizarre requests "uhm excuse me, actually I'm allergic to shellfish anuses, can you just do differently everything you've been doing for 20 years?" You might think the business owner should be grateful for this brief popularity, but it's fleeting. His regular customers are already gone, they don't want to contend with the tourists either.
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Anonymous06/01/26(Mon)01:36:42
>>2885985 The tourists dry up in a few months as the social media cycle churns and some other poor business gets identified as the next "omg u guys hidden gem alert" spot. The owner is exasperated, his business never recovers, and he decides to close up shop. All his neighbors have been replaced with stands selling matcha lattes and labubu dolls and dubai chocolate ice cream anyways. The neighborhood is no longer a neighborhood, it's all investment properties owned by slumlord Chinese people who rent their flophouses to gringo tourists on airbnb. The tourists are on vacation, they think Japan is a theme park, so they're blasting loud music non stop, they're ignoring the garbage sorting rules, they're smoking on the streets. Congrats foreign cockroaches, in the span of a year you destroyed an entire neighborhood and community. And like a swarm of locusts, you'll keep looking for the next undiscovered "hidden gem" neighborhood to go destroy next. So yeah, I am gatekeeping. Please fuck off, Japan is not built for mass tourism, all of you just treat it as anime themepark land anyways, and the locals despise your presence.
>>2885975 There is definitely some truth to that. The invention of synthesized fertilizer was perhaps humanities greatest mistake. There are more Indians in India today that there were people on Earth in 1900. Wrap your head around that for a second.
Not even 50 years ago you could climb the Pyramids in Egypt or the Mayan temples in South America. Now they shoot you on sight for doing it. There were little to no regulations on where you could camp in various national parks in the US and so on and so forth.
When I was in Italy, I was doing an internship at a small architecture studio, the owner was giving me a tour of some small town built in a caldera, and he was explaining how as kids they used to climb around in there, and some family died from toxic gasses. Now its fenced off.
The world is just a different place these days. The Nanny State doesnt allow individuals to assume risk and responsibility for their own safety. Everything is fenced off, everything has 10 thousand rules and regulations, you cant do this you cant go there. There are just too many fucking soulless brown "people". Truly connecting with a place as a traveler is definitely harder but it isnt impossible. All of my Japan trips have been from 2023 to 2025, the boomers on the japan travel general would say its over and charm is gone, good old days are gone etc, but if you make an effort to be an interesting person, youll be rewarded with amazing experiences.
>>2885977 checked, I generally dont post and just lurk unless Im out on a trip somewhere, but reading the faggots in this thread desperately try to gatekeep successfully rage-bated me into effortposting. I refuse to allow some anon who finally got his life together to travel for the first time get conned into getting stabbed to death in londonstan instead of visiting Japan.
>>2885985 >>2885986 Your entire post is just fanfiction describing a reality that doesnt exist. Japan is my playground weeb faggot deal with it