Random Japanese Pictures (56K DEATH)

[KholdStare]

These pictures are awesome! I love the retro gaming one. Please post more.

[Zeonik Freak]

Hello. I always carry my crappy digital camera wherever I go. I take random pictures for no reason.
I've been in Japan a long time, but I am still sometimes fascinated by some things, even trivial things.

Here are just a few random pics I've taken while walking or driving around. Enjoy!
Some pictures will have a small description above the photo, some speak for themselves.





Somewhere in Akita...





























This is how they roll in Shibuya








I LOL'd

It feels like home if i see those in Japan.

I gotta wonder if that Cobra 427 is vintage. Thats a classy Pontiac next too it too.

I should bring my Chevy 1500 Silverado to Japan.

"Jelly Balls, taste just like your boyfriends sack"...

[kinn]

Thanks for sharing.

Love japan. One day I will visit there.

[Daniel Primed]

Nice pictures. I'm interested in what the air pollution is like in the larger cities. Some of your photos show some pretty severe smog while others are mostly blue with a grey radiating from the horizon. On average what's the air quality like? Have you been to other Asian cities? Can you give a comparison?

I'm very curious about this because I lived in Shanghai (China) last year and will be heading back (for some time, maybe years) next year. I'm interested in how the city's dense air pollution is in comparison to other Asian locales.

[hashiriya1]

Can i ask you a personal question?

Are you Japanese hashiriya1?

Because you said at first that you've been living a lot of time there I thought you were from somewhere else and moved to japan. My wife is a flight attendant and she went with a friend of her who is Japanese before we got married. But I want to go when i finally learn a decent amount of japanese. Ive only been studying Japanese for a month now. I find it really hard for me because I'm puertorican and my first language is spanish and I have to translate in my mind from japanese to english to spanish. But I know I'm gonna make it I practice everyday. My wife laughs sometimes when I get frustrated when I know a word one second and minutes later I get confused with another one hehe.

But anyways I wanna really thank you for uploading those pictures it gives me more determination to learn and get on a plane and go there. Sure we have a friend who lives there and can do the translation and everything but the way my mom raised me was "If you go to someone else house learn to speak the way they do that's a form to show respect to other". I went to Italy last year and I know like a 40% italian and the people wherever we go where really happy because they said that at least I made an effort in trying to communicate in their language. I also learned that from a friend of work hes american but he sounds really funny speaking in spanish but he tries and hes getting better day by day.

I don't even know why I made this long post but hey its been a while since Ive been here. But hey thanks again for the pictures.

Wow, thanks for that great read, haha. Anyhoo, I am not Japanese (but I always get mistaken for it here). I am from San Francisco. It's true what you say about learning a foreign language before you go to said country. You get a feeling of respect from people who know how hard it is to learn a foreign language.




The first few years of learning Japanese, I had to translate it to English in my head. After years of being exposed to the language, that no longer happens. When JApanese enters my ears or is seen by my eyes, it is automatically understood in Japanese form. It's the same as me reading or listening to something in English.

[hashiriya1]

Nice pictures. I'm interested in what the air pollution is like in the larger cities. Some of your photos show some pretty severe smog while others are mostly blue with a grey radiating from the horizon. On average what's the air quality like? Have you been to other Asian cities? Can you give a comparison?

I'm very curious about this because I lived in Shanghai (China) last year and will be heading back (for some time, maybe years) next year. I'm interested in how the city's dense air pollution is in comparison to other Asian locales.

The smog really isn't that bad, in fact, I never thought about smog here until you brought it up. Where I live, there is no smog. In Tokyo, I barely see it because it's surrounded by an ocean.

I lived in Los Angeles before, and that was pretty bad. I spent the entire summer of 2007 in Shanghai, Beijing, and Chongqing. Chongqing was pretty bad on hot days. No Japanese cities get as bad as Chongqing or Los Angeles.

[nightwalker]

Can i ask you a personal question?

Are you Japanese hashiriya1?

Because you said at first that you've been living a lot of time there I thought you were from somewhere else and moved to japan. My wife is a flight attendant and she went with a friend of her who is Japanese before we got married. But I want to go when i finally learn a decent amount of japanese. Ive only been studying Japanese for a month now. I find it really hard for me because I'm puertorican and my first language is spanish and I have to translate in my mind from japanese to english to spanish. But I know I'm gonna make it I practice everyday. My wife laughs sometimes when I get frustrated when I know a word one second and minutes later I get confused with another one hehe.

But anyways I wanna really thank you for uploading those pictures it gives me more determination to learn and get on a plane and go there. Sure we have a friend who lives there and can do the translation and everything but the way my mom raised me was "If you go to someone else house learn to speak the way they do that's a form to show respect to other". I went to Italy last year and I know like a 40% italian and the people wherever we go where really happy because they said that at least I made an effort in trying to communicate in their language. I also learned that from a friend of work hes american but he sounds really funny speaking in spanish but he tries and hes getting better day by day.

I don't even know why I made this long post but hey its been a while since Ive been here. But hey thanks again for the pictures.

Wow, thanks for that great read, haha. Anyhoo, I am not Japanese (but I always get mistaken for it here). I am from San Francisco. It's true what you say about learning a foreign language before you go to said country. You get a feeling of respect from people who know how hard it is to learn a foreign language.




The first few years of learning Japanese, I had to translate it to English in my head. After years of being exposed to the language, that no longer happens. When JApanese enters my ears or is seen by my eyes, it is automatically understood in Japanese form. It's the same as me reading or listening to something in English.

Thank you for the response!! Maybe when I decide to go and if your still there we can meet.

[Daniel Primed]

Yeah I hear ChongQing is a killer, one of, if not the worst place in the world for air quality. Can you give a more ditstinct comparison between Shanghai and Tokyo? Is there a big difference between the centre of the city and the outer suburbs?

[IcKy99]

haha japanese lowriders!!!!!!!!!! i thought only mexicans like myself enjoyed those things.

btw does that KFC in japan have snackers????

these pictures are awesome

[hashiriya1]

Yeah I hear ChongQing is a killer, one of, if not the worst place in the world for air quality. Can you give a more ditstinct comparison between Shanghai and Tokyo? Is there a big difference between the centre of the city and the outer suburbs?

It's hard to comparison Shanghai and Tokyo, IMO. It could be all in my head, but in Shanghai, I never felt safe when I was alone. I was always approached by hookers and pimps, and other shady people. I never felt safe eating anything. I think it's all the years of China bashing that happens in Japanese media that might have brainwashed me. I was eating lunch at a Japanese cafe on Nanjing Road and these two girls approached me because they thought I was Japanese (I get that a lot, I'm actually only half Asian (Chinese). They spoke Japanese to me and pretended to be college students studying Japanese. They asked me to come with them to another place where the food was better and asked If I could help them study. I saw right through them and told them, in Japanese, to "F*** OFF". Judging by the way they reacted to my rudeness, they were shady. A sincere person would have been shocked or hurt, someone with a hidden agenda, like them, just moved on to the next person. Anyway, I digress....

Tokyo is technically a state and not a city. Each city in Tokyo has its own unique flavor. Each city within Tokyo has a downtown, so there are many different 'downtowns' and 'city centres' within the state of Tokyo. It really depends on which one you like best. I really like Ikebukuro the best, but some people hate it. To each his own in Tokyo! You don't really see any 'poor areas'. The line between rich and poor is hard to see with the untrained eye. You'll have an expensive house next to a run-down apartment building. Since poverty in Japan rarely breeds crime, people don't feel unsafe living next to 'poor people'. In Shanghai, when you see the poor areas, you know they are poor. They aren't mixed with the rich. The beggars were also another thing that annoyed me in China. You see homeless on Tokyo streets but they rarely, if ever, beg.

I digressed a buncha times, didn't I? Anyway, to sort of answer your question. In Shanghai, it seemed you were limited to certain areas if you are looking for fun and shopping whereas in Tokyo, it's everywhere. From the many 'centres' to the outer suburbs, there is always something to do.


At night, I think Shanghai is a lot more beautiful than Tokyo, though. Every night in Shanghai I would take a stroll along The Bund with friends. That was always fun.