Have we talked about the girls who dye their skin really tan and wear weird neon stuff? I can't think of the name at the moment.
Ganguro, and they are hideous.
Do some people find that attractive?
I think so?
I don't know, it's not really prevalent any more to my knowledge. I saw like maybe one or two girls dressed and made up like that while I was there, it wasn't exactly mainstream when it was popular.
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I'm looking forward to taking my camera over to Harajuku on Sunday. Them girls be crazy but way interesting.
I didn't spend a lot of time in Tokyo, so I don't know that much about it.
I do know that until I went to the Counter here in LA, the best burger I'd had in my life was at a little place called "Fire House" in down-town Tokyo.
I think they have menus online, or whatever, try to find it.
It's gorgeous but depressing when you realise it has basically all been converted to farmland.
The Japanese are total dicks about raping the environment.
That's so depressing.
It's "amusing" how the Japanese have taken Buddhism and pretty much destroyed any sort of concepts that may have been involved in it.
I don't think I know enough about Buddhism in Japan to talk much about it. Most Japanese are effectively aethiests, however much fun they have a Buddhists and Shinto shrines on holidays.
Man, I'd really like to visit Japan. Though, I'd be more interested in the country side, the old shrines and castles, that sort of shit.
I hear the country side is fucking beautiful.
old shrines and castles get boring pretty fast
there is even a term for 'shrine fatigue' but i forget it offhand
that being said, they do have some very nice natural beauty, if you can find places that havent been cemented over
Baloney, the Shrines are varied enough to be pretty interesting if you don't just go there to snap photos.
The castles on the other hand were almost all destroyed during World War II, so there's only really 4 left that are architectually and historically interesting.
The oldest remaining one was just across the river from the town I lived in, so I got to check it it, it was sweet.
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So I'm going to Tokyo to visit a Metropolis and neon and buildings and stuff, but then old Kyoto is full of Shrines and parks and Shinto/Buddhist Temples and geisha, and then there's like Tori in the sea and Japanese bathhouse retreats and A-bomb parks ...
You can find natural beauty, but it takes effort. Most all rivers are concrete chutes. This is one of my favorite areas, the 48 waterfalls of Akame in Mie Prefecture. It's a hiking trail with some concrete steps in places, but otherwise untouched. About 2 miles in, there is a ramen shack run by this older couple that hikes in every morning.
So I'm going to Tokyo to visit a Metropolis and neon and buildings and stuff, but then old Kyoto is full of Shrines and parks and Shinto/Buddhist Temples and geisha, and then there's like Tori in the sea and Japanese bathhouse retreats and A-bomb parks ...
So you know, there's a lot to see.
Kyoto is a bizzare little town.
The contrast between Tokyo and Kyoto is vast.
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Kyoto has some of the awesomest shrines and whatnot though.
I could probably spend a whole week just visiting Ryoanji.
It certainly has a lot of the most expensive ones
I guess the bizzare thing about it is not so much what the town actually is but what people expect it to be because it is generally thought of as the "#2 city in Japan" after Tokyo.
These people usually don't know that the people and government in Kyoto have done a lot to sort of "freeze" Kyoto's development around the mid-70's/early 80's.
The town is tiny. There are no buildings larger thanI think 4 or 5 stories. All the roofs are a certain color.
McDonalds is not allowed to us the bright red backdrop for their golden arches that is so iconic because the city thought the colors were too bright so it's the yellow m on this dark reddish-brown sign and it's a little weird.
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Spend a week in Tokyo, spend a week in Kyoto, spend a week moching about inbetween.
Ganguro, and they are hideous.
I went to fucking downtown Shibuya during Golden Week, that place was dead.
Ughhh
but she is dressed up as a clown so like it cancels the effects completely and steers them towards Pennywise Land.
Do some people find that attractive?
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I have a hotel in Shibuya for a few days. Or Shinjuku. One of the two.
you know what? i'm pissed i never got extremely fucking hammered while i was there. my fucking ex didn't drink so i curbed my drinking
curses!
No, there is a whole "beach girl" lifestyle that goes with it, it is definitely not a cos-play thing.
Although for some people in Japan, Cosplay is practically a way of life too, I guess.
I think so?
I don't know, it's not really prevalent any more to my knowledge. I saw like maybe one or two girls dressed and made up like that while I was there, it wasn't exactly mainstream when it was popular.
That place is ROCKIN' except apparently the first week in May.
Oh, good Lord, you can't even really be said to have been to Japan.
I hear the country side is fucking beautiful.
I do know that until I went to the Counter here in LA, the best burger I'd had in my life was at a little place called "Fire House" in down-town Tokyo.
I think they have menus online, or whatever, try to find it.
It's gorgeous but depressing when you realise it has basically all been converted to farmland.
The Japanese are total dicks about raping the environment.
It's "amusing" how the Japanese have taken Buddhism and pretty much destroyed any sort of concepts that may have been involved in it.
there is even a term for 'shrine fatigue' but i forget it offhand
that being said, they do have some very nice natural beauty, if you can find places that havent been cemented over
I don't think I know enough about Buddhism in Japan to talk much about it. Most Japanese are effectively aethiests, however much fun they have a Buddhists and Shinto shrines on holidays.
Baloney, the Shrines are varied enough to be pretty interesting if you don't just go there to snap photos.
The castles on the other hand were almost all destroyed during World War II, so there's only really 4 left that are architectually and historically interesting.
The oldest remaining one was just across the river from the town I lived in, so I got to check it it, it was sweet.
So you know, there's a lot to see.
I read that as 'have sex with the Old Ones' and then got a mental image of Callius getting head from Cthulu.
And then I needed to share that with you.
It would be mind blowing.
Kyoto is a bizzare little town.
The contrast between Tokyo and Kyoto is vast.
I could probably spend a whole week just visiting Ryoanji.
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although i guess the fact that it was limited to the tokyo area and not all over the country probably had a lot to do with that
didnt get to see the penis or boob shrines, for example
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It certainly has a lot of the most expensive ones
I guess the bizzare thing about it is not so much what the town actually is but what people expect it to be because it is generally thought of as the "#2 city in Japan" after Tokyo.
These people usually don't know that the people and government in Kyoto have done a lot to sort of "freeze" Kyoto's development around the mid-70's/early 80's.
The town is tiny. There are no buildings larger thanI think 4 or 5 stories. All the roofs are a certain color.
McDonalds is not allowed to us the bright red backdrop for their golden arches that is so iconic because the city thought the colors were too bright so it's the yellow m on this dark reddish-brown sign and it's a little weird.