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Just moved to Japan for a year, already loving it.


Just moved to Japan for a year, already loving it.

40 comments

  1. Just for a year? Oh boy, you’re going to hate to move back home, trust me.

  2. I’m so jealous. Visited many times but wife never ok’d the move 🙁. Japan is awesome. Hope you enjoy it

  4. This may sound like a dumb question but how fluent in Japanese do you have to be to live there ?

  5. Congrats buddy! Always been my dream. I’m stuck just visiting though until I’m older. I always have the best times there, especially in Osaka 😊

  6. Do they call you gaijin and make you feel ostracized? I’ve always wondered what the reality of that was in Japan. I’d love to go!

  9. What will you be doing for the year? I’d love to do this one day but I’m not sure how I’d support myself.

  10. As soon as you can, get yourself a bike and a map! The trains are amazing, but you can see so much more on a bike! I lived In Yokohama/Tokyo for a year as well. Every weekend I would take my bike and my paper map and just ride until I got lost, then try and find my way back with the map. So many amazing trips. I think I went to every single green area (park) on my map within Yokohama and Tokyo. For fairly close trips, I highly recommend Takao San (beautiful mountain walk/hike) and Chigasaki (an awesome little beach town). The Miura peninsula just south is amazing as well. Oh and if you get lost in Shibuya, just walk down hill and it’ll lead you to the train station!! Have an amazing time!!! It is a beautiful place in so many ways

  11. Part of the reason Japanese streetscapes are so cozy is because they don’t allow street parking

  14. Whats your secret to getting in? I want to live there so bad. You wanna marry me?

  15. I live in the UK. I’ve always lived in the UK.

    For some reason this picture is making me really nostalgic.

  16. I miss it so much. I used to take being there for granted. Lived there for short of 5 years and this was so typical of the day to day there. Now I’m living in a Southeast Asian country about 3-4 hours flight from Kansai, so the urban scenery isn’t ridiculously different (we have things like kombinis, daiso, juku, izakayas, and other Japanisms here too, the streets have no sidewalks, and we have crazy urban density too), but Japan is certainly far cleaner, far quieter, more orderly, seamlessly-developed, and safer than here and virtually every other Asian country in East and Southeast Asia. Japanese society is to thank for that. Please enjoy your time there and make the most of every day you have there ☺️

  19. Sounds like a lot of fun, would love to visit myself some day, anything you’ve seen/done that you’d recommend?

  22. Jealous. Always wished I had taken the time to try something like that. Unfortunately, school and career took precedent and my job is definitely not portable to most other countries.

  24. Oh the toilets, the sushi, the manners, how clean everything is … sigh

  25. After a year I imagine you are through most of the headaches and hurdles. What are some of the things you enjoy most about the area you decided to live in?

  26. What are the specifics about the organization youre travelling with? Also, do you already know people in Japan or are you completely on your own? Thats the biggest thing keeping me from trying one of these things

  36. This summer in Japan is very hot compared to previous years. Please take care of yourself, and have fun.

  38. This is what real Japan is to me. Not massively photoshopped iterations of the same Bladerunner 80s neon Tokyo photos. Not hating but there’s just so many of them and most of them are so processed they don’t even look like Japan irl. It’s the quiet mundane streets with natural lighting that are really beautiful to me.

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