Just went camping in Nagano a few weekends ago, and it was a great experience. Everything was awesome except I wish we had a lightweight Indian hanger/rack to hang random things.
What do you wish existed that will absolutely make your camping experience even better and more convenient?
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If you want something for camping, it exists in Japan. Dont worry. Want to make a taiyaki? You can buy a camping tool for it.
Want to watch television cook a steak and soak in a bathtub? It exists.
Just be creative with what you search for it’ll come up. Its actually one thing that turns me off from camping here sometimes. Its so serious! People spend big cash doing camping here.
A portable firehose to take care of the campers from the next site that decide 4:30 AM is a great time to wake up and hold a loud group conversation – after they tromp through everyone else’s site looking for wood for their fire.
Racks for camping exist. Creema (individual artists selling items site) has every type of rack imaginable. I love to camp, I bought an iron rack from creema, had some custom features added to it. I then went to a lumberyard and found beautiful pine wood which I had them trim to size. I sanded and polished it myself, use it everytime when I camp. It’s amazing and extremely compact.
Something like this : https://www.creema.jp/item/10938618/detail?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlemWBhDUARIsAFp1rLV8BQ5MF0H7guhR__Uhqfqh1ao95Pf8dSDG5DoBR91tHef_-9AicxoaAhPzEALw_wcB
So many styles of racks on creema. Actually they have all sorts of creative stuff there !
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It would be nice to have a small portable fridge that ran off batteries when camping. They make something like this as is but I think the duration isn’t long off a single charge.
Hot tent/stove combo would be nice too. They sell hot tents but you have to rig everything yourself, makes the idea seem distant… Some day…
I think the proprietors are doing an excellent job when it comes to glamping.
If I had to pick something… well… they provided everything I needed to make coffee, right there in the tent: fancy organic beans; manual coffee grinder; filters; the funnel thing to put on top of a mug where filter goes; neat looking electric kettle, a sink a few metres outside the tent. It’s great to spend time slow time making coffee. What did I lack? A power socket outside the tent, because my tent companions were still sleeping, and I didn’t feel it was OK to run the electric kettle in the tent lest that woke them up.