Original by: Silentbomber, from the Di Onysius code thread
But more importantly.. how was your trip to Japan? got pics?
Original by: ]GaNgStA[, from the Di Onysius code thread
Yeah , how was it? tell us all about it man :)
Are you sure?
It’ll be long!
Well then, I shall, but remember you brought this upon yourself buddy! [:' (]
Though it is impossible to remember all and you probably don’t want to know every little detail, I shall bring you down the highpoints of my trip.
For a start, we arrive at Kansai airport, I find out my cell which I had been would work in Japan, does in fact NOT work in Japan... Not that I care.
We take a bus to Osaka and get completely lost in the city, like small-town folks that we are. So I ask a lady the directions of the hotel, but she leads us all the way there (it was probably a 2 km walk there). She even called the hotel and asked where it was, as she herself didn’t know.
The hotel is located in the worst part of Osaka (aka the most fun place), where hookers walk the streets in evenings and Yakuza rules. But it was all fun, and I became friend with the receptionist of the hotel. Kohei (unsure of the spelling) was his name and he is the only person in Japan, that I met, who speaks decent English. He is also full of hate and complains on everything… Especially Bush, North Korea and Mexicans… He had lived in L.A for a couple of years.
At the evening I went for a drink with my friend and find this soft place to relax and meet some people. So I order a beer for me and my friend, but when I where about to give the bartender the money, she refused me. Thinking it was odd, as she didn’t write it up, I was unsure whether the first drink was free or something. So I check again when I order a second beer, BUT once again she refuses to take payment. You know what that means? FREE BEER!!!
But even though the beer was free, me and my friend quickly got bored of the place and went to find another Club/Pub. And we found one, with the help of some sleezy, sweaty Japanese guy, wearing a suit, yelling “Bunny Bar, Bunny Bar!!!†We follow him to some dark, scary back alley (actually, nothing is scary in Japan) and take an elevator up to the forth floor of some old building and find a pub which in Sweden definitely wouldn’t pass fire safety regulations, having only one exit (which is the elevator) and being as thin as the corridor in my home. Also, the name of the pub wasn’t just for fun, for the girls did indeed wear Playboy’ish Nunny suit, but they looked no older than 14, even though they ensured me they where all over 19 (I am too young to drink in Japan BTW, but they all let me anyway… ‘cause I’m so cute ()). I also made a pinky promise with one of the girls that I would return before leaving for Sweden.
Huff puff, huff puff...
A short breather please…
*phew*
OK, here we go again!
Still in Osaka, I eat Takoyaki, and get asked by some hair saloon to model for something… I was unfortunately on my way to Kobe.
In Kobe I, my friend and my brother eat the famous Kobe beef… It was deliscous!
I went to Nara for just one day… It rained… A lot!
I arrive in Okayama and get interviewed by NHK (which happen to be one of Japans BIGGEST television channels), about the football game between Croatia and Japan… You know I’m Swedish, but my father is Croatian? Coincidence? She (the reporter) went hyper when she found out.
We arrive at Kyoto, see the temples and sneak into a forest, clearly marked no trespassing and get chased by guard dogs. Also, at the temples it was smacked with school kids, which when they saw me and my co-travelers didn’t couldn’t care less about the temples. I was thinking about writing a sign saying something like, “Take a picture with the foreign guy, 1000 yenâ€
We head back to Osaka, spend the night and in the morning I went for a smoke (the other were still sleeping… lazy bastards) and that is when I ended up in a gay bar, with an old man trying to convince me with money to go to a hotel with him,… It’s a long story, but let me make sure you know I said “Noâ€
We head for Tokyo (this city is really depressing, it makes you feel really insignificant) with the Shinkansen (the worlds fastest civil train! Or so I’ve heard), and there we see various sights, like Tokyo tower and Akihabara, in which me and my friend went to a Maid Café... That was a bit of a shocker. Then I went to taste some SUMO food (which was delicious) and afterwards the waitress came and flirted with me. Her name was Aya (I think), whom I thought was really sweet. In the evening we went to a bar were all the girls cosplayed as something and they dressed us up with cat ears. I told them that we hadn’t eaten anything for the whole day, and they felt so sorry for us that they asked the manager if we could get something to eat, and he made us a large plate of takoyaki. And so I got to know the manager and we discussed each others tattoos, after which the girls asked to take a picture together with us, which they kept. Oh, and I was told I was a “Bishounenâ€â€¦ Sorry Bishounen
We then headed to Yokohama which is a beautiful western style city and we stayed at a really luxurious hotel, which we had no idea it was (‘cause it was cheap), so as soon as our luggage carrier left the room we started jumping around and giggling like little school girls. When we went out, we saw the filming of a JDorama (I think it is selled that way), which looked really amateurish. We also went up Japans highest building and walked the sat in the park all night… Which was a little uncomfortable, as it appears there are no singles in all of Yokohama, or if there are, then they are locked up in their rooms during night and the parks are the den of the couples.
And then we headed to Hakone in which we relax all days long, staying at a ryokan (I wore Yukata) and bathed in onsens (luckily, as tattoos are sometimes forbidden). Here I mostly enjoyed nature and spent a great deal of time, simply exploring anything I found interesting.
Then we finally return to Osaka, a couple of days before our trip home, and I fulfilled my promise with the girl from the bar and I played matchmaker for my friend, leaving him alone in the pub (there was a girl he liked there), forcing him and the girl (whom neither understand each other) to try and communicate without me. I then went out and got laid (she was BE-AU-TI-FUL, BTW
). Later the same evening my friend returns to the hotel room (which I as well had returned to) with the girl from the pub, and asks if me, and my brother could just go on a walk or something. That is when two really buff Australians comes forth and starts asking some really rude questions and being general dicks, so…
It’s really sad that there had to be a fight so near the end of the trip and that of course it is with two “foreign†guys. But no matter, for the next day I learned a fun fact, as I heard from Kohei and SAW with my own two eyes, a famous Japanese actress, whom had stayed at our shabby Osaka hotel. Kohei told me she is really famous in Japan (but he wouldn' t tell me her name) and that she had stayed at the hotel with two men (not the Australians). I saw these fellows as well, the looked cocky, wearing those suits. He also mentioned he had talked to her for a bit and that he thought she was a real bitch and snob.
Lastly we went on a shopping spree, I bought chopsticks, as well as another odd souvenir, namely a Japanese melon, which we decided to smuggle to Sweden. We succeeded!
Man, I thought I would die from writing this. And do know that this is only a small part of our trip and is far from everything we did and saw. But typing more than this will be bad for my health, and I don’t think it’ll be all that interesting of a read. With that I conclude my trip to Japan in a nutshell.
I got pics, but I’ll save those for later. Now I need to rest my fingers.
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