Japan Meme
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muscatlove and setra.
While I've never lived in Japan, for those who want to be horrified, I've been to Japan 16 times or approximately 30 weeks in total, possibly longer.
What makes you happy about Japan? What memories are quintessential to you as being /in/ Japan?
You too can try to guess which trip(s) I am thinking of lol
Hearing the Dango song
Living on a diet of mikan
Getting up at the crack of dawn to queue for 3 hours+ for something.
Getting 5000 yen from a random woman I met on the train from Ononimachi to Koriyama just as the shinkansen doors closed.
The music video where Ami and Yumi help Jenny win back Jeff
Caramel Frappucinos
Earthquake at Sunshine 60
Fuji-san!!!!!!!
Learning how to text message. lol
Trying to visit locales from whatever is my current obsession
The American flag pin given to me by the staff member at the American Club (which was later eaten by a deer at Miyajima)
Asking a doujinshika to draw me an original sketch at Super Comic City after having been too shy in the past.
Seeing a deer and a Japanese tourist play tug of war with a tourist map.
Soft-serve ice cream!
Getting much more up close and personal with a rooting machine than I ever intended.
Breakfast at Honeybee.
The gardens at Okayama
Not being able to effectively communicate with people.
Having random guys trying to pick me up. o_O;;
JR Rail Passes
Blowing out the candles in lieu of Jesus on our Christmas Cake
Santa dancing to the "Yellow Rose of Texas"
Earthquake just as I reach the high part of "My Heart Will Go On" at karaoke.
Finally making it to Prima Baci. <3
Spending 30 minutes wandering 4 blocks of Akihabara trying to find Volks.
Trying to play dumb while waiting at HMV so I can see Suwabe Junichi in person.
Sentences with the Japanese word of the day.
Watching a TV show known only to us as "Girls who kick guys in the balls."
Episode 31 of Seed
Being attacked by the Japanese camera crew at Sato leading to an accidental Omukae ceremony and my picture in the Sato blog.
Karaoking Blood while wearing a St. Rudolph's jersey.
500 yen umbrellas
Uniqlo!!!!!!!
Strawberry ice cream at Tokyo Tower
Working the doujinshi stacks at K-books and Mandarake
Being treated to dinner by a famous doujinshika, who is now published
The vendors who motored out to our boat after riding through the Hozu Rapids.
Curtain shopping at Tokyu Hands
Someone I barely know getting me a voucher for Yo SD Anne
Water Salad, Grapefruit Fanta, and all the other soft drinks I liked and are no longer for sale.
Paying 200 yen to ride in a mini car on track.
Crashing the wedding at Meiji Jingu and getting pictures of traditional dress.
Sitting at the kotatsu eating mikans lol
Heated toilet seats but unheated shower rooms o_O
The various tunes played by trains in Tokyo, which I still hum sometimes.
Finally, all the extremely wonderful people I've met in Japan, both Japanese and gaijin.
muscatlove and setra. While I've never lived in Japan, for those who want to be horrified, I've been to Japan 16 times or approximately 30 weeks in total, possibly longer.
What makes you happy about Japan? What memories are quintessential to you as being /in/ Japan?
You too can try to guess which trip(s) I am thinking of lol
Hearing the Dango song
Living on a diet of mikan
Getting up at the crack of dawn to queue for 3 hours+ for something.
Getting 5000 yen from a random woman I met on the train from Ononimachi to Koriyama just as the shinkansen doors closed.
The music video where Ami and Yumi help Jenny win back Jeff
Caramel Frappucinos
Earthquake at Sunshine 60
Fuji-san!!!!!!!
Learning how to text message. lol
Trying to visit locales from whatever is my current obsession
The American flag pin given to me by the staff member at the American Club (which was later eaten by a deer at Miyajima)
Asking a doujinshika to draw me an original sketch at Super Comic City after having been too shy in the past.
Seeing a deer and a Japanese tourist play tug of war with a tourist map.
Soft-serve ice cream!
Getting much more up close and personal with a rooting machine than I ever intended.
Breakfast at Honeybee.
The gardens at Okayama
Not being able to effectively communicate with people.
Having random guys trying to pick me up. o_O;;
JR Rail Passes
Blowing out the candles in lieu of Jesus on our Christmas Cake
Santa dancing to the "Yellow Rose of Texas"
Earthquake just as I reach the high part of "My Heart Will Go On" at karaoke.
Finally making it to Prima Baci. <3
Spending 30 minutes wandering 4 blocks of Akihabara trying to find Volks.
Trying to play dumb while waiting at HMV so I can see Suwabe Junichi in person.
Sentences with the Japanese word of the day.
Watching a TV show known only to us as "Girls who kick guys in the balls."
Episode 31 of Seed
Being attacked by the Japanese camera crew at Sato leading to an accidental Omukae ceremony and my picture in the Sato blog.
Karaoking Blood while wearing a St. Rudolph's jersey.
500 yen umbrellas
Uniqlo!!!!!!!
Strawberry ice cream at Tokyo Tower
Working the doujinshi stacks at K-books and Mandarake
Being treated to dinner by a famous doujinshika, who is now published
The vendors who motored out to our boat after riding through the Hozu Rapids.
Curtain shopping at Tokyu Hands
Someone I barely know getting me a voucher for Yo SD Anne
Water Salad, Grapefruit Fanta, and all the other soft drinks I liked and are no longer for sale.
Paying 200 yen to ride in a mini car on track.
Crashing the wedding at Meiji Jingu and getting pictures of traditional dress.
Sitting at the kotatsu eating mikans lol
Heated toilet seats but unheated shower rooms o_O
The various tunes played by trains in Tokyo, which I still hum sometimes.
Finally, all the extremely wonderful people I've met in Japan, both Japanese and gaijin.
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-09 05:24 am (UTC)I was coming back from Licca-chan Castle on my first trip to Japan, and being rather obviously foreign, a middle aged woman took an interest in me. We "talked", i.e. I pointed to words in the dictionary and then she would take the dictionary and point to words, for 45 minutes, in between which I hacked up a lung. (I caught a VERY bad cold that trip lol)
I said my goodbyes and left for the shinkansen tracks. I was just getting on my shinkansen, when suddenly she was there, and handed me a 5000 yen bill. I wanted to give it back, but the doors shut before I could really process anything.
I ended up using it to pay for a Green Car seat on the Haruka Express so I could go to KIX and go home. lol
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-09 05:42 am (UTC)This was the official music video for some Ami and Yumi song from 2000. If I remember correctly, it featured Ellie (or maybe Kisara) stealing Jeff away from Jenny. Jenny was miserable until Ami and Yumi dolls cheered her up and help her get back Jeff. I think there was even a slap. lol Jenny can have lots of boyfriends, but Jeff has to have only one girlfriend, making the double standard work for you. XD;;;
I want to say the woman had a son who had died? But my Japanese was non-existent at the time (like I only knew domo arigato, konnichiwa, and sayonara lol) and her English was not so great. lol
Most of these memories were really happy, and overall I am very fortunate to have them.
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-09 09:51 am (UTC)Getting up at the crack of dawn to queue for 3 hours+ for something.
Comiket and/or doll shows. But wasn't that every trip for you? :p
JR Rail Passes
Darn your touristy gaijin hide! Resident scum like me must suffer; the best deal I can get is the Seishun 18 kippu.
Spending 30 minutes wandering 4 blocks of Akihabara trying to find Volks
Their Kyoto office is much easier to find, though you have to draw blood to have them give you directions...
Working the doujinshi stacks at K-books and Mandarake
I will be doing that Saturday.
Being treated to dinner by a famous doujinshika, who is now published
Nifty. Who?
Curtain shopping at Tokyu Hands
I see these all over the place, yet never been in one...
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Date: 2006-02-09 02:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-09 02:56 pm (UTC)Comiket and/or doll shows. But wasn't that every trip for you? :p
Actually, no. lol My first trip, my August 2000 trip, and one of my October 2003 trips, I did not attend any events so there was no queuing lol
JR Rail Passes
Darn your touristy gaijin hide! Resident scum like me must suffer; the best deal I can get is the Seishun 18 kippu.
Oh yeah, best part of being a tourist. :P Rail passes *ARE* the best bargain in Japan. Though on trips I never left Tokyo, I didn't get one.
Spending 30 minutes wandering 4 blocks of Akihabara trying to find Volks
Their Kyoto office is much easier to find, though you have to draw blood to have them give you directions...
At the time, there were fewer on-line collectors, cause now there are photo maps to most locations. The experience of wandering 3 blocks trying to find something though is so Japanese to me. Is the Kyoto office the one at Sato in Saga Arashiyama? If it is, and you'd told me you were interviewing, there are amazing English photo directions on how to get there and I could have linked you!
Working the doujinshi stacks at K-books and Mandarake
I will be doing that Saturday.
I do it a lot, but I particularly think of May 2003 for that, as
Being treated to dinner by a famous doujinshika, who is now published
Nifty. Who?
The circle's name is Nero, I do not remember what their published original story is, but they do have one. They mostly do Ohtori porn, but also liked Yuuta and were at a small Yuuta only event, where I being the only foreigner stood out like a sore thumb lol
Curtain shopping at Tokyu Hands
I see these all over the place, yet never been in one...
That's actually an in-joke lol Though I have the pictures of myself and
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Date: 2006-02-10 07:36 am (UTC)I am going to Tokyo tomorrow for a dj event/being touristy in Akihabara at my friend's insistence (I'd be perfectly content with buying my weight in Naruto pr0n and hightailing it right back to Osaka, but that's just me :p).
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Date: 2006-02-10 07:40 am (UTC)