Visiting Japan

[Animeniax]

im planning on visting japan asap..for me im not sure who to fly through, where to stay.. i wanna move from the top of japan to the bottom.. id like to stay for a month or two if i could...
i know tokyo has places that i heard for 10 bucks a night you could basically sleep in a fancy 4' x 8' room LOL which id totally do.. i wanna go there to enjoy my self see the sites , take in events just enjoy the night scenery...

Couple things: are you Asian? If not, please limit your stay to 2 weeks like a good foreign tourist should.

Most major carriers fly into Japan, especially Asian airlines. Tickets used to be pretty cheap ($1000 from the States or the middle east), but with fuel prices on the rise, it's getting up around $1300.

I don't think there are any places cheaper than youth hostels that charge around $30. Capsule hotels charge around $40, but I wouldn't recommend them. No privacy, no peace and quiet, no security for your belongings (unless you use coin lockers), and it's pretty cramped and seedy. You can get a decent hotel room for $60 depending on where and when you travel.

One trip I went from Osaka to Fukuoka then up to Sapporo and back to Osaka in 3 weeks with plenty of stops in between. It's fun if you enjoy train trips, which I do. It's also a good way to see the difference in culture and people between the regions of Japan.

[Junior]

Couple things: are you Asian?

Any Asians? or just Japanese/Chinese and Korean?

o.o

Random question.

[DB_Hunter]

Side note, I just realised how funny it is that the Japanese are considered asian ahead of Pakistani's, Indian's etc despite the former not even being attached to the damn asian continental land mass.

[Animeniax]

Any Asians? or just Japanese/Chinese and Korean?

o.o

Random question.

Asians meaning yellow people, period. I don't mind Asians making extended trips in Japan, but others should limit their stays so as to not leave any lasting influence on the people there, and not to burden them with their foreignness for too lengthy a time.

Side note, I just realised how funny it is that the Japanese are considered asian ahead of Pakistani's, Indian's etc despite the former not even being attached to the damn asian continental land mass.

We've had this discussion before. If you want to include all people on the continent of Asia when you speak of Asians, it makes the classification meaningless. When people say Asian, they mean yellow people. I'd prefer we went back to calling yellow people "Orientals," just to make the distinction between us and the brown peoples.

Here's a litmus test: take a trip to Japan. If the people there treat you like sh*t, you're not Asian.

[XanBcoo]

When people say Asian, they mean yellow people

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I'd prefer we went back to calling yellow people "Orientals," just to make the distinction between us and the brown peoples.

Oriental is even more vague, if you know the meaning of the term, and in most places that aren't America, "Asian" is acknowledged as including Indians. Ethnicity really is a hard thing to pin down and label. There's too much splitting of hairs and cultural bias involved.

[Buffalobiian]

Here's a litmus test: take a trip to Japan. If the people there treat you like sh*t, you're not Asian.

I'm finding that quite strange. Why would they treat you badly? I remember reading on this forum, a long time ago, a post that said the Japanese basically idolize the west. If that's true, why the dislike in these people visiting?

Oriental is even more vague, if you know the meaning of the term

. I find that term rather more distinct than just the term Asian. Sure, Oriental means "of the east", but you don't just think of those "from the east", you tend to form the image of, as Ani said, yellow skinned. I find that sort of funny since I'm Oriental, but really, but I can't say I'm yellow at all. Most Orientals I've met are either described as lightly tanned or white. Only one I can describe as yellow would be one of my teachers. There's a lot more to it than that though. Like, in my previous post, I mentioned genetics. Besides the hair, another feature that's really telling is the face. Sure, there's the stereotypical eyes that we get teased about at primary school, and that, to an extent holds true. However, the thing that really tells Oriental genus apart from other Asians, to me at least, are things such as the nose and brow. Orientals generally don't have such a pronounced/high nose nor eyes that are as deep in the skull as other races.