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Small town Japan. Nice photos.

Nice pictures, but this is far from small town, it's a suburb of Toyko.
It's only 18 minutes to the busiest train station in the world! Like taking the Skytrain from Metrotown to Burrard.

I lived here for 8 months. This is small town Japan. 😀
 
Toonces said:
Nice pictures, but this is far from small town, it's a suburb of Toyko.
It's only 18 minutes to the busiest train station in the world! Like taking the Skytrain from Metrotown to Burrard.

I lived here for 8 months. This is small town Japan. 😀
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Eight months and you only have google images to share. 🙁 I'm hope to visit Japan someday.
 
SpiderWiz said:
Eight months and you only have google images to share. 🙁 I'm hope to visit Japan someday.
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Ok, here's a few.😛

Link My Apartment (I always got a kick out of writing 'cube 8' for my home address).
Link View of the city from the tallest building in town.
Link Coastline, Pacific Ocean.
Link A local festival.
Link Some of my junior high (8th grade) students.

Link WTF Japan? picture. (from the same festival as above)
 
Toonces said:
Nice pictures, but this is far from small town, it's a suburb of Toyko.
It's only 18 minutes to the busiest train station in the world! Like taking the Skytrain from Metrotown to Burrard.

I lived here for 8 months. This is small town Japan. 😀
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Yeah, no way this is a small town.
 
You actually do see alot of homeless in Japan. There were two that slept under a bridge near my hostel. The difference was that they didn't piss and shit right in the street and cleaned up after themselves. And the train stations get full of them at night too.
 
I'm pretty sure I've been to that exact Mister Donut. :hmm:

Ban OP, makes me want to fly over there right now. 🙁

KT
 
Some Richard Gere movie is out based on Hachiko, the dog statue sitting outside of Shibuya station. I'm too lazy to look it up but think the movie is Hachi?

Cool area but definitely not what I would consider a small town. Can't wait to be back over there in a couple of months.

BTW, nothing like walking into Mr. Donut, getting your food, walking out, and realizing you now smell like a walking cigarette. 😛
 
Fingolfin269 said:
Some Richard Gere movie is out based on Hachiko, the dog statue sitting outside of Shibuya station. I'm too lazy to look it up but think the movie is Hachi?

Cool area but definitely not what I would consider a small town. Can't wait to be back over there in a couple of months.

BTW, nothing like walking into Mr. Donut, getting your food, walking out, and realizing you now smell like a walking cigarette. 😛
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko:_A_Dog's_Story
 
Toonces said:
Nice pictures, but this is far from small town, it's a suburb of Toyko.
It's only 18 minutes to the busiest train station in the world! Like taking the Skytrain from Metrotown to Burrard.

I lived here for 8 months. This is small town Japan. 😀
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Yeah, suburbs don't count. Small towns are supposed to be isolated and several hours away from any big cities. Such towns are horrible places to live. I feel claustrophobic and depressed in such places. I barely make it in my small town (198,000 people in the county), 40 minutes from Stockholm (2 million).

They're completely dead and you never meet anyone new so there are never any new social interactions. There are no interesting stores and there's nothing to do. Public transport is limited to a few buses per day, so if you don't have a car, it's like living in jail. If there's a bar or club, everybody knows each other already so you might as well stay at home with some friends and drink. If there's a cinema, it's tiny and they only show old or b movies.
 
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rdubbz said:
must be nice to bike somewhere and not worry about bringing a lock.
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Yeah, that blew me away too. I would never leave even a shitty bike unlocked for a minute anywhere here in Vancouver (and it's a much smaller city than even a suburb of Tokyo). Bike theft is rampant.

Also, I'm amazed at how clean the buildings and streets are. No garbage or graffiti.

It's kind of a sad commentary on Canada when a much larger city manages to be so much cleaner and safer.
 
IT"S ALL A LIE.

Last time I went to Japan, I went and stayed at a friends house. Getting off the subway, it seemed like a pretty quaint town. Of course walking to his house I passed a dozen love hotels, but nothing too major.

Then suddenly I enter his house, and the towns rustic aesthetic was shattered by a ridiculously high tech house. Everything spotless, computerized kitchen appliances, squirt water in butt toilets, and all high tech stuff.

Also picture of dog in Shibuya

 
InflatableBuddha said:
Yeah, that blew me away too. I would never leave even a shitty bike unlocked for a minute anywhere here in Vancouver (and it's a much smaller city than even a suburb of Tokyo). Bike theft is rampant.

Also, I'm amazed at how clean the buildings and streets are. No garbage or graffiti.

It's kind of a sad commentary on Canada when a much larger city manages to be so much cleaner and safer.
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Yeah I remember walking around Tokyo at 3:00 in the morning, taking shortcuts through alleys with few people around and feeling completely safe. I would never do that here, down random alleys anyway; I have no problem walking around late at night, but there still a lot of sketchy alleyways around here.

I also loved the umbrella sharing system they had in place. If it started raining you could just take an umbrella from outside a store and leave it outside your next destination. It was like a free sharing system, so you don't have to carry one around all the time, yet you were never caught out it in the rain. 😎

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Yeah I remember walking around Tokyo at 3:00 in the morning, taking shortcuts through alleys with few people around and feeling completely safe. I would never do that here, down random alleys anyway; I have no problem walking around late at night, but there still a lot of sketchy alleyways around here.

I also loved the umbrella sharing system they had in place. If it started raining you could just take an umbrella from outside a store and leave it outside your next destination. It was like a free sharing system, so you don't have to carry one around all the time, yet you were never caught out it in the rain. 😎

KT
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I tried that out in Shinjuku. I ended up in the gay bar district. That was interesting.
 
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