Comments on: What Japan Doesn’t Think

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:00:36 +0000

Paulie: It is a shame that there’s no original questions on there. One day maybe I’ll do some xD

By: paulie

paulie — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:15:59 +0000

What Japan thinks is a weird site, that guy only translates oricon surverys into English, nothing original at all

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:49:24 +0000

Nick: Emailing phones is indeed for bored train travellers, but I used to email any photo I took on my phone that was in the slightest bit good to everyone in my address book. All the time. I was going to put Shimbashi on the list but I think Akiba is more famous.

Drew: Ikebukuro is really nice actually, another place I wanted to put on, but it has somewhat of a lack of Izakayas! Why, Ikuebukuro designers? WHY?!

Deas: I lived in Tokyo for the year so it’s the part of Japan I know about. Maybe I’ll do another one in the near future with a more country theme.

By: Deas

Deas — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:16:32 +0000

1. B; Drew kind of nailed that.
2. A; I didn’t design it either, but I lived there for around 10 months and never had an issue.
3. B; Walking home from Ikebukuro station wasn’t worth the extra effort. It reinforced my self-imposed curfew. I think that it was a good thing in the end, because it also regulated my sleep.
4. C; Lame.
5. C…went to school there.

So…why would you like to see these questions on the site? They’re all rather Tokyo-centric… And I’m sure you’d get answers as varied as the personal experiences which led to them, just like you did here. (Although, I bet there would be fewer write-in answers. Maybe that’s a Western opinionated thing. Ha ha.)

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:29:55 +0000

1. b. If it’s a cute girl, she can put whatever emoticon she wants in there. Otherwise, stick to words. My phone does not have the animated ones, so they just show up as boxes anyway.
2. a. I didn’t design it, but I’ve never had a problem with the trains here. That said, these days I prefer to take a motorcycle.
3. b. Yep, I’ve missed it a few times. All-night karaoke or manga cafes to the rescue.
4. I do have one favourite bar that I like to go to in Roppongi to chat with the other regulars and the staff. That said, I’m not really into going anyplace else. Most of my Roppongi experience is going to my dojo there at 7am.
5. Ikebukuro. Because it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. You see all types there (ie people from the other 4 areas mentioned) on a Sunday night, all converging there on their way back home to the North or the West.

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:00:44 +0000

1. I can’t remember the last time somebody emailed my phone. Isn’t that only for bored people on trains?
2. It’s been years since I went to Tokyo, but don’t you just get on the train, send emails full of spammy emoticons, then get off? Simple.
3. I actually just miss the train, period. I moved to the countryside and train technology hasn’t reached us yet.
4. At first I was thrilled that foreigners were allowed in the clubs, unlike in Nagoya. But I later realized they only do it so they can steal our drinks when we put them down, forcing us to buy more, making us drunk enough to forget that we had our drinks stolen in the first place - very clever.
5. I once stayed in a little capsule hotel in Shimbashi. It was small, dirty and had bogeys stuck on the walls inside the capsule. If I had to pick a favorite place in the whole of Tokyo, that would be it. (*´ο`*)=3