I'm Going To Japan

Tu_triky wrote:

make sure you find the answer to this pressing question i found while i was there....one of my favorite pix.

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ah...great sign...and the beer....a nice ice cold one...and in Japan... :thumbsup:

Tu, where was that pix from, a shuttle bus? :headscratch:

qilver wrote:

ah...great sign...and the beer....a nice ice cold one...and in Japan... :thumbsup:

Tu, where was that pix from, a shuttle bus? :headscratch:

it was the interior cabin of a ropeway car in hakone ..you know the ones that hang in the air....like at disneyland....

im such a bad person, i would have totally stole that. :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:

it was the interior cabin of a ropeway car in hakone ..you know the ones that hang in the air....like at disneyland....

damn, guess i didn't notice it while in the ropeway car in Hakone during my first trip to Japan back in summer '03 :doh:

qilver wrote:

damn, guess i didn't notice it while in the ropeway car in Hakone during my first trip to Japan back in summer '03 :doh:

well...it's not a matter of not noticing it...the advertisements probably change a lot so it might have very well been different when you were there...

Tu_triky wrote:

well...it's not a matter of not noticing it...the advertisements probably change a lot so it might have very well been different when you were there...

yeah, the ones on the train change very frequently, even during the day they change it a few times...

i just remember that the Yamanote line had a few monitors in it, and a currenty Aya Ueto cm was airing all over the place in Japan...

qilver wrote:

yeah, the ones on the train change very frequently, even during the day they change it a few times...

i just remember that the Yamanote line had a few monitors in it, and a currenty Aya Ueto cm was airing all over the place in Japan...

i can only imagine...the are so many advertisements and monitors/tvs/jumbotrons scattered throughout the city....it's a constant bombardment of commercials.

Tu_triky wrote:


i can only imagine...the are so many advertisements and monitors/tvs/jumbotrons scattered throughout the city....it's a constant bombardment of commercials.

and also remember seeing an Ai Otsuka "Smily" video on the huge screen in Shibuya/Shinjuku. They have gigantic video screens in the downtown area, which are so cool.

qilver wrote:

and also remember seeing an Ai Otsuka "Smily" video on the huge screen in Shibuya/Shinjuku. They have gigantic video screens in the downtown area, which are so cool.

it's pretty cool method of mind control..... :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote:

it's pretty cool method of mind control..... :beaten:

just being in Tokyo, is infectious, mind control, that is addicting... :google: :bonk:

qilver wrote:

just being in Tokyo, is infectious, mind control, that is addicting... :google: :bonk:

thing is ppl always seem to be on the go, one wonders if anybody even pays attention to those ads....

Tu_triky wrote:

thing is ppl always seem to be on the go, one wonders if anybody even pays attention to those ads....

it always amazed me while i was in Japan, how there were people everywhere and yeah, always on the go, and in a hurry, esp. when the train was arriving and people getting off, or hopping on the next train, it was crazy..

also, all hours of the day, on a weekday, OL's, Salarymen, School girls and boys out and around the trainstations, in the downtown, don't these people have work/school to go to? :headscratch: :hehe:
and Tokyo, a big gigantic metropolis that is just so with it with advertising/technology, just about everything is so infectious and addicting about it all.... :victory:

that is true. when i stopped to read the ads by the street just for fun i got accidentally pushed by people a number of times because they're rushing somewhere.

qilver wrote:

it always amazed me while i was in Japan, how there were people everywhere and yeah, always on the go, and in a hurry, esp. when the train was arriving and people getting off, or hopping on the next train, it was crazy..

also, all hours of the day, on a weekday, OL's, Salarymen, School girls and boys out and around the trainstations, in the downtown, don't these people have work/school to go to? :headscratch: :hehe:
and Tokyo, a big gigantic metropolis that is just so with it with advertising/technology, just about everything is so infectious and addicting about it all.... :victory:

it is pretty amazing i must say...well when you have 35 million ppl living in the greater tokyo area...you gotta adjust to living life hectically

M wrote:that is true. when i stopped to read the ads by the street just for fun i got accidentally pushed by people a number of times because they're rushing somewhere.

i was intrigued by their politeness despite the crowdedness of the massive amounts of people in the trainstations. I would walk through the Shinagawa station while visiting Tokyo and that was a crowded station. The escalator was full with people and they were always giving the right of way to others who were more in a rush to catch the train or go somewhere. I found the people of japan, to be courteous, and the customer service is the best i experienced.

M wrote:that is true. when i stopped to read the ads by the street just for fun i got accidentally pushed by people a number of times because they're rushing somewhere.

they probably take it for granted that nobody stops to read those adverts so they assume everybody else is walking full tilt to get to a particular destination as well!

there's also the added danger of bicycles!

what's going on?! :bleh:

kenjilina wrote:there's also the added danger of bicycles!

i remember, especially in Kyoto, i think one almost sideswiped me, but i don't think that person would have ran me over, heard the "ring ring" from person's ringer on the bike coming, but the people on bikes, a common thing i saw there.... :doh:

funny article:

NHK, Kabukicho & Me


Interesting news item. NHK gets caught paying off the Yakuza for permission to shoot some footage in Kabukicho, Tokyo (the district filled with strip clubs, prostitutes, love hotels, and such, run by Yakuza and Chinese crime gangs). Funny story, but back in 2002, I had no idea just how dangerous it was to shoot footage in Kabukicho (much less that I needed gangster permission). The area has so much cool neon, I was naturally attracted towards shooting there. So I shot a few scenes there that year for a tech documentary interviewing a friend who worked for Sega, now at Sony PSP Division.

During shooting, this skinny guy in a cheap suit (who I later learned was Yakuza) kept walking "right" in front of the camera. I then found some of those bright orange safety cones and put them in a circle around us, roughly 4.5 feet in diameter (a very small space). The guy "still" kept walking in front of the camera! I was too involved with shooting to confront the guy like I wanted to, but in hindsight, it's a good thing I didn't, I might not be here writing this right now. Japan isn't all Hello Kitty and sweet cakes. There is a dark side. I really need to sit down and chronicle all of my strange tales in Tokyo over the years, I've got some great stories...
rebel yell by doc strange at 5:21:00 AM
Thursday, February 23, 2006