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himura · Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 3

I live in Japan now.Actualy, I learn Japanese in university now.
Have you ever been to Japan?
You know, Japan is a very small county, but there are many good things in Japan!!
For example
1.JAPANESE FOOD sushi, tempura, sukiyaki, rice-cake, natto, tofu, umebosi, yosenabe, etc�

Many foreigners don�t like these. Umm�why can�t they eat?
They are delicious! Let�s try! You�ll like natto and umebosi especially�
he-he-he�
2.JAPANESE CLOTHES kimono (foreside, yukata)
Kimono is very colorful and beautiful clothes. !

People don�t wear it ordinary.
On the Coming-of-Age Day, 20 years old people wear furisode.
On the day of summer festival, many girls wear yukata.
In my study holidays �
We visited Disney Land, Fuji mountain, some temples, NHK ...etc. Frankly speaking,
I really like Japan, which is clean and beautiful.
Also, people I met there are friendly.
If I have free time and money in the future, I will visit Japan again alone.
Hope you aslo gone to Japan.

pilar · Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 1

I went to Japan two years ago.Is a nice Country and a very nice people.
I�m Spanish and if you dont speak japanese is very difficult to understand because a few people speaks english.

Markus · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Cologne/Germany

I really like the japanese culture and history and their attitude. I guess the roots for it comes from martial arts. I started training Judo when I was 6 years old, some years ago Aikido and Ju-Jutsu aswell. Also I am fascinated by the art of writing, Kanji and such kind. Got me a book to learn to read and write it but it ain`t easy. Anyway, since this is about traveling, I really would like to travel through japan once, all I know is it should be quite expensive compared to european standard. Can anyone confirm that? And what places shouldn`t at any cost be missed to visit? Can anyone tell some of his/her travel experience through japan?
Thanks in advance...

LucentShade · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 542 Location: Nebraska, USA

I would like to go there as well, but I do have some doubts about it. It seems like the people have an attitude of "gaijin wa kowai desu," or that foreigners are scary, if I got that phrase right. I can see this causing problems, so I'm going to try to learn more about the language and culture before I think about travelling there.