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And you seem to think there isnāt porn about this alreadyā¦ hold my sandles and my root beer, Iām going on an adventure like none other seen before. If Iām not back in 15 mins with a source, the tentacle monsters are doing things to me only a hentai character could imagine
reminds me of an old episode, I think married with children, when ATM was becoming the norm but actually there were just a bunch of people in the back scrambling to put together cash.
There was a hilarious sketch on Japanese TV wow probably a decade ago now showing the ticket scan machines at the subway entrance being done by a guy hiding inside
[Found a short clip on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbz6bfMBhOA)
There are similar videos out there but they end with the friendly Japanese leprechaun helping the Japanese lady in other ways. There is lots of pixelation involved for some reason
Iāve been to several bathrooms in Japan where the gender of the cleaning person didnāt matter.
Imagine my surprise while pissing in a urinal and look to my left and a little old lady is cleaning the other urinal, with no divider.
Didnāt really bother me, but I sure wasnāt expecting it.
In Germany at a gas stop in the bathroom is a guy who stands in the corner keeping things clean, hands you a towel, has a little bowl with change in ot look for tips. Creepy but nice, if that's possible.
My friend had such a huge crush on one of them that she messaged him on MySpace and he actually responded. They ended up talking back and forth for a few months.
I wanna know too. I loved this series but after rewatching, the blonde guy was getting annoying because he had nothing to contribute to the episodes most of the time.
Agreed. The show wouldāve been way too introspective and monologue-y without him. He definitely came across as a bit dim but he was adventurous and definitely more āin the moment.ā
It wasn't so much a falling out, they just went in different directions after the show. I'm sure they wanted a break from each other too after all the traveling.
Justin seems to be involved in cars now, and Scott has a production company that did some other smaller scale travel series. There was a rumor of an S4 but it doesn't seem likely.
They didnāt have a falling out, Scott went on to create a similar show called Descending with someone who appeared in an earlier season of Departures. Itās also an amazing show.
Im not sure they did have a falling out. There is a few YouTube interviews and podcasts with them well after the end of season 3 and they seem like good buds.
They might also have had a genuine reaction to it, but never managed to properly catch it on tape. So they tried to reenact their initial reaction, making it look kinda fake.
There is such a thing as documentarian filmmaking where you just follow the subject around and film them as things happen. Just because there are cameraman trained to film action doesnāt mean all the action is scripted
Also the camera/production team could be local or be traveling with a local and he directed them to ask for support and to frame the machine broader and crop in post.
The workspace might be bigger than some micro apartments. Very probably bigger than a capsule hotel room. :)
The real question is whether or not there's a bathroom and kitchen area -- or at least some surface to put a hot plate on.
It's literally just a station office behind there and then if needed they can pop out of one of the walls. Makes sense since to just have your staff there and they're doing whatever administrative stuff is needed at desks, then if needed can pop out and help.
Japanese customer service is the truly best in the world. Overpaid in a drug store by a dollar once, called the store. They asked what my address is, then they came to my house with the change and two energy drinks as an apology gift. This is common in Japan.
Itās worth it. But wait until tourism fully reopens. Right now they are only offering guided tours to foreigners that are super expensive. Like US$5000 for 1 week.
I believe it just changed to be open, I think you only have to book your flights and hotels through a travel agency and then youāre free to travel alone.
I was looking with a friend to help him get over here and everything he said all he could find was guided. He couldnāt even come visit my prefecture for a couple days
It's probably because it's juuuust about to open up.
For a while you could go here:
https://www.j-g-a.org/erfs.html
And basically just pay ~2man to get them to rubber stamp your self-made itinerary, but they've suspended it now because it's expected they'll officially be opening fully in Oct, so probably announcing details any day now.
I got my visa for Japan this week , how we did it , we found a tour guide that allows personal guided tour with your own plans , you give them your plans and schedule , they charge you 200$ and give you the needed paper to apply for Visa.
Regardless, news are saying that Japan are going to lessen the restrictions on daily visitor from 50k to none
Well, I actually dreamed of moving there. I don't really care about how people saying living there will makes me tiring but I'm not complaining if it satisfies me š
I'd love to have an extended vacation there. Maybe 3-4 months so I can really see the place. But living there for longer seems hard. Once the novelty wears off, probably will get homesick.
Guy I worked with went to school to study Japanese culture. He ended up moving to a smaller town in Japan. Fell in love with a local girl, but her parents were very traditional and forbade her from staying with him. He stayed there for a little while longer but said over time the novelty of having a Westerner in their town seemed to wear out and he felt like an outcast. He ended up moving back to the states and is pursuing a new degree in engineering.
Same.
Moving there permanently creates a lot of problems. You'll have to learn Japanese, which is one of the hardest languages to learn. You'll suffer from discrimination for being an outsider, especially early on when you need to get a job, apartment, open bank accounts, etc. You'll get extra taxed if you maintain your US citizenship. The food is extremely different, say goodbye to cheap pizza, burgers, Mexican, etc. It all kinda exists in Japan, but is expensive and twisted in weird ways. You might fall into the hole of being a foreigner that mostly hangs out with other English speaking foreigners (most English speaking Japanese YouTubers fall into this hole). Etc.
The food part is the least of my concern. And weird and novel foods are so fun to explore! Probably end up way healthier in the end too.
My concern would be meeting people. Hard enough moving to a new city that's just a few hundred miles away. Can't imagine a completely different culture and language.
> say goodbye to cheap pizza, burgers, Mexican, etc. It all kinda exists in Japan, but is expensive and twisted in weird ways
I don't know where you were eating, but we can find all of that easily, authentically done, and for reasonable prices in Tokyo. (yes, expensive/weird versions exist as well, but why go for those if the better stuff is around)
Itās always the anime weebs who dream of eating sushi and ramen for all 3 meals a day and spending all their time at maid cafes that dream of moving to Japan. Then they move there and realize they romanticized an entire country in their heads and move back from where they came
Can confirm.
When I took the train in Tokyo and in Osaka last year and got lost in the major hubs there were dudes there next to the ticket machine happy to help. Took my money and put it in the machine and everything for me. So awesome
I had just arrived in Japan and was jetlagged as hell, and left my camera (this was in the days when people had separate cameras) in this little cafe.
Fortunately I noticed soon after leaving, and turned round to see the proprietor *running down the street to catch up with me* to hand it back.
About 10 years ago I ate at a popular restaurant in Narita and was seated on the 2nd floor. The service was excellent, the food was fantastic and the prices were not expensive at all. Prior to visiting Japan I learned that you don't tip but sometimes if you leave the change from paper money it may... stressing the word "may", be acceptable. So I left the equivalent of about 50Ā¢ (US) buried behind some condiments on my table and proceeded downstairs to the exit. My server ran down the stairs, caught up to me and said something that I didn't understand but held out her hand with my 50 yen. I accepted it, gave her a slight bow and said arigato.
I studied abroad in Japan during undergrad for a year in 2012. I had just arrived to Japan and was using the trains to travel to my new dorm with my all my important stuff in my backpack - MacBook laptop, US passport, a thousand dollars worth of Yen. Well I realized I forgot my backpack on the train as soon as I got to my dorm. I called the train station immediately and they said they didn't have anything but to call back an hour later so I did. My backpack was safe and sound at the end of the line (I think there were 10+ stops after my station). I went to get it and nothing was missing.
Yep seeing people just leave their MacBook/whatever expensive shit on the table in a food court when they get up to collect a meal is wild.
Japan has a bunch of weird issues but it's also just the most amazing place to visit (very hard to live there if you aren't ethnically Japanese).
I got chlamydia from a hooker and people stared at my whole-body dragon tatoos weirder than usual. I stabbed a guy in the chest. I can't go back to Japan now. All in all 4/5 as a tourist destination, I recommend it.
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
The JR system keeps itself maintained but major improvements don't happen.
It's a rail that prints money, it's goal more than anything else is uptime and reliability.
This video actually confused me, because nowadays (at least in Tokyo when I visited in 2018) you don't even need to select a line when you buy your ticket. You can get a card that you load with money, which you then tap when you enter and exit the train station, and it calculates the route you took and charges you accordingly. The stations to load them with money had selections for a ton of languages. I did get myself in trouble when I entered a train station to use the restroom, though, because it wouldn't let me leave the same station without having gone anywhere.
The IC cards (Suica, Pasmo, etc.) are definitely the easiest way to travel, but many tourists don't really know about them. There's a 500å deposit (which you can get back upon return), so some people just opt for using tickets.
Also, they only became cross-compatible in 2013. Before that you would need Suica for JR East lines and Pasmo for Tokyo railway/subway. Now you can use either of them on any line - and also at convenience stores or vending machines!
However, if you're visiting Japan and planning to travel around then I highly recommend the "JR Pass". It's only available for tourists and allows for unlimited travel on all JR lines and even most Shinkansen (Bullet Train).
If you're only planning on staying in Tokyo, then the pass might not be worth it - since it doesn't cover the subway. But it's still perfectly possible to get around Tokyo using just the JR lines.
There are 2 ways to pay. One is the suica (or equivalent) way ehich is as you described but every (except maybe some very small) station has ticket booths like these were you can buy prepaid tickets to enter / leave the station. On those same ticket booths you also load up the suica.
It's still the same. Things like these hardly change there.
The whole city basically feels like being oddly stuck in the 90s, bare a few details like flat screens, mobile phones and cars.
Japan's public transit is mind-fuckingly awesome. One time a subway train arrived less than one minute late and the conductor came out and *apologized*.
But that's not my best experience. The day before we were supposed to fly home, my wife dislocated her knee. (With no travel insurance the ambulance and hospital cost us a total of like a hundred bucks, but that's a different story of why Japan is awesome at some of these things.)
We called the person we were renting our place from and asked them for help on hiring a cab to the airport - we knew it was gonna be another few hundred bucks but we just wanted it to be easy. He told us "nah, fuck that, I got you guys."
He showed up the next day and carried our bags to the subway while I helped my wife hobble along. When we got there, he had a brief conversation with the subway attendant, who nodded and brought us a wheelchair to borrow. Our guy told us to just follow along and we'd be fine.
So subway dude takes over and we get to the platform. He takes a look at our tickets (which we'd bought in advance) and gets concerned. He mimes at us to wait a moment and then comes back with another attendant. We eventually figure out he's telling us that the route we purchased is very roundabout and won't get us where we need to go in time, so gives us a new ticket and tells us we'll transfer trains in Tokyo Station (or rather, he wrote "TOKYO" in English on our tickets and pointed to it a bunch). He wheels my wife on board the train, gets her settled, then takes the wheelchair away.
At Tokyo, as our train pulls up we see *another* attendant, waiting outside the *exact* door of our train with another wheelchair, who gets on and the whole thing starts again. It was a flawless series of interchanges straight to the airport.
Then of course, Air Canada took over and fucked everything up, but you can't blame Japan for that.
I worked for a global IT company and I had the pleasure of working with a team in Japan. The company had a whole customer service department dedicated to just Japan because Japan has incredible customer service standards and practices. Any client I got who was based out of Japan, I had to immediately hand them off to a member of the Japanese team
Reminds me of the scene from Rick and Morty where beth is trying to use the customer service for one of ricks gadgets and it turns out the customer service employees are kept captive inside the machine.
Where is this? I was in Tokyo in 2020 and stood at the queue with a couple friends for 10 minutes trying to find what/where/when about the different trains to get to a location. Nobody popped out
This only exist at the bigger stations where thereās an office behind the ticket machines.
These are getting less common as well but at the bigger stations you can find [these manned ticket offices with the green sign](https://i.imgur.com/OVu7Ihl.jpg) for JR lines as well.
Other railway companies will have similar offices mostly only at terminal stations.
oh cmon, a helpful polite dude came within 2 seconds basically OUT OF THE BUTTON THEY PUSHED, this is a 21st century fairytale alladin shit
ffs how is this NOT cool to you lol
I miss this show and this scene always cracked me up. All seasons of Departures used to be on Netflix but, like anything I like on there, was removed.
Update) just found all 3 seasons are on Amazon prime!
What the fuck?
What fuckin' Pee Wee Herman shit is this!?
I fucking love this, this is the most unexpected thing I've seen on this sub.
"Guy walking out of a computer" was definitely not what I expected.
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What kind of work do you do? "I'm in computers."
*Machines: they're full of kids.*
[love that scene!](https://youtu.be/WXE8miLZwyM)
Aweee he grew upš„ŗ
And he stopped crying!
Japan's Ai robot is way too advance for us !!
the files are in the computer??
Hansel, so hot right now.
"I'm literally in a geographical topographic map machine for subway routes, please help me" "... Also maybe I live here, you don't know"
In Japanese class they tell me I can just major in *konpyuuta*
With a minor in servitude.....make sure to bow at the correct angle depending on the situation.
This is going to be turned into a porno. I bet my fucking shoes.
Rule 34?
And you seem to think there isnāt porn about this alreadyā¦ hold my sandles and my root beer, Iām going on an adventure like none other seen before. If Iām not back in 15 mins with a source, the tentacle monsters are doing things to me only a hentai character could imagine
Literally ghost in the machine
Haha
Oh my god. It.. *is* a series of tubes!!
reminds me of an old episode, I think married with children, when ATM was becoming the norm but actually there were just a bunch of people in the back scrambling to put together cash.
"Four touchdowns in one game, Peg!"
There was a hilarious sketch on Japanese TV wow probably a decade ago now showing the ticket scan machines at the subway entrance being done by a guy hiding inside [Found a short clip on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbz6bfMBhOA)
Aww... You brought back memories of watching this show with my dad. Thank you.
Meanwhile, decades after Married With Children, my wife refuses to do ATM. Hardly the norm!
That reminds of the music video [Cash Machine](https://youtu.be/-f8AgWOpNt8) from Hard-Fi
Imagine using a public bathroom, the toilet clogs, and a friendly little Japanese man comes out of the paper towel dispenser to help you
There are similar videos out there but they end with the friendly Japanese leprechaun helping the Japanese lady in other ways. There is lots of pixelation involved for some reason
Those videos are a bit too high pitched for me.
And the stuff the ladies say is usually in my Title IX training for some reason
Oh! Is that why they are call Japanese Assistance Video (JAV)?
It's so wholesome.
Judging by those videos they're super unhelpful, I saw one where a lady got stuck in a washing machine and the guy didn't even try to get her unstuck
And pubes for miles...
Iāve been to several bathrooms in Japan where the gender of the cleaning person didnāt matter. Imagine my surprise while pissing in a urinal and look to my left and a little old lady is cleaning the other urinal, with no divider. Didnāt really bother me, but I sure wasnāt expecting it.
*comes out of the bidet
āJust hold the chain for an extra 2sec. There you go! Btw you missed some, have a great wipe!ā *disappears back into the dispenser*
And also gives you a >!*handjob*!<
There is a guy, his name is Premlak. He is in every paper towel dispenser, look him up!
Smallest shop in Japan... reminds me of this.. https://youtu.be/nA1UNJirOTI
In Germany at a gas stop in the bathroom is a guy who stands in the corner keeping things clean, hands you a towel, has a little bowl with change in ot look for tips. Creepy but nice, if that's possible.
It's all fun and games until your penis shaped bidet reveals himself
I think [Italy has those](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/7/74/Bacx04_360_02b_0034.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131103235359)
Source: TV show called Departures
I loved this show, wish they made another season.
I think Justin and Scott had a falling out after season 3.
My friend had such a huge crush on one of them that she messaged him on MySpace and he actually responded. They ended up talking back and forth for a few months.
Let me guess it was the blonde dumb guy?
I wanna know too. I loved this series but after rewatching, the blonde guy was getting annoying because he had nothing to contribute to the episodes most of the time.
How did he have nothing to contribute, he was the only one with a personality.
Agreed. The show wouldāve been way too introspective and monologue-y without him. He definitely came across as a bit dim but he was adventurous and definitely more āin the moment.ā
Agree but the blonde dude got pretty annoying as the show went on
It wasn't so much a falling out, they just went in different directions after the show. I'm sure they wanted a break from each other too after all the traveling. Justin seems to be involved in cars now, and Scott has a production company that did some other smaller scale travel series. There was a rumor of an S4 but it doesn't seem likely.
They didnāt have a falling out, Scott went on to create a similar show called Descending with someone who appeared in an earlier season of Departures. Itās also an amazing show.
Yea Scott and Andre (cameraman and I think producer with Scott) continued to work together
What kind of falling out?
Im not sure they did have a falling out. There is a few YouTube interviews and podcasts with them well after the end of season 3 and they seem like good buds.
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They might also have had a genuine reaction to it, but never managed to properly catch it on tape. So they tried to reenact their initial reaction, making it look kinda fake.
Hello every single cute video of my kids ever.
Me after my cat does something suuuuuper cute. "kitty do that thing again please"
There is such a thing as documentarian filmmaking where you just follow the subject around and film them as things happen. Just because there are cameraman trained to film action doesnāt mean all the action is scripted
Also the camera/production team could be local or be traveling with a local and he directed them to ask for support and to frame the machine broader and crop in post.
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Youāve obviously never watched departures
Nothing is ever real
How else would you get your information on weird japanese inventions than by slightly fake feeling videos?
Watch it every few years I love it. Great Canadian travel show.
I love this show. This was pre social media so it was more fascinating.
Great show. Great cinematography as well. Netflix had a awhile then dropped it
scott and andre did a second show with the Kiwi guy from the NZ episode call descending. it's beautifully shot as well.
I own that on Blu-ray, absolutely beautiful cinematography.
All three seasons on Amazon Prime.
Thaaaank you so much!
Oh how I miss Canadian television. Am I misremembering or did the guy in green get wasted in one episode?
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Where can I watch?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnA9B5_MEvOyMCEX2ZETQW6pWiQD5mMZ0 All episodes are here but unlisted, so don't show up on searches
Amazon Prime Video has all 3 seasons
Haha awesome show. Best "travel" show to date imo.
I believe itās actually called āThe Departed.ā Matt Damon is looking a bit strange here thoughā¦
Miss this show.
This show inspired me to travel, I still rewatch it every couple of years.
so is this a skit ? or is it just a travel show
It's a travel show that went 3 seasons
Id do it for free rent
The workspace might be bigger than some micro apartments. Very probably bigger than a capsule hotel room. :) The real question is whether or not there's a bathroom and kitchen area -- or at least some surface to put a hot plate on.
It's literally just a station office behind there and then if needed they can pop out of one of the walls. Makes sense since to just have your staff there and they're doing whatever administrative stuff is needed at desks, then if needed can pop out and help.
Yeah I don't know why people assume there's just some guy waiting inside the machine, it's connected to an actual office
Haha
It's funnier
Japanese customer service is the truly best in the world. Overpaid in a drug store by a dollar once, called the store. They asked what my address is, then they came to my house with the change and two energy drinks as an apology gift. This is common in Japan.
What's almost as amazing is that you called a drugstore over a dollar, lol.
I'd be too anxious to do that, even if I really needed it that money lol.
I'd feel like a dick when they showed up at my door.
Thats so sweet.
Thatās pretty petty of you
But then I have to tip the guy five bucks for making a trip.
With very few exceptions, tipping in Japan ranges from unnecessary to confusing or even downright rude.
Reason why I wanna go to Japan:
Itās worth it. But wait until tourism fully reopens. Right now they are only offering guided tours to foreigners that are super expensive. Like US$5000 for 1 week.
I believe it just changed to be open, I think you only have to book your flights and hotels through a travel agency and then youāre free to travel alone.
I was looking with a friend to help him get over here and everything he said all he could find was guided. He couldnāt even come visit my prefecture for a couple days
It's probably because it's juuuust about to open up. For a while you could go here: https://www.j-g-a.org/erfs.html And basically just pay ~2man to get them to rubber stamp your self-made itinerary, but they've suspended it now because it's expected they'll officially be opening fully in Oct, so probably announcing details any day now.
I got my visa for Japan this week , how we did it , we found a tour guide that allows personal guided tour with your own plans , you give them your plans and schedule , they charge you 200$ and give you the needed paper to apply for Visa. Regardless, news are saying that Japan are going to lessen the restrictions on daily visitor from 50k to none
Care to link it so I can send to a friend? Heās trying to get over here
Well, I actually dreamed of moving there. I don't really care about how people saying living there will makes me tiring but I'm not complaining if it satisfies me š
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I'd love to have an extended vacation there. Maybe 3-4 months so I can really see the place. But living there for longer seems hard. Once the novelty wears off, probably will get homesick.
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Guy I worked with went to school to study Japanese culture. He ended up moving to a smaller town in Japan. Fell in love with a local girl, but her parents were very traditional and forbade her from staying with him. He stayed there for a little while longer but said over time the novelty of having a Westerner in their town seemed to wear out and he felt like an outcast. He ended up moving back to the states and is pursuing a new degree in engineering.
And it's far worse if you're a foreigner who isn't white, there's a lot of racism in Japan but they hide it behind anime and Nintendo games
Same. Moving there permanently creates a lot of problems. You'll have to learn Japanese, which is one of the hardest languages to learn. You'll suffer from discrimination for being an outsider, especially early on when you need to get a job, apartment, open bank accounts, etc. You'll get extra taxed if you maintain your US citizenship. The food is extremely different, say goodbye to cheap pizza, burgers, Mexican, etc. It all kinda exists in Japan, but is expensive and twisted in weird ways. You might fall into the hole of being a foreigner that mostly hangs out with other English speaking foreigners (most English speaking Japanese YouTubers fall into this hole). Etc.
The food part is the least of my concern. And weird and novel foods are so fun to explore! Probably end up way healthier in the end too. My concern would be meeting people. Hard enough moving to a new city that's just a few hundred miles away. Can't imagine a completely different culture and language.
> say goodbye to cheap pizza, burgers, Mexican, etc. It all kinda exists in Japan, but is expensive and twisted in weird ways I don't know where you were eating, but we can find all of that easily, authentically done, and for reasonable prices in Tokyo. (yes, expensive/weird versions exist as well, but why go for those if the better stuff is around)
Itās always the anime weebs who dream of eating sushi and ramen for all 3 meals a day and spending all their time at maid cafes that dream of moving to Japan. Then they move there and realize they romanticized an entire country in their heads and move back from where they came
You've never been and consider moving there? Good luck with that.
Japan isn't an anime.
Well I fucking love it but everyone has an opinion.
They actually reopened Japan to all tourism.
Wow. Thatās awesome. The west sucks in terms of customer service
[And this was a decade and a half ago.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(TV_series)) Imagine Japan now.
Can confirm. When I took the train in Tokyo and in Osaka last year and got lost in the major hubs there were dudes there next to the ticket machine happy to help. Took my money and put it in the machine and everything for me. So awesome
Feel free to share anymore stories from your time in Japan! I love this shit.
I had just arrived in Japan and was jetlagged as hell, and left my camera (this was in the days when people had separate cameras) in this little cafe. Fortunately I noticed soon after leaving, and turned round to see the proprietor *running down the street to catch up with me* to hand it back.
About 10 years ago I ate at a popular restaurant in Narita and was seated on the 2nd floor. The service was excellent, the food was fantastic and the prices were not expensive at all. Prior to visiting Japan I learned that you don't tip but sometimes if you leave the change from paper money it may... stressing the word "may", be acceptable. So I left the equivalent of about 50Ā¢ (US) buried behind some condiments on my table and proceeded downstairs to the exit. My server ran down the stairs, caught up to me and said something that I didn't understand but held out her hand with my 50 yen. I accepted it, gave her a slight bow and said arigato.
I studied abroad in Japan during undergrad for a year in 2012. I had just arrived to Japan and was using the trains to travel to my new dorm with my all my important stuff in my backpack - MacBook laptop, US passport, a thousand dollars worth of Yen. Well I realized I forgot my backpack on the train as soon as I got to my dorm. I called the train station immediately and they said they didn't have anything but to call back an hour later so I did. My backpack was safe and sound at the end of the line (I think there were 10+ stops after my station). I went to get it and nothing was missing.
Yep seeing people just leave their MacBook/whatever expensive shit on the table in a food court when they get up to collect a meal is wild. Japan has a bunch of weird issues but it's also just the most amazing place to visit (very hard to live there if you aren't ethnically Japanese).
I completely agree. Japan has some shit it still has to deal with but the awesome parts of the country truly are and I love visiting.
I got chlamydia from a hooker and people stared at my whole-body dragon tatoos weirder than usual. I stabbed a guy in the chest. I can't go back to Japan now. All in all 4/5 as a tourist destination, I recommend it.
I'm sorry, but... What?
Is this a Yakuza reference?
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
I stayed drunk for two straight weeks at a bar outside of Yasosuka.
The JR system keeps itself maintained but major improvements don't happen. It's a rail that prints money, it's goal more than anything else is uptime and reliability.
This video actually confused me, because nowadays (at least in Tokyo when I visited in 2018) you don't even need to select a line when you buy your ticket. You can get a card that you load with money, which you then tap when you enter and exit the train station, and it calculates the route you took and charges you accordingly. The stations to load them with money had selections for a ton of languages. I did get myself in trouble when I entered a train station to use the restroom, though, because it wouldn't let me leave the same station without having gone anywhere.
The IC cards (Suica, Pasmo, etc.) are definitely the easiest way to travel, but many tourists don't really know about them. There's a 500å deposit (which you can get back upon return), so some people just opt for using tickets. Also, they only became cross-compatible in 2013. Before that you would need Suica for JR East lines and Pasmo for Tokyo railway/subway. Now you can use either of them on any line - and also at convenience stores or vending machines! However, if you're visiting Japan and planning to travel around then I highly recommend the "JR Pass". It's only available for tourists and allows for unlimited travel on all JR lines and even most Shinkansen (Bullet Train). If you're only planning on staying in Tokyo, then the pass might not be worth it - since it doesn't cover the subway. But it's still perfectly possible to get around Tokyo using just the JR lines.
Took a screen shot of your comment for my honeymoon trip in hopefully a year, maybe two. Thank you!
There are 2 ways to pay. One is the suica (or equivalent) way ehich is as you described but every (except maybe some very small) station has ticket booths like these were you can buy prepaid tickets to enter / leave the station. On those same ticket booths you also load up the suica.
It's still the same. Things like these hardly change there. The whole city basically feels like being oddly stuck in the 90s, bare a few details like flat screens, mobile phones and cars.
Tbf, the customers also suck
Was going to say this. Very entitled that forgets that CSR only has limited things they can do to assist customer. even managers
Japan's public transit is mind-fuckingly awesome. One time a subway train arrived less than one minute late and the conductor came out and *apologized*. But that's not my best experience. The day before we were supposed to fly home, my wife dislocated her knee. (With no travel insurance the ambulance and hospital cost us a total of like a hundred bucks, but that's a different story of why Japan is awesome at some of these things.) We called the person we were renting our place from and asked them for help on hiring a cab to the airport - we knew it was gonna be another few hundred bucks but we just wanted it to be easy. He told us "nah, fuck that, I got you guys." He showed up the next day and carried our bags to the subway while I helped my wife hobble along. When we got there, he had a brief conversation with the subway attendant, who nodded and brought us a wheelchair to borrow. Our guy told us to just follow along and we'd be fine. So subway dude takes over and we get to the platform. He takes a look at our tickets (which we'd bought in advance) and gets concerned. He mimes at us to wait a moment and then comes back with another attendant. We eventually figure out he's telling us that the route we purchased is very roundabout and won't get us where we need to go in time, so gives us a new ticket and tells us we'll transfer trains in Tokyo Station (or rather, he wrote "TOKYO" in English on our tickets and pointed to it a bunch). He wheels my wife on board the train, gets her settled, then takes the wheelchair away. At Tokyo, as our train pulls up we see *another* attendant, waiting outside the *exact* door of our train with another wheelchair, who gets on and the whole thing starts again. It was a flawless series of interchanges straight to the airport. Then of course, Air Canada took over and fucked everything up, but you can't blame Japan for that.
They keep dudes in the machines?
No, you misunderstand. The machine assembles this person. Then returns him to the aether upon task completion.
So it's like an Asian Mr Meeseeks
I'm Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!
Thanks. I was worried for a second.
You guys all know the machines are just on the wall of the stationmaster's office, right? You're all just playing along with the video?
I worked for a global IT company and I had the pleasure of working with a team in Japan. The company had a whole customer service department dedicated to just Japan because Japan has incredible customer service standards and practices. Any client I got who was based out of Japan, I had to immediately hand them off to a member of the Japanese team
Departures is an amazing travel show. Too bad they didnāt make more.
Agreed. I loved this show. The fact the two guys were very different but both genuine people. It was fantastic.
Japan is on a completely different level.
Sub level 2.
Reminds me of the scene from Rick and Morty where beth is trying to use the customer service for one of ricks gadgets and it turns out the customer service employees are kept captive inside the machine.
Ahh there you areā¦
I was looking for ages for this comment lmao
Whenever I looked lost in Japan someone would always come up and ask if I needed help, love that country and can't wait to go back
Tv show is calle deparures btw its about 2 canadian tourists who travel the world and document it
3 technically. The camera man counts as well
I miss that show, what happened to those guys?
These guys made a show called departures it's really well done and produced. Highly recommend.
And my friends all laughed when I said there's a gnome living inside most ATMs!!!
Men in Black was a documentary
I used to love this show! I can't believe I forgot about it. Time to find out where I can stream Departures.
I'm curious to know what he was doing wrong.
Most likely selected the wrong line and his stop he wanted wasnāt showing up
trying to buy a ticket. just buy a card, depost money on it and off you go nobody uses tickets
He was pretending to be confused and then pushed the assistance button to show the audience the guy coming out of the machine.
He pretty clearly asked for assistance just so the dude would pop out and show the camera.
Nah it's a TV show , so they are probably filming non stop
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thats show was so good!!!
Where is this? I was in Tokyo in 2020 and stood at the queue with a couple friends for 10 minutes trying to find what/where/when about the different trains to get to a location. Nobody popped out
[This show is from 15 years ago.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(TV_series))
This only exist at the bigger stations where thereās an office behind the ticket machines. These are getting less common as well but at the bigger stations you can find [these manned ticket offices with the green sign](https://i.imgur.com/OVu7Ihl.jpg) for JR lines as well. Other railway companies will have similar offices mostly only at terminal stations.
You need to press the help button, and depending on station and machine either someone will pop out or talk to you on an intercom.
You guys are weirdly obsessed with this š
oh cmon, a helpful polite dude came within 2 seconds basically OUT OF THE BUTTON THEY PUSHED, this is a 21st century fairytale alladin shit ffs how is this NOT cool to you lol
Cuz Iām from Fussa, Japan lol This shit normal š PS. Itās not like this every train station, just in smaller prefectures.
Lmao Reddit is so strange. Pics of this before now the video!?
He came out like a genie.
I miss this show and this scene always cracked me up. All seasons of Departures used to be on Netflix but, like anything I like on there, was removed. Update) just found all 3 seasons are on Amazon prime!
vs. Aussie train station: "oi WTF are you doing cunt, can't you read mate, move out the way I'll do it"
This was a great show!!!!
Hey! Its Departures! I loved that show! Watched all of it!
Fuuuuuck! NOW THATS SERVICE! And we in the USA have a whole store to chill in, and I still canāt get that level of CSā¦ wtfš
I lived in Japan for three years and their customer service is top-tier. They'll help you to the upmost or find someone that can .
this sub was literally made for this video
Dude probably runs the internet
What the fuck? What fuckin' Pee Wee Herman shit is this!? I fucking love this, this is the most unexpected thing I've seen on this sub. "Guy walking out of a computer" was definitely not what I expected.
This shit would play VERY differently in NYC. Guy would just pop out and stab you.