Poll of the Day > Visiting Japan for the first time

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SkaFrost89 posted...

papery0shi2 posted...

Hello !

I will be visiting Japan on March 24th for the first time, and I am very excited! I am currently planning my trip and was wondering if anyone on here has any suggestions or tips for my upcoming trip :) . Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

I wish i were you. I'm studying Japanese 2 right now at college. I'm dead broke

There won't be enough students for Japanese 3 so my university is discontinuing Japanese. So I would love to study abroad. My gofundme isn't helping either.

I was dead broke too when i was in college, but I found a job after I graduated and getting paid decently well. So I am making my dream of visiting Japan true! I'm sure in do time, you will get to experience it :)
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Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)
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Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

There are quite a few in Hawaii, actually.
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papery0shi2 posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)

I recommend Fushimi-Inari Taisha in Kyoto.

Its pretty crowded, but the tourists thin out the further you get up the mountain.
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Sarcasthma posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

There are quite a few in Hawaii, actually.

True, and several other places. Within the U.S., I've heard/read there also shrines in California and Washington. There are shrines in some other parts of the world as well. They have been built pretty much anywhere there was sizeable Japanese diaspora community, though in some areas shrines built before the end of World War II were removed in the aftermath because of an association of them with Japanese expansion and the departure of Japanese residents (this was the case in Korea, for example)

papery0shi2 posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)

I definitely would. Even if you aren't especially interested in the worship and ceremonies of a Shinto shrine, I'd say it's something you want to take time to see in Japan because of shrine's long-established association with Japanese culture. One of the most iconic objects that people associate readily with Japan is the torii, the gates at Shinto shrines. Usually these are red. You see them often in photographs of Japan. One of the most famous examples is the torii standing in water at Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima. Another is the row of many torii at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto.
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I hope to go there someday as well...have fun!

SkaFrost89 posted...

papery0shi2 posted...

Hello !

I will be visiting Japan on March 24th for the first time, and I am very excited! I am currently planning my trip and was wondering if anyone on here has any suggestions or tips for my upcoming trip :) . Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

I wish i were you. I'm studying Japanese 2 right now at college. I'm dead broke

There won't be enough students for Japanese 3 so my university is discontinuing Japanese. So I would love to study abroad. My gofundme isn't helping either.

Are they discontinuing it as in not offering the language at all anymore or simply not offering courses beyond Japanese 2 (is that second semester/term Japanese or second year Japanese at your university?)?
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Sarcasthma posted...

papery0shi2 posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)

I recommend Fushimi-Inari Taisha in Kyoto.

Its pretty crowded, but the tourists thin out the further you get up the mountain.

Thank you!! I have zero plans for kyoto so I will add this, anything else I should be looking to do in Kyoto??
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papery0shi2 posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

papery0shi2 posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)

I recommend Fushimi-Inari Taisha in Kyoto.

Its pretty crowded, but the tourists thin out the further you get up the mountain.

Thank you!! I have zero plans for kyoto so I will add this, anything else I should be looking to do in Kyoto??

The other main points of interest there are Kinkakuji, Ginkakuji, Kiyomizudera, Nijou Castle, and Arashi Mountain (in addition to a bunch of other places). Just make sure to set aside a couple days for Kyoto since all of those places can get really crowded.
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