Posted on 11/12/2021 6:46:28 AM PST by cymbeline
>Kyoto is a lot more interesting place to visit in Japan!
I lived in Arashiyama for years. My father in law lived across Marutamachi street from the Imperial Palace.
One year. I loved it there. Watched Wimbleton on hot summer days drinking my Kirin at the bars and watching John McEnroe at the top of his game. “You Idiot!” “My grandmother can see better than that and she’s blind!” The humidity made the beer go down easy with no effect. For a quick meal I took my train pass into the station and stood on the platform eating noodles and then walked out. 50 cents at most. Getting involve with the locals was no fun but small talk was ok. Rabbit hutches? So what? How much do you need for the experience of a lifetime?
“Mass of humanity, tiny houses, noise. Crazy road layout”
The picture in the article supports that. Aren’t Japanese cities also kept clean? I’ve never been to Japan.
That being the reason is probably more true than not!! Js...
Housing isn’t that expensive in Japan because housing in Japan is SMALL...
Good point. The Japanese put thought into their mass transit and created systems easy for people to use. Unlike our system -- designed by people who never use mass transit but want to check it off their liberal elite 'to-do list'. And yeah that takes intelligence.
Japan has a secret weapon—Japanese people.
The “experts” say “diversity is strength”.
The “experts” are 100% wrong.
Tokyo is Exhibit 1.
I do not think Japan cities are particularly clean. It depends. They surely clean all the vomit from the streets quickly by the morning!
My daughter took the train home from the airport (with her boyfriend) in Seattle the other evening. One one side, a young girl (heroin addict) was nodding off on the other side 2 older black women were crouching down and smoking meth (entire train smelled like urine after they sparked up).
My husband took a train in Minneapolis not too long ago, again from the airport, he literally waited, like 5 trains, until one came that looked safe enough to board. And he blends.
Our society and culture is in ruins.
How much does it cost? Most places crying about high prices of gas have the government charging 80% in taxes, so the real high cost is of government.
I’ve lived in Tokyo for the last 34 years, and from my point of view, everything you wrote there is either wrong or misleading.
Tokyo, to me, is the greatest city on earth. Clean, modern, safe, and very friendly. Oh, there are some places in this huge city that would match what you wrote, but by no means all, and where I live in the west part of the city outside the central loop, it’s amazingly quiet.
I can leave my bicycle and door unlocked, kids can take the trains to school unaccompanied and unafraid, from where I am sitting right now, there are five convenience stores, three supermarkets, two hospitals, two train stations, three churches, three health clubs, and a nice variety of restaurants — all within a 15 minute walk.
Historical stuff? You mean like the Imperial Palace, the Budokan, Yasukuni Shrine, more temples than I can name, Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Sky Tree, etc., etc., etc.
To each his own. This is my adopted hometown. I don’t think I’ll ever leave.
Kyodo is boooooring!!! Give me the Big Mikan any day!
Oh, I loved it there!
All well preserved and shiny!
You father in law had a super view!
In Tokyo, they allowed me only a view of a corner of the imperial palace far away from the garden. In Kyoto you can actually visit and enjoy.
Thanks God for the bad weather. Kyoto was the original target for the second A-Bomb, but the weather was bad so they drop it on Nagasaki instead.
I guess our tastes differ. Obviously, you know this place better, I would never survived there for 34 years.
I like boring places!
I read an article YEARS ago where a woman needed to widen her driveway 8 inches, and it cost her well over a million dollars just for the land.
Prices like that are not conducive to low, or even reasonable rents.
I call BS on this article.
>I call BS on this article.
Just depends on the location. You can buy an old house in the country for less than $10K equivalent, but there’s no way you’re getting a cheap place to live in a metropolitan area.
Good points... One possible solution - add people to monitor cars and toss people who are breaking rules. After a while it could be one person to every two cars rather than one to each car... We could call these people 'conductors'... and they'd ride as the expense of the railroads & city government. It'll help until citizens are tired of having our culture and cities in ruins.
She gets it partly because it is a walk-up, no elevator.
>She gets it partly because it is a walk-up, no elevator.
Wow, I get a good picture of why it’s so cheap now.
They live like ants in a anthill, they have a homogeneous society with no giant urban black violent crime-ridden underclass. They control immigration. They have a work ethic.
But yeah, it’s because of no cars.
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