Anime pilgrimage thread

Have you ever been on an anime pilgrimage?
Where did you go?

>pic related

I've seen a few threads like this. One user went to the town where Tamayura was set, another went through Tokyo/Akihabara and found a few things, one I remember being the park they fuck around at in Oreimo sometimes.

If I ever go to Japan, I'm gonna use Tetsuko no Tabi for guidance

I like that Strike Witches fag who visits his waifus grave.

i climbed mt. fuji that was pretty anymay of me. also that really long walk hike in kyoto with a million toriis

I remember there used to be tours of Lucky Star sites and even the school K-On was based on had tours. I wonder if they have all closed now that popularity has faded?

I went to Japan for a month (cultural exchange) but I didn't go anywhere anime related. In hindsight, I regret it a lot. I should've visited the K-ON school, at least.

I've been to Mt. Fuji, Odaiba, Akihabara, Tokyo Dome City Hall, outside the Budokan, and Kyoto. Does that count?

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What kind of pilgrimage involves climbing Mt. Fuji?

not your blog

Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Lots of hostels, food and drinking over 2 weeks. Spent about 3 days spent walking around Akhihabara. It really is all smaller than I expected.

There was way more h-manga/porn/sex shops than anything else. Onsens are great. I also didn't expect there to be an anime district devoted to fujos in Ikebukuro.

I've been to Takehara and Onomichi (Tamayura), Mizuho (Clannad), Takayama (Hyouka) and Shirakawago (Higurashi) as a pilgrimage.

Planning on stopping by here next time I'm in town.

Been to Hannou City and Mt. Takao twice.

Well, I went to Akihabara once if that counts.

Future Gadget Lab, Akihabara.

I went to Hannou, Onomichi, and Takyama.

Also I was lucky enough to visit the Kemono Friends cafe.

Maybe I went on a bad day, but Akiba was kind of shit. I found better stuff in Nakano Broadway.

That's fucking adorable

Did you see the outdoors shop by the train station?
I walked in there looking for YnS goods, and the two staff greeted me, so I sperged out and ran away. I've regretted in ever since, and want to return someday.

Anyone go to a maid cafe? I lived in Japan for a year and was too nervous to step inside one. I remember debating it in Akihabara.

I wouldn't recommend the popular ones in akiba. Some smaller ones can be pretty comfy.

>I wouldn't recommend the popular ones in akiba.
w-why is that?

How did you guys start learning Japanese?

Yes i was there for the release of (not) alone and traveled to;
Tokyo Kyoto hakone lake ashi random towns in Kanagawa prefecture
They introduced an augmented reality 3d app as part of the Cool Japan tourism push so I'll probably head back to the same spots to try and catch it before im too late and I'll definitely go back for 3.0+1 and again for final if I'm still alive when it's finally released

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The weirdest yoai story ever written.

Not a pilgrimage or anything. Only animu related thing I did when I went to Japan was to check out the gundam statue. I guess I also went to akihabara, but I mostly went in looking for arcade cabinet parts. Also ate at the gundam cafe and found a fellow American to shoot the shit with.

Not a fan of using the word, but they can be pretty cringy. If you're into the whole otaku pandering thing though, go for it. They're usually more expensive too.

Closest thing I did to that was I went to the Sakura Taisen cafe in Ikebukuro on like the sixth floor of the Sega arcade there back in 2006. The waitresses wore costume but I can't remember if they were maid.

I'd be more inclined to visit a cat cafe than a maid one. Not catgirl costume themed, the ones with actual cats in the place.

Power Japanese, a CD-ROM multimedia program for Windows released in the early 90s, though I didn't pick it up until '95 or '96. Probably out of print by now.

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>want to go to Japan
>can't Japanese
>also poor

The view from Tenran-san.
I'm a real mountain loli now.

The train journey up to Takayama is even comfier than Hyouka itself.

Looks pretty comfy

>NNB pilgrimage looks like ass.
My dream is dead.

I wanna go back.
Ugh.
I saw the bar from Nana.
And like a million other things.

I've been to Venice, though anime wasn't the sole reason I went there. It was pretty nice strolling along and recognising places from Aria.

Very comfy. It's basically a hill.
On a very clear day, you can apparently see Mt. Fuji from there.

How do you afford this?

Save up neetbux instead of playing gatcha.

No need to speak nippon, but still very useful if you can, google maps helps a lot getting around

wageslaver here so was able to afford

How much did it cost total?

By having excellent credit and gradually yet consistently paying off the Visa bill over some months.

good goy

I think $2.5k for 10 days, roughly.
It's been a while. I didn't buy much over there, so your mileage may vary.

>Did you see the outdoors shop by the train station?
Nope, traveling to Hannou takes 3-4 hours from where I'm from so I don't have much time to explore every place.
>I walked in there looking for YnS goods, and the two staff greeted me, so I sperged out and ran away.
I was in a similar situation with the Patisserie. Too scared to go inside.

Where'd you spend nights?

I went to Venice a few times. The best way to experience it is at 4:30 in the morning during winter when the streets are mostly empty.

My 15 day trip was about 4k total, hostels are incredibly cheap. My hostel stay came out to about 700$ usd. I was loose with my money too.

..having a job that pays well helps too.

Cheapish hotels by myself.
I'm socially autistic, so you might want to consider hostels for a cheaper and more social experience.

Enjoy living in that hole for your entire life.

I wanted to check out one of the themed cafe setups for Net-juu no Susume, but they're all limited time promo things that'll be long gone by the time I get there in January.

>$2.5k for 10 days
What the fuck did you buy? 3k in cash not including the plane ticket was enough for me for 3 weeks while traveling between Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto-Hiroshima-Beppu-Hakata-Nagoya-Fuji and then back to Tokyo.

>go to Animate shop in Ikebukuro
>literally the only male there
>laughing_whores.jpeg
I don't understand Japan.

Your fault mate. Ikebukuro is fuijoshi territory

So I am staying 3 week in Tokyo do you guys think 200,000jpy and 3 credit cards will be enough? I am think the cash would be more for food and such while i use my credit cards to buy stuff like doujins and anime shit.

Not the poster, but It's easy to spend nothing when you just bounce around the cities being a boring tourist.

>Credit cards
Good luck with that, Japan only wants cash.

>5k credit = living in a hole for your entire life

Not all of us have shitty $10/h jobs.

From my experience most stores in Tokyo accept credit cards.

If you didn't you wouldn't have needed to use credit in the first place poorfag.

You misunderstand, the hole I talk about is using credit for recreation. Credit is for creating wealth not taking it away.

If you're using credit to pay for trips you should probably rethink your financial decisions.

Would you get in trouble for just wandering around and sleeping in bushes?

That's was $2.5k including the plane ticket, which was maybe $500.

Restaurants are different. The comfy traditional ones anyway.

Yeah, I don't recall a situation in Tokyo where I wanted to pay with card and was unable to. I stuck with cash for the main basic things, but used charge for merch purchases.

>leaving your house

Damn, what time of the year did you fly? Every single trip I have gone to japan the plane ticket alone has cost between 1-1.2k and those were connection flights.

I went to Tokyo Tower and CCS is among my favourite anime does that count?

I mean, sure you could do what the homeless people do. Sleep at the underpass. No ones going to throw you in jail. Seems like a poor choice to me.

I think I made most of my purchases at restaurants, so I just found a lot of places didn't accept visa and kind of expected it everywhere.

It was April, but I booked it like six months in advance.

I desperately want to go to Mizuho. How did you enjoy it?

Yeah thats what I am planning to do. Pretty much just going to use a credit card for merchandise in places like Akihabara and use cash for food and family mart runs.

Hmmm thats interesting considering I went in April earlier this year and still payed around $1000. Maybe just flying from beaverland is more expensive in general.

I always wanted to visit Chiba to see the landmarks featured in Oregairu. It looks like a really comfortable place from the pictures I've seen.

Really want to go to some parts of Hokkaido as well, it looks beautiful up there.

Your dollar is monopoly money, that's why.

I went to hakone didn’t even know it was evangelion related until I got there and saw the merch everywhere

around 1.3k usd 1 week, then again im near Japan and booked earlier. Hostels were more than enough, bought lots of food and souvenir along with lots of shinkansen, maximizing jr pass

I went earlier this year in March. You can get a nonstop roundtrip flight to Japan from LA for $600ish. Just under $500 if you don't mind a 10 hour layover in China.

I booked two flights. One from my city to LAX, and then the one to Japan after and still came out to about $800ish.

I do a lot of comped spending for my job, so I put all work purchases on my credit card and use that to hoard reward points for a hotel. I do photography, so there's no way in hell I'm taking thousands of dollars of equipment into a dirty shared hostel.

Stayed mostly in Tokyo, but took a day trip to Kyoto on the shinkansen.

It was cold as fuck when I went, but I wanted to go before they took down the original Gundam statue. (pic related)

I had a phase in my life where I used every chance to wander around on a crappy motorcycle. Driving through the mountains, along the coastline, sleeping on the beach for a week, and exploring two abandoned military complexes. Generally, having a desolate time and imagining I was in an anime.
I never talked to the bike, though.

I went to Nishinomiya last year.

>but I wanted to go before they took down the original Gundam statue

I know that feeling man. I got lucky and saw the Gundam statue twice during my 2015 and 2016 trip but earlier this year(i was unaware at the time) I went to see it again and I was greeted with pic related.

Those Lucky Star pilgrims were a big thing for a while, I think bringing in 100k people for New Year's on when was it, 2008 or 9. Sasuga Hiiragis.

Here my picture of it back 2015

I live near Machida (town next to Yokohoma and Tokyo), is there any anime that featured it?

They move stuff around all the time but this is the Sturmtiger Yukari has seen as a kid, she shows a photo of it in the movie

Ironically that was before I got into GuP

Charlotte?

I like what's in the back better.
Is the "3 2 1" supposed to give a hint that it's allowed to fuck in it?

After having done connecting flights to Tokyo and nonstop flights to Tokyo, I'm going to go with nonstop when available even if it's slightly more expensive. Last time I went, I booked here to Seattle to Tokyo, return trip Tokyo to Seattle to here. Everything was great and fine until returning to Seattle. The switchover from international to domestic flight is at least an hour of immigration processing, waiting in lines, waiting to pick up luggage, security checks again, then putting the luggage right back on another plane. If I'd known all that, I would have scheduled a bit more time in between flights.

I don't recall all that hassle when I routed my trip through Vancouver instead years earlier, though, so it's possible that staying in the international zone could lessen complications there.

Oh fugg, that's the station I go to every day. Thanks user.

Fitting, because Charlotte is a trainwreck.

Going to Takehara would be nice.

No?

I want to go to Chiba if you get what i means

No. Maybe someday, when my health and my wallet permit it.

I'd still try it. It's conveniently set up in the corner. Even if you can't get inside it, you can still use it as cover.

If only that show would have been a good enough reason to go see those places.