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Hello, my name is Nitsan I’m 23 and I live in Israel ( Please! don’t involve me in politics! :) ).
I’m currently facing a long stretch of time in which I’m going to have a lot of free time, So I thought to myself ‘Nitsan, do something productive with it!’
Well, I’ve loved Japan for quite a while now ( it’s culture, it’s food <3, it’s manga :) ) and I’ve always wanted to learn Japanese – Now is the time!
In addition, I’m planning a month long trip to Japan sometime in the coming year (by myself, no one wants/is free to go with me). So, though I know it is possible to get around Japan knowing only English (when I was 18 I traveled to Japan with my older brother for two weeks), I thought it might be a good idea to learn Japanese – or at least some – before my trip!
If anyone would like to know more (not sure why…) or suggest somewhere in Japan I should visit when I am there (!) you are more then welcome to leave a comment!
I’ll happily go with you. You’d just need to pay for me. =P
I have an immense list of places I intend to go if I ever manage to visit Japan again…
Hello Nitsan!
Hello Joel, wait a minute I’m transferring the funds right now :)
If you want to write me down that list (or a few items on it?) I would be more then thrilled.And, Hello Joshua!
Thank you both for welcoming me to this site :)
If you want to write me down that list (or a few items on it?) I would be more then thrilled.
Hmm. Let’s see. Most of these are places I happened to see on TV and thought they looked really nice – whether they’d be accessible enough to visit on a holiday is another matter. Just to pick a random sample:
- Yamadera (Yamagata)
- Doai Station and Tanigawadake (Gunma)
- Nokogiri-yama (Chiba)
- Mount Takao (Tokyo)
- Half of Kyoto =P
- Onomichi and Takehara (Hiroshima)
- Nachi Falls and the Kumano Kodo (Wakayama)
- Himeji Castle (Hyogo) – it had just closed for refurbishing when I visited, but it re-opened two months ago
- 88 Temple Pilgrimmage on Shikoku
- Yanagawa (Fukuoka)Hi Nitsan! I’m glad you’re learning some Japanese before your trip. I think it will help you have a much better time!
I recommend:
-Nara for the Tōdai-ji, deer, and peaceful atmosphere.
-Osaka for the iconic shopping streets, good food, and refreshing chaos.
-Koyasan for the Buddhist temples you can spend the night at and enormous, reverent graveyards.
-Tokyo for the . . . everything. It is so big.
-Kyoto’s Kinkaku-ji is a must see. What a surreal experience!I hope you have a good time! 日本語を頑張れ！
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