TextFugu » Topic: hello all http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/feed/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:01:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en-US http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12784 <![CDATA[hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12784 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:26:40 +0000 seliora Hi everyone, new to textfugu, long time slack studier of japanese (but thats all going to change!), I’m from australia and I want to learn japanese to go to more of the non-touristy areas of japan, spent 5 weeks traveling around japan with my limited vocabulary and will be going back again next year. I like computers, archery,reading and in a previous life (before work) I spent a lot of my time watching anime which I would really like to get back into.

I’ve started a blog as Koichi recommends so feel free to visit, click here

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12792 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12792 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:07:21 +0000 chedkid Welcome and good luck! Sounds like we have similar reasons for studying Japan; I spent 3 weeks in Japan. Where did you stay?

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12795 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12795 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:37:02 +0000 seliora I travelled right around, the list is as follows:
tokyo
nikko
sendai
morioka
hakodate
niigata
sado island
nagano
nagoya
osaka
hiroshima
kyoto
and nara

I think we made around 38 trips on the shinkansen or some such.

How bout you?

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12801 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12801 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:04:57 +0000 Kaona Welcome to TextFugu, seliora!

Your Domo-kun avatar is adorable.

Wow! You’ve been to so many places in Japan, I’m so unbelievably jealous! I’m actually wondering how on earth you afforded so many trips.
Would it be too much to ask about how your trips were? I’m really interested now.

Good luck learning Japanese.

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12804 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12804 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:31:18 +0000 seliora こんばんわ　winter さん (well it is for me at least).

did a single trip last year that was for 5 weeks, booked the first weeks accomodation and last weeks accomodation and a JR pass for the entire trip.

Essentially we hopped on a shinkansen and went to a city, spoke to the tourist information kiosks in the train station and you tell them your price range, type of accomodation and number of people and they give you a list of available places to stay then will call and book it for you.

It is most definately the best way to get around japan, if you don’t connect with a city/town then hop back on a shinkansen and go somewhere else.

As everyone I’d ever spoken to always said japan was expensive to stay in I ended up saving up quite alot of money for spending money/food etc. but it ended up being cheaper than australia so I had a huge excess of money which I ended up spending by playing a game of “who can buy the cheapest but coolest figurines” with one of the other guys that went with me.

My trip in total cost around $8000-$9000, but you could easily do it with allot less than that, I spent a ridiculous amount of 円 on souvenirs.

I wrote a travelpod blog for the first half of my trip but never ended up finishing it, if you’d like I can send you a link.

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12805 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12805 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:34:50 +0000 Hashi Welcome to the community! Good luck on your trip and good job starting a blog!

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12808 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12808 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:38:02 +0000 seliora I was wondering who from portland was looking at the blog >_>

thanks hashi

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12857 <![CDATA[Reply To: hello all]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/hello-all/#post-12857 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:34:36 +0000 Kaona It sounds awesome seliora! Thank you for sharing that.

I’d definitely be interested in reading that. Please do send me the link.

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