/a/ - Animu & Mango

>in a broken tent I found on the road, too few blankets and nothing underneath me.

Sounds more like a case of you being a baka than of camping not being comfy. They even address a lot of these things in the show. You should probably at least start by going in the spring or fall instead of winter.

>Anime inspired you to leave the basement and start a new hobby?

We probably aren't going to hear from any Anons who bought motorcycles after Bakuon because they're all dead now.

I wanted to try camping and I had been eyeing up camping gear for months without actually buying anything, but it's not much of a hobby where I live so all the equipment is either very expensive or cheapo garbage for camping out in your own yard, and there isn't really anything that could be called a campground anywhere near me. They tend to fall into either a very fancy, obviously managed outdoor park sort of area with gimmicky touristy attractions and little pre-built cottages with fucking TVs in them, or shady, dumpy, back of a apartament building parking lot empty lot sort of "campsite". I'm not too keen on just going innawoods randomly either since I can't own guns and bear spray is ridiculously expensive. There are some beautiful mountains not too far from where I live but they're mostly craggy and stony, probably not fit for camping. And also probably have bears.

>>935816

I have most the proper gear, but just couldn't fit anything as I went with 3 others and we all had to fit ourselves and our gear into my very very small car. So this time I'll be bringing my more luxury items (proper swag, small but quality tent, stove, plenty of blankets and food just for myself). I'm just thankful I live in Australia. The worst thing I need to worry about is spiders as there's no snakes about this time of year. I'd rather things I can squash and kill with a shovel over a giant killing machine.

Nature can be scary.

>>935806

>Right now it's winter

Fuck♂you, nigger. Trade places with me.

>>935834

The only body of water I camp near is the ocean (rarely) or uphill of small creeks. Mostly I camp at national parks though. The only people who get eaten by crocs are tourists and dumb cunts who swim in rivers and/or dams after heavy flooding. Sneaks, spiders, other people and/or dehydration are the most likely things to get you killed in this country if you're camping.

>>935806

Yuru camp shows the most ideal conditions and moments of camping, with few to none of the more difficult or uncomfy moments. RL camping depending how experienced and prepared you are not to mention the varying degrees of unpredictable conditions, the ratio could get as high as 90% uncomfy but at least you're alive, for now. To 'you are completely fucked' if you are not careful or don't pay attention.

Start small for any of you NEET fucks who never went camping who suddenly want to go camping because you saw a mongolian sand painting depicting moe blob girls going camping. Do backyard camping first. Other than marshmallow or s'mores, do not use an open fire to cook most of your meal, use those 20$ butane portable stove you can get at chink supermarkets.

And do not start a forest fire because of your noob incomptence, Pedro.

-anon who went on camping trips long before the moe blobs doing camping show came on.

>>935836

It's too late anon, Yama no Susume has already brainwashed me to climb the hardest mountain I can find right away.

After watching NHK I wanted to clean myself up and become a bit more presentable so I got myself some barber tools and trimmed my facial hair a bit as it had grown to become too wild. Then I saw that my 7 year old cat could use some trimming as well since his beard was all over the place. Once I finished it looked pretty good to be honest. Neat and stylish as any cat should look. When I released him he looked a bit unsteady and was meowing constantly that whole evening while bumping into things.

Now for some reason he has this painful look in his face and refuses to look at my face and whenever I enter the same room he wobbles away while hugging the wall furthest away from me.

>>935856

Is this shitposting or did you fucking cut your cat's whiskers off?

>>935806

>Right now it's winter and I'm used to 30-40°C and not -2°C in a broken tent I found on the road, too few blankets and nothing underneath me.

Suck it up buttercup, when I was your age I was glad to sleep under a tarp for 4 hours at a time after marching all day and still being woken up for guard duty throughout the night, and this was during the kind of fimbulwinter you youngster can't even image in your worst nightmares. Men froze where they stood and on our way back to the barracks we had to march over the frozen corpses of our buddies who didn't make it. It was horrible. All we had to keep us going was the faint warmth of moe SOL anime in our hearts.

>>935864

Is this (you)?

>>935856

That is not a beard dude.

I think at this point in my life roughly everything I enjoy doing has been directly or indirectly influenced by animu. I think a lot of anons here are in the same boat.

Yuru Camp was a good show that got me thinking about camping much more than was usual, although not as much as some other anons who dropped everything and went out first thing to set the world on fire comfy camp.

But look at this: Although I wasn't initially as set on going on solo camping adventures as other anons, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that Yuru Camp probably played a leading role in my decision to drift around Souther Japan this Autum with only a tent and a backpack. Because it made me start thinking that falling asleep and awakening face-to-face to Japanese wilderness/countryside would be pretty nice. And it made me start thinking that if you're prepared, you can be comfortable with a tent and minimal supplies (provided they are the right supplies, hence the "prepared"). That in turn made me think that sleeping in a tent would not only be a great way to take in the "real" Japan but also much cheaper than paying for lodging every night, and without all the checking in and out deadlines. And that turned what was initially a plan for a brief and expensive ten day vacation into an inexpensive month-long adventure.

So yeah, I guess that's another example of "IRL" Yuru Camp - Although in my case it's more like the "homeless drifter sleeping in a bush off the side of a lonesome rural Japanese road Edition."

Other inspirations were one anon in a past Tr/a/vel thread that did some balls-to-the-wall homeless camping along the Japanese coast (he actually camped in parks in Tokyo along the way, the madman), being an alcoholic on /a/, as well as Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou.

Going back even further, the first time I ever went to Nippon was drastically motivated by an urge to visit Todai, which was a place of crucial importance in a mango that moved me greatly when I was a kid.

2D is a power that shapes our experienced reality, anons.

>>935856

>turning Mr. Whiskers into Mr. Goatee

>>935900

Poorfag cheapskate here. That's an interesting idea. The less money I spend on lodging the more I can spend on visiting more places, staying longer and buying shit.

Can you go into more detail about how exactly you plan on making this work? What are you going to do about showering? How do you not get in trouble with the police or raped by smegma dick hobos?

>>935806

I've been planning to watch Yuru Camp but I haven't yet. I do love camping. Took the hammock pill years ago and never looked back. I can't imagine lugging a tent around.

>>935907

I'm glad you asked anon. The answers to all your questions will actually make the idea seem much more appealing.

First, let's talk about my biggest fear: Hygiene. I like being presentable, and Nips are known to be the biggest autists about this. My greatest fear is to offend them by actually being a dirty, smelly hobo. To counter this I plan on 1. Hitting up every public bath along the way. 2. Hitting up lodging (preferably a ryokan with an onsen) roughly once a week to not only bathe, but to wash my clothes. 3. I will stick to the coast and plan on swimming almost daily. The salt water may make you feel "sticky" afterwards but it is like a natural bodywash and kills bacteria, and makes your hair look cool. 4. If all else fails I will be bringing some natural soap that can be used to wash a couple of shirts and undies in a river without fearing of harming nature. I will also most likely pack a little more clothes than is advisable for a pure backpacking trip.

>How do you not get in trouble with the police or raped by smegma dick hobos?

Some careful research into this topic will reveal that Japan, is in fact one of the safest places in the world to go backpacking in. ESPECIALLY, if you are /a/non that is well versed in Nip culture and customs, have basic decency and common-sense and generally are not a filthy baka gaijin. Using terms like "Urban Camping" and "hitchhiking" in your searches (as opposed to "Backpacking") will probably yield lots of interesting advice and stories on this matter, even if you may not be planning on actually camping in an urban area.

https://wikitravel.org/en/Urban_camping_in_Japan

https://hitokageproduction.com/article/17

So basically, keep your passport on you and set up shop out of the way so you intrude on people's daily lives as little as possible.

I took this concept one step futher when I discovered the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, which traditionally involves pilgrims walking around the entire island on foot (1200km+), visiting 88 temples along the way. You show up at temple number 1, purchase a white monk coat and a walking stick, and you're on your way. In modern times it is, of course, acceptable to "cheat" using public transit, getting rides, using a bicycle, etc. However, what's really interesting is that on that island, drifters walking around are recognized as traveling pilgrims by their white coat, and you are not only not looked down upon as a homeless person, but you are treated with respect as a pilgrim. Locals will go as far as to offer you food and rides, and help if shit hits the fan.

This is what I will be doing as a way to "ease" into homeless Nip camping and should assure zero trouble from... pretty much anyone. And more than that, real interactions with real human beans. I'll make a thread once it is all said and done and go into great detail about the successes and mistakes of this endeavour.

>>935930

I'm considering this for my upcoming trip as I've the cash. But if you're just a carfag and driving somewhere, I don't see why someone wouldn't use use a proper tent, blankets, comfy pillow and swag.

>>935910

>You can't post that and not give more detail.

There's not much to tell.

>Everyone tells me my whole life I should be a scientist because I'm "really smart"

>"Fuck that, scientists don't make any money. I'm gonna be a Mechanical Engineer instead!"

>Get a semester into Mechanical Engineering

>Absolutely love it other than the lack of lab time, it's fun

>Ma' lost her job and was claiming unemployment

>Pa' stopped paying child support because he didn't feel like it any more and thought my mother was a leech

<Was really trying to force us to move in with him but he's an abusive drunken faggot so fuck him

>Had to choose between taking out tens of thousands of dollars worth of loans, getting a full time job and only taking out thousands of dollars worth of loans, moving out and therefore severing all ties with my family, or living on the streets

>Decided to get a full time job since it seemed like the least shitty option

>Went to school 16-18 credit hours a semester (typically about 14 of which were technical credits) and worked 40-50 hours/week as a supervisor's assistant in retail

>Fast forward a year

>Believed in the "you just need the will to make it happen" meme

>Turns out sleep and study time are more important than willpower, and I had no time for either

>Failed a couple classes

>Slept through Thermodynamics and Materials Engineering

>Got put on probation

>4th semester of college

>Stole little brother's adderall to get through classes

>Mother stole my car the day of finals since hers broke down that morning, and I flunked three classes because they wouldn't accept "my ma' stole my car while I was sleeping so she could go to school" as an excuse to "retake" the finals

She didn't even get her degree after doing that to me, fucking cunt.

>Was given option by the school to either transfer to a different degree program or fuck off

>Had already taken all my core reqs so there was nothing I could take that would transfer back to Engineering

>Figured out it would take me 8 years to get a bachelors if I "did things smart," but I didn't want to go into any more debt than I already had gone into (about $10,000 worth)

>Dropped out of college

>Went through a short depression phase

>Quit my job since I had a little money saved up and took the summer off

>Felt like I had lost everything I had going for me

>Couldn't even use money to live a normalfaggot life because couldn't both go to Uni and not be homeless

>Binged Clannad

>Had considered electrical work but for some reason it really clicked with me, was probably just the feels

>Decided to become an electrician

>Went to the local Community College

>Got conned into being an Electronics Technician instead

An electrician does everything in the wall, an electronics technician does everything outside of the wall.

>Got Electrical Technician certs, Class IV Universal HVAC certs, Solidworks certs, and would have gotten CISCO CCNA certs as well except it cost $400 and was only good for a couple years so fuck that bullshit

>In debt and can't go back to school even if I wanted to since I can't afford to and scholarships ran out

>Somehow landed a job building torpedo guidance system electronics, lightning detectors, server boards for Netflix, spectrometers, oscilloscope adapters, Naval crane boards, etc.

I'm not sure if I'd say Clannad helped me or fucked me, but at least I'm not stuck in retail or something.

>>935948

>But if you're just a carfag and driving somewhere, I don't see why someone wouldn't use use a proper tent, blankets, comfy pillow and swag.

Kinda my thoughts. If you're balls-to-the-wall camping innawoods than tents are stupid past maybe a one-person tent that folds up neatly into/attached to your hiking backpack. If you are taking a vehicle and only need to walk maybe a few miles to your campsite though, then I'd rather have the full tent setup. I've got a three person roughly 7'x7' (4.35 square meter) dome tent and it weighs maybe 6lbs (2.7kg). If I don't take the tarp it weighs even less. I wouldn't want to take it on a several mile hike, but lugging it a couple miles attached to my backpack is no big deal.

Blankets are always stupid when camping though unless you mean like a throw rug blanket. Just take a sleeping bag.

>>935957

God help you if you camp in winter. A tent isn't enough. So you're going to have to wrap yourself in a thermal blanket and an ungodly amount of layers to get any sleep in a hammock. Maybe some heat packs too.

Get HYPED fellas, some fellow weeb has a tutorial on making Creamy Soup-Style Pasta. I'm going to be camping in both carfag comfort and as a true-blue autist reenacting my favorite recipes from the show. God bless capitalism, our forefathers, modernity and the nips for making this possible.

Recipe: https://itadakimasuanime.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/yuru-camps-creamy-soup-style-pasta-with-bacon-mushrooms-and-asparagus-perfect-for-some-laid-back-camping-or-the-comforts-of-home/

>>936079

>weeb

"Wapanese" was already obnoxiously misused, "weaboo" was a made up nonsense term, but none of them come even close to being as infuriating to me as "weeb", mostly through its association with self-identified "weebs" normalniggers and redditor anti-anime-autism.

Shame on you.

>>936083

>Shame on you.

Ain't that the truth.

At the end of the day, I just like my Jap cartoons and on occasion visit this place to spurge out. So I'm not really privy to all the connotations of weeb, weeabo, etc. As far as I'm concerned, "weeb" is both descriptive and a positive thing; so I have no idea how others use it. But I'll keep what you said in mind.

Feeling mighty tempted about getting me an iron cast grill and Dutch oven. Even if not hardcore camping, at least buying some meat and vegetables and grilling at some place near the road would be neat.

>>935998

They do actually make things called "underquilts" for hammocks. Basically it's a sleeping bag that goes around the hammock like in this picture.

Now, obviously it's like lugging around another sleeping bag, but I would imagine that an underquilt PLUS a good mat PLUS a good bag PLUS decent clothing underneath that would keep you decently warm. I'm not from Australia and I've never been (although I would like to go one day) so I dunno if it would be good enough. And, of course, this is getting pretty bulky. However, if I had the choice, I think I'd go with that set-up vs a tent just because of how comfy a hammock is.

>>936196

>not putting your raifu into your daki cover for wraifu cuddling

>not sleeping with your wraifu on your chest

>>936236

God I love this guy.

>>936240

My heart has a greater diameter than 7.62 mm, and my cute little klutz would probably entice enemies to invade more than it would dissuade them.

No need for fancy camping doodangles.

Good ingredients, good binchotan charcoal.

Tradition is best

>>936104

Not really worth it unless you camp a lot or at least have somewhere to make a small fire for it, half the fun is tending the fire and roasting veggies. Otherwise it's an overly expensive and heavy soup pot.

>>936418

あのさぁ……イワナ、書かなかったコメント

>>936570

I have two of them.

AusFag reporting im. Camping is comfy. Even made the Creamy Pasta from the show for last night's dinner. Came with a mate though in the end, not solo but still fun.

All anons not living in bear country should try it at least once. It's actually super fun, will try make this a hobby I do frequently.

>>936748

Update: God sent his wrath in the form of heavy rain and my friend's bitching. So we left early. I'm never camping with friends or with the possibility of rain ever again. Lesson has be learned. Comfy camping should be done alone or with a daki.

>>936748

>Not living in bear country

What if we live in bear country and just keep our shotgun & sidearm with us in case of bear?

Back from my semi-comfy camping trip!

>Wake up about 3 hours late

>Driving to a campsite I've never been to before

>"The fuck? There's no way that's the turn, that's runoff for sure!"

>That's the turn

>Backtrack a quarter mile back to the turn-off

>Pull up to very top

>Old fart stole the best spot

>Found a nice spot between what appeared to be an old couple up above me and a family with kids down below me

>Settle in

>Put up camp in like five minutes

>Head off innawoods to take a piss

>Figure I'm decently away from any camps

>"Oh, there's a camp way up there..."

>"Eh, it's not like they can see me from here. I'll just go behind this tree."

<"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU FUCKING PERVERT!?"

>"Taking a piss."

<"OH MAH GAWD! MY FIVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS RIGHT HERE YOU SICK FUCK!"

>"Sorry?"

<"I can't believe people like you just- Ahhhh! Frank, Frank, he has a gun!"

>Gun is holstered, not even chambered, never even reached for it

>Shrug and went back to my camp

>Fucking tourists

>>936864

>Be later

>About three 6.5% beers, a box of chocolate milk, 2 liters of caffeinated water and some jerky in

>Have to take a shit

>Collect shovel, TP, fast orange, and Clorox wipes

>Decide to collect firewood on way down the hillside

>Found a cool sneeki breeki camp someone set up in a restricted area

>Decide to take pictures of it

>About a million flies

>Thought I wiped properly

>Nothing left down there anyways, washed my hands with fast orange/Clorox wipes, not sure what they were smelling

>Bury poop

>Flies continue to follow me

>Have to light a citronella candle to scare them off

>Wind keeps putting out my citronella candle

>Lost signal

>Rainclouds moving in

>Meh

>Comfily read a book and drink beer

>Handgun on the hood of my truck at this point since it's illegal to drink and carry

>Shotgun propped on tree next to me, not carrying so fuck the park rangers

>Scare off about three groups of spics who showed up late by yelling in Russian/waving shotgun around in the air (not pointing at anyone of course)

>Campsite down the road is super loud and obnoxious but whatever

>Smoke a pure tobacco cigarette

>Inhaled too deeply

>Felt great for all of ten minutes

>Felt sick for the next hour/decided to take a short nap in chair

>>936866

>Old couple tried to steal my camp while I was napping

There was no room for another camp at my site. There was barely enough room for me and maybe another single-person tent at most, and I was parked in the spot where that other tent could go.

>Got mad because I woke up and drove them off (to the camp right up the road)

>"Why the fuck are so many people trying to steal my fucking camp!?"

>Remembered it was 4th of July weekend

>Proceeded to drink another 4 beers

>Kept reading

>Clouds temporarily blew away but started getting dark

>Decided to light fire

>Watched what I thought was the "family camp" down the road turn into a drug-induced party camp of about 30 hippies

>They kept to their camp other than occasionally driving up to my camp to see if there was room away from the main crowd

>Was comfy

>Lit up my propane lamp for the first time

>Decided never to go back to electric lamps

>Propane lamps are the god of camping comfily

>>936868

>Be about 7PM

>Party down the road is in full swing

>Wind is picking up and it's gonna start raining soon

>Car pulls up next to my campsite

>Hear female voice through their open window

>"There's a tent here!"

<"Well maybe there's room still."

>Have had about 100 cars drive by my camp over the course of the day

>Have had enough of these motherfucking cityfolk trying to steal my motherfucking campsite

>Car pulls up

>Three white chicks and some dude I assume is the front seat's boyfriend

>"Hey, do you mind if we-"

>3DPD slut tries to ask in most sultry voice she can

>Cut her off mid-sentence and yell at her in my thickest Texan accent

>"Y'all better be bringing me some beer, drugs, or titties, otherwise y'all can try up the road, y'hear?"

It wasn't about the titties, it was about how badly they wanted to camp there, because I didn't want to share my camp with a bunch of whores.

<"Excuse me?"

>"Did I stutter? Beer, drugs, or the three of you better whip out some titties, otherwise I don't wanna be your friend."

<"Babe I've had enough of this fucking-"

>Her boytoy starts getting out of the car

>Rack shotgun and point it at him

>"I don't want no trouble now, boy."

>3DPD whore screams

>"Oh my god, you're such a fucking asshole!"

>Boyfriend jumps back into car

>They drive off as fast as they can on a bumpy dirt trail that's more like runoff than it is dirt road

>Flip me off as they're driving away but don't give a fuck

>Half-expect Sheriff's Deputy to drive by at any point the next couple hours

>Nothing happens

>Started raining something fierce so put out the fire due to embers flying everywhere

>Called it a night and crawled into my sleeping bag without pants on because camping without friends/family = no pants

>Kept sidearm next to me since cars kept driving by until about 1 in the morning and I was expecting to get vandalized

>Party-goers party until about 2 in the morning

>Woke up about every two hours throughout the night to some noise or another

>>936873

>Finally got up the next morning around 7:30

>Camp packed up in roughly 30 minutes

>Blaring Ugoku from my truck stereo so the 8 or so cars down at the other campsite at this point understand my frustration with them for keeping me up most of the night

>Camp is packed

>Driving by their camp

>Decided to be an even bigger asshole because fuck these faggots for keeping me up paranoid half the night

>Unloaded entire magazine from handgun out my window into their fire pit

>In a no shooting camp area

>Watched about five or six people scramble out of their tents freaking out by the time I was halfway down the road

>Flipped them off and went on my merry way

Camping is fun, /a/, but never again right before a national holiday. That was a mistake.

Also never wear sandals to a campground. I'm used to camping in places with lower brush/shrubs, trees, and maybe grass, not one with sand patches, rabbit shit, woodchips, etc. all over the place.

>8chan doesn't recognize mpeg

Really?

>>936877

>>936876

>>936873

>>936868

>>936864

>>936864

>>936866

That's the most /a/merican thing I have read in quite a while.

>tfw 100 un-free and yuropoor

>>936876

>>Unloaded entire magazine from handgun out my window into their fire pit

Good taste in literature though.

>>936868

>what I thought was the "family camp" down the road turn into a drug-induced party camp of about 30 hippies

Hippies are second only to outright niggers when it comes to things that ruins camping and campsites.

>3DPD whore screams

>"Oh my god, you're such a fucking asshole!"

You know why I believe your story, because it's crazy enough to be true, and your detailed descriptions fits all the pattern of 3DPD whuure behaviors.

>>936876

>In a no shooting camp area

>"no shooting camp area"

This part alone amuses me so much. It's just so amazingly american.

<"BLEAS GEEP YOR FREEDOMS IN CHEGG :DD DIS IS NO SCHOODING GAMP AREA ::DDDD"

>>936868

>organic milk

Is inorganic milk a thing in the land of the Americans?

>>936911

>What's your excuse for not camping

It's not comfy. Don't confuse "camping is comfy" with "making the most of an uncomfy situation". Sure there are ways of making the experience tolerable, but those things you're doing out there can all be done indoors effortlessly.

>reading

>drinking

>cooking

>fresh air (open the window)

I can understand wanting to enjoy the outdoors, but sleep is supposed to be relaxing, and it never is when you're outside.

>>936911

I've had my share of sleeping and shitting out in the woods in the rain while I was in the infantry, thanks.

Also, camping here in Europe is just shit because we basically do not have anything even approaching innawoods like America has. Even at the deepest in the woods the next village or town is at best 20 minutes of walking away.

>>936931

>but sleep is supposed to be relaxing, and it never is when you're outside

One thing I have to give to sleeping out in the "woods" is that waking up surrounded by nature was always really, really refreshing.

Also, if you have never experienced it, the smell of a forest just before and just after it rained is something to behold.

>>936977

I dunno, this >>935866 seemed to live up to the standard

>>936901

You don't 4WD in the bush? Jeez.

>>936954

>not sleeping innawoods in europe

But anon, think of all the ticks you are missing out on! Seems like Kyochuu Rettou is getting an animu this season.

>>936939

>What hobbies have you picked up/started to enact more thanks to anime, anon?

Not really hobbies, but I started making wasahoku more often, and I'm trying to become an amateur sake aficionado. Not just anime, but all /jp/-related content has inspired my learning of Japanese and the musical language.

>>936977

I could go on about drunken fuckup reading hentai beside a river while having a firework fight with the neighbors time weekend, but that isn't too exciting from my point of view

>>936983

>ticks

>>936983

I think if there's anything to take away from this thread it's go camping in fall/winter. The cold will keep the bugs and the normalfags away.

>>944668

There is a part where Rin tries to take a short-cut through a mountain pass and has no cell service. But I suspect you're right, there's probably very few areas in Japan without cell service considering the size and geography.

The alcoholic teacher/club advisor is a really weird addition to the show. Even though she seems rad as hell as far as camping buddies goes, it's actually somewhat weird to see someone who is probably a legitimate alcoholic portrayed in a show with a bunch of happy HS girls... If she just drank a beer or two to relax it would be one thing, but she really drinks to excess and it just seems off. Especially since they never really explore why she's getting fucking wasted on what amounts to a school camping trip...

And yeah, in the end, they never deal with inclement weather. Or any hardships while camping really. It's basically just a regular old "slice of life" show with a camping flavor, but there's no much depth to it other than that. Hopefully it inspired some of you anons to try camping or at least get interested in it, but I don't see it doing more than that.

In any event, I've got to say my favorite character was Aoi. Goddamn she's just too cute in the show. Her little sister was adorable too, I can imagine taking the two of them out for a real camping trip that lasts more than 8 hours.

>>944668

At least from personal experience, I had signal from Tokyo to Aomori with the only breaks being because the bullet train was moving too fast for my old-ass phone to maintain signal with the proxy service providing it in Japan. Once I hit Hakodate though, I had virtually no signal in Hokkaido outside of major cities (with the exception of Kitami and Utoro). Take that as you will, but I think Japan just gets really good reception. The skyscrapers interfered with my phone more than the mountains did.

>>944665

>Yurucamp

>durr why aren't they grilling bears

>>944665

>He doesn't casually kill bears for dinner while camping

>>936931

It kinda is.

As long as you're fine with looking at lakes and trees and stuff.

Of course, I'm not referring to shitty things like campsites full of boomer homes and screaming kids.