/doomer/ - Doomers Club

This was my first impression when I arrived

my train arrived in ddorf at 06:30 on a sunday. The train station hall was quite full of people already but outside. Nobody

The entire town felt like a ghost town. No cars, no people. Surreal

Later I found out what the reason for that was. The night before, they had a city festival. That also explained the broken glass bottles everywhere on the streets.

My hotel was right in the train station quarters arab/turk/balkans town

So I walked to hotel and gave them my luggage so I can go city exploration until official check in.

This was my first impression of Königsallee (transl. king's avenue)

Duck family walking around in ghost town on a sunday morning at 7:30

notice the little ducklings in green color near the pillar

This is like the most expensive and most fancy street in entire Düsseldorf. All those luxury clothing companies have a flagship store there. Also 2 luxurious hotels. Next time, if I should visit again, I go in one of those hotels.

There is a subway station right there and the public transportation is 7€ per day, you can travel anywhere you want, by bus, train, subway.

This is how Königsallee looks like.

In the middle there is an artificial river/pond.

Left and right of it you have 2-lane steets, each side into its own direction.

It looks very beautiful. You can feel this germanic autism to align everything perfectly and plan everything into perfection.

They did a good job here. In Srbija, the grass would look brown, the trees would be not aligned and the water would be brown (with gypsy kids playing inside it)

In general, ddorf is a pretty green city

I was impressed. You walk a few blocks, and there is another green space with ponds, rivers or fountains. Really beautiful.

Düsseldorf is named by the Düssel river (Dorf means village)

Düssel is like a smaller river that encircles the city. Today most of the streams are either underground or artificially built into canals

When you walk down the Graf Adolf Street, you arrive at the rhine boardwalk.

On the left side, you have the rhine tower and media haven (Medienhafen).

The rhine tower feels very majestic when you are standing there

I hope I managed to capture it here

On the middle you can see the old seaport area. The seaport was now migrated a little more upside the rhine and this area is now filled with newspapers offices. They call it Medienhafen (media haven) because mass media companies are so prominent there

Here some more about Medienhafen

They have some fancy architecture style there

They also have the allegedly best Currywurst restaurant in town there

Of course I missed it but when I go next time, I will try their currywurst as well

They have 7 different sauces from super spicy to mild and fruity

Here more nature right inside the city

This is a green space around the rhine tower and Northrhine Westphalia parliament building.

They have rabbits walking around freely.

This is the rhine river seen from the boardwalk.

On the right side you can see the rhine knee bridge (Rheinkniebrücke)

It connects Düsseldorf with Niederkassel on the other side of the river. A few kilometers there is the Oberkasseler Brücke that connects the old town of ddorf with Oberkassel on the west side of the Rhine.

Those ships you see. They are majestic. Especially when you sit on one of the smaller tourists ships and one of those giants just moves past you.

Do you also see how Oberkassel/Niderkassel practically has the entire rhine board left empty? This is by design. They call this the festival meadows. In summer they have festivals there and they did not allow anyone to build anything there. It is a giantic space

Here a bigger view

This is the Mannesmannufer (Mannesman boardwalk).

It goes from Johannes Rau Platz (a free area below the Rhine knee bridge) all to the Düsseldorf old town. Maybe 1.5km along the rhine river. Very beautiful street. This is the upper part of the boardwalk. They also have a lower part where the ships dock on. On the lower part of the boardwalk they have cafe's restaurants and bistros.

Also, in May every year, they have the J-Day (Japan Day).

This is an open festival for Japanese culture and the festival terrain is this entire Mannesmann boardwalk from under this bridge until the Castle in the old town. I missed it by 1 week so I cannot say much about it but I intend to go there next year for the J-Day

Here is one of the tourist ships.

I am standing on the upper part of the Mannesmann boardwalk and below you can see the lower boardwalk. It is interconnected by stone stairs.

This was on a sunny day. When I took the ship, there was maybe 5 people only (because cloudy and on a wednesday)

This is the castle in the old town

It is rather a church but it looks like a castle so, whatever

on the right side, this round building, that is the ships museum

I did not go there but apparently they have expos about ships there

maybe I go there next year

This is the Apollo festival meadow, seen from Johannes Rau Platz (under the rhine knee bridge)

When they have festivals, this place is full of people picknicking and stuff

on the left side you see the rhine boardwalk

lower Mannesman boardwalk

in the back you see the old town castle

This is when you look from Mannesmannufer upwards the rhine river

you see the rhine tower and Johannes Rau Platz and Apollowiese

Those are the stairs that connect lower and upper boardwalk

In the back, again the old town with the castle

This is the former harbor

It is the Düssel river that just got canalized into an artificial pond.

They don't use this anymore for ships obviously

This is the castle square

they have festival tents here often

pretty much every day I was here, there was something going on

either here festival tents or on the boardwalk

This was from another day

I took one day to explore the Japanese town.

The Japanese town is on Immermann street.

Immermann street connects the train station north part with the city center.

Japanese town yes, but you will not find any japanese parks here or Japanese shinto shrines. It looks pretty much like this.

Japanese Restaurants and Asia shops

you can find pretty much anything.

In one of those stores I found a typical Hong Kong iced tea even

Düsseldorf is also called the Japan of the Rhine. Here lives the biggest Japanese Diaspora of Europe. Also the reason why they have this J-Day every year.

The Japanese quarter was very fine. Shop owners all walk around in Shirt and Chinos. There is no filth on the streets and people dress nicely on the walkways. No sharded glass on the streets. Japanese shop owners are super polite and nice. Very very nice experience. Bought a bottle of tea from one guy he was so happy and it was the best green tea I drank ever.

Literally no bitterness even when it was ice cold.

Compared to where my hotel was arab/turk/balkans quarter right at the train station this was like another world.

Found in one of the asia stores

One of the Japanese restaurants

I am not that much into their cuisine tbh as I don't like fish

but if any of you yurofags are into it and don't want to travel to Japan, this would be a perfect alternative. There is about 30 different restaurants everything from cheap noodle shops to high class meat and fish restaurants.

I just wished the buildings were in Japanese style too with an occasional japanese themed park and shinto shrine put in between but hey, you cannot have all…

This was more for me

This is an authentic Cantonese restaurant. You can eat here typical Hong Kong food.

I used the oppurtunity to finally try out authentic Cha Siu Bao (steamed barbecue pork buns).

I can recommend this to anyone who wants to try out authentic dim sum and is in town. It is located in the train station quarter, so my hotel was not far

This is cha siu bao

it is a steamed bun, filled with bbq pork and oyster sauce

it tastes sweet and salty at the same time. very interesting

what surprised me most was that the bread was fluffy instead of slimy

I mean, this is steamed, so you would assume the water must have made the bread slimy

If I come again, I will come back here to eat more of this

The shrimp dumplings were nice too.

Also tried steamed dumpling breads with vanilla and with maroon filling

both are tasty

This is one of the old buildings, a little south of the city center

Very interesting style and always with these dark red bricks

I also took one day to explore the Nordpark (north park)

It is a giantic park with various different gardens

It has a japanese garden in it. It is very peaceful there.

They have Koi carps in the pond by the way

truly idyllic

the park was a gift from japan or something

This was the other interesting part

there were pillars all around and a pond in the middle

with benches to sit right next to the pillars

very beautifully made

And then, there is this

A giantic fountain / grass field

here they also have those ducks

their shit is everywhere and interestingly, their shit has a green shade

This is another part of town

Golzheimer park (golzheim park)

It is a giantic grass field a few kilometers down the rhine

on the left side you have Cecilia's avenue

it is a beautiful street with many luxury buildings and mansions there

I think the maroccan embassy has its headquarters office there

This is the Hofpark (court park)

It is north of the Königsalle.

Again, artificial pond/river with a little forest on it and benches to sit

many people eat their lunch here in sunny weather

the view is towards königsalle

Do you remember the duck family from the beginning?

This is how you spoonfeed newfags

fountain at the Königsallee

This is the northernmost part of Königsallee

It is a giantic sculpture fountain of stone

very impressive

This was on another day

I went up to the rhine tower

you pay 9€ and you can stay how long you want

up there they have a cafeteria with best view of town

I tried to look far into the landscape and never look down

below on the right you can see the Medienhafen

Up there, they serve the best homemade lemonade of town

This is a lime mint lemonade I drank

it was like 5€ and best of entire town.

Also had one at Schwan restaurant and Schweinske. They were fine too, but this one was the best of all

This is from the old town quarters

Later on the same day, I boarded the ship to Kaiserswerth

You sail there for 1 hour (boat speed is 12km/h)

Kaiserswerth is like a little town on the rhine, just north of the ddorf airport

They have a nice centre square but there is not much to see there.

So you sail back to ddorf again by ship

This ship tour cost like 20€ and the beverage is included in price. I honestly have no idea how this pays out for them. There was like 6 people on our ship. Me, the spanish couple you seen before, 2 grannies and a rastafari dude. I was given like 3 iced teas while on ship. They wanted to give me even more to drink. Alcoholic beverage is also included for you boozebilled people here =)

This is from yet another day

I was at confiserie Heinemann

I implore you to stop by if you ever go to ddorf.

They are stellar. This Heinemann guy seems to have gone to confiserie school in Switzerland. They are allegedly the best confiserie shop in entire germany. Their champagne truffes are legendary since 1968.

All their sweets are bombastic. I ate a blueberry cake in their flagship store

I got myself various chocolates and pralinés, they are all wonderful.

Seriously, if you have the chance, do not miss them.

Funny side story:

>be at heinemann store near königsallee

>sunny day, don't want to buy chocolates now

<excuse me madam, when do you close shop

<I would like to come back again to load up on chocolates

>oh then you are flying back home tonight?

>like to mosmy mom's cunt?

I had to laugh so much. I really do have this russky accent and looks

The german guy I met at the convention told me the same

>>22802

why did you wordfilter moscova? lel

Here is some more of Heinemann's finest

This was my last day before the cuckime convention

rain started to pour down and all normies were in panic

I seemed to be the only one enjoying it

Used the oppurtunity to clean my dusty shoes from all the walking

also good, my chocolates would not melt

cuckime convention time photo: weeaboos taking out cash from their savings account to blow on plastic crap and overpriced food

the convention centre is north of golzheim

pretty much near the airport

so you take the subway there is a station nearby. I went there at 11:00 to eat at a local restaurant before going to con.

The weeaboos were filling the streets even 1 hour after official start of convention. I finally understand what BO meant when he once said he hated us, same in hotel also. Entire week is silent then on friday evening the weeaboos arrive for tomorrows convention. Noisy all of a sudden

Then I sat there waiting for my meal. 3 boomers were there sitting and enjoying morning with each other. The lady was complaining she cannot get her daily pretzel because the weeaboos are filling the bakery store that was next to the bank building.

Very nice atmosphere in restaurant btw. Friendly waiter and he even let weeaboos use his toilet for free. Food was nice too.

this is where you wait for entrance

they let us walk zig zag lines

very professionally organized

keep in mind this is 25K people who attend every year.

they did a good job at organizing this.

However, if you ever do something like that, take an umbrella with you

it was nice because no sun and 20 degr. centigrade. If it was 30 degr. and sunshine, standing there even 10 minutes would fuck you up for the rest of the day already.

This guy was from Capcom

They had an official Resident Evil stand in one of the halls

At first I thought he was pro cosplayer or something but they had all the other characters as well. very authentic

For those of you who never been to cuckime expo

this is how it looks like

giantic hall with lots of booths and stuff to blow your cash on

What do you do when you have gay car?

You give it even gayer paint job with cuckime motives

works every time

I do not collect plastic figures, nor do I make costumes or buy manga there when amazon has them cheaper

But as a trading cards collector, I was impressed what rare stuff they had there. These are the Pokemon TCG booster packs from the Gym Challenge and Gym Heroes series (around 1999). Those were the best series ever released and I was so happy to see them.

they had one video game console of every generation lined up in one of the halls

you could try out anything you wanted

one guy was selling retro video games

This was the artist hall

Now comes the fun part

best artist of this con was same girl as in Leipzig

and she does not even draw in anime style

she does not seem to be into anime at all even

I was so happy to see her there again

She might be in Mannheim and Kassel as well

This stand is the honorable mention

I loved it

they were all about this 80s pastel style aestetic

it was hilarious

I only got one post card from them

they had a special holographic effect on them

Apart from the artists hall

the car painters were the other reason I went there

because, what is better than to spray your Nissan Skyline with a gay anime look?

Imagine driving a car like this to your family vacation to italy or something

This was outside of the halls

there were food stands and lots of people

Apart from artists, you also find people who handcrafted things like this

It is always beautiful to see what ideas people have

Really, the artists hall is the best in every con

you never know what crazy new stuff you will see there

I mean, it is not like you go to google and type in:

>necktie that looks like Pokeball

This was after first day

I waited 1 hour for a subway train to take

interesting thing is, those people were not very smart

my slav instincts told me to drive one station back with subway

then enter into subway one station before all the others to have a place to sit

this is also what I did and only a few of the others

This as seen from train terminal

double rainbow

I befriended a german guy while waiting

he was also very happy about this

>this is like the highlight for the convention

Second day I went there 10:00 right when it opens. Seems like I was not the only one with that idea

Yugioh cards me and my cousin bought for 27$ in year 2003 when they came out. He found originally sealed exemplars of them

Imagine being in a motorcycle gang like this

all the other criminals would shit their pants from just seeing you

A fellow NEET

On sunday I did not do much as I have seen most on saturday already

But I did try out Katsu Curry

Japanese food is not really my thing but this is delicious

Also, this is Hifumi's favorite dish, so I naturally had to try it out

And then of course, best moment of every con is when you see girl cosplay as your waifu

>sit there in artist hall

>tired from walking entire day

<aww dawg, I saw, like 1 Ann, 1 Haru and 5 Futaba cosplayers

next day, there was also one Makoto and the Ann cosplayer was also there in Leipzig already

<normies have shit taste

<nobody cosplaying as best girl

>sit there some more

>see person coming

>blue jacket

>hime cut

>those shoes

>long socks

<unbelievable

<it must be her

I was so happy to see her. Really made my day

I did ask her for photograph but technically never to use it on internet

so out of courtesy, let me censor the identity

thank you cosplayer-chan, you filled my heart with childlike joy that day

I will never forget this

This was the last thing I did.

After convention on sunday, I visited Confiserie Metropol

Their cakes are bombastic too

The filling is very delicious

If you visit ddorf, make sure to stop by. It is 5min from the train station.

Very good cakes

Germany stinks, all of it.

And weebs make me sick.