Goodbye Japan

A short video I made using a few of the plusminus 2500 photos I took and the videos I shot in Japan. Unfortunately I lost all the video material I already uploaded on youtube which I wanted to use aswell.

Story behind the video:
I spend 3 awesome months in Japan, meeting lots of new friends, eating lots of sushi, learning new traditions and doing lots and lots of fun stuff. Unfortunately my visa exprired so I had to leave. The video is a flashback of 6 minutes over the 3 months in Japan, where I've travelled from Tokyo to Osaka to Fukuoka and back and all the cities and places I visited in between. Hopefully next time I will be able to stay longer :)

The track is called "Simply Deep" with amazing vocals from my lovely friend Tomomi Ukumori.

http://www.myspace.com/tomomiukumori

To view the pictures in better resolution and/or see more of the pictures I've taken in Japan don't hesitate to visit

http://www.papigiulio.com

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• goodbye
• japan
• papigiulio
• tomomi
• ukumori

[intelsilver]

Wow nice montage, btw you live in Japan now? it says so on your profile...

[papigiulio]

Thank you :). Whoops nope I don't live there yet, should fix that info heh.

[intelsilver]

i really want to go to Japan... if you could answer some questions for me, that would be awesome:

1. how many weeks do i need to get a good feeling of the country?

2. how much money can i expect to spend there for that amount of time?

3. i really don't know who to go with. family is out of the question, they have no interest in Japan. friends, kinda hard to convince them... umm girlfriend, don't have any right now... :( alone? yuk thats boring...

thx!

[papigiulio]

hmmm actually all those questions depend on the person.

1. Off course the longer you go, the better you can get an idea about a country. In my honest oppinion 2 weeks is way too short. My 3 months there gave me a real good impression about the country, but if you go that long you better be well prepared, especially financially, this already answers number 2.

[papigiulio]

2. Japan is a pretty expensive country. It was actually the last few weeks that I watched out not to spend much money. But I think you can have a better view of the country when you spend as much money there as you would do at home. Besides I really wanted to enjoy my time there. :)

[papigiulio]

3. Hah well sorry I cannot answer this. I went alone, no family no friends, so I had no extra luggage. The thing is if you go with someone, you always have to watch out for that person, wait if they are slow. You have all the freedom when you are alone, although I have to admit, I missed some company, together you can have more fun. :)

[5383totodata]

またおいで

[leon6266]

great footage. Are people friendly there? I cnt wait go there for very short term hope next year. If ur visa expires but cannot u re-issue new one i know alot countries traveller just pay fees.

[intelsilver]

thanks man... i was thinking of staying like 4-5 weeks.. so basically a month give or take... where did you stay? hotel? apartment? and where exactly in japan did you stay?