Ask a guy who was homeless in Tokyo for 5 months and who slept in internet cafes and public libraries the entire time anything.
Realtraveler?
>>919943
Nope.
Worked for the FBI for 7 years, quit to move to Japan with a load of savings, got a nice paying job, hated it, quit, ran out of money and had a financial situation back home that emptied my funds, apartment contract renewal was up at the same time, didn't have money to renew the lease nor for a plane ticket back home. Ended up sleeping in internet cafes until I had the money to return to the states.
That's the condensed version.
>>919945
Scariest moment?
>>919945
Damn that sucks, i guess there could be worse places to be homeless though
Why didn't you just try to mooch off of and live with Japanese women in exchange for sexing them and keeping them company
>>919946
Scariest moment happened a few times. I actually had a $1000 per month income coming from the states that to keep things simple was basically the repayment of a loan for a land deal. $1,000 was just enough to allow me to sleep in an internet cafe most nights of the month and still leave me without about $5 per day in food. Well a few times the wire transaction got notably delayed and once it didn't go through at all and had to be resent as someone fucked up on the U.S. end. This resulted in several days of me having literally having less than $2 on me at any given time and that was scrounging up every single 1 yen coin I could find.
>>919939
From when to when?
>>919939
Reckon the experience has "changed you for the best" or fuck that and you wish you never had to do it. Enlighten us.
Also what did you do in the FBI
>>919948
To be honest as long as I had the money for the internet cafe it really wasn't that bad. The key was really searching for the best deals and internet cafe setup. Every internet cafe, even ones of the same chain, will have different pricing structures and room setups.
The best cafe I found and the one I ended up essentially living at for months was a Manboo cafe in Chiba (yeah not Tokyo proper for the assholes but still the Tokyo metro area). They had a sort of hidden 24hr price that they only gave to a limited number of rooms per day. Cost was about $25'ish. The catch is once you got it you had to renew it every day or someone else could get it and you could spend days waiting for a slot to open up again. If you did that you'd be stuck paying for shorter time slots that were much more expensive per hour.
For a while I would just buy the $15 8hr night pack and spend the rest of the day in the library or park but I found being out all day left me more exposed to potential issues that would require money. In the end spending the $25 to have a place for the entire day, that also included unlimited drinks, was just a better deal especially in regards to morale.
The other issue was privacy. This cafe was much shittier than many in regards to how nice the building was but the advantage was that it had a fully enclosed high wall booth with a full sized locking door. Many other cafes would either have booths with much lower walls or little half sized doors that left a couple foot opening. That little bit of extra privacy went a long way towards feeling comfortable and getting some decent sleep.
>>919955
It was an incredibly experience and although it sucked at the time in many ways I'm a relatively cool headed guy who thinks things through so I looked at it as sort of a challenge. In some weird way it was almost "fun" at times.
The main thing it taught me is how little I'm capable of living with which is a great stress reliever knowing that doing without isn't the end of the world.
As for what I did for the FBI I was a "Technical Information Specialist". Basically ran our little command center desk: Radio, NCIC checks, FBI internal database, and a ton of other BS.
>>919977
Tell us more of your stories. You sound more interesting than OP. Did you also mooch off of Japanese sluts and live with them?
>>919977
>this nigga again
why didnt you go to the us embassy for help?
>>919977
Oh for fuck's sake stop posting your shit.
>>919977
Faggot are you gonna post your bullshit stories in every Japan thread?
This shit is getting old and no one gives a fuck.
>>919986
lol how did you get away with it every time? did you go to different stores, or wear a hoodie or something?
also didn't people make comments to the cashiers when you were about to walk out or didn't greeters see you?
>I actually had a $1000 per month income
Why not buying a plane ticket ? Why waiting five months ???
>>920011
have you ever been to Japan? Because you sound like you don't. Then again, this is a troll anyways
>>920011
Reported for shitposting.
>>919939
>>919960
>>919962
Damn must've been a crazy if this is true.
What did you eat every day? How much did you spend and on what?
How did you wash yourself and clothes?
And didn't the people running the cafes give any fucks that a random hobo was living there?
Also, why choose internet cafes? There's a few hostels in Tokyo where you can stay for around $20 / night where you'd get better facilities and maybe even free rice or bread for breakfast.
>>920011
he;s a troll but he's kind of right.
you can get away with this in most white neighborhoods in western countries to be honest
>>920021
And? Anyone with a brain can see that by observing for a couple of minutes, that's not the problem.
>>920012
>>919990
>>920021
ocean deep, chiba prefecture, next to chiba JR east train station. Me and my ho. Will try to find pics of my graffiti on Google Maps but it's probably been removed.
Will start thread when I get back from work.
>>920028
all stolen clothes btw
>>920028
google maps link of the bar, obviously the van isnt there but you can see the logo on the blue van behind me. Not a troll just an asshole making life harder for beta weeb english teachers. they deserve it for nanking.
>>920032
>they deserve it for nanking
god you are retarded
>>919939
You're the weeaboo that posted a couple of weeks ago about going to Tokyo and living in internet cafés and public libraries? before getting called an idiot. At least you did it in your imagination, with a job for the FBI to boot.
>>920032
Looks like a shithole we had something like this in China. How did you even end up in Japan? Where did you get your slut from?
>>920035
It's pretty obvious that he is from his earlier posts.
whats tokyo like?
>>919987
I was getting by enough that I didn't want to bring them into it.
>>919999
Last minute plane tickets cost a hell of a lot more than $1,000, hell there weren't any tickets at the time under $1,000 for any time frame. Even if there were it would have meant literally having no money for an entire month.
>>920016
Food: Japan has these precooked rice packs that are made to heat in the microwave (which the internet cafe had). Bought in bulk they were cheap. Also just bought a bag of mixed spice and a bottle of cooking oil. I would heat up the rice and then just throw in a little oil and spice into it. Cheap and good.
Another staple were these 99 yen breadstick packs. A single pack came with 6 breadsticks of various flavor (including chocholate chip) and were about 600 calories total. These were great as they required no cooking and I could easily bring them around with me.
The biggest help though was the unlimited free drinks at the internet cafe including fruit juices. There were many days where I just fasted on nothing but fruit juice.
Washing clothes: I would take a plastic bag with me into the internet cafe shower and throw my dirty clothes in it, fill it with hot water, and add detergent. I would then slosh it around with my hands and then tie the bag up and leave it to soak while I showered. When I finished I'd pull the clothes out and rinse them with the shower head and then I just hung them up on a string in my internet booth. Keep in mind being in the city I'm not getting dirty so I'd only be washing like a single pair of underwear and maybe a t-shirt every day.
As for internet cafes vs hostels the internet cafe provides more privacy and less exposure to people who are going to want to be doing things all the time that I would have to constantly shrug off.
>>920037
Sorry but not that guy. This might be some pretty funny proof but here is the cake the FBI gave me at my going away party.
>>920056
Fuck didn't add the photo.
>>920057
That's fucking hilarious
>>919939
Did you not get laid once? Kek
>>920057
that's a pretty sweet cake
>>919939
How cheapis it tosleep? Nobody called police fir your prsence? What anout food or shower¿ How to avoid anyone steal your stuff?
OP, why didn't you just go other parts of Asia? For $1000 you could actually live a normal life in most of SEA. Flights from Japan are like $50 sometimes.
>>920064
I had a 3 year work visa but they can cancel it if they find out you aren't working and there is no proof of you actively looking for work for a set period of time. That said after quitting my first job and once I got desperate I took a commission only job with a mom and pop business while still in my apartment. They took over the visa sponsorship but I had to quit there as well as I was making no money and it was costing me more just to travel there (1.5hrs one way on the outskirts of Tokyo). That said they knew of my troubles so I don't think they even bothered reporting that I was no longer working for them since I was essentially the equivalent of a 10-99 contract employee anyway. Because of that I don't think the Japanese government even knew or cared and when I left there were no issues or red flags at immigration about my visa status.
As for police yes I was worried for the above reasons because at the time I never knew if my visa would be revoked out of nowhere. However, I had one encounter that put me at ease.
One weekend after a couple of months of being homeless I had "saved" enough bucks to travel back into Tokyo to see a Japanese friend who owned a bar in the Shinjuku Golden Gai area. He ended up buying me drinks and I got drunk, ended up falling asleep on the Chuo Sobu line heading back to Chiba and missed my stop. Ended up missing my room renewal time at the internet cafe so they took all of my bags to the local police station. I thought I was fucked but the police were actually really cool as apparently they had ran some sort of check on me and had learned that I worked for the FBI. All I can assume is that they did some sort of visa inquiry which showed my original work visa application which listed my previous work experience. I simply explained that I was leaving in a few weeks and was just doing some backpacking until then.
>>920064
That is a strange coincidence but I've posted my stories on another large'ish message board before so it is possible that the wanna be hobo weaboo had read it.
>>919952
kek, I stayed at a hostel in Tokyo for 1500yen a night. Why not just do that?
>>920028
>scrawny, pale, scummy wigger
kek
>>920118
Not OP but the internet cafe has a lot of benefits.
>>920143
Such as?
>>920148
You get free internet and a PC to use, mangas and magazines etc. and free drinks as he mentioned. Hostel is just a tiny room.
Internet as far as I know isn't actually freely available on a lot of places, especially on cheap hostels, I doubt they even have TVs.
>>920148
He already mentioned free juice.
>>920150
Doesn't really matter when you consider net cafes are more expensive than hostels and less secure.. they don't have a real bed. Not to mention the fact you have to pay extra to use the shower.
>>920150
I doubt there are many hostels out there these days without wifi. I stayed in some dingy hostels in Mexico and they had it, I'm sure the ones in Tokyo would as well.
>>920153
They are just 2 different things. Also not every cheap hostel has a shower.
>>920155
Never been to a hostel without a shower. Even in Bangladesh. Even in Malawi. Of course in Tokyo.
>>920035
I think he is trying to start a meme
>>920154
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDd2KJye6vk
Apparently it's a little bothersome
>mfw I remember watching this like it was a month ago
>it's been 9 months
>>920156
Alright then, I may be wrong. You must have been to one where they don't have it within the room but a seperate room where you take turns though
>>920148
>>920153
Except net cafes aren't less secure. They're more secure. Like I said you have to find a decent one because none of them are exactly a like. Mine was a fully enclosed unit with a locking door and had free showers.
In a hostel you are in a group room with a bunch of other foreigners with your shit exposed basically 24/7. It's a stereotype because it's true but Japanese people (who you are surrounded by in an internet cafe) are simply more honest and less likely to fvck with your stuff than some random travelers in a hostel.
It also gives you your own private fiber optic internet connection and cable TV package which does wonders for your ability to relax instead of being constantly in the open and exposed to others like in a hostel environment.
And like I said before the free drinks. I know it sounds dumb to most but having an unlimited supply of fruit juice, teas, cafe mochas, coffee, slurpees, etc was a nice fall back source of calories that also provided a change of tastes. I drink water 90% of the time in normal situations but when you are having to resort to the bare minimum in terms of food for sometime days at a time getting some flavor variety really helps with one's morale.
Also in an internet cafe you don't have pressure from other travelers to go out and spend money on things you shouldn't be doing.
>>919952
why in the wrld would you want to live like that are you trolling
for 1k a month you could live like a king in a number of other developed or semi developed countries
I find it hard to believe you worked for the fbi
>>920114
why are you so much of a failure
this is your idea of fun?
This sounds boring as fuck
How did a dumb asshole like you get into the fbi
>>920199
> Why would you want to live like that?
Try learning to read. I didn't want to live like that and the "hurr durr why didn't you fly to a cheaper country" is a dumb ass suggestion considering it is being made by you in hindsight. It's not like I knew exactly how long I would be homeless and I was working on accessing funds to return home in a country I was familiar with and felt safe in.
> I find it hard to believe you worked for the fbi
Ok.
>>920028
Damn, you weeb faggots got this guy's posts deleted and probably banned. I hope you come back and start a thread.
Fuck you weebs, he's better than OP who's a boring loser and probably didn't even get laid during his entire time in Japan
