Seeing all 47 Prefectures

[GodInStrafeMode]

Don't your Eikawa shifts usually start at 5? Night off?

Don't work Eikawa, but nice try there brah

[ChasingTheSun]

Has anyone here done it during their time on JET? I'm trying to visit all 47 before next August. At the moment, I'm up to 22 which I've visited over the past three years. Does anyone have recommendations on how to group the prefectures together to see the most in a short amount of time? During a 4-day trip to Osaka, I was able to visit Hyogo, Shiga, and Wakayama. I'd like to do more trips like that, if I can plan them strategically enough. My remaining prefectures are:

• Gunma
• Ibaraki
• Kanagawa
• Saitama
• Tochigi
• All of Tohoku
• Fukui
• Gifu
• Ishikawa
• Nagano
• Niigata
• Shizuoka
• Toyama
• Mie
• Okayama
• Shimae
• Tottori
• Yamaguchi
• Kanagawa
• Tokushima

I can't drive in Japan and I live on Kyushu, which certainly makes things more expensive because I typically have to fly if I want to get off the island.

[OatsCurrySummer]

Thats my plan, I've been here four months and have done 8 already (with 6 more planned this year). This forum probably isnt the best place to ask about it though, everyone else thinks its a really stupid goal to try to achieve,
Of the ones that remain on your list I've seen Ibaraki and Kanagawa, so if you want any suggestions of nice things to do there, I can maybe offer some!

I also dont drive in Japan and live on an island that's expensive to leave Kyushu is gorgeous though, from what I've seen thus far it's my favourite region.

[Jiggit]

Leaving aside the obvious bait, why is this something you want to do? Why decide "I want to go to all the prefectures" and then try to figure out what you want to do in each one? Why don't you just make a list of places you want to visit and go to them regardless of which set of arbitrary lines they fit inside on a map?

[acpc2203]

Wait this isn't a bait post? I was suspicious at the 47 prefectures thing but the not driving part put it over the edge.

[OatsCurrySummer]

Leaving aside the obvious bait, why is this something you want to do? Why decide "I want to go to all the prefectures" and then try to figure out what you want to do in each one? Why don't you just make a list of places you want to visit and go to them regardless of which set of arbitrary lines they fit inside on a map?

Of course it's totally arbitrary, but I think I would have visited most of the prefectures anyways because I want to do my Masters in the history of of pottery and tea ceremony in Japan, and most prefectures have at least one town or city that's famous for its impact on pottery making techniques. I'm interested in seeing how different types of pottery developed all across Japan depending on each region's proximity to China/Korea, their willingness to adopt foreign techniques, the type of clay available and the divergence of aesthetics since the death of Sen no Rikyu. So I sort of do have a starting point of interest for each prefecture, but wanting to see them all is just me being neurotic.
Also, I love collecting those regional gotochi cards issues by JP, so it's given me an incentive to go to every prefecture.

[Zolrak 22]

Can we unite this with the other thread he/she created specifically about this?

I'm trying to visit every prefecture during my time here. So far I'm at 22 out of 47, but I have the next 1-2 years to see the rest.

[Jiggit]

Oh wow. I thought I was feeling deja vu. Can we get some level headed mods in here?

[mothy]

I'm trying to visit all 47 before next August.

Why?

I also dont drive in Japan

Why?

I want to do my Masters in the history of of pottery and tea ceremony in Japan

Why?

[Zolrak 22]

Oh wow. I thought I was feeling deja vu. Can we get some level headed mods in here?

I still wish you were one of them.

[Ini]

rent a car and drive 10-16hrs a day. probably be able to bang all of honshu out in a long weekend.

[OatsCurrySummer]

Why?

Long answer: theres no need for a car on my island, seeing as I live next door to my school and can walk across the whole island in an hour. At most I would maybe like to have a car for the mainland of Okinawa that I use only on the weekends.
Short answer:Working on it, will get my IDP soon.

Why?

Good question. To most its an unspeakably boring topic, but I'm fascinated by it. Can't wait to have the most useless degree in the world!

[Jiggit]

We're being trolled. I bet she's not even a sexy babe either, it's just another Ini sock puppet!

[5100]

Sexy beaches be cray cray jiggington.

[mothy]

Why would you want to go fantastically in debt for a degree you don't need that has no worth just because you're interested in the subject? I mean, I can understand how people get worthless BAs, they're young and stupid. But really by the time they're getting an MA they should have learned a degree needs some kind of practical application. Or are you the Buster Bluth type?

[acpc2203]

probably be able to bang all of honshu in a long weekend.

Done and done

[Zolrak 22]

So can I assume that you are capable of running a tea ceremony on your own?

Or is it more about the theory and history than practice?

[Frap]

merged.

[acpc2203]

My university had a few tea ceremony classes because some Japanese billionaire donated the money for a tea garden. Didn't take the classes but the tea garden was a great place to drink.

[5100]

My university had a few tea ceremony classes because some Japanese billionaire donated the money for a tea garden. Didn't take the classes but the tea garden was a great place to drink.

How dare you shame Yamato traditionz?!