I'm currently in Japan (specifically visiting Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo), so why not make this week's poll something relevant?

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Question: Did you dress up for Halloween this year?

Choices:

• Yes - votes: 373 (18.5%)
• No - votes: 1638 (81.5%)

There were 2011 total votes. The poll ended: November 8, 2025

Someone had made me a Jedi robe many years ago, and I finally wore it for the first time

A just ruler amongst tyrants

There is a part of me that want to go to Japan, but realistically I don't think I will ever go to Japan mmm...

I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

If I'm being realistic, I don't see all the stars aligning for me to simultaneously find myself having the funds, having my health in a place where international travel won't be a problem, not having any other conflicting responsibilities/commitments that would make it not feasible, and being able to get over the considerable mental health hurdle that is my anxiety disorder to put myself out there like that, so while theoretically I like the idea of going, I really doubt it'll ever happen.

I live in the antipode and can barely stand the 8 hours on a cramped magical aluminum cylinder that usually gets me where the family wants to go spend a while, let alone the 32hs average that would take me. I would like to, yes, but it's not happening until the Concorde2.0/Spaceships/Teleportation becomes a thing and even then...

Yes, recently for the first time actually! I visited the big three cities (Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo), and loved the time I spent there. Been wanting to go back and visit the Hokkaido region...

Though I spent a long time wanting to go, but having financial issues that prevented me, I was finally able to go, last year ...and, as I still have some of the retroactive payments of income I should have been having for a long time (most of which, I'll never get...), I'm now on my second trip
...and currently stuck in my hotel, with a mild-ish cold and a mild fever... 😢
I absolutely don't want to waste any of my precious days in Japan, but what can you do.

I found a conference in Japan and forced my work to send me earlier this year 😂😂😂 It was fun . Only thing was they rejected my personal days so I skipped the "last" day of the conference where it was all just virtual presentations hahahahahha

I'm conflicted between "Never, but I want to go" and "Never, and I probably will never go". I really wanted to visit Japan someday—and start a new life there if possible—but afford a living in my own country has already been hard, I'm not sure I could afford to go abroad at all—moreover for a long term.

In the end I choose "Never, but I want to go". Who knows, the chance might come someday.

Yes, already went there twenty years ago (back when Inu Yasha was nearing its end) and going back next week. Pretty much the same itinerary, but in the foliage season instead of the middle of summer (it wasn't the best time of the year to visit, but climbing mt. Fuji is only possible in July and August). Also taking advantage of the favorable exchange rate...

I want to go some day, but I wouldn't really want to go without being able to understand enough of the language that I can enjoy it by myself if I end up alone.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

Never been there, but it is #1 on my bucket list. Hopefully I get there before I'm really old.

I wonder, why there is no option with clear "no and not interested to go"?

not-english-native

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I want to go some day, but I wouldn't really want to go without being able to understand enough of the language that I can enjoy it by myself if I end up alone.

From what I've heard, you don't have to know the language, to manage decently well, even by yourself ...though, obviously, it helps if you know some.

In the distant past for me. 2010 was fifteen years ago now, wow! I interned at Kyoto University the summer after my freshman year at MIT. Naoko Tosa was a lunatic who doesn't understand computers yet was in charge of a team of engineers, I'm so glad her wikipedia page indicates she's stepped away from computational "art" and does more traditional art now--as an artist I can understand her appeal, but she was NOT suited for her role at Kyoto University. The tasks she tried to assign to me--a post-freshman summer intern--were physically impossible with the technology at the time and wouldn't be developed for another 8 years by a team of postdoc and doctoral candidate level researchers.

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I wonder, why there is no option with clear "no and not interested to go"?

Are you just trying to be edgy? This obviously falls under the last option

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Never been there, but it is #1 on my bucket list. Hopefully I get there before I'm really old.

The yen has never been weaker in the modern era, you should probably try to go asap if you are from the US, as the dollar is on its way to collapsing.

Though if you are from Europe just ignore this, you will be fine holding off another decade or two.

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Are you just trying to be edgy? This obviously falls under the last option

...and what would people who have no interest in Japan, be doing here?

Though if you are from Europe just ignore this, you will be fine holding off another decade or two.

Hold off for a decade or two?
...
I mean, you don't have to rush or stress, sure, but a decade, or more...