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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper
I will stop there Nyororin 
Don't understand why people just by pass this city when it's on the way really. |
Because it`s not a huge tourist spot.
Tokyo is, well, Tokyo - with everything centered there as it`s the capital.
Kyoto was a capital in the past and somehow managed to keep most of it`s important cultural stuff from being destroyed during the US bombing of Japan during the war.
Nagoya is a huge manufacturing and commercial center... But it`s not the capital, and most of the historical parts of the city were destroyed by heavy bombing. The city was rebuilt as a place to live and work, so it has a great design with wide roads, tons of parks, etc... But normal and comfortable life isn`t what people visiting Japan want to see. They want the incredible crowdedness of Tokyo or the historical stuff of Kyoto.
It`s kind of sad as there is a lot of history in this area - most of the big figures in Japanese history (founders of Tokyo, etc) were from this area. Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and so on. Atsuta Jingu, where the Kusanagi is held is also in Nagoya.
But it`s just not a huge tourist spot for foreign visitors to Japan.
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Originally Posted by JohnBraden
But I'm sure if there were rotten apples showing up in Nagoya, the people who know you or of you wouldn't associate you with them, would they? Of course there are people who would generalize, like everywhere in the world, but I can't fathom most Japanese being so closed-minded to think all gaijin are the same....
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Of course people who know me wouldn`t associate me with them. The thing is, if there were a bunch of problems caused by foreigners in this area, chances are the foreigners would all be associated with the same thing.
The best example would be to bring up the military bases in Japan. The areas around them tend to have a poor view of foreigners because the number of foreigners they encounter who cause problems is a lot higher than those they encounter who don`t. Even if people don`t come out and judge you vocally, there is indeed going to be some level of association in their minds.
Really though, it`s just the only big example I can think of where the number of foreigners in the area would have some effect on me. Chances are, nothing would change at all. Nagoya is a huge city, so there would have to be quite a few bad apples running about to make any dents.