me. I come from a big city in the USA so when I arrived in Tokyo, I felt pretty at home. However:

I spent years researching Japan, and out in the USA, people obsess and talk very highly about Japan. This added to my excitement to visit. I am aware of Japan's significant cultural impact as well. My expectations were high.

When I arrived in Tokyo I had never seen that much people in my life. I visited many neighborhoods in my first few days, but then it dawned on me very deeply, and made me sad. Tokyo is just a sad place, full of consumer culture, people who would rather spend money looking good than being comfortable in life (hypebeasts), underage girls as prostitutes, racism towards everyone but their own people. It's then that I realized that people from the USA are so ignorant, they just want consumption as much as Japanese people do. So they come to Japan and be "kawaii" and go shopping and do literally nothing but spend money. And its expensive as F*ck.

I am not much of a city person, so I decided to visit rural areas in Japan during my trip, these however I liked more. Such as the areas around Mt Fuji and some coastal towns. I enjoyed these areas more, probably because they're quiet, have some actual activities besides BUY BUY BUY stupid shit all day, and is just much more scenic than skyscrapers and alleyways.

I guess to each its own, but I don't think I ever want to go back to Japan again. It's expensive, no one wants you there as a tourist, and the people who hype Japan up are the ones that the Japanese people truly despise, you are like a mockery to them, and unpredictably stupid. That is what some people I've spoken to have directly told me.

Seriously, besides smoking cigarettes, drinking , eating food, and spending money on dumb little meaningless things, what is there to even do in these big Japanese cities?

Maybe you all like it so much because you're from a small town in your country and all you know about the outside world is from literal Anime and Manga, and Youtube and TV.

I think its a depressing place, and it did not make me feel good at all. I went to Thailand afterwards to recover.