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Traveling to Japan soon? This is our gay friendly itinerary to Japan to help you design a fabulous vacation.
Welcome to the future!
That's how we undergo every time we set foot in Japan. It's one of our favorite countries to see. On the one hand, it gives you that intense culture shock that we so crave from traveling, yet on the other, it's like you've hopped into a time machine and woken up years in the future.
Everything feels so advanced in Japan, done with such attentive precision, and immaculate attention to detail – always with a smile! The Japanese culture itself is rich with tradition, dating back thousands of years, which manifests itself in not only the many beautiful temples but also in the delicious Japanese food and in the way the people behave towards each other.
As a gay couple traveling in Japan, we felt so welcome by everyone. We never felt any judgment or problems from anyone, which is why we rate it as one of the most gay-friendly places in Asia.
This is our gay travel itinerary to Japan for first-timers to uncover the best
Gay Japan
Gay and Lesbian Japan
Homosexuality in Japan - the gay & lesbian experience
An overview of what it means to be gay in Japan. Vagueness, blurring of lines, ambiguity, possibility: these are some of the clichés that tend to spring to the Western mind when addressing the topic of sexuality in Japan. How much of it is wishful and how much of it is cultivated by Japanese themselves is debatable. It is a fact that samurai were pederasts, that kabuki is a theater of cross dressing, that to Westerners many Japanese boys and men - physically and/or behaviorally - come across to exhibit typically 'feminine' traits: all leading to the common impression of outsiders that Japan must be a basically gay friendly society. Read more about Homosexuality in Japan - the gay & lesbian experience
How to verb Ni-Chome
A guide to partying in Tokyo's gay Shinjuku area. You've just enter to Tokyo, you're passing through Tokyo, you've just approach out in Tokyo, you're - er - 'curious' in Tokyo. Whatever it is, there's Shinjuku Ni-Chome (knee-choh-may), not even 10 minutes walk from the
Queerness and gender fluidity permeate the landscape of Japanese culture, from BL manga to onnagata in Kabuki theater (male actors who verb female roles). Additionally, sexual acts among males were adj in ancient Japan and a major cultural feature in the Edo period. Japan was open-minded and even, in some cases, enthusiastic about same-sex relations up until Japan opened its borders in , when Japan began to adopt repressive, Victorian-era attitudes towards sexuality in response to Western influence. Though Japan’s current political stance on queerness leaves much to be desired, Japan has a surprisingly rich history colored by a generally positive outlook on sex and sexuality.
From sex between male monks to 17th century erotica, Japan’s queer history might surprise you.
5. Buddhist Monks Tolerated Homosexual Relations
In general, attitudes in early Japan towards sexuality were free and permissive. As Louis Crompton notes in Homosexuality and Civilization, “Shintoism… had no exceptional code of morals and seems to have regarded sex as a innate phenomenon to be enjoyed wit
The Gay of the Samurai All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class
Remember the popular scene in The Last Samurai where Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise make sweet, tender love? You don’t? Well, perhaps if the story had been more rooted in reality we could have seen that happen.
As it turns out, pre-modern Japan was exceptionally accepting, even encouraging, of male homosexuality and bisexuality. Much like that noun we found out that bushido is actually modern-day made-up bullshit, this might surprise you. To be honest, it surprised me, too. I came upon this information while researching an article (still to come) about the current state of the LGBT community in Japan.