What I call a road trip here is basically travelling throughout Japan for the duration of approximately a month without much of anything but a backpack and some pocket change. A small group of friends and I would like to do that next year.
I know other people who did the same thing in Italy. They travelled from one city to another, sleeping in parks as if they were camping without tents. They found a way to get by from playing the guitar on the streets of Florence and other cities they found themselves in.
The thing is that I know Italy has a much warmer cultural atmosphere than Japan. I'm even wondering if it would be legual in Japan for a group of gaijin to sleep outdoors or to try and make a profit on the streets. We even have ideas of giving french lessons here and there to get by.
How are such tourists seen by the japanese people? Would we be offending them? Would all that be against the law? Would the japanese folks go out of their way to avoid us?
I guess that what I'm ultimately asking is... is this road trip possible in Japan?
I know other people who did the same thing in Italy. They travelled from one city to another, sleeping in parks as if they were camping without tents. They found a way to get by from playing the guitar on the streets of Florence and other cities they found themselves in.
The thing is that I know Italy has a much warmer cultural atmosphere than Japan. I'm even wondering if it would be legual in Japan for a group of gaijin to sleep outdoors or to try and make a profit on the streets. We even have ideas of giving french lessons here and there to get by.
How are such tourists seen by the japanese people? Would we be offending them? Would all that be against the law? Would the japanese folks go out of their way to avoid us?
I guess that what I'm ultimately asking is... is this road trip possible in Japan?