24 hours Inside a Japanese MANGA CAFE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2022
- Here’s the proof that Japan is living in the future.
Japan Van Life Ch 42: Life in a Manga Café
Internet cafes (known as 漫画喫茶, “Manga Kissa”) in Japan have come a long way from being a place to simply read manga, use a computer, and sip coffee! Comic cafes in Japan are no longer just made for teleworking or reading. At 快活CLUB (“Kaikatsu Club”, AKA Cheerful Club), you can easily spend 24 hours “living” inside a manga cafe because there’s so much to do at a really affordable price.
In fact, it’s actually a pretty common travel hack for people on a small budget to sleep overnight in a manga cafe booth, and since they come kitted out with padded foam mat and/or comfy gaming chairs, blankets, and slippers it’s easy to relax in peace! Depending on the store, you can also reserve VIP sofa rooms that can accommodate as many as 4 people and some stores even have VR headsets and bright and airy women-only areas to ensure you are living your best Japan life.
Manga cafes often get a bad rep and conjure up ideas of sweaty nerds living in a capsule hotel booth, and while we do fit the weaboo/otaku unshowered stereotype, we’re here to dispel the bad rumours about Japanese net cafes and explain all of the services available for people traveling on a budget! Today we’re showing you how we spend our days off editing vlogs from our Japan travels, how vanlifers in Japan take showers, and giving you an inside tour of a Japanese manga cafe (and we’re VERY ready to take a shower after a cold night of snowy vanlife!). The only hitch? The shower has a time limit of 15 minutes 🥲
The full list of services:
All you can eat breakfast “morning” bar (bread and french fries) from 6:00 - 10:30
Unlimited drinks bar (including soups)
All you can eat soft serve ice cream
Food & alcohol menu
Shower
Hair dryer and hair curling/straightening iron
Free bath and face towels
Coin laundry machines
Blankets
Slippers
Reading lights
Locker for valuables
Manga comic library
Magazine library
Power/USB outlets
Free Wi-Fi
Online anime collection
Cinema (Watch movies, anime, TV)
Video games
Gaming PCs
Microsoft Office software
Gym
Darts
Pool (Billiards)
Karaoke
Massage seats
Private room with key
Free parking
(We opted for the cheapest available option, the “nomihoudai” all-you-can-drink café, which gave us free use of the showers and power outlets, unlimited soft serve ice cream and drink bar, and access to 1000s of manga, magazines, anime, and free Wi-Fi!)
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📍 LOCATION:
Kaikatsu Club (Koga Mizuguchi Store, Shiga Prefecture)（快活CLUB 甲賀水口店）
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OMG, I had no idea or conception that such places existed. Would have been good to know back when i was backpacking around Japan on a budget. Thanks for the tip even though I no longer budget travel
Haha even with a big budget it’s a fun experience for one of those “only in Japan” type of feels 😆
This was a good glimpse of your day off in between filming day trips. 👍
Toast with fried chips.. yum! Reminds me after school snacks sitting in front of the tv watching my fave cartoons as a child
Living the childhood dream! ✌️😆
Thank you for always choosing such interesting places for us to see! Highly enjoyable watching you both eat the free breakfast, too...😄
Thank you! We weren’t sure how many people would enjoy seeing this kind of thing, but it’s such a unique concept and integral part of our vanlife that we thought it was worth showing (including the carb fest 😂)
いつも動画を楽しみにしてます。今回も面白かったです。
できたらブログの日にちが童顔の中でもわかったらうれしいかな。
ありがとうございます☺️
これを1月6日に撮影しました！
That looked like had basically everything you needed, though having a lounge chair or massage chair would have been amazing. I wonder how many people use them for manga and how many use them for their facilities. 😊
They have massage chairs tooo! But you have to pay I think and we’re basic beeches so 🥲😂
The times we’ve visited the “cafe” areas, it’s mostly people reading manga but you do get a few people studying. It’s also a decent place to hang out with friends if you want to do karaoke cheaply and bring food in too!
That's such a unique concept and very cheap for what they offer.
I don’t know why it hasn’t caught on anywhere else! Maybe people are deterred by the idea of it just being a comic library? 😅
こんにちは！初コメントです。三重県の伊賀上野に来て下さったんですね、私は伊勢市ですが三重県も北から南と全然気候が違いますからね、伊賀上野は雪降ってるんですね！伊勢市は全然です。日本全国、ﾊﾞﾝの旅ご夫妻のコミュニケーション、ちょうど良い感じですね！これからも配信が頑張って下さい！伊勢市、鳥羽志摩にも来て下さい！良いところです！
初コメントありがとうございまふ😊タイムラグがあるので少し前になりますが寒かったです😅是非😁
@@OshareJapan
今晩は！コメント有り難うございます。
いつも、昔の投稿されてる動画から見せて頂いてます。
お二人のやり取りや自然体で良い雰囲気です。
長野の馬籠から津馬籠と、40年くらい前に仲の良い友人たちと行きました。
三重からはJRで行ってからのバスで馬籠まで行ったのかな？
確か、馬籠で一泊したのかな？はるか昔でうろ覚えですが(笑)🤭
中々旅行行けないので、お二人の旅で一緒に旅行してる気分にさせて頂いてます。有り難うございます。
これからも、気を付けて旅をして下さい！
😆😆 The breakfast was really something 😆😆
Now I want to try a sandwich with fries and ketchup 😁😁
I heard that there were people living in manga cafes, but I never saw how a manga cafes looks like from the inside! It was really interesting to see that the most necessary things are available so that you could actually really live there - bed, toilet, shower, washing machine, warm water, warmth and unlimited soft Ice 😆
And it was really a great to see you posting the new years post cards!!! It was so cool to see how you preparing them and sending them off, knowing that mine was also in between 😊
And really cool to see the place where they were sent from 😆😆
Thank you for making and sharing your journey ❤️
I really enjoy watching your videos 🙏
Nothing like carbs on carbs to fuel you for the day 😅🙈 If it weren’t for the lack of natural light, I could definitely live in a manga cafe (I mean it’s not much of a jump from living in a van to be fair 😂)
Thank you 🥺❤️ We should’ve filmed picking the postcards up in our new year too and then you would have seen its whole lifecycle! I think this might have been our most “local” postcard drop yet 😆. Thank you for watching and being part of it all 🥰❤️
ウン 楽しかったよ 昔を思い出したよ🤗 じゃねー
That opening sequence driving in the snow felt legit cold as hell
The camera does not lie 🥲🥶 haha
Well, this was a bit of a step downwards from the five star luxury Kyoto hotel 😂
#getyouagirlwhocandoboth ✌️😂
As long as one had a job that can be done remotely, even if it didn't pay a lot, someone could live in that cafe, avoid spending for rent, transportation, utilities, some meals, and other expenses. Maybe even save up some money.
I’ve heard that some manga cafes actually offer long stay and rental plans! It’s almost tempting 😆
If you googled foods to avoid for having no nutritional value or accelerating the aging process, then the top of list are 1. fries 2. white bread 3. ice cream 4. preserved fruit juices. Loos like you guys have hit the trifecta there ( and then some) :)))
We aged 10 years in 12 hours 🥲😅
風邪ひかないでねー💓😊✌
まったねー🙋
ありがとうございます😊
伊賀に来てたんですか、前もってわかってたら差し入れを持って飛んで行ったのに😞残念❗美人の生kiwiさんを見たかったなぁ😊
ありがとうございます😊
interesting 👀
Manga in Canada is $13.99 or more sometimes. It can be an expensive hobby.
Wow 😬 I can see why anime dominates the western market
Nothing like a carb sandwich. Ultimate is a sausage roll in a sandwich. After all that, did you have any time to read any manga. ?
Omg 😳 adding that to my food bucket list now haha
And in all the times we’ve used them, neither of us have ever actually sat down with a manga to read 😅🙈 (not that we wouldn’t like to though!)
Is there manga in English?
Without looking extensively, I’d have to only guess and say no, especially for older titles, but they do have a QR code that lets you access manga on your phone so there might be a chance of finding some there or at least screenshotting and translating 😅. We’ll confirm next time we visit one!
Free snacks, drinks, shower, AND gym??? At this point id rather just have a manga-hotel membership than a fitness center membership lmfaoooooo
We missed the part about working off the bread and fries but saaame 😅
🇬🇧💕❤️🙏🏽👍🏽
Kiwi is a weaboo 😳? who would have thought....
Baha you mean to tell me the stereotypical greasiness wasn’t a dead giveaway?? 😂