Eulogy for a net cafe
2019-May-13, Monday 15:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I just found this article about the decline of the net cafe on the Japan Times. Now that everyone has a smartphone and wifi is much more common, needing to go to a net cafe for connectivity isn't something people need to do. Even travelers just buy pocket wifi the way I did on my last trip to Japan and use their own phones.
I'v been to a manga cafe in Hiroshima City once, when the bus back from Mt. Fuji arrived after the last train and friend was worried about gossip if she put me up for the night, and it was lovely. ¥800 for the night, all the manga I could(n't) read, and a place to plug in my phone and a computer to surf the web. But there wasn't any sense of community there the way the author describes.
That was 2011. I wonder what they're like now?
I'v been to a manga cafe in Hiroshima City once, when the bus back from Mt. Fuji arrived after the last train and friend was worried about gossip if she put me up for the night, and it was lovely. ¥800 for the night, all the manga I could(n't) read, and a place to plug in my phone and a computer to surf the web. But there wasn't any sense of community there the way the author describes.
That was 2011. I wonder what they're like now?
no subject
Date: 2019-May-14, Tuesday 18:44 (UTC)