Tokyo Gameday anyone? Tatsukun?

Zander · Feb 14, 2005

I'm going to be in Tokyo and surrounding area later this month until mid-March.

I was wondering if anyone would like to get together? It needn't be for a game (although that's possible); it could just be for drinks and 'frothing'.

Please post below if you think you can make it.

Thanks.

John Morrow · Feb 14, 2005

Zander said:
I was wondering if anyone would like to get together? It needn't be for a game (although that's possible); it could just be for drinks and 'frothing'.

You might want to try joining the Yahoo JIGG (Japan International Gamer's Guild) group and sending out a message there. There are quite a few Tokyo-area JIGG members and they get together periodically.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/JIGG/

(Despite the fact that their web link doesn't work, the JIGG mailing list is still active.)

Dragonblade · Feb 15, 2005

I used to live in Tokyo and gamed occasionally. Hard to find players thats for sure. I used to teach English and ran D&D games for some of the other teachers between classes.

My wife is Japanese and she wants to move back there someday.

Alzrius · Feb 15, 2005

I wish I'd known about this when I was in Japan two years ago, it sounds like great fun.

Zander · Feb 15, 2005

John Morrow said:
You might want to try joining the Yahoo JIGG (Japan International Gamer's Guild) group and sending out a message there. There are quite a few Tokyo-area JIGG members and they get together periodically.

Thanks, John. That's a really good tip. I'll give it a shot if this thread for an EN World meet-up doesn't work.

Thanks again.

Zander · Feb 16, 2005

Anybody?

*bump*

John Morrow · Feb 16, 2005

Dragonblade said:
I used to live in Tokyo and gamed occasionally. Hard to find players thats for sure. I used to teach English and ran D&D games for some of the other teachers between classes.

I didn't find it all that difficult to find gamers in Tokyo, though I played more board games than role-playing games there. I not only found JIGG but I also managed to find, via the Internet, a small group of gamers at Sophia University that weren't connected to JIGG. JIGG used to run ads in the gaijin classified ad magazines like Tokyo Classified and you could also try that to find English-speaking gamers.

Zander · Feb 17, 2005

John Morrow said:
...I also managed to find, via the Internet, a small group of gamers at Sophia University...

I went there

(to the university, I mean, not the gamers' group) but it was in the days before widespread Internet usage. There was no gaming group at Sophia/Jochi back then - not an English-speaking one anyway.