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I'm going to Korea tomorrow for a few days, my landing permit for Japan will be canceled at that point I suppose, and when I go back in I can just get a new landing permit, right?
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Shibawanko posted:I'm going to Korea tomorrow for a few days, my landing permit for Japan will be canceled at that point I suppose, and when I go back in I can just get a new landing permit, right? I remember reading a while back that tourist landing permits were limited to 3 per year or something by a new regulation.
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Shibawanko posted:I'm going to Korea tomorrow for a few days, my landing permit for Japan will be canceled at that point I suppose, and when I go back in I can just get a new landing permit, right? I think in theory you're not supposed to be in Japan more than 6 months of the year without a proper visa, so if you're pushing that you might get trouble. I know of guys who say they've done more than that, but they also mostly came here to do business and made a lot of money so immigration might have just been turning a blind eye,.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:59
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Ara posted:I remember reading a while back that tourist landing permits were limited to 3 per year or something by a new regulation. I can't find anything about this, but if you can find the source I would like to read about it. I'm not pushing the limit by far yet, but I suppose my next landing permit will be shorter as I've already been here for about 3 weeks now. But I'll be leaving in february anyway. Mostly I'm wondering if they might ask me more questions than usual as I'm coming from  KOREA  , my friend came in from Shanghai recently and they asked him quite a lot of questions too.
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Jan 7, 2014 08:14
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Shibawanko Korea thread can form a welcome committee if given notice. We have a proud history of this sort of thing.
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Jan 7, 2014 08:23
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3 weeks + Korea + 3 more weeks? It's nothing they can get upset about.
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Jan 7, 2014 23:19
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Ara posted:I remember reading a while back that tourist landing permits were limited to 3 per year or something by a new regulation. They really don't give a poo poo. Total is still 180 days/365 day period; it might get hairy after 4-5months of smaller trips, but otherwise no problems.
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I got here just fine with no problem. I was expecting Seoul to look a lot like Tokyo but it doesn't really, it's a lot more grim and Chinese looking. The food market rules, it's exactly what I imagined it to be like: heaps of steaming sausages and other types of food lining stalls lit by dangling little lights and people shouting at me to come and eat there. This has nothing to do with Japan or Korea in particular, but why do all of this world's hotels insist on putting a giant mirror right next to the toilet? I do not wish to see myself taking a poo poo. Nobody does. What were they thinking. Even as I'm typing this at midnight at the desk in my hotel room there's another mirror so that I can watch myself using the internet, another pose nobody wants to see themselves in. Hotel mirror culture is so perverse.
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Shibawanko posted:I got here just fine with no problem. I was expecting Seoul to look a lot like Tokyo but it doesn't really, it's a lot more grim and Chinese looking. The food market rules, it's exactly what I imagined it to be like: heaps of steaming sausages and other types of food lining stalls lit by dangling little lights and people shouting at me to come and eat there. How else can you check your rear end in a top hat for skin tags!?
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Shibawanko posted:I got here just fine with no problem. I was expecting Seoul to look a lot like Tokyo but it doesn't really, it's a lot more grim and Chinese looking. The food market rules, it's exactly what I imagined it to be like: heaps of steaming sausages and other types of food lining stalls lit by dangling little lights and people shouting at me to come and eat there. The reason they put mirrors in front of elevators is that it greatly cuts down on vandalism from people waiting. This could be similar, to prevent people from making GBS threads all over the place or something.
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Hotel mirrors are there so that when you're loving a lady of the night you can order them to look themselves in the eye while they're being rogered by a foreign barbarian so they'll shamecome.
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I am OK posted:Hotel mirrors are there so that when you're loving a lady of the night you can order them to look themselves in the eye while they're being rogered by a foreign barbarian so they'll shamecome.  I'm only quoting this in case you change your mind about it later.
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Iyada dame~
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peanut posted:Iyada dame~  dame da yo~
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That's the best thing I've ever read by a mile.
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Hey goons, I'm coming to Osaka with my girlfriend early February for a week. Last time I came to Osaka I thought it was ho hum compared to Tokyo. So this time I would like to get it right! I think I definitely missed out on awesome food places and just went to a few generic ones near namba. If any kansai goons can give recommendations that would be awesome! Oh and a Osaka goon meet would be nice! Hopefully peanut can make it. darth cookie posted:
Have you been to an hourly hotel? Lots and lots of mirrors, even mirrors on the ceilings!
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darth cookie posted:
Stop being a prude, life isn't life till you bang two hookers in a mirrored room while high on redbull and viagra. caberham posted:Hey goons, I'm coming to Osaka with my girlfriend early February for a week. Last time I came to Osaka I thought it was ho hum compared to Tokyo. So this time I would like to get it right! You should come to Tokyo because that's where the cool kids are. Except I am Ok, he's p.cool.
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Madd0g11 posted:Stop being a prude, life isn't life till you bang two hookers in a mirrored room while high on redbull and viagra. Pattaya trannies and golden triangle narcotics or bust! quote:You should come to Tokyo because that's where the cool kids are. Except I am Ok, he's p.cool. Thanks for the invite but airfare was too expensive for Chinese New year. We are are flying peach without being too pricey (still is). Cathy costs 110 000 yen per person for economy to Tokyo. Ugh. I would have picked Tokyo too, to me I find it more international and easier for non Japanese tourists. I'm also super familiar with all the food spots in Shinjuku, ginza, and asakasa. The food options dare I say beats Osaka. I really hope to be proven wrong. Then again kansai can be super fun too. Heck you can never be tired of Japan as a tourist. Clean streets, ultra polite and detailed customer service, great food and agriculture (JA tastes great). Oh Japan! And of course a good pool of j goons. More level headed and reserved than k goons but still perverted in a passive salary man way.
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caberham posted:Hey goons, I'm coming to Osaka with my girlfriend early February for a week. Last time I came to Osaka I thought it was ho hum compared to Tokyo. So this time I would like to get it right! Go to Kobe. That place is classy!
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Kobe is the best place in Kansai for real. It's very small though so you'll do everything there in a few days.
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I'm back from Korea, that was cool. Why do I always seem to get pudgy whenever I go to Japan? I get stuffed with food a lot by my inlaws but I try to eat as much healthy stuff like sashimi and natto as I can, instead of ramen and whatnot, but it's actually much easier for me to stay at a normal weight in Europe than it is here. At best I stay the same weight but usually I come home 2 kilos heavier, despite doing daily pushups and jogging and walking. Is it rice or soy or something that's doing that? I basically eat the same stuff as my girlfriend, but she doesn't have this problem. I'm 2 heads taller than she is but somehow my metabolism just doesn't cooperate. Part of the problem is that everybody seems to assume that because I'm tall I need a truckload of food.
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Shibawanko posted:Part of the problem is that everybody seems to assume that because I'm tall I need a truckload of food. I could go on for hours about the fetishism of white rice that I've noticed here - which I guess is obvious, but one of the bigger offenders is this terrible TV show called おじゃマップ with one of the SMAP members (Katori) where the cast is constantly going to places and eating food with the condition that each of the cast also has to finish 2.5 whole cups of cooked rice, which is a LOT, and every time they do a food shot the white rice is always in the shot like you know what's really important don't you viewers.
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Navaash posted:Nah, it's the rice. Good old bleached white rice goes straight to the gut if you're not inured to it and the only thing that keeps that away is constant exercise. It doesn't help that 1) it's considered the main dish at every meal 2) the much healthier brown rice has had the stigma of being poor people food due to initial postwar conditions. Thanks, yeah I think I'll just stop eating rice for now. I'm also suspecting silky tofu since I read it's a carb bomb and I eat it at nearly every meal in some form (everybody loves sichuan tofu, including me). I think I'll switch to sashimi, vegs and natto for now.
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Hello Japan goons. I'm new to Japan. I just moved here about a week ago and this is my first time in Japan. Does anyone here know how gym memberships usually work here? I really need to find a gym so I have something to do in the morning before school. Also looking for a good place to go jogging, I heard Yoyogi park is nice but it's about 40 minutes away from where I live (Shimura).
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Znorelag posted:Hello Japan goons. I'm new to Japan. I just moved here about a week ago and this is my first time in Japan. You want the good Japan thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3484341 This one is for planning 7 hour layover trips to Japan and asking about rail passes. Gym membership is easy, you go in and sign up and they charge you every month. Most gyms run specials fairly frequently where you get 3 months free and such, if you've got a gym nearby you'll probably get a flyer in the mail. Pricing generally differs based on your age (younger gets discounts) and times of the day from what I've seen, along with access to pools, yoga, etc. They will ask if you have any tattoos when you sign up. Even if you have them, say no and then just wear a bandage over it every day. If you say yes, they will refuse you service. You'll also have to sign a form saying that you're not affiliated with the Yakuza.
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Ara posted:You'll also have to sign a form saying that you're not affiliated with the Yakuza. What if you are?
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I am OK posted:Kobe is the best place in Kansai for real. It's very small though so you'll do everything there in a few days. Thanks goons. I guess going to Kobe China town will be fun. Japanese China towns are the cleanest ones in the world. So any Kansai restaurant recommendations? It's my annual splurge so I don't mind spending more for a nice dinner. I mean heck, a nice Ryokan in Kyoto is going to cost 30,000 yen per night right? Ugh, wish I had more money. Japan can be sooo expensive. Im checking booking.com I know Washington/Toyoko Inn is good enough just to settle my bags. Fingers cross we can meet up with MORE GOONS and peanut. Everyone loves peanut. Except my old cellphone 
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CrazyLittle posted:What if you are? In that case you'll be inundated with messages from goons asking you to pick up garbage bags from a girl in Kyoto.
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Good evening, the lot of you. I've come to the thread wondering if anyone in here has experience with, knows of, or has friends with experience/knows of Kwansei Gakuin University and Nagasaki University. These two universities host study abroad programs with USAC. The one KGU runs is called the "Japan and East Asia Studies Program" while NU has the "Japan Studies in Nagasaki." I don't know anything beyond these besides what I've read off the wikipedia page, so I'm wondering if any of you know about them.
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I have a good friend who teaches at Kwansai Gakuin and I just visited last month. It is a very nice campus in a pretty rural area. Only an hour by slow train to central Osaka.
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Yeah, Kangaku is probably a lot better than the school in Nagasaki. I know a few folks who have been there and they really seem to like it. It is also a school for wealthy kids so that should make it interesting.
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Also apparently you're supposed to attend chapel, but my friend says a lot of students don't go.
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caberham posted:So any Kansai restaurant recommendations? It's my annual splurge so I don't mind spending more for a nice dinner. I mean heck, a nice Ryokan in Kyoto is going to cost 30,000 yen per night right? Ugh, wish I had more money. Japan can be sooo expensive. How about just staying 1 or 2 nights in a nice ryokan, and somewhere cheaper for peak weekend rates? Rakuza is a kawaii old narrow guesthouse in Gion, and JAM is a Gion hostel with a sake bar on the ground floor. I can take you to a ryokan out on the islands with onsen and slammin giant seafood dinner/breakfast course for 10,000/person (Nagoma on Imabari Oshima.)
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somehow doubleposted
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Znorelag posted:Hello Japan goons. I'm new to Japan. I just moved here about a week ago and this is my first time in Japan. Oh, you live somewhat near me. Depending on how far you want to move out and what line you're on (I'll assume Mita?), your best options are Central Fitness in Nishidai (I think they have morning-only plans), and there's also the city gym in Maenocho, which is close to Shimura and is much cheaper although not as well equipped. If you're close enough to get to Akabane, you have more options there. Original_Z fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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So a mate of mine in Korea went off to Japan and stayed at the Washington Hotel in Tokyo for a few days just before the new year began. He came back and wouldn't say what he'd did, so I did a bit of searching to try and find anything shameful and/or public he went to that occurred during then. I... I think he went to Comiket 85  Please tell me something else was going on then. Anything! Half price hookers, discount dragon dildos, whatever! Just so long as I don't end up believing that I'm friends with a closet Touhou aficionado!
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Nope. The big sales don't/didn't even start until January 1. Enjoy your closet geek.
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I went to comic market to observe the costumed play.
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WarpedNaba posted:So a mate of mine in Korea went off to Japan and stayed at the Washington Hotel in Tokyo for a few days just before the new year began. He came back and wouldn't say what he'd did, so I did a bit of searching to try and find anything shameful and/or public he went to that occurred during then. lol your friend took pics of teenage girls bending over and farting gently into their elementary school panties, along with a bunch of middle age dudes.
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Shibawanko posted:I went to comic market to observe the costumed play. nerd.
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