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I'll be visiting Tokyo mid September from Korea during the Chuseok break. I'm already going to sumo one day, and TGS on Saturday. I'd like to catch baseball game or two while I'm there. Based on the schedule I have two options. Which is the better stadium for a game, Jingu or Tokyo Dome?
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Aug 25, 2016 15:13
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Depends on who is playing but I'd lean towards Tokyo Dome.
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Aug 25, 2016 23:04
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Tokyo Dome is good in any weather (and you can finally understand size comparisons like "this park is as big as 3.5 Tokyo Domes") Don't cheer for the Giants though peanut fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Aug 25, 2016 23:30
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Gonna ruin my "never been to Kyoto despite going to Kansai a bunch of times" run today.
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My partner is studying abroad in Japan starting in December, so we're planning on spending a week there around NYE (27 December to 3 January) in Tokyo. Any recommendations on inexpensive hotels, things to see off the beaten path, etc? Also please feel free to let me know if the holidays is an inopportune time to visit an already stupidly expensive and crowded city.
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:My partner is studying abroad in Japan starting in December, so we're planning on spending a week there around NYE (27 December to 3 January) in Tokyo. Any recommendations on inexpensive hotels, things to see off the beaten path, etc? we stayed in Tokyo Ueno Youth Hostel when we were there in july, and it was awesome. it wasn't like a 5 star hotel, but we had a private room that was really affordable, had a decent bathroom, tons of space in the room, and the location is incredible. we really only cared about location and cost, to be honest i didn't really care about cost but my wife was choosing everything so cost had to be factored in. the people there were super friendly and awesome and we didn't actually see anyone else there at all the entire time we were there until the last day when we met a korean family that was traveling together. if you're looking for a place downtown that is pretty cheap, i'd definitely recommend this place edit: put the wrong place, lol
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Aug 26, 2016 03:01
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:My partner is studying abroad in Japan starting in December, so we're planning on spending a week there around NYE (27 December to 3 January) in Tokyo. Any recommendations on inexpensive hotels, things to see off the beaten path, etc? It's inopportune in that it's the most boring time of year to be in Tokyo. That exact period is when a lot of places simply close up. People go spend time with their families on New Year and there's less stuff to do than virtually any other time of the year.
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On the other hand, it's a perfect time to go to some podunk town in the middle of nowhere with nothing interesting!
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Shrines and lines. Colds and olds.
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Hi Japan thread: I want to go to Japan and see all the main sights like Tokyo, Kyoto, etc and eventually would love to stay and live in Japan for 6-12 months+ once I get my marketable job skills together and can afford to move to Japan to start immersing and learning Japanese ideally for doing business there. Regardless, my frivolous question is: as someone who has a raging hard-on for everything modern and cutting-edge with technology, what weird poo poo should I check out when I'm in Japan related to gadgets and technology and whatever? I've heard Akihabara is like the world Mecca for technology shopping. What about huge gently caress-off  video game arcades and deafeningly loud pachinko machine parlors? Giant advanced AI robots and virtual reality demos? Conveyer belt sushi cafes? AI-powered smart rice cookers and toilets with all the gadgets and bidets and other smart appliances to export back to America?I'm just rattling off ideas, but you get the idea. It may sound silly, but coming from Ohio I was spellbound by the Star Trek sliding bathroom doors at the airport in Seoul, Korea and want more of that. I've actually been in the Narita airport (which has some of the most fantastic food I've ever had, especially for an airport!; but that was while I was en route to Taipei at the time while my dad diverted to touring Tokyo before flying back to America himself.) Any ideas? Japan has been at the top of my travel bucket list for a long time and I'd love to study Japanese at some point to make it possible to actually live in Japan with a salaried non-ESL job abroad. I know some basic Mandarin Chinese from college so many years ago, so it would make learning Kanji a lot easier than coming in cold as an native English speaker. Still, I'd rather learn Japanese and French than Chinese at this point. But all of that would be so exciting and amazing!! 
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Aug 28, 2016 22:03
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Come visit first (or sign up for language school or follow a gf/waifu.)
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Hi Japan thread: This excitement makes you sound like a 13 year old. I'm really jealous Man I wish I grew up in Ohio. I could just be a happy man seeing some cornfields and hills caberham fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Aug 29, 2016 00:51
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You can't shoot guns in Japan. Ugh air soft doesn't cut it
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Aug 29, 2016 00:52
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caberham posted:You can't shoot guns in Japan. Ugh air soft doesn't cut it You could visit my husband's family in Kochi and shoot at boars and poo poo. They won't rat you out or anything.
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caberham posted:Man I wish I grew up in Ohio. I could just be a happy man seeing some cornfields and hills I have no idea where someone could grow up in Ohio and be excited by automatic doors. 
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Sorry to burst your bubble but Japan fell behind the curve in regards to consumer electronics like 15 years ago. Sony is basically just Playstation and NEX, Sharp is owned by Foxconn, and Panasonic is essentially a crappier Samsung. These days Akihabara stores all have the same stuff as your local Fry's. Edit: I did, however, take a washlet back with me to murika as a present for my dad. zmcnulty fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Aug 29, 2016 03:56
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It's okay they'll fax you the address of a BBS you can email from your flip phone to find the high tech.
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Grand Fromage posted:I have no idea where someone could grow up in Ohio and be excited by automatic doors. i mean like if you grew up in ohio and didn't grow up in columbus or the burbs of cleveland or cinci, pretty much anything that isn't utter trash should be rather exciting imo
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zmcnulty posted:Sorry to burst your bubble but Japan fell behind the curve in regards to consumer electronics like 15 years ago. Sony is basically just Playstation and NEX, Sharp is owned by Foxconn, and Panasonic is essentially a crappier Samsung. These days Akihabara stores all have the same stuff as your local Fry's. You can get kiddy porn doujinshi at Fry's now?!??
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The Great Autismo! posted:i mean like if you grew up in ohio and didn't grow up in columbus or the burbs of cleveland or cinci, pretty much anything that isn't utter trash should be rather exciting imo I'm from Dayton and haven't lived anywhere rural so most of the things people seem to believe about Ohio have no relationship at all to anything I ever experienced. Except Skyline Chili. 
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are u a buckeye fan
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ohio is literally the third worst state in the united states
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The Great Autismo! posted:are u a buckeye fan It's peanut butter with chocolate on it so yeah they're p good. The Great Autismo! posted:ohio is literally the third worst state in the united states Worse states: New Jersey, Delaware, both Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, both Dakotas, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii (last three get a tourism exemption, I mean to live in), Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky.
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No mention of Florida? Nice.
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Wow drat. Florida is so bad I forgot it even exists. You're right.
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Grand Fromage posted:Worse states: New Jersey, Delaware, both Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, both Dakotas, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii (last three get a tourism exemption, I mean to live in), Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky. this is just an embarrassing post
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The Great Autismo! posted:this is just an embarrassing post no it's accurate because when including Florida, it puts Ohio right in the center which is where it should be. Incapable of being either bad or good. It simply exists.
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[in chapel hill, north carolina] "hey man how's life?" "ugh, its terrible. do you know what would make it better? moving to ohio" i am the first person to ever write this conversation in the history of humankind, because it is so laughably fictional it could never actually happen
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I don't know any major corporations that have boycotted Ohio for being so bigoted they're embarrassed to be associated with it. You also picked the worst example because a whole branch of my family left NC to move to Ohio so that conversation has, indeed, happened among people I know personally.
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in tucson, arizona, one of the coolest college towns in america, surrounded by national parks, a young man sits with his laptop at a coffee shop. around him are girls, girls that are so freakin' beautiful that they would be easily the most beautiful girl in any other situation, except they are all here in tucson, so they are all competing with each other to see which is most beautiful. it doesn't matter, really. the tenth most beautiful girl in the coffee shop is absolutely stunning. the boy, with his laptop open, sighs and stares into space, thinking about that wonderful land he's always wanted to move to. he opens google, and types "jobs in ohio"
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The boy, unfortunately, is unable to keep his laptop because he is slightly brown and ended up in one of Joe Arpaio's desert prison camps.
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Aug 29, 2016 05:39
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They later attempted to resell the laptop but it exploded because it's 150 degrees outside.
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[on a beach in hawaii] frank: "bro i heard you and jamie broke up" tom: "yeah...its been so rough. i'm just like, i dunno...i dunno man...im thinking about just, like, leaving it all behind, you know? like just like, i dunno, remember when you were a kid and you just had that dream of like-" [at the same time] frank: "moving to ohio" tom: "moving to ohio" frank: "oh my God...i totally get it"
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Ohayo～
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The Great Autismo! posted:[on a beach in hawaii] You're an idiot.
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I have not been to Hawaii but literally everyone I have ever met who lived there says it's horrible. Nice to visit but awful to live in. Expensive as hell, lots of crime, super racist if you're not native Hawaiian, etc. I've actually never heard more consistent hatred of any state, even places like Mississippi I've met defenders of. Also apparently there's a Hawaiian separatist movement which, lol.
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Grand Fromage posted:I have not been to Hawaii but literally everyone I have ever met who lived there says it's horrible. Nice to visit but awful to live in. Expensive as hell, lots of crime, super racist if you're not native Hawaiian, etc. I've actually never heard more consistent hatred of any state, even places like Mississippi I've met defenders of. honolulu was ranked the second safest city in the entire united states last year so idk about the lots of crime
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know any major corporations that have boycotted Ohio for being so bigoted they're embarrassed to be associated with it. Where in NC? Except for the Triangle, Asheville and Wilmington NC is pretty terrible.
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The Great Autismo! posted:honolulu was ranked the second safest city in the entire united states last year so idk about the lots of crime Looks like the crime rate has dropped a lot in the past decade, that's good. Property crime is still higher than national average. Honolulu also is not the entirety of Hawaii fyi. Stringent posted:Where in NC? Except for the Triangle, Asheville and Wilmington NC is pretty terrible. Who even knows. I don't remember a name so probably podunk nowhere.
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