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Some don't even take reservations for people traveling alone. Just like some shooting ranges don't rent guns to people who show up alone.
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It depends. Many do if you call them and try to take a solo-trip during a weekday. There's a bunch of old people/domestic travelers who do like to stay at ryokan solo --- so much that there is a "solo" option on a lot of the travel portals in Japanese.
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Sep 5, 2017 07:16
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Stringent posted:I've done it a few times, it was quite nice. Yeah it's pretty nice. I've done this on the tail end of business trips a few times for some much needed chill time.
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Sep 5, 2017 08:12
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For a first-time visit to a ryokan it might be better to have a friend/local to explain the menu.
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Sep 5, 2017 08:30
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Anyone here into VR? I'm gonna be in Tokyo next week, planning to go do this and curious if anyone's been. Mario Kart looks awesome.
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air- posted:Anyone here into VR? I'm gonna be in Tokyo next week, planning to go do this and curious if anyone's been. Mario Kart looks awesome. I did it - get the pass and make sure Mario Kart is still going on. It originally ended at the end of August. The games were pretty fun, but sometimes a bit buggy. They had to reset my machine 3 times to get it to pick up my hands. Mario Kart is pretty much set speed catch-up to keep it fun since you just get one go. The power-ups were awesome and it was great to hit people near me with a hammer. Skiing seemed pretty realistic. Dino Horror game was scary af, but fun - would probably try a different one in the horror group (red) if I did it again - maybe the flying bike. And Dragonball was cool, especially if you're a Dragonball fan. I didn't even know the character names and still enjoyed it and would do it again. Overall - expensive, but a lot of fun overall.
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Any cool and good recommendations for places to stay in Kyoto? Not staying in a hostel or capsule hotel, everything else is fair game. Also, have 12 or so nights, I've already been to Tokyo, I've heard Osaka is worth skipping, where would you go besides Kyoto? Hiroshima? Cool place that isn't a major city? Not renting a car and going in late November.
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Its getting closer to my trip time. I reserved a hotel and put both my friend and my name on the guest portion but they will be arriving like 6 hours before I do and they will need to check in. The room is being charged to my credit card, and I know here in America that at check-in they usually want to put a card on file for incidentals, is it the same there? Obviously when I finally arrive I can do that with my card but I want to make sure that when friend gets there she can get into the room and relax without any hassles. Worst case scenario she can use her card and then I'll just have them swap it when I get there. Or am I overthinking this?
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Sep 11, 2017 18:07
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VelociBacon posted:Any cool and good recommendations for places to stay in Kyoto? Not staying in a hostel or capsule hotel, everything else is fair game. What are you looking to do? Aimlessly walk around town? Sightseeing? Big into touristy stuff?
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Sep 11, 2017 18:14
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Phone posted:What are you looking to do? Aimlessly walk around town? Sightseeing? Big into touristy stuff? Wander is the big one. Really into good as well. Not into touristy stuff at all but would go to 2-3 temples since it's Kyoto.
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Sep 11, 2017 19:52
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Hello kyushu friends, I'm dropping by Itoshima in early November for oyster huts on the way from Fukuoka down south, but does anyone have any recommendations on what else to do near there? Otherwise, I'm perfectly fine going there just for the oysters.
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Sep 11, 2017 22:12
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Wander around Hiroshima, Onomichi, Kurashiki and Kobe. Go see the world's largest graveyard at Koya-san.
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Oh for that question i meant in Itoshima. I've been to Hiroshima, Kobe, and Koyasan before. I skipped Okayama but would probably do it on a Chuugoku specific trip sometime in the future. We'll be on the other side of the Shimanami Kaido on the Ehime side but I dont know if I want to pay the entire car fee to go over the bridge and back, since my mother can't really do the full biking thing. Who knows.
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May be worth checking this site out: http://itoshima-guesthouse.com/itoshima-map/
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Sep 12, 2017 00:46
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(and my town recs were for velocibacon hehe) ntan sempai are you coming to Ehime? with your mom? I would totally host you here in Niihama.
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What's a good less-travelled city/area to go to on holiday? I'm intimately familiar with Tokyo/Osaka, Okinawa down south and Hokkaido up north. Have a week off in October I could fly into the country.
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Sep 12, 2017 03:51
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shrike82 posted:What's a good less-travelled city/area to go to on holiday? You should ride a bike across Shimanami Kaido and see the crazy festivals in Ehime Oct 7-18 (Matsuyama Dogo mikoshi, Saijo danjiri and Niihama taiko).
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Sep 12, 2017 04:05
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I really liked Matsumoto. There's not really much to do there but it's a nice little town to chill. You could go from there up into Nagano and see mountainy stuff.
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Could easily kill a week in Kyushu. Onsen basically everywhere (35% of Japan's onsen are in Kyushu), historical stuff, active volcanos, shochu, Yakushima, FUK.
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Or if its late October Aomori is very pretty, especially in the Hakkoda range.
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peanut posted:(and my town recs were for velocibacon hehe) O im an idiot. Unfortunately Im already staying at Minshuku Nagoma which I think you recommended at some point. Then heading straight into Tokushima the day after, since I don't have that much time. I wish I had more vacation 
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shrike82 posted:What's a good less-travelled city/area to go to on holiday? spend a day in kagoshima and then take the ferry to yakushima and stay there for five days, you can go to jomon sugi for a day, go to the seaside outdoor onsen once or twice, go to 白谷雲水峡 for a day, your hostel will literally be on the ocean and it's quiet and relaxing and peaceful and nice. the take the ferry back to kagoshima and then fly out. that's my trip, enjoy
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ntan1 posted:Or if its late October Aomori is very pretty, especially in the Hakkoda range. I came here to post this. The Oirase-Towada area is so nice.
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ntan1 posted:O im an idiot. omg yesss you can say Iizuka recommended it and enjoy the awkward but sincere small talk about my adorable kids n stuff peanut fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Sep 12, 2017 |
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Sep 12, 2017 12:25
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The Great Autismo! posted:go to the seaside outdoor onsen once or twice  I have other stuff from Yakushima too but ya its cool
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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201708300059.htmlquote:Tourists may be forced to cough up a "sayonara tax" when they leave Japan.
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Got another question. I'm headed to a music festival this weekend in Naeba (more or less the same place where Fuji Rock is) and the weather looks like I should consider bringing outdoor/rain gear like boots, waterproof pants, a raincoat/jacket. What are some stores I should try? I'll shop around Shinjuku since I gotta be there for the VR thing anyway. In the past, I've popped into Donki for cheapo ponchos or umbrellas in a pinch. I don't necessarily want the cheapest things, especially on the boots since I'd probably wear them for a whole day. I googled around for gumboots/rain boots and I see there's also L-Breath, Sanko Hakui.
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air- posted:Got another question. I'm headed to a music festival this weekend in Naeba (more or less the same place where Fuji Rock is) and the weather looks like I should consider bringing outdoor/rain gear like boots, waterproof pants, a raincoat/jacket. If you want the best prices go to London Sports in Jimbocho: https://www.yelp.com/biz/%E3%83%AD%...%94%B0%E5%8C%BA My personal preference for outdoor stuff is montbell: http://www.montbell.jp/
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lol yeah nothing attracts tourists like charging them to leave your country. I guess this is a damage cleanup fee for mainlanders. Different topic: I finally finished reading Spike Japan and it made me miss good blogs, anybody have suggestions for others of the sort? Doesn't have to be about ruin but long form and well written is important. They can be dead or active.
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How about goonette Elise's gross ICU stories? http://www.endofshiftreport.com/?m=1
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tokyodeep.info is pretty good. Don't bother with the English version though.
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Grand Fromage posted:Different topic: I finally finished reading Spike Japan and it made me miss good blogs, anybody have suggestions for others of the sort? Doesn't have to be about ruin but long form and well written is important. They can be dead or active. I remember reading some posts on here shortly after I got here: https://goinglocoinyokohama.wordpress.com/ I remember liking it, but I don't remember it very well.
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I would point you to the hairy white prince, the finest japan blog ever written, except he seems to have let his image hosting go fallow. A couple posts seem to still be ok: http://gaytokyo.blogspot.jp/?view=classic
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Grand Fromage posted:lol yeah nothing attracts tourists like charging them to leave your country. I guess this is a damage cleanup fee for mainlanders. Tbh if it's just included as an additional charge on a ticket I doubt most people would even notice
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Thanks for info on the shinkansen. Any recommendations on best ways to spend time with a day and a half in Sapporo? The brewery tour sounds good but brief.
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Keep in mind you still have 3.5 hours on another train after you get off the shinkansen in Hokkaido, to get to Sapporo. A flight is probably cheaper and definitely faster. Sapporo is cool but it's mostly about eating, drinking, and drinking with girls. Which of these do you want to do the most? Not much in terms of tourist spots. Edit: also just to be clear they don't actually make any beer at the Sapporo Beer Museum in Sapporo. It's just a museum. If you want an actual working brewery tour, that's a 30min train ride outside of the city. zmcnulty fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Sep 14, 2017 08:40
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lol that's a heck of an unrecommendation
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It's also a 1 hr train ride from the airport to Sapporo. You have to make sure your trip is worth while for sure.
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You can sometimes get decent deals flying into Hokkaido's smaller airports like Obihiro, which closer to places that are more interesting than Sapporo.
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if you are not from japan the maximum you should pay for any flight is $100. Both ANA/JAL have this promotion for foreigners.
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