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LyonsLions posted:My favorite story about this is my (Japanese) coworkers who asked me if they should take bottles of tea with them on their trip to Italy. They were concerned that bringing enough tea for the whole trip would make their bags too heavy. I had never been to Italy but I said that Italians probably got thirsty too and there was most likely water to drink there if they didn’t want to bring tea in their luggage. 海外で外人に喋ることはいけません。 なぜのは謎です。
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Stringent posted:海外で外人に喋ることはいけません。 *な
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Sorry, Italians only drink espresso and wine. No water allowed in Italy.
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I got thirsty driving through the endless semi-rural sprawl of Virginia with my dad. Mostly because my dad is an rear end in a top hat speeder and by the time I identified a drug store behind those stupid (mandatory?!) trees that block the view from the road, it was far behind us... Walking around tourist sites in Europe it's impossible to avoid water sellers, lol. Normal people problems arrived usually buying carbonated water by accident.
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When I was in Beijing in August I would've literally murdered a man for a bottle of cold water. In Rome you don't have to buy water because some of the aqueducts are still functional and there are fountains everywhere on the streets with mountain spring water pouring out for free. It's great.
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Grand Fromage posted:When I was in Beijing in August I would've literally murdered a man for a bottle of cold water. Some even have free sparkling water, it's great.
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I’m in Osaka for a couple of days. Nothing much planned, just happy to be hanging out in Japan. My travel buddy is heading back to her home country ahead of me, though, so it would be nice to grab a drink some evening with some goons. Anybody around? I’m staying not too far from Umeda.
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goddammit I was just at space station tonight, if you'd posted earlier I would have noticed I'm pretty much the only osaka goon around though (most of the others are in/around tokyo) and I work weekdays so uhhhhh idk
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Don’t worry about it- I actually ended up in Kobe tonight. I think it’s really nice.  Anyway, I’m hoofing it around all day in the sun most days, so I think I’ll keep the drinking pretty relaxed. Let me know if you get any free time.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Airbnb-removes-80-of-Japan-home-share-listings Hope no one who had trips planned in the near future gets burnt by this！
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We just booked our airbnb's this last weekend.
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Sefal posted:We just booked our airbnb's this last weekend. Did you get any notice? According to the article, most were removed Monday so... I would check real quick.
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No notice, just logged into airbnb and the trips are there. I think everything is ok?
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Guess there's only one way to find out! Honestly, you should just book a regular hotel
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Not everybody's made of money. All mine are still listed so seems good to go.
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Grand Fromage posted:Not everybody's made of money. Only the incredibly wealthy visited Japan before, oh, two years ago.
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sale on Banksy art posted:Only the incredibly wealthy visited Japan before, oh, two years ago. Japan had these things called "hostels" prior to that, which were similarly priced to AirBnBs. However, you had to share a room with an entire sleep apnea support group.
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Grand Fromage posted:Japan had these things called "hostels" prior to that, which were similarly priced to AirBnBs. However, you had to share a room with an entire sleep apnea support group. If you’re not either drunk or tired enough for that to not matter then yer doing japan wrong
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LimburgLimbo posted:If you’re not either drunk or tired enough for that to not matter then yer doing japan wrong You deeply underestimate my insomnia.
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Lol have you considered fatherhood? Dads seem to sleep through everything.
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peanut posted:Lol have you considered fatherhood? Dads seem to sleep through everything.
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There's always couch surfing, it's even cheaper than airbnb! You can always book a hotel where or somewhere cheaper with free cancellation, that way if anything goes wrong you still have something to fall back on. Tourism is most certainly a luxury, and securing accommodation is loving baseline. There's also Toyoko inn or dormy Inn
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Grand Fromage posted:You deeply underestimate my insomnia. You deeply underestimate how much you should be drinking while in Japan
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Guys I'm going to Japan in two days I can still get seats for the best sushi ever aka Jiro right?
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LimburgLimbo posted:Guys I'm going to Japan in two days I can still get seats for the best sushi ever aka Jiro right? Have you heard of sushi zanmai and how long will you be there
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caberham posted:Have you heard of sushi zanmai and how long will you be there Is sushi zanmai a branch of genki sushi? I’ve heard genki sushi is the best and kawaii (cute) densha (trains) that bring your sushi (raw fish)
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LimburgLimbo posted:Is sushi zanmai a branch of genki sushi? I’ve heard genki sushi is the best and kawaii (cute) densha (trains) that bring your sushi (raw fish) 
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LimburgLimbo posted:Guys I'm going to Japan in two days I can still get seats for the best sushi ever aka Jiro right? This is literally what cabe does tho.
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LimburgLimbo posted:You deeply underestimate how much you should be drinking while in Japan Alcohol prevents me from sleeping nowadays. Aging sucks.
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As your elder, I can humbly assure you you aren't drinking enough.
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The Okinawa airbnb got cancelled. Airbnb was a sweet ride while it lasted. We are switching to hotels.
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AirBNB is bad. I recognize why people want to use it but it isn't worth the societal cost.
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And what societal cost is that?
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Regular joes are entering into commerce between themselves instead of filtering their money through mega corporations! Ever heard of the trickle down effect!
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Yawgmoft posted:AirBNB is bad. I recognize why people want to use it but it isn't worth the societal cost. yep. it may not be immediately visible in Japan but it's certainly causing problems in other places.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Regular joes are entering into commerce between themselves instead of filtering their money through mega corporations! Ever heard of the trickle down effect! Instead of?
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AirBnB has definitely had a negative influence in the Bay Area housing market :/ Anything for sale under $1.5 million in my town got snapped up by investor groups and sits empty 1/2 the year between customers. Meanwhile the highways are clogged with 90 minute driving commutes...
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But I'm a hypocrite because renting a whole apt/house is definitely the way to go with young kids and/or large groups. Lmao at just texting tourists the codes to a high security apartment building.
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