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caberham posted:Meanwhile in Indonesia 800 plus people are dead from an earth quake and infrastructure has been paralyzed. How are the Indomarets
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Jerome Louis posted:Currently in Kyoto, everything is closed and we're in our Airbnb with a bunch of 9% Suntory Highballs and Family Mart snacks I stocked up on good rum and sake beforehand. I'm set for the evening.
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chuuhai and fried onions here Indonesia got rekt : (((
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peanut posted:chuuhai and fried onions here drat that is absolutely terrible.
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If it was a bunch of Chinese tourists that died in a tsunami this thread would not pretend to give a poo poo. 🐸☕️
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Won't somebody think of the Chinese tourists???
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Stay safe japan goons Heard Kanagawa got hit hard
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We live outside of Nagasaki. All safe here.
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I'm gonna miss the excellent customer service. And no tipping. Later Japan.
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TopHatGenius posted:I'm gonna miss the excellent customer service. And no tipping. Later Japan. I'm leaving tomorrow. Same. I may not actually be the most important person in their lives, but drat if it doesn't feel like it when I'm talking to them.
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We have enough tourists, tell everyone that Japan sucks to visit. TIA
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prompt posted:We have enough tourists, tell everyone that Japan sucks to visit. TIA “We”
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Are you assuming my identify
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I like personal safety and shrines and ancient trees and riding bikes and having health insurance = Japan owns.
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Canada has all of that except the shrines pretty much
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I miss having "IRRASHAIMASEEEEE" shouted at me indiscriminately when shopping
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ALFbrot posted:I miss having "IRRASHAIMASEEEEE" shouted at me indiscriminately when shopping
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Oct 3, 2018 04:09
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Hey, has anyone ever gone to one of those "Samurai Schools" like Kembu? I'm not assuming it isn't a tacky tourist thing, but I'm wondering if it's one that would be a fun afternoon during my trip in Kyoto or Tokyo or if it's one where I heavily regret it 15 minutes in because it's basically a photo op hidden in a 3 hour class. Starting to think that going to the Samarai museum in Osaka or watching a demonstration might be a better decision but let me know if I'm wrong about that.
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Managed to completely cock up buying the right tickets for the Narita Express at the automated machines, ended up paying ¥6500 or so, then had it all refunded after an accident on the Narita line suspended all trains. I had to instead swap to the Skyliner an hour later and run the gauntlet of changing at Nippori. Am I being the dumb gaijin well enough?
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ALFbrot posted:I miss having "IRRASHAIMASEEEEE" shouted at me indiscriminately when shopping I miss walking into a store and being blinded by the lights cranked to 200%
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I miss the manic Tokyu Store jingle, which is probably less than a minute long and plays on a loud loop all day to keep the staff motivated
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Shibawanko posted:I miss the manic Tokyu Store jingle, which is probably less than a minute long and plays on a loud loop all day to keep the staff motivated The best is the Yamada Denki song in LABI stores: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3aR-DnEcM8
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ALFbrot posted:The best is the Yamada Denki song in LABI stores: [in an extremely American voice] Book-Off Information Book-Off Information The Music
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Some times Japan feels like a really large scale experiment of how far it's possible to push people before they off themselves. I go nuts from just hearing the same lovely pop music on the radio a few times a day, an entire workday listening to a ten second jingle would probably drive right off a cliff
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I seriously don't know how anyone can work in Tokyu Store no, at least Ozeki doesn't have a jingle, just a person shouting over a megaphone about discounts This is probably also why I prefer to shop at Lidl and Aldi back home, those places don't have a soundtrack
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Does the Family Mart jingle still play literally every time someone walks in or out of the store?
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let me tell you about the "niku niku niku" song at cheap grocery stores…
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My wife and I visited a couple of Yodobashi Camera department stores, and after a while that jingle drove her nuts. It was the same drat thing on an endless loop in both Akihabara and Kyoto. And look someone even recorded it. Same song from 7+ years ago. I'd kill myself if I had to listen to that day in and out. https://youtu.be/-C0CPrBLUA0
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TopHatGenius posted:My wife and I visited a couple of Yodobashi Camera department stores, and after a while that jingle drove her nuts. It was the same drat thing on an endless loop in both Akihabara and Kyoto. Their TV commercials use it too and are so low-rent it’s astonishing. Personally it’s much funnier when shops do things like play random English language power ballads or yacht rock. For some reason my local AEON grocery floor likes playing Heart’s “Alone”.
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I don’t know which shop it was (some kind of discount chemist?) but their jingle was just “irasshaimase!!!” Over and over again. My most recent trip was the first time I went to Hard Off, that’s quite a jingle too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFLYuKUKXoY
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Question Mark Mound posted:Does the Family Mart jingle still play literally every time someone walks in or out of the store? the register plays it every time a transaction is completed as well
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Is the teamLab Planets exhibition in Tokyo something I can get tickets for at the door? Or do I need to prepurchase online?
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Yodobashi Camera got the lyrics of John Brown's Body stuck in my head for the entire time I was in Kyoto. prompt posted:Canada has all of that except the shrines pretty much One of my absolutely favorite parts of biking across Japan was how I could leave my bike absolutely anywhere and not have to worry about if it would be there when I get back. Go to a restaurant, sketchy bar, bird sanctuary, wherever and I could fully enjoy what I'm there for without having to make a big thing out of my locking strategy. People would just ride to the corner store to pick up a pack of smokes and just leave their $10k Pinarello leaning on the wall. That's definitely not something we have here in Canada.
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You kind of got lucky though, bike theft is one of the very few crimes (excluding white collar poo poo) that is common in Japan. And other parts of Asia too, just about every bike owner I knew had at least one stolen. One particularly unlucky friend in Korea had four stolen, all in under a month after purchase, before giving up.
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I've heard that mamacharis get stolen and taken for joyrides, but the number of insanely expensive bikes I'd see people leaving around for hours on end left me with the impression that stealing something that's obviously not a basic cruiser wasn't done because it'd be a world of hassle when you eventually get caught. Absolutely everyone who saw my lock during the time I was using it was making comments on how overkill it was over there. Maybe it's different in Tokyo - I didn't do much in the way of riding there what with smashing my collarbone right before my arrival.
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It happens but it's nowhere near as common as big North American cities. Also bikes are registered to their owners and the cops will occasionally stop people to check which is a big deterrent. You're also not getting people running around with portable angle grinders going through u-locks. If you properly lock up your poo poo you're quite unlikely to have it taken.
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When you're in Akihabara, get ready to hear the Maid Dreamin jingle at every corner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkZBTkkISko And then get ready to have the tune infecting your brain the entire time you're there.
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Archer666 posted:When you're in Akihabara, get ready to hear the Maid Dreamin jingle at every corner. I completely forgot about this one and now it's infected my mind again.
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Trip report: teamLab Tokyo Planets was loving awesome, would be even better on acid. Singapore had 1 of the 4 parts and even still I spent 2 hours just chilling and taking it all in.
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