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City is authentic Japan. But Nara might fit what she's looking for. Infrastructure is developed but it's not an endless neon sea like Tokyo. Easy to get to since it's a tourist destination.
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Stop saying waifu
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Mar 27, 2019 21:59
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Nanigans posted:Stop saying waifu As long as it's in the thread title it's fair game! 
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Mar 27, 2019 22:07
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Nanigans posted:Stop saying waifu Yeah, say ワイフ instead.
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Mar 27, 2019 22:14
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Nanigans posted:Stop saying waifu Don't be salty just because you don't have a waifu.
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Mar 27, 2019 22:34
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Are hazubandos acceptable?
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Mar 27, 2019 22:46
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blackbox posted:My waifu and I are planning a trip to Japan for 4/5 nights, sometime in the last couple of weeks of April. We'll be traveling with our 9 month old baby, is there anywhere especially suitable, or anything we need to consider in particular? Where are you guys flying from (that a 4-5 day trip makes sense)? I've done international flights with babies and kids and the flights were kinda ok but jetlag with babby sucks hard. If you're coming in on shorter flights from Asia, you can fly directly to smaller airports like Hiroshima, Fukuoka or Takamatsu.
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Mar 27, 2019 23:34
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I've got a forums upgrade of your choice for anyone that's willing to do a good write-up on how to get ghibli tickets that peanut can edit into the OP.
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Mar 28, 2019 00:00
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go to website (https://l-tike.com/st1/ghibli-en/sitetop) refresh it at the second tickets go live at like 10am or whatever Japan time that is listed. try to buy them, but have your credit card rejected cuz it's a weird charge in Yen your bank doesn't like refresh the page, it's slow now, or maybe not, Japanese websites are weird. it's 10:02 now almost every time slot is sold out. there's one with tickets available for the days you're in Japan and it's marked with a triangle which is not good!! use a second card from a different provider it worked! This was my experience getting them online. Alternatively on the first of every month you can buy tickets for up to 3 months ahead from this travel agency: http://www.jtbgmt.com/eng/ghibli/TicketSystem.html#Regions but they're limited to selling 200 a day from the whole world so good luck if you're in the US or Canada and 8-15 hours behind the rest of the world lol this is not a good write up
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Mar 28, 2019 01:01
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No, it isn't.
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Mar 28, 2019 01:05
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Part 2: Find someone in country willing to go to Lawson and buy tickets for you.
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Mar 28, 2019 01:10
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I'll be a broker. $50 per ticket paid in advance, PM me with 4 dates, I get you in a slot on one of those dates or your money back (minus whatever paypal charges for this kind of thing). The Japanese site has more spaces and availability than the English site.
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Mar 28, 2019 01:35
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zmcnulty posted:I'll be a broker. $50 per ticket paid in advance, PM me with 4 dates, I get you in a slot on one of those dates or your money back (minus whatever paypal charges for this kind of thing). The Japanese site has more spaces and availability than the English site. I've seen people literally advertising this service on Facebook, and at roughly the same terms. Edit: Ahaha, yes. Here it is: https://www.govoyagin.com/ja/activities/japan-tokyo-last-minute-tickets-to-ghibli-museum-in-tokyo/186?acode=pretraveller So someone pays a platoon of English teachers to stay sober enough on the evening of the 9th each month to make it to Lawson by 10 am the next day. Gabriel Grub fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Mar 28, 2019 02:42
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sale on Banksy art posted:I've seen people literally advertising this service on Facebook, and at roughly the same terms. The real question is have you seen anyone figuratively advertising on Facebook?
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sale on Banksy art posted:I've seen people literally advertising this service on Facebook, and at roughly the same terms. lol, I even edited my post from $100 to $50. That service has over 1000 reviews at 8500 yen, maybe I'll charge $100 and throw in some cans of chuhai to drink on the way from the station to the museum.
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Mar 28, 2019 02:55
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sale on Banksy art posted:So someone pays a platoon of English teachers to stay sober enough on the evening of the 9th each month to make it to Lawson by 10 am the next day. This is literally a public service if it's true. The Tokyo government should subsidize it, if need be.
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Mar 28, 2019 02:58
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I will happily edit good info into the op, but someone else has to vet it for me. Tia stringy
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Mar 28, 2019 03:26
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peanut posted:Where are you guys flying from (that a 4-5 day trip makes sense)? I've done international flights with babies and kids and the flights were kinda ok but jetlag with babby sucks hard. We'll be flying from China, probably Beijing or Shanghai - somewhere we can get to easily and where we can spend a night or two to split the traveling.
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blackbox posted:We'll be flying from China, probably Beijing or Shanghai - somewhere we can get to easily and where we can spend a night or two to split the traveling. There is a fairly cheap Shanghai to Takamatsu flight, and Takamatsu is a good place if you just want a chill, relaxing trip. Not so much if you want to do lots of stuff though because there isn’t much to do. But for a chill trip with babby it’s pretty good. If you stay near the city center you can easily walk, train, or bus to everywhere that’s worth going.
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Mar 28, 2019 09:45
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Takamatsu area is cheap and chill and good for babby (check Spring Airlines).
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Mar 28, 2019 10:05
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Yeah Takamatsu was nice. There is really nothing to do but it's a nice seaside and there's stuff to eat. Also the Battle of Yashima from the Genpei War was right nearby if you're into Japanese history.
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Grand Fromage posted:There is really nothing to do but it's a nice seaside and there's stuff to eat. Also the Battle of Yashima from the Genpei War was right nearby if you're into Japanese history. see now i think this sounds awesome
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Mar 29, 2019 06:53
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There's also a creepy wax museum depicting the battle and some baseball players. http://www.yashima-artvillage.info/english/museum/heike.html
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Mar 29, 2019 07:15
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I think my group has decided to do Disney Sea. Is buying tickets online straightforward?
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Mar 29, 2019 13:58
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Came back from my trip yesterday. It was great, and the itinerary I made (with some input from you guys) was pretty much perfect. Did everything we wanted to do plus some extra stuff without being rushed for the most part. All the food was excellent too.
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Mar 29, 2019 20:51
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How to buy Ghibli Museum tickets online from Lawson, based on my experience in February (warning, it's a complete shitshow): Preparing for the sale: First, figure out the starting date and time of the sale for the tickets you want. Tickets for any given month go on sale at 10am JST on the 10th of the previous month. So, for all tickets in March, the sale date is February 10th at 10am in Japan, which may be, if you're in many other parts of the world, February 9th for you. Make sure you're sitting at your computer when the sale starts. For better results, have friends or family trying to get tickets for you at the same time. Tell them the date/time you're going for (10am/12pm/2pm/4pm are available for every day the museum is open; it's closed on Tuesdays). Also have the address of your hotel, your passport number, and your credit card handy. Block off an hour of time for the ticket-buying process, and get ready for extreme frustration. No joke, it took me 55 minutes to get my tickets. Open your browser(s) to https://l-tike.com/st1/ghibli-en/sitetop and scroll to the month listings at the bottom. Note your month that is "Not Yet On Sale". Good idea: Hit F12 on your browser and open the network tab. The ticket-buying process involves a lot of web requests behind the scenes, and most of them can fail silently, so watch this tab for errors. This way, you know when to start over, instead of wasting time waiting for something that will never load. When the sale starts: Refresh the page you've been sitting on. You'll probably get errors for quite a while before it actually loads. When it does load, click the now-differently-colored button next to your month to load the calendar screen. You'll probably get even more errors trying to do this. Once it does load, bookmark the page, and come back to it directly whenever you get an error, instead of going back to the first page. You'll notice on the calendar that each date and time has a symbol showing how many tickets are remaining. Note that if it looks like your time sold out, that may not actually be the case. When I bought my tickets, my time showed as sold out in one browser and available in another. Click the time you want, and if it works, you'll get a pop-up with one "Admission" button to click on. If that button works, you'll be able to select the number of tickets you want per age group. At the bottom of the pop-up is another button that will take you to a different site to complete the ordering process. By the way, all three of these buttons can and will constantly fail to load. Watch your network tab, and reload the calendar via your bookmark every time it happens. It took me a half hour of attempts before the redirect to the other site worked. Once the other site loads, you have more screens to go through to create a login and enter your contact information. Don't worry, these screens can also fail to load, and if they do, you're back to square one from your calendar bookmark again. If you manage to get all the way to the end, you can finally enter your payment and print out your confirmation. Warning: The museum staff will make sure that the name and passport number on your confirmation match your actual passport (that I sure hope you brought with you to the museum). Make sure you don't screw those up. Congrats! You made it through what may be the most frustrating online ticketing system in the world!
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TheEye posted:How to buy Ghibli Museum tickets online from Lawson, based on my experience in February (warning, it's a complete shitshow): THX!!! Linked from OP!
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Mar 30, 2019 03:23
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Stringent posted:Me and my boyfriend are are both vegans and allergic to rice and on a very tight budget, could you recommend some restaurants in Tottori? Reposting a classic <3
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as someone who has actually sat across a table from Stringent in real life and listened to him talk politics, it's completely unsurprising that he gets probated for a week for his views, lol but ya, I'm the worst, I'm the worst, I know, I'll show myself out edit: reading the threat he got probated for is so good, I can not stop laughing The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Mar 30, 2019 |
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Mar 30, 2019 10:04
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life hack: don't talk politics
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LyonsLions posted:There is a fairly cheap Shanghai to Takamatsu flight, and Takamatsu is a good place if you just want a chill, relaxing trip. Not so much if you want to do lots of stuff though because there isn’t much to do. But for a chill trip with babby it’s pretty good. If you stay near the city center you can easily walk, train, or bus to everywhere that’s worth going. If you are coming from shanghai then definitely do takamatsu. It’s a super small town with a tad of city and the best thing is to take a ferry down to the art islands of Naoshima. Not much to do and enjoy the art exhibits and definitely family friend. Pace of life is slow, you can also rent a car and drive around shikoku and give kotohira a visit, there’s a giant ryokan and the prices are cheaper. I stayed at an old merchants house and there was a time slot for family onsen included.
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Thanks for the recommendations guys. Takamatsu sounds pretty ideal, but I can't seem to find the flight from shanghai, the spring airlines website lists the route but doesn't show any availability when you search 
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Pollyanna posted:Then I’ve got a couple of quote unquote “adults” to reassure. No you don't need to buy them in advance. If you need to leave at a specific time ( not like 15 ~30 mins later), it is prudent to buy tickets at least a day in advance, but for most travelers it's unnecessary . Showing up at the station and buying your shinkansen tickets on the day is totally normal.
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As a professional anime opinion haver, I feel like I have to come in here and say the rumors of the death of Akihabara are greatly exaggerated. In the past three days I did Nakano Broadway, Shibuya Mandarake, and Akihabara. I kinda wish I skipped the other two and spent more time in Akiba because there's just so much goddamned weeb shopping there I didn't have nearly enough time for (before they started closing places at 8pm on a Saturday what the hell). I'm gonna try to go back today. I feel like there were actually less department stores full of luxury goods for Chinese people than there were when I was last here in 2014? But I don't have numbers to confirm that at all.
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AFAIK, the death of Akihabara is more related to the hobby electronics side than the anime side. But yeah, there are tons of small shops hidden in the alleyways and even in upper floors of the main strip. You'll have to wade through the crowds at the main intersections near the big chain stores but it's more manageable the closer you get to Suehirocho station.
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blackbox posted:Thanks for the recommendations guys. Takamatsu sounds pretty ideal, but I can't seem to find the flight from shanghai, the spring airlines website lists the route but doesn't show any availability when you search What day are you looking for? Looks like they have flights every day except Wednesday and Sunday.
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Mar 31, 2019 03:29
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LyonsLions posted:What day are you looking for? Looks like they have flights every day except Wednesday and Sunday. I think it might just be a problem with their website because it doesn't allow me to select a date for any flight  When I google the route directly it takes me to a different page, which does show the availability
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leather fedora posted:AFAIK, the death of Akihabara is more related to the hobby electronics side than the anime side. But yeah, there are tons of small shops hidden in the alleyways and even in upper floors of the main strip. You'll have to wade through the crowds at the main intersections near the big chain stores but it's more manageable the closer you get to Suehirocho station. i generally mean this, but also it as being a pleasant place to be because of all the chinese tourists maybe it's because i was there in summer, but there were just so many rude people everywhere
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Speaking of toy shopping where are some good places in Tokyo and around akihabara? I’m looking for cool nerd things like Godzilla and sci-fi stuff and not so much gundam and bikini girl statues with huge boobs which is all most places seem to stock. Planning to go to the Bandai Akiba and tamashii nations places and probably yellow submarine in shinjuku but are there other good places to shop?
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Doctor Zero posted:Speaking of toy shopping where are some good places in Tokyo and around akihabara? I’m looking for cool nerd things like Godzilla and sci-fi stuff and not so much gundam and bikini girl statues with huge boobs which is all most places seem to stock. Planning to go to the Bandai Akiba and tamashii nations places and probably yellow submarine in shinjuku but are there other good places to shop?
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