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the trip after this upcoming one looks like it's gonna be akita, aomori, and maybe iwate, so i'll have lots of driving to do in uh...2021 i guess
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Apr 4, 2019 08:25
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Less than last time. About 18000 yen
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Apr 4, 2019 10:09
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Japan thread: What's some good poo poo to go see and do in Osaka? Things I did last time in Osaka:
And in my upcoming trip I will probably:
I will be travelling with a friend and my 16yo nephew.
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Apr 4, 2019 10:19
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go to Nara ps. what month/season??? BASEBALL started and there are crazygood festivals in August and October.
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Apr 4, 2019 10:22
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peanut posted:go to Nara Already been. But the big buddha building was closed by the time I got around it.
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Apr 4, 2019 10:23
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Go for your nephew's sake!!!;
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Apr 4, 2019 10:24
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peanut posted:Go for your nephew's sake!!!; Yeah, ok! Fine! It will probably be good. Might get to watch two deer fighting again. EDIT: Right, I should mention I'll be in Osaka around mid August followed by a few days in Kyoto and all sandwiched by Tokyo.
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Apr 4, 2019 10:25
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gently caress dude , look up Kishiwada danjiri festival. EDIT: Looks like Kishiwada is in September??!! Autumn festivals are more crazy but summer dance festivals are great too! Check day trips to Awa-odori in Tokushima. Kyoto burns the big letters on August 16th... peanut fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Apr 4, 2019 10:29
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Kulex posted:Japan thread: What's some good poo poo to go see and do in Osaka? I hear there’s a young danish girl that needs consoling...
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Apr 4, 2019 10:29
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get to that drat aquarium also the mall by the aquarium has a nice little retro showa area that's fun
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Apr 4, 2019 10:49
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Just booked a baseball game ticket. Approximately what level of public inebriation is expected for baseball games in Japan?
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Apr 4, 2019 14:00
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Oh man I totally need to hit up Shinsekai when I’m in Osaka.
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Apr 4, 2019 14:22
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ntan1 posted:Less than last time. About 18000 yen That’s... not bad. I’m thinking about renting a car in May, but all of a sudden I have anxiety about it despite the fact that I was plotting out how to do a track day after the first time I went in 2015.
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Apr 4, 2019 14:47
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Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... So.... any goon (who wont shank me in a dark alley) in Tokyo feels like going to Disney World and Sea with me 2 weeks from now?
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Apr 4, 2019 15:03
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Archer666 posted:Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... ...what timeframe and do you mind a dorky 55 year old coming too
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Apr 4, 2019 15:07
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Archer666 posted:Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... It’s probably for the best. Rip off the band aid now and have the spike of resentment versus it slowly building over the next 25 days as you have to bargain over every last detail and walk on eggshells.
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Apr 4, 2019 15:16
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Pollyanna posted:...what timeframe and do you mind a dorky 55 year old coming too I'll let you know when my other Tokyo friends can't make it. Its all kind of in the air right now... Phone posted:It’s probably for the best. Rip off the band aid now and have the spike of resentment versus it slowly building over the next 25 days as you have to bargain over every last detail and walk on eggshells. Yeah, you're right. I gave her all the reasons why its a bad idea, suggested things like the tour guide idea and just getting her out among the Osaka people more. (We're going to a retro bar tomorrow, for example). But she was pretty adamant about this, so what can I do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Though she did agree to take some of the poo poo I bought with her back, so I can get some use out of her as a mule for dumb anime poo poo.
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Apr 4, 2019 15:23
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Archer666 posted:Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... Hahaha wow, this was a funny series of posts. Oh well, good to get wet blankets out of your life sooner rather than later! Unrelated: my partner and I were wondering that, since buying a Studio Ghibli ticket through Lawson's website sounds only slightly better than torture, are there any Japan goons who would be willing to purchase a pair of them for me, and then ship them to us? You'll obviously be compensated for the effort! Slightly related to that: if any Japan goons wanna meet up for a night of shenanigans while we're in Tokyo(5/8-5/14) we should figure something out! I think we're missing you, Pollyanna, by like a week? Boston goon meetup in Japan just wasn't meant to be... 
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Apr 4, 2019 15:28
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Holler if you’re in Shibuya. I know all the best places to stand on the street and get drunk.
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Apr 4, 2019 15:37
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Archer666 posted:I'll let you know when my other Tokyo friends can't make it. Its all kind of in the air right now... No worries, my family is from Florida so we’re all Disney’d out over the years anyway.  Johnny Truant posted:Slightly related to that: if any Japan goons wanna meet up for a night of shenanigans while we're in Tokyo(5/8-5/14) we should figure something out! Yeah, we’re 4/13ish~4/26ish. Tokyo 13~18, Hakone 19, Kyoto 20~23, Osaka 24~26. Sucks, but there’s always beantown
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Apr 4, 2019 15:43
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Instead of going to the Ghibli museum just visit the bird cafe across the street.
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Apr 4, 2019 15:45
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Archer666 posted:Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... Lol this is very funny
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Apr 4, 2019 23:07
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LimburgLimbo posted:As someone who barely ever leaves the warm embrace of Shibuya-ku and Minato-ku without specific reason, what's so cool about shinsekai? d0s posted:there's an arcade with a vast collection of titty mahjong games in shinsekai
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Apr 4, 2019 23:09
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Went to Ghibli yesterday and I have to say all the hassle was ... yeah worth it. Assuming you love Ghibli that is. If you’re only mildly interested it probably wouldn’t be but my me and my wife and her friend really lived it. It was crowded sure but since they limit the tickets it wasn’t obscenely so. And the weather was gorgeous. Also haha we very nearly went in that bird cafe too. Pollyanna posted:Yeah, we’re 4/13ish~4/26ish. Tokyo 13~18, Hakone 19, Kyoto 20~23, Osaka 24~26. Sucks, but there’s always beantown We’re leaving Tokyo next week so missing you by a couple days but wow you guys are from Boston too? We should have a Boston goon meet when we’re all back.
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Apr 4, 2019 23:18
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Johnny Truant posted:Hahaha wow, this was a funny series of posts. Oh well, good to get wet blankets out of your life sooner rather than later! Yeah seriously. If she can't handle Japan of all places she should just not travel ever, she'll be happier. There was a white South African teacher in my town in Korea who was very popular right off because she was insanely hot, but would get drunk and say the most racist poo poo I have ever heard in person. She flamed out and went home after a month because there were "too many Orientals" in Korea.
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Grand Fromage posted:"too many Orientals" in Korea. What the hell, did she come from 1919 instead of 2019?
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Doctor Zero posted:Went to Ghibli yesterday and I have to say all the hassle was ... yeah worth it. Assuming you love Ghibli that is. If you’re only mildly interested it probably wouldn’t be but my me and my wife and her friend really lived it. It was crowded sure but since they limit the tickets it wasn’t obscenely so. And the weather was gorgeous. Fuuuuuuck, well if no goons do me a favour(  ) looks like I'll slog through Lawson's website with that effortpost printed out next to me, ha.But yeah, Pollyanna and I are both from Boston! We should def meet up. Do you pay in the LAN topic? We shitpost all day long, come join in our
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Apr 5, 2019 00:35
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I guess a week in Japan would have been a better start for that person, rather than to plan a full month and then bail.
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Apr 5, 2019 00:57
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Archer666 posted:Welp, she's decided to waste 2000 bucks and the Tokyo part of our vacation and is going back next week... The best part will be on the morning of the return flight, when she realizes how dumb she is
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Apr 5, 2019 01:57
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The best part will be when all her friends ask her "how was Japan!? You're so lucky, I've always wanted to go but haven't had a chance yet"
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Apr 5, 2019 02:14
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Johnny Truant posted:Fuuuuuuck, well if no goons do me a favour( I don’t know what part of the Japanese process made it look any easier or any less of a pain in the rear end of a lottery for people in Japan to get Ghibli tickets. I know people who have tried for three or four months in a row and kept striking out. It’s really difficult and only might get better when the theme park opens up.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:29
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Phone posted:That’s... not bad. I forgot to mention why. So I rented a car in Osaka, and used the Sanin Shikoku Setouchi pass for the areas west of Kobe, since I was driving all the way down to pretty much Kitakyushu after doing a circle through Mie prefecture. The total cost of the pass was 10,000 yen, and it only theoretically works west of Kobe. However, the way tolls in Japan are calculated, they depend pretty much on the entry point and exit point of the toll location. In theory, they are supposed to take the portion that is not within the toll area and make me pay for it. So for example, if the cost from Osaka to Okayama is 5500 yen, they should take the part from Osaka to Kobe, which is about 1500 yen, and then make pay for it, while the other 4000 is contained as part of the pass. However, this becomes more difficult as with an ETC (machine readable) card, there are time of day discounts and weekend discounts that factor into the price. So basically, the rental car guy gave up, and just assumed anything that had a beginning point or an end point in the area was just part of the pass and only charged me an extra 8000, when it should have been like 14,000. PS: without usage of the pass the trip would have been 33,000 yen of tolls.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:51
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Furious Lobster posted:I think my point is why there a discrepancy between what the foreign, ie Western, world has deemed as the best restaurants and those that the local have put on top. Moreover, in light of this, given a tourists’ limited time should one go with local or foreign advice? It basically comes down access. There's roughly twelve zillion restaurants in Tokyo, and even locals who've lived here their entire lives only manage to go through a small percentage of them. Tourists, with their limited time and Japanese ability simply don't have access to enough information so they just have to latch on to whatever's been reviewed on Tripadvisor or whatever. Tabelog has way better information, although the ratings are pretty arbitrary. Also, if any of y'all that can read Japanese wanna check out some top shelf material from the batshit insane genre I highly recommend you read some of the kuchikomi on tabelog.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:52
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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): Sorry for the delay, what forums upgrade do you want?
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Apr 5, 2019 02:54
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harperdc posted:I don’t know what part of the Japanese process made it look any easier or any less of a pain in the rear end of a lottery for people in Japan to get Ghibli tickets. I know people who have tried for three or four months in a row and kept striking out. It’s really difficult and only might get better when the theme park opens up. There are 9 times more tickets available on the Japan side. We got it on first try, but we were standing next to the Loppi machine right at 10 am. It still failed about three times, but we got our tickets.
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ntan1 posted:So basically, the rental car guy gave up, and just assumed anything that had a beginning point or an end point in the area was just part of the pass and only charged me an extra 8000, when it should have been like 14,000. This is the best taking advantage of the system I’ve seen in a good good long time. Excellent work.
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Apr 5, 2019 04:18
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Big festival in Kakegawa, Shizuoka this weekend (4/5-7)! http://www.city.kakegawa.shizuoka.jp/kankou/event/mikumanomatsuri/index.html
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Apr 5, 2019 09:40
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LimburgLimbo posted:The best part will be when all her friends ask her "how was Japan!? You're so lucky, I've always wanted to go but haven't had a chance yet"
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Also, why is Takarazuka merch so goddamn expensive? I was at the Grand Theater yesterday (holy gently caress, it looked amazing and the size of it too) and the Quatre had blu rays for like 10k yen a piece. Are they printed on gold? Or the crushed dreams of girls who never got into Takarazuka Music School?
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