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arisu posted:For my breakfast every morning on my trip I'm gonna go 7-11 slumming For breakfast we had family mart sushi and nikuman. For lunch/supper we’re having margherita pizza, negi salad, and a massive strip of pork belly from Tokyu Food Show  Dad’s loving enamored with famima meals. Stringent posted:Y'all should do yourselves right and hit up bakeries instead (Vie de France, Little Mermaid, or w/e). Basically the same kinda stuff, but you can get it fresh. For breakfast we also got anpan and a slice of kabocha pie from a bakery at Ueno station. It was 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 harperdc posted:Nope. And pancakes and French toast both are much more of a “girls’ lunch dessert” than “breakfast platter” food here anyways. AW  I guess they can be a treat, but...well, that makes more sense than being breakfast items, really.Magna Kaser posted:your dad is why japanese and korean phones can't mute the camera shutter sound!!! I was quite embarrassed at that and told him how rude it was. He was just like “oops  ”.Nobody displayed any annoyance, but come on, they had to have heard it.
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There's an Egg in Ikebukuro that serves quite decadent breakfasts. But it's a lot of effort to travel to a different part of Tokyo just to eat breakfast It is worth it to travel to World Breakfast Allday though, especially if you're a breakfast lover like me who loves to try all kinds of breakfasts. They're serving Korean breakfast now, which looks real tasty, along with the usual fare of pancakes, full English and also huevos rancheros it seems.
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I also went to some fine western breakfast place in Tokyo (I went to eggs 'n things in Ginza which had decent eggs benedict), I just mean in general Japan has lacks a breakfast culture compared to like China, Taiwan, HK, Vietnam, or the west... where breakfast rules and you can't walk down a street in the morning without running into 5 delicious things sold from small shops or carts. Japan is also the only place I've had bad baozi and it's simultaneously the only bad thing I ate in Tokyo or Osaka (other places are as of yet 100% good).
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Apr 16, 2019 08:53
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Wendy’s in Tokyo was fun !
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so it's looking like my anovember trip is probably expanding from osaka and kyoto to also kagawa. what things should i be paying special attention to in shikoku?
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Peanuts house! Mother ducking udon. That fish place in saijo. And go rent a car!!
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Magna Kaser posted:I also went to some fine western breakfast place in Tokyo (I went to eggs 'n things in Ginza which had decent eggs benedict), I just mean in general Japan has lacks a breakfast culture compared to like China, Taiwan, HK, Vietnam, or the west... where breakfast rules and you can't walk down a street in the morning without running into 5 delicious things sold from small shops or carts. But it's p easy to get a sick croissant, so I generally just do that.
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if i'm being told to rent a car i'm assuming it's a Train Every Hour situation? e: also probably only staying there for 3 maybe 4 days, but we haven't planned anything so who knows maybe longer.
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Speaking of sick, Tokyu Food Show is seriously impressive. I wanted to eat everything there. God, we got a whole slab of salt and pepper pork belly and just devoured the motherfucker along with some gelato. Not even slightly sorry.
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Stringent posted:But it's p easy to get a sick croissant, so I generally just do that. i get the curry bread and look forward to the hypertension
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Apr 16, 2019 09:36
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The hotel I stayed in both my Tokyo visits had pretty decent (but expensive) breakfast that was a mix of some western but mostly Japanese stuff.
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Pollyanna posted:Speaking of sick, Tokyu Food Show is seriously impressive. I wanted to eat everything there. God, we got a whole slab of salt and pepper pork belly and just devoured the motherfucker along with some gelato. Not even slightly sorry. Yeah, those department store food courts are one of my favorite things.
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mikeycp posted:so it's looking like my anovember trip is probably expanding from osaka and kyoto to also kagawa. Kagawa and Ehime will have rowdy festivals p much every weekend in October. Are you sure you're coming in November??? :/
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Had some good breakfasts at Mercer Brunch.
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QuasiQuack posted:There's an Egg in Ikebukuro that serves quite decadent breakfasts. But it's a lot of effort to travel to a different part of Tokyo just to eat breakfast Oh hey that first place looks perfect for hitting up before my tattoo  Then ramen afterwards cause Ikebukuro had bomb ramen from what I've heard?
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Did Ameyoko always have a bunch of shops hawking random crap along it, or is that a recent thing? e.g. that army surplus store-looking place.
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mikeycp posted:if i'm being told to rent a car i'm assuming it's a Train Every Hour situation? Definitely a train every hour situation, but depending on what you want to do, the main downtown and tourist areas are pretty well serviced. If you are going to the islands, just plan on devoting your whole day to that because they are extremely inconvenient. I don’t know if you really need a car unless you are going to tour the whole of Shikoku. For reference, you can get to anywhere in Kagawa from the city center in about an hour. Edit: if you are not set on Kagawa in particular, allow me to suggest Kochi as a more interesting destination. If you like natural beauty, history, and getting hammered at the fish market, Kochi is a lot more fun. If you like udon, like really really like it, then Kagawa is the place to be. LyonsLions fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Pollyanna posted:Did Ameyoko always have a bunch of shops hawking random crap along it, or is that a recent thing? e.g. that army surplus store-looking place. Always been that way.
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Johnny Truant posted:Oh hey that first place looks perfect for hitting up before my tattoo Yeah. Mutekiya and Kikanbo have great ramen
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QuasiQuack posted:Yeah. Mutekiya and Kikanbo have great ramen gently caress yeah. Anything else notable in Ikebukuro? Pretty sure we'll go there a bit before my appointment to explore.
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Ooh, I haven’t heard much about Ikebukuro. Apparently Sunshine 60 has cat cafes and a Pokémon center??? That sounds cool. Dad wants to go to kabuki in Osaka (dad is old). Is Osaka at all notable for it?
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Pollyanna posted:Ooh, I haven’t heard much about Ikebukuro. Apparently Sunshine 60 has cat cafes and a Pokémon center??? That sounds cool. There is a theater in Osaka but I think Tokyo is the only place where you can see it now. It’s also the only place that has the single act tickets. See here: https://www.kabukiweb.net/ I took my mom to see kabuki and we both enjoyed it. The single acts are not a huge time commitment and pretty cheap.
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There's not all that much touristy stuff to do in Ikebukuro, but it's a good place for shopping. The food court in the basement of tobu/seibu is wonderful (Juchheim baumcuchen  )
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zmcnulty posted:Nikko, Mt Fuji, Kamakura, Atami Thank you.
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peanut posted:Kagawa and Ehime will have rowdy festivals p much every weekend in October. yeah we've had our tickets for a while (nov 7-24). if i would've known about this i would've pushed the trip up some LyonsLions posted:Definitely a train every hour situation, but depending on what you want to do, the main downtown and tourist areas are pretty well serviced. If you are going to the islands, just plan on devoting your whole day to that because they are extremely inconvenient. I don’t know if you really need a car unless you are going to tour the whole of Shikoku. For reference, you can get to anywhere in Kagawa from the city center in about an hour. i don't know that we're going for a full island tour. the gf wants to go just for this: https://nintendosoup.com/slowpoke-paradise-returns-to-kagawa-for-the-second-time-in-2019/ and i'm taking it as a chance to spend a few days somewhere new. i think we'd like the head over to dogo onsen? but this is a new development so we haven't planned more besides "we're going." if shikoku people are down to meet up with internet strangers we're game
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QuasiQuack posted:There's not all that much touristy stuff to do in Ikebukuro, but it's a good place for shopping. The food court in the basement of tobu/seibu is wonderful (Juchheim baumcuchen I like Isetan, Mitsukoshi, and Takashimaya more but that's just me personally. Also literally everywhere celebrates baumkuchen
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I wish I could go to Japan right now and sample all of those
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Ikebukuro is Akihabara for fujoshis. They got some good nerd shops but it's like 80% anime hotboys what wanna shtup each other. They do have a lot of theme cafe collaborations though, if you wanna have pretty ordinary food and drink themed after your favorite waifus and also get your hands on some exclusive character goods.
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Bloodnose posted:Ikebukuro is Akihabara for fujoshis. They got some good nerd shops but it's like 80% anime hotboys what wanna shtup each other. Mmmmm nope nope nope. I’m avoiding as much anime nerdery as possible on this trip. Not only is it embarrassing to all involved, it’s really not why I’m here. I do have to stop by akiba for some friend souvenirs tho...
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mikeycp posted:coward big coward
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Imagine some loving nonplussed bighair idiot foreigner stumbling into a butler cafe and getting extremely confused.
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Pollyanna posted:Imagine some loving nonplussed bighair idiot foreigner stumbling into a butler cafe and getting extremely confused. sounds extremely lit imho
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mikeycp posted:yeah we've had our tickets for a while (nov 7-24). if i would've known about this i would've pushed the trip up some Dogo is very nice on the outside. The inside is being remodeled a bit? Shimanami Kaido is a perfect Shikoku thing to do in November. Then you're near Hiroshima anyway… If you're in Niihama, you might be able to peek at taiko festival if they're swapping out the teams on display inside Akagane Museum. I would have to call and ask the schedule, each team stays in for 4-6 months.
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mikeycp posted:sounds extremely lit imho I’m imagining those scenes in westerns where the ragtime crashes loudly and everyone turns to look at the new sheriff in town. Except probably more like Blazing Saddles than Good, Bad, and the Ugly.
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Like it’s hilarious but I don’t wanna be the subject, man.
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peanut posted:Dogo is very nice on the outside. The inside is being remodeled a bit? Shimanami Kaido might be a lot for us, but Akagane seems legit. i'm down for whatever though. i've made it clear the kinds of stuff i like in here
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