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harperdc posted:Looking at actual apartment listings is going to be a bit of a misnomer because most places are 1- to 2-year leases, and that itself is going to require visas and proof of residence. I'm finding a ton of results using the short-term rental filter on GaiginPot. I'm not sure I understand. If there are short-term rentals available, what difference does our motive for renting make? Are they going to inquire about our reason for renting? AirBnB seems pricier and less convenient for what we are looking for. FWIW my sister and I will be working remotely and will need a private space during this time, so share houses / hostels won't work.
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Spanish Inquisition posted:I'm finding a ton of results using the short-term rental filter on GaiginPot. I'm not sure I understand. If there are short-term rentals available, what difference does our motive for renting make? Are they going to inquire about our reason for renting? AirBnB seems pricier and less convenient for what we are looking for. FWIW my sister and I will be working remotely and will need a private space during this time, so share houses / hostels won't work. If you find something that works it works. Foreigner oriented short term rentals tend to be massively overpriced but depending on your period of time it might be the only realistic option.
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Was a p decce typhoon. Messed this tree up good. Also  my rosemary.
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fuzzy_logic posted:The notes are a good idea, thanks all for the suggestions At Sensoji the place for the goshuin is sorta in the northeast corner of the temple grounds more over by the Asakusa shrine IIRC. Probably easiest to find by looking for the area that is less packed with Chinese tourists. I was going to recommend a small sento that's a few blocks over from Sensoji but it looks like it closed permanently in May, bummer.
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also looks like a few places I'm going have complexes of shrines and then one central large temple that does all of the stamps, so I'll have to figure out how to navigate that. Luckily the very first place I'm staying is Asakusa so I can easily pick up a book there!
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peanut posted:My friend's UK hair dryer was stupid underpowered here. England is a primitive, beastly country.
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Sep 9, 2019 11:50
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I'd just buy one here for  and leave it on the way out.
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Hair dryers are provided just about everywhere, so you can pretty safely leave that behind.
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Don Quixote, mate
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peanut posted:Don Quixote, mate
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I’m flying into Kansai International in January and staying for about 10 days (the 13th to the 24th) and planning on hitting up Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Nara. Is there any goon approved things to see & do in the region? I’m looking for more off the beaten path type stuff, not a big fan of more touristy places.
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Taintrunner posted:I’m looking for more off the beaten path type stuff, not a big fan of more touristy places. What does this mean? Are there secret goon-only places that tourists aren't allowed? You ask for "off the beaten path" but you're in the most tourist place in Japan. Anywhere interesting is going to be full of tourists or suck. Just walk down a random road and hey look, you're off the beaten path! Surprise, there's nothing here except some people's homes and maybe a neighborhood izakaya. Go in, have a good time. Congratulations on your success. If you want off the beaten path, go to a prefecture you've never heard of. Even then, there will still be tourists - they'll just be mostly Japanese.
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That area is tourist central. You can get away pretty well from the pure tourist experience by staying out in the suburbs or going to a city that specifically isn’t tourist focused (like Nagoya). But seriously, do the tourist stuff. It’s fine, it’s cool. Just don’t get hung up on I HAVE TO HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE X.
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The prefectures where nobody goes rule
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mikeycp posted:The prefectures where nobody goes rule Oita and Kagoshima ftw
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Sorry that naked festivals seem to be in February. All Japan list of fire festivals. http://www.iyashibox.com/season_info/himaturi.htm The 3 day weekend in January is a common time for bonfires but most of them are local. I like my town's bonfire, but the 5:30am ferry is a little rough. https://niihama.mypl.net/article/stuff-news_niihama/20139 There's another one by the mountains that I heard of for the first time last year.  I'm having trouble finding anything about it online. Nara and anywhere with shrines should have something similar. Image search どんど焼き.
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The Great Autismo! posted:Oita and Kagoshima ftw Saga, the prefecture so dull a second-rate comedian got briefly very famous for his song about just how dull and backwards it is.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Saga, the prefecture so dull a second-rate comedian got briefly very famous for his song about just how dull and backwards it is. I tried looking for an airb'n'b in Saga and airb'n'b was like "maybe u mean fukuoka"
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Giant Ethicist posted:Saga, the prefecture so dull a second-rate comedian got briefly very famous for his song about just how dull and backwards it is. My friend works for one of the largest Japan-tourism websites and when I asked him where to go in Saga, he had nothing for me. When I asked a Japanese person from Saga, living in Saga now, what's good, all she could suggest was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Castle_(Hizen_Province)
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A friend was once talking to a Japanese guy who had been living in Kobe at the time of the big earthquake. She asked him what Kobe was like just after the earthquake and he said "It was terrible, it looked like Saga"
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Zombie Land Saga just got renewed for a second season. It's a cartoon about how boring and lame Saga is and how much cooler it would be if there were zombies who did song and dance routines there.
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Bloodnose posted:Zombie Land Saga just got renewed for a second season. It's a cartoon about how boring and lame Saga is and how much cooler it would be if there were zombies who did song and dance routines there. It's also responsible for a not-insignificant boost to tourism in Saga.
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be the dancing zombie you want to see in the world
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Giant Ethicist posted:Saga, the prefecture so dull a second-rate comedian got briefly very famous for his song about just how dull and backwards it is. Saga: what we used to drive through to get to Fukuoka. Apparently there was a Thai drama recently set in Saga so that’s creating a random tourist connection there? Kind of cruel place to send people but eh. Only other thing I can seriously recommend is the pottery in Arita.
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I got drunk at a Sagan Tosu match in 2014, that owned totalnewbie posted:My friend works for one of the largest Japan-tourism websites and when I asked him where to go in Saga, he had nothing for me. when my parents came to visit we went to Karatsu castle on our way home from Oita, which they enjoyed, but tbh they would have enjoyed literally anything (edit: we went to a different castle when my parents were here, we stopped at Karatsu castle when we were going to a weekend hotel/onsen in Nagasaki in 2016) also I went to the saga international balloon fiesta last year which was p good, my son loved it and I guess that's all that really matters to me at this point anyway I can't imagine even 1% of this thread gives even a tenth of a poo poo about Saga, so I'll move along The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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I give a poo poo about it. I bet I could have a great time there.
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mikeycp posted:I give a poo poo about it. I bet I could have a great time there. you sound like a glass-is-half-full type of guy, what are you doing here on SA
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Look at all these too cool for school goons pretending they don't know of last year's breakout anime hit "zombieland saga" about a man who makes zombies into pop idols to spur tourism in Saga.
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No spoilers please.
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Magna Kaser posted:Look at all these too cool for school goons pretending they don't know of last year's breakout anime hit "zombieland saga" about a man who makes zombies into pop idols to spur tourism in Saga. I have no idea if this is satire or not and I’m not going to look
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LimburgLimbo posted:I have no idea if this is satire or not and I’m not going to look it's a good show
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Magna Kaser posted:Look at all these too cool for school goons pretending they don't know of last year's breakout anime hit "zombieland saga" about a man who makes zombies into pop idols to spur tourism in Saga. A young wannabe singer dies unexpectedly, awakens as a zombie, and learns her mysterious benefactor expects her to form a musical group with other zombies as part of a campaign to inspire the people of a culturally stagnant Japanese prefecture.
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Is this what SaGa Frontier is about???
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The Great Autismo! posted:you sound like a glass-is-half-full type of guy, what are you doing here on SA i'm certainly not. i just like inaka. Magna Kaser posted:Look at all these too cool for school goons pretending they don't know of last year's breakout anime hit "zombieland saga" about a man who makes zombies into pop idols to spur tourism in Saga. i haven't seen a second of it.
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mikeycp posted:i'm certainly not. i just like inaka. as someone who has spent a good chunk of time in the kyushu inaka since 2014, I can indeed confirm that the it absolutely owns there used to be a Japan GBS picture thread where I posted a bunch of pictures but I don't have plat anymore bc I got banned for shitposting so I can't find it The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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i'm honestly happier farting around in inaka than i am doing Things in a city
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pls stop talking about kyushu because it's making miss Japan thx.
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Whenever everyone here says "inaka" they just mean the countryside right? Or is there some specific cultural thing I'm missing? Please explain to me, my nakama.
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Inaka means family.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Whenever everyone here says "inaka" they just mean the countryside right? Or is there some specific cultural thing I'm missing? yes. but i say inaka to clarify that i mean japanese countryside specifically. you wouldn't catch me in rural america, for example
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There's Tokyo-ite inaka which is like, Utsunomiya. And then there's inaka which would just be a "small town" by western standards. And then there's inaka inaka where there truly is nothing but already-dead towns that hasn't had a new birth since the 20th century. Take your pick.
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