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totalnewbie posted:What the hell is this, man. It’s the Keikyu, it’s one that goes from Haneda through Kamata and Shinagawa to Mita. The only actual change is at Mita, the others are all through trains. That vs monorail and Yamanote is kinda six of one / half dozen of the other. It just looks weirder.
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Buskers aren't common in Japan (at least not as common as say, in south Europe) but when you find one they're usually good and selling their CD on the side.
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Sep 26, 2019 10:58
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Monorail is kawaii but a little slow. Do whatever has less connections, mate.
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Sep 26, 2019 13:13
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peanut posted:Monorail is kawaii but a little slow. Do whatever has less connections, mate. Keikyu it is. Thanks!
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Sep 26, 2019 13:24
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harperdc posted:It’s the Keikyu, it’s one that goes from Haneda through Kamata and Shinagawa to Mita. The only actual change is at Mita, the others are all through trains. Ah my mistake. I just saw the mess of a schedule and didn't look closer.
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Sep 26, 2019 13:48
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Kichijoji a few stops west of Shinjuku on the Chuo Line is definitely the biggest haven for buskers that I'm aware of. They practically seem to welcome them, whereas I'll see them get ticketed by cops in Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Akihabara.
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Sep 26, 2019 14:08
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Nanigans posted:Keikyu it is. The monorail is nice though, you get a great view of the bay and Tokyo tower and all that. Especially at night.
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Sep 26, 2019 14:09
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Stringent posted:The monorail is nice though, you get a great view of the bay and Tokyo tower and all that. Especially at night. Maaaaannnn, I'm trying to be less high strung and you're throwing words like "nice" and "great" around and making me want to change my mind.
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Sep 26, 2019 14:12
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Similarly, while in the Bay Area I played a bit of go. How much do people play go anymore? Is it mostly old people, or is it like chess in the States, where most people have some limited knowledge and a chess board? I have pretty limited experience with go in Japan but to my knowledge it is not like chess in the States. Go is less popular than shogi but it's not like it's played exclusively by old people. When I was in Tokyo I went to a westerner friendly go salon and there were a handful of people there in the middle of the day, I think only 2 of them were retirees (I did play a very sweet old lady who started learning go in her retirement and felt pretty terrible when I started killing her groups).
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Nanigans posted:Maaaaannnn, I'm trying to be less high strung and you're throwing words like "nice" and "great" around and making me want to change my mind. Especially your first night in, get to ride in and see the bay skyline, poo poo's tight.
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Sep 26, 2019 14:42
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Stringent posted:Especially your first night in, get to ride in and see the bay skyline, poo poo's tight. especially getting in late after flying from the East Coast, that last stretch into Hamamatsucho is gonna look Blade Runner as gently caress. and then you spot a bullet train going by and yeah totally you should do that.
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Sep 26, 2019 15:10
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Nanigans posted:Maaaaannnn, I'm trying to be less high strung and you're throwing words like "nice" and "great" around and making me want to change my mind. You can do both, right? Once to the city, once back. Japan will still be there. You can go back any time.
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Sep 26, 2019 15:16
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 Alright, gonna do this, then. “Blade Runner as gently caress” are powerful words.
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Sep 26, 2019 15:23
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I made that exact journey in reverse last week, very easy. May as well start your love affair with the Yamanote Line early.
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This is probably my 4th or 5th time through Japan, all but one of which have been visits like this one - purposeful 17 hour layovers on a JAL flight - so I'm not like a level 23 Japan expert. Still, one thing that's very different from the US or Thailand or Cambodia or even maybe Hong Kong or most places I travel is that I have never, ever seen a confrontation that I can think of. I haven't even seen like the auntie-in-training girlfriend publicly berating her cuck boyfriend who is wearing the matching shirt and hat and drinking a matching bubble tea, which I'm pretty sure I've seen in HK, SG and maybe even Taipei (though Taipei seems pretty drat chill). I've only ever had one longer visit of about a couple of weeks, and that was in the tourist countryside, with Osaka and Nagoya thrown in, but I figure I would have run across more than just a drunk stumbling uncle at the JR station at 23:45, heh. WHERE ARE THEY HIDING THE SHOUTY PEOPLE OKAY?? ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 23:41
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I got shouted at a bunch once by some asswipe. Was pretty startling.
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I saw a random old dude yelling at a mom with a gaggle of kids a month or so back (they were blocking his *precise* side of the road on a side-street), it was kinda wild because I hadn't seen something so heated in a while. I've also seen plenty of lovely behavior, especially at night. It's one part knowing what to look for, and one part seeing more details instead of being over-awed by how impressive it all is. My favorite was a couple years back, when I saw a group of college kids out on a Saturday night have to double-arm push a girl in the back to get her drunk rear end onto a train.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:07
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I got yelled at by a guy in Osaka on my way to Dotonbori. He was either drunk or I guess a tout/advertiser that I just instinctually ignored as a New Yorker.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:08
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Man I wish people would yell at me so I could yell terrible things back at them in Japanese.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:44
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I've spent a good amount of time in Japan and creepy as gently caress japanese guys doing the whole weirdo aggressive street pickups are a thing. Lotsa creeps. Had a weird japanese guy follow our group around because he thought we dishonored him at a bar when he was getting too close and knocking people around.
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harperdc posted:I saw a random old dude yelling at a mom with a gaggle of kids a month or so back (they were blocking his *precise* side of the road on a side-street), it was kinda wild because I hadn't seen something so heated in a while. I'm surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often in Tokyo, what with the (mostly) too-narrow/nonexistant sidewalks and the lack of situational awareness a lot of people display. And the fact that there's just too drat many people.
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Sep 27, 2019 03:04
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I stood still on the wrong side of an escalator and someone gave me a dirty look.
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Martytoof posted:I stood still on the wrong side of an escalator and someone gave me a dirty look. Supposedly they're going to try to eliminate walking on the escalators, although I haven't heard anything else about it. Maybe they just quietly gave up.
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Sep 27, 2019 03:06
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Martytoof posted:I stood still on the wrong side of an escalator and someone gave me a dirty look. Holy gently caress this pisses me off so much when people do this.
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Stringent posted:Supposedly they're going to try to eliminate walking on the escalators, although I haven't heard anything else about it. Maybe they just quietly gave up. I think they’re still trying, especially during rush hours, to get people to stand on both sides instead of leaving the walking lane. I guess it’s wait and see if that continues.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Holy gently caress this pisses me off so much when people do this. Doing this to piss people off is extremely fun, I recommend anyone visiting have a couple drinks and give it a go.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:26
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Every trip I’m like “this is the trip where I will understand how Shinjuku station works!” Why do I keep lying to myself?
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Speaking of, https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1177538635958296576
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quote:According to Masaki Hashii, 68, of the Japan Federation of the Blind, visually impaired escalator users accompanied by a guide dog or helper sometimes have people push past them or click their tongues in disapproval for having their way blocked. This is why I strongly advocate y'all visitors to give it a go at blocking the right side of the escalators while you're here. It's too stressful to do on the reg, but you will get to meet the kind of people who click their tongues at a blind person, which is a bit of a novelty for a tourist in Japan.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Every trip I’m like “this is the trip where I will understand how Shinjuku station works!” I kind of got the hang of Shinjuku by the end of my second stay. And then I woke up and realized it was just a dream from when I passed out looking for a specific exit. But also I spent two hours looking for a store that was in Tokyo station until I realized it was literally IN Tokyo station, as in you needed to pay the platform fare to get in.
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Sep 27, 2019 13:29
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Stringent posted:This is why I strongly advocate y'all visitors to give it a go at blocking the right side of the escalators while you're here. It's too stressful to do on the reg, but you will get to meet the kind of people who click their tongues at a blind person, which is a bit of a novelty for a tourist in Japan. Saving this very stringent comment for posterity
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Sep 27, 2019 14:54
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Just out of curiosity is there some non-emotional reason to be against the stand to the right/left, walk to the right/left thing? It's the norm in all manner of places and it seems pretty generally logical to allow for both. My only complaint with the Japanese implementation is the Osaka/Tokyo switcheroo nonsense, but that's pretty minor.
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Sep 27, 2019 14:59
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I guess the capacity is lower if the walking lane isn't filled all the time? Also walking on escalators is somewhat dangerous.
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Sep 27, 2019 15:17
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I'm always worried about uneven stress on the belts and motors, because I empathize with robots.
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ReindeerF posted:Just out of curiosity is there some non-emotional reason to be against the stand to the right/left, walk to the right/left thing? It's the norm in all manner of places and it seems pretty generally logical to allow for both. My only complaint with the Japanese implementation is the Osaka/Tokyo switcheroo nonsense, but that's pretty minor. Depends on what you mean by non-emotional reason I guess?
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ReindeerF posted:Just out of curiosity is there some non-emotional reason to be against the stand to the right/left, walk to the right/left thing? It's the norm in all manner of places and it seems pretty generally logical to allow for both. My only complaint with the Japanese implementation is the Osaka/Tokyo switcheroo nonsense, but that's pretty minor. On escalators it can be dangerous, especially for older people, which is most of the country now. On stairs, go nuts.
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Before I call my bank I have a charge on my card (the one I tried to use to buy DisneySea tickets) for $2066.64 USD from "PEIJIENTO." I know enough Japanese to know that's some romanized Japanese word, but uhh....3 adult 1-day tickets wouldn't be over two thousand dollars. Googling "PEIJIENTO" isn't helping. My guess is the $2000+ is because the card is thinking in terms of dollars instead of Yen, but... Should I just call my bank?
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Nanigans posted:My guess is the $2000+ is because the card is thinking in terms of dollars instead of Yen, but... I think that's probably it, iirc 3 adults at Disney Sea should come to about 2,000 yen. edit: I'm kidding btw Stringent fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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ReindeerF posted:Just out of curiosity is there some non-emotional reason to be against the stand to the right/left, walk to the right/left thing? It's the norm in all manner of places and it seems pretty generally logical to allow for both. My only complaint with the Japanese implementation is the Osaka/Tokyo switcheroo nonsense, but that's pretty minor. There is some evidence to suggest that making everyone would increase the throughput of an escalator. Basically queues would be reduced and the average time taken for a person to reach the top would decrease. https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/t...well-sometimes/ DiscoJ fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Nanigans posted:Before I call my bank https://www.paygent.co.jp/sp/ It’s a Japanese payments company but you should know how much you’re paying in approx USD val. If it’s way off then up to you.
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