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I doubt I'm either of those, but I'm sitting in a little room in Tokyo now, arrived this morning.
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Sitting in my office, on a Monday morning, the last week before I leave for Japan for the first time on Saturday. I'm not getting any work done this week lol.
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Oct 28, 2019 16:14
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arisu posted:Sitting in my office, on a Monday morning, the last week before I leave for Japan for the first time on Saturday. I'm not getting any work done this week lol. 
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Oct 28, 2019 17:51
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Question Mark Mound posted:Sitting in my office, on a Monday morning, the first week back after visitng Japan for the third time. I've returned to a pile of work this week lol. Sitting in my office, on a Monday morning, third week since returning from my first trip to Japan. Planning on how to go back as soon as possible.
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Oct 28, 2019 17:58
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I'm looking forward to being depressed in three weeks time.
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Oct 28, 2019 18:18
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sitting at my desk on Monday afternoon in the office, opening up anki only to find 700 due cards trying to figure out a way to actually get motivated to study
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Oct 28, 2019 18:59
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Sitting in a futon at 4am and can't sleep despite being massively tired?? loving jetlag.
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Oct 28, 2019 20:19
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Sitting in my office which is my dining table because I work from home, transferring a fat chunk of money from PayPal to my bank account and sewing my Halloween costume 
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Oct 28, 2019 23:47
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sitting in my office working, reading these posts in the Japan thread
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Oct 29, 2019 01:03
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Back from work, thinking about my trip in two months, wondering if I can get hired by a US based tech company while I'm there
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Oct 29, 2019 01:41
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I'm a week out from my trip to Tokyo, which I've just had to extend by a week for work stuff but I'm still excited because I'm gonna eat a lot of coco ichibanyas. I wonder what anime girl clear files they'll give me this time.
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Oct 29, 2019 01:56
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Sitting in a train to Akiba, considering my options for the day. As well as prematurely regretting my immenent spending decisions.
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Oct 29, 2019 02:46
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Archer666 posted:Sitting in a train to Akiba, considering my options for the day. As well as prematurely regretting my immenent spending decisions. Oh hi, I'm also on a train to Akiba.
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Oct 29, 2019 03:07
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Sitting in my bathtub which is in the bathroom that I remodeled
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Oct 29, 2019 05:51
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Archer666 posted:Sitting in a train to Akiba, considering my options for the day. As well as prematurely regretting my immenent spending decisions. Post your haul when you're done.
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Oct 29, 2019 08:08
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Bloodnose posted:Post your haul when you're done. I didn't do my main shopping yet. Just looking around at what they got and the prices. Right now I'm eyeing sweet Bloodborne t shirts they got at the kotobukiya store. And those hexagear models make me want to get into diorama building. Also man Softmap is just my kind of store. ....and i did buy anime porn.
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Oct 29, 2019 09:12
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If you're looking for places around Akihabara to eat lunch check out my foursquare. I work around there so I've got a lot of places marked. https://foursquare.com/user/53160958/list/restaurants
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Oct 29, 2019 10:39
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Archer666 posted:....and i did buy anime porn.  
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Oct 29, 2019 10:58
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Graniph had so many nice t-shirts when I was there, but they got slightly shrunk in the wash when I got home. Looks like I have my inspiration to keep the weight off! Also: souvenir report - the soup in the home boxes of Ichiran Ramen taste nothing like the actual thing.
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Oct 29, 2019 11:35
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I'll post the full haul once i buy everything cause oh boy there is going to be more porn. Question Mark Mound posted:
I am both unsurprised and incredibly disappointed.
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Oct 29, 2019 12:10
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My wife and I are heading over for the first time in ten days or so, and I’ve been looking at possibly booking us a nice “date night” high end dinner in Tokyo. Does anyone have any experience using Pocket Concierge ( https://pocket-concierge.jp/en/ )? They seem to have a decent selection of Michelin rated sushi places and the booking fees seem a lot more reasonable than other sites I’ve seen. For what it’s worth, we are staying at Keio Plaza, but I’m not sure if their concierge could find us a nice place without any hassle of going through a third party. If so, I’m totally fine with going that route. I figure most of our evenings will be spent getting loaded in izakayas anyway. Although we lived in NYC for 15 years, and always did enjoy a nice dinner every once in a while.
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Oct 29, 2019 20:18
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I’ve been wondering about this since I got back: Almost 90% of the dogs I saw in Tokyo were the same kind of brown tiny poodle. I met one lady at a coffee shop with her adopted corgi. She spoke excellent English but I didn’t think to ask more questions. Are animal shelters common in Japan? I assumed it was almost exclusively (expensive) pet stores.
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Oct 30, 2019 03:33
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There are some shelters. Like every ku in Tokyo has some kind of temporary place, and afterwards they are sent on to this place. Looking at the numbers, it seems at this particular facility the number of pets they handle has dropped from 5900 to under 1000 in like 10 years. They also aren't putting as many down. I don't know if that's a good sign or not? Perhaps there are actually less strays, or perhaps budget cuts mean they can't handle thousands of nekos anymore or whatever. In any case, yeah, our dog (boston terrier) was a rescue, not pet shop.
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Oct 30, 2019 06:03
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zmcnulty posted:There are some shelters. Like every ku in Tokyo has some kind of temporary place, and afterwards they are sent on to this place. Looking at the numbers, it seems at this particular facility the number of pets they handle has dropped from 5900 to under 1000 in like 10 years. They also aren't putting as many down. I don't know if that's a good sign or not? Perhaps there are actually less strays, or perhaps budget cuts mean they can't handle thousands of nekos anymore or whatever. That's awesome. I'm sure this is a stupid question, but if you need to travel around town with your dog, do you just need to own your own car? I imagine trains and buses don't allow them on. I guess if they fit in a bicycle basket... I'm curious about owning a dog in Tokyo in general. Dogs are becoming more and more acceptable to bring places in the U.S. Even a lot of coffee places around here allow you to bring the dog inside. I didn't see anything like that in Tokyo, and most dogs were again, the teeny tiny poodles. I did see a couple of larger dogs in Yoyogi and Ueno.
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Oct 30, 2019 13:08
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Nanigans posted:That's awesome. I'm sure this is a stupid question, but if you need to travel around town with your dog, do you just need to own your own car? I imagine trains and buses don't allow them on. I guess if they fit in a bicycle basket... I've seen backpacks that are large enough to hold tiny dogs, or sometimes strollers people will bring with them, but mostly only on a weekend. otherwise yeah it's walking (or bike) distance with the dog. one of my friends in the suburbs does have a house and a dog though, so it's more common in Saitama or Chiba most likely. some places are alright with dogs, like cafes or places they can be outside. but again it's like 10-15 years ago in the US before everybody started bringing their furbaby with them at all times. mostly you see women with them little dogs bring them places they shouldn't, most shopping malls and such are signed similar as the US -- dogs would have to be service animals to technically be let in. big dogs are basically the same kind of "gently caress off I'm rich" sign as driving a Mercedes in Shibuya is. Apartments are often strict with sizes they'll allow, if they allow dogs at all. so having a golden lab or something is a sign you have a house and can afford the space and the doggo.
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Oct 30, 2019 14:13
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At Shibuya right now dressed as a cheap version of ffxv Gladio and jesus its crowded. Hard to believe that its gonna be even crowdier tomorrow.
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Oct 30, 2019 14:57
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Archer666 posted:At Shibuya right now dressed as a cheap version of ffxv Gladio and jesus its crowded. Hard to believe that its gonna be even crowdier tomorrow. My dude if you think that’s crowded you have no idea. Previous years before they technically banned drinking in the area were nuuuuuts. Dangerously crowded to the point you start getting those crowd waves where the entire crowd starts swaying from momentum and poo poo
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Oct 30, 2019 15:42
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My dad is literally waiting for the day a dog attacks him in a Home Depot so he can go loving haywire
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Oct 30, 2019 16:26
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Saw a girl who could barely stand get dragged off by 2 guys to a love hotel. 
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Oct 30, 2019 16:47
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Somewhat crowded around Hachiko/the scramble right now, it'll probably get much worse.
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Oct 31, 2019 08:20
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If you enjoy tonight you can relive it every day at rush hour on the Chuo line. Little Tokyo pro tip there.
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Oct 31, 2019 08:41
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Stringent posted:If you enjoy tonight you can relive it every day at rush hour on the Chuo line. Little Tokyo pro tip there. There's cosplayers on the morning chuo trains?
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Nanigans posted:That's awesome. I'm sure this is a stupid question, but if you need to travel around town with your dog, do you just need to own your own car? I imagine trains and buses don't allow them on. I guess if they fit in a bicycle basket... For small dogs you don't really need a car for just getting around town. JR and Toei have some rules about the dimensions and weight of the pet+carrier you take on the train or bus. And you are supposed to buy your doggie a ticket for 290 yen. But it's not like anyone is checking whether or not you have a pet in your luggage. I guess you could go further afield as well, my wife went down to Kobe on the shinkansen to pick up our dog. Something huge like a golden would require a car though, yeah. I don't think there is any kind of pet revolution happening here. There are a handful of places that I guess are novelties--the kushikatsu izakaya Tanaka chain famously allows dogs at many locations, and Odaiba has an onsen resort for dogs--but for the most part as mentioned it's only local restaurants/cafes with terraces and such. Archer666 posted:Saw a girl who could barely stand get dragged off by 2 guys to a love hotel. Japan has a long way to go before active consent becomes a thing. With men or women.
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Oct 31, 2019 08:57
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nielsm posted:There's cosplayers on the morning chuo trains? Lots, but they mostly stick to salaryman and students.
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Oct 31, 2019 08:58
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Hm having some trouble getting back to Shibuya St atm
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Oct 31, 2019 13:01
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Anyone nrar the Modi bld? Broke as ff xv Gladio looking for fun.
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Nanigans posted:That's awesome. I'm sure this is a stupid question, but if you need to travel around town with your dog, do you just need to own your own car? I imagine trains and buses don't allow them on. I guess if they fit in a bicycle basket... I had a dog in Tokyo when I still lived there, it was cool, I'd get to talk to people I wouldn't normally talk to quickly when I took her for walks which was good for practicing the language. Most restaurants and stuff are fussy about dogs but we'd just look on tabelog or other websites and find some of the ones that allow dogs, there's still quite a few of those. If a place has an outdoor terrace with seating it's also usually okay. Vets are usually pretty decent too, at least the two or three that I knew. My dog is tiny but there's a good reason for that, having a big dog is pretty inconvenient I'd imagine, the worst I've seen were two border collies who were kept in an apartment, the owner did take them out in his car for walks and stuff, and they even had their own room in their house, but they looked really bored and barked at people. In the park there were usually two separate groups of people walking dogs, one for big dogs and one for small dogs. There would be golden retrievers and some bernese mountain dogs and doodles, I ended up knowing all of their names too. My favorite was a labrador retriever called nami who, whenever she saw me in the park, would walk to me, drop onto my feet and make me rub her belly, then after i stopped and walked away she wouldn't get back up and i'd see her owner sort of trying to drag her back up on her feet in vain for a while
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Archer666 posted:Anyone nrar the Modi bld? Broke as ff xv Gladio looking for fun. 
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Fun story, I dont remember posting that... or being near the Modi building yesterday. Shibuya helloween is wild poo poo.
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I wanted to be the Prompto to your Gladio.
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