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First time I ever walked into kabukicho in 2010 lots of pimps would come at me from all sides trying to get me to follow them to places, never seems to happen now. Did they clean the place up or something?
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Shibawanko posted:First time I ever walked into kabukicho in 2010 lots of pimps would come at me from all sides trying to get me to follow them to places, never seems to happen now. Did they clean the place up or something? Those were probably barkers not pimps.
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Nov 15, 2019 11:01
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Whenever I've been in kabukicho at night a million touts immediately swarm upon me. I probably look like an easy mark
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Nov 15, 2019 11:18
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netcat posted:Whenever I've been in kabukicho at night a million touts immediately swarm upon me. I probably look like an easy mark You look foreign. They swarm on anyone who looks like a foreigner.
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Nov 15, 2019 11:20
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Just FYI to any tourists in town. Yamanote line is shutdown between Osaki and Ueno until around 4PM today.
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Nov 15, 2019 22:59
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Does anyone have a feel for how busy Tokyo is going to be during the Paralympics? There's some rare award flight availability that would have me in Tokyo starting right at the tail end of the Paralympics (sept 4-11ish). How screwed would I be for hotel availability and the like?
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Nov 16, 2019 05:45
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Archer666 posted:You look foreign. They swarm on anyone who looks like a foreigner. My question is, for which shops do they swarm foreigners
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Nov 16, 2019 06:26
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For anyone going to Ginza Steak and finding it booked, I highly recommend the yakiniku place right across the street called Oreno Yakiniku. Pretty sure it is part of a chain, but perhaps not. 1000g of A5 for 14,000yen. More than enough for three people. Still trying to walk it off... 
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Nov 16, 2019 07:35
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mmm11105 posted:Does anyone have a feel for how busy Tokyo is going to be during the Paralympics? There's some rare award flight availability that would have me in Tokyo starting right at the tail end of the Paralympics (sept 4-11ish). How screwed would I be for hotel availability and the like? Paralympics will be quieter than the Olympics because it's a smaller, shorter event. There will be less media staff and foreign tour groups. Will you be flying alone? You can always squeeze into a hostel, capsule, or goon's loving embrace…
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Nov 16, 2019 09:44
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Stay in a 24h internet cafe
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Nov 16, 2019 10:12
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Also, if anyone loves beer, the guest ESB at BrewDog in Roppongi is amazing. Definitely the best ESB I ever had. The British bartender who used to work for Fullers agreed.
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Nov 16, 2019 10:35
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Stay in a tarp and plywood city with all the other people who are totally not homeless what the gently caress are you talking about there are no homeless people in Japan.
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Nov 16, 2019 10:36
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Doctor Zero posted:Stay in a tarp and plywood city with all the other people who are totally not homeless what the gently caress are you talking about there are no homeless people in Japan. lol as if they aren't going to be *ahem* relocated before the Olympics get started. the Paralympics are still a major international event, so try to book hotels sooner than later if possible. I know that the involved nations have already started booking because the Great Britain committee has complained about the number and quality of wheelchair accessible rooms in area hotels.
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Nov 16, 2019 12:03
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(PS you probably won't Olympics period reservations open online yet. It's all irl and phone negotiation. )
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Nov 16, 2019 12:07
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peanut posted:(PS you probably won't Olympics period reservations open online yet. It's all irl and phone negotiation. ) Yeah, the reason I first double checked dates and realized the Paralympics was still happening was that I was window shopping hotels and noticed quite a few showed no availability - but I'm unsure if they are actually fully booked or just holding back opening reservations for that dates so that Olympics related things can do block bookings first.
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Nov 16, 2019 16:42
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https://tokyo2020.org/en/games/venue/ https://tokyo2020.org/en/games/venue/paralympic/ Check the maps of event locations (stay away from Odaiba). You can see that the Skytree area and Asakusa isn't hosting any Paralympic events. If in doubt, how about staying in Yokohama or Kawasaki?
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As a New Yorker I have to say that the pizza at Seirinkan is as good as advertised. Perhaps the best pizza crust I’ve ever tasted in my life.
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How does it compare to Rocco's?
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Original_Z posted:How does it compare to Rocco's? It's Neopolitan not New York style.
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Nov 19, 2019 12:51
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The place around the corner from our hotel is selling Blanton bourbon for ¥500/glass. Big fan of Kyoto!
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Slow Graffiti posted:The place around the corner from our hotel is selling Blanton bourbon for ¥500/glass. Big fan of Kyoto! That sounds pretty cheap. My mom just got a bottle from a neighbor.
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AOCs Pink Pearl posted:That sounds pretty cheap. My mom just got a bottle from a neighbor. My brother in law is tagging along with us and is a big bourbon fan. Apparently because it was bottled almost 30 years ago he couldn’t even say what it would cost in a bar in the US given its rarity. He was guessing $100/pour. It’s a nice find.
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Nov 21, 2019 11:53
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People go apeshit trying to find Japanese whisky in Japan but great bourbon is everywhere! Good find.
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zmcnulty posted:People go apeshit trying to find Japanese whisky in Japan but great bourbon is everywhere! Good find. It really is amazing. I definitely prefer bourbon to whiskey and this country is like a paradise. Brother in law told me he has a buddy from a bourbon forum that brought 22 bottles back to the states last year. Just packed checked luggage and rolled the dice that US customs wouldn’t check.
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And now we’ve discovered that Mac Bar in Hiroshima is one of the best bars in the world. Their cd collection is amazing and we might not ever leave.
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The Pope will be in Hiroshima this weekend. Say Hey for me.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:09
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peanut posted:The Pope will be in Hiroshima this weekend. Say Hey for me. Our hotel is right near the dome, but unfortunately we’re grabbing an early Shinkansen tomorrow morning. I’ll pop into the mass at the Tokyo Dome on the 25th and tell him you say hi. Edit: Currently wandering around Miyajima on this gorgeous day. I can sit and drink a beer and watch deer randomly accost unsuspecting tourists for hours. Slow Graffiti fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Nov 23, 2019 05:52
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scotty posted:While back someone posted an x-rated video of a dude making your typical go pro tourist video of Tokyo. Anyone have a link? The video is funny but the scale of prostitution in Tokyo bums me out big time.
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Shibawanko posted:The video is funny but the scale of prostitution in Tokyo bums me out big time. Here’s a cute beer ad from Miyajima I saw today to cheer you up!  Edit: Their red ale was delicious! Slow Graffiti fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Since I saw it at the Japanese grocery store in Seattle I decided to grab some natto and give it a try. It was fine. Didn't seem to have much of a flavor at all. In the end my biggest issue was the texture so I sliced up a green onion and dumped that in to give it some texture to bite into. I think natto's reputation is over selling how gross it. Or maybe I got a bad package that's insufficiently natto-ing.
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captkirk posted:Since I saw it at the Japanese grocery store in Seattle I decided to grab some natto and give it a try. It was fine. Didn't seem to have much of a flavor at all. In the end my biggest issue was the texture so I sliced up a green onion and dumped that in to give it some texture to bite into. I think natto's reputation is over selling how gross it. Or maybe I got a bad package that's insufficiently natto-ing. Natto has a great taste and anyone who says it tastes bad is crazy. White rice with raw egg with soy sauce, chopped chives, a bit of mustard and natto is the best meal ever. Even animals love natto, my cat tries to steal it all the time and my dog always wants some when I'm having it.
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Natto is bush league gross compared to stinky tofu. A stinky tofu cart smells like an open sewer from a hundred meters away.
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If you don't like the texture just image search for 爆弾納豆 for a whole bunch of options of poo poo you can add to natto, you can even throw in sashimi or kimchi or whatever vegetable really, it's very versatile
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Shibawanko posted:If you don't like the texture just image search for 爆弾納豆 for a whole bunch of options of poo poo you can add to natto, you can even throw in sashimi or kimchi or whatever vegetable really, it's very versatile Ah, thanks for the search term! I was thinking about making tenkasu to try with natto.
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Shibawanko posted:The video is funny but the scale of prostitution in Tokyo bums me out big time. Is it the scale of prostitution in Tokyo, or is it that every other city in the world just hides it better?
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It does feel like the sex industry in Tokyo is literally everywhere in every neighborhood, while it's more localized to specific red light districts in other cities. But it might just be better hidden. I'm not very familiar with it.
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It's definitely bigger in Tokyo than in other places Like Osaka doesn't even have a single soapland mikeycp fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 05:38
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Wait, is prostitution not illegal in Japan? Or are they just very lax about the rules and let people run these things out in the open?
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Prostitution in Japan is a weird gray area where it's sort of illegal but it depends on specific sex acts, so those blowjob bars are not considered prostitution. But I mean, lol. Prostitution is illegal in South Korea and you literally cannot walk more than 15 minutes in a Korean city without passing somewhere you can get a prostitute. It's inescapable once you know what you're looking for. There's just no enforcement.
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