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Midjack posted:It’s almost as if the human body can adapt to its environment or something. in comical fashion, my son asked to wear a hoodie today to school. It was 72 degrees gotta get the family back to Maine for a year or two to toughen up the kids
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captkirk posted:Is it weird that I kind of want to go to an onsen village during Golden Week? I kind of like people watching. Plus can it really be worse than being in Sapporo during the intersection of the snow festival and the Chinese new year? You'll be okay anywhere if you're not traveling with young children/a huge group.
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Tokyo in Golden Week is bliss, the weather is nice and the trains aren’t packed. Not sure the onsen towns would be packed either, it’s such a long break that most people do overseas or farther-away travel at the time. If you’re visiting Kyoto and Tokyo, crowds are going to happen. Just try to stay calm, keep moving, and not get frustrated. It’s a fact of life in a lot of spots.
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Tokyo during golden week is fine for touristy stuff that appeals to foreigners and getting around will be easier since the commute rush hour times won't really be a thing. However stuff like theme parks, hiking trails, camp sites, museums, malls, and any other thing that would appeal to locals to spend their time off will be packed. Also you won't be able to take advantage of doing stuff during the quiet regular working hours which kind of sucks.
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peanut posted:Early October is festival season in Hyogo, Mid October is festival season in Ehime/Kagawa. The humidity is gone and typhoons are mostly done. Yeah...shame about Hagibis in early October. My next trip is in December 2021. I am not gonna deal with another typhoon cutting my trip short.
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E: this is a dumb q A mid-early Shikoku fun sounds dope. Totally up for a trip around that time. Starting to plan on things to do around the Hiroshima-Shikoku-Kyushu area and I’m def hitting up Miyajima at least. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Jan 24, 2020 16:31
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Is there a documented map/list of everywhere that Chris from Abroad in Japan visited during his Journey Across Japan? I swear someone made one, but I can't find it now.
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Speaking of, has anyone here cycled Shimanami? Do they have one-way bike rentals, or would we end up camping one day and biking back the next? Also, is the bus between Onomichi and Imabari decent?
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they have one way rentals. you can't rent electric one way though. also trying to do the whole thing in one day is inadvisable unless you're A Hardcore Cyclist
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Hmm, the question then is how to move luggage and stuff around if we’re spending the night on one of the islands. Maybe get a luggage service, or try backpacking for a night?
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Jan 24, 2020 20:06
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Is there a documented map/list of everywhere that Chris from Abroad in Japan visited during his Journey Across Japan? I swear someone made one, but I can't find it now. Nice try getting someone to do your work Mr. Broad.
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Pollyanna posted:Hmm, the question then is how to move luggage and stuff around if we’re spending the night on one of the islands. Maybe get a luggage service, or try backpacking for a night? Pack what you need for the night and ship the rest onto the final destination. Your hotel can usually help with the shipping.
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Jan 24, 2020 20:44
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.Z. posted:Pack what you need for the night and ship the rest onto the final destination. Your hotel can usually help with the shipping. Good call, I didn’t know hotels offered that service. Do cheaper places like Dormy do it? (I’m also getting flashforwards to having to puzzle out how to ask for luggage shipping  )
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Jan 24, 2020 20:52
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The hotel itself doesn't do it but they can contact the shipping companies that do and arrange it.
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CrazySalamander posted:Nice try getting someone to do your work Mr. Broad. Welp, guess I'll have to just watch the whole thing again and document it myself. Which I was going to do anyway because Japan travelogues are my new porn. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Pollyanna posted:Good call, I didn’t know hotels offered that service. Do cheaper places like Dormy do it? (I’m also getting flashforwards to having to puzzle out how to ask for luggage shipping dog you can take the bags to 7/11 and do it. everywhere does it.
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well poo poo I’ll do that then  especially given that I don’t think there’s actually a way to do a loop from Onomichi to Matsuyama then directly to Fukuoka. I only see a ferry ride from Shikoku to Kyushu, and it’s a multi-hour drive  I guess there goes my grand idea. Has anyone else tried to pull off a trip like this before, hitting up Hiroshima, Shikoku, and Kyushu in one shot?
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Jan 24, 2020 22:48
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I would trust a hotel desk a lot more than a 7eleven to be able to help a foreigner ship their luggage. If you can speak Japanese then either one should be fine but if you don't then the hotel should have more experience dealing with clueless foreigners lol
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You can mail suitcases from any post office. They'll take anything up to 2 meters if you/they can wrap it well enough. Post office was basically 2000 yen* for each item. Airport luggage delivery costs more because they also offer storage. *Prices may vary based on size and distance. Domestic only.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Welp, guess I'll have to just watch the whole thing again and document it myself. Which I was going to do anyway because Japan travelogues are my new porn. There's also the Rambalac channel, if you just want hundreds of first person videos of some guy walking around Tokyo, Sapporo, Nara and other places.
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Bofast posted:There's also the Rambalac channel, if you just want hundreds of first person videos of some guy walking around Tokyo, Sapporo, Nara and other places. Oh hell yes inject it in my veins
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NHK World has fun travel shows too. Sometimes you have to skip episodes if one of the insufferable douche presenters is on that episode but there aren't too many of those. Cycle Around Japan is a pro relaxing in bed watch.
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I binge NHK World a lot. Begin Japanology is great and you can find a ton of them on YouTube, mostly with weird audio glitches from copyright protection I gather but still worth watching. Japanology Plus is great but it literally pains me to watch Matt Alt ham his way through his bits.
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Zettace posted:I would trust a hotel desk a lot more than a 7eleven to be able to help a foreigner ship their luggage. If you can speak Japanese then either one should be fine but if you don't then the hotel should have more experience dealing with clueless foreigners lol nah. combini staff have been more than helpful every time i've gone that route.
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Bofast posted:There's also the Rambalac channel, if you just want hundreds of first person videos of some guy walking around Tokyo, Sapporo, Nara and other places. That guy loving struck gold from being the first one at it. Imagine just walking around and getting probably decent money for it.
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LimburgLimbo posted:That guy loving struck gold from being the first one at it. Imagine just walking around and getting probably decent money for it. i'm imagining it what's next
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Rambalac is the OG but his new content is bad. He's been supplanted by Nippon Wandering. I've got the hookups for walking tourism vids for many countries if you're interested.
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There’s tourism in other countries??
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LimburgLimbo posted:That guy loving struck gold from being the first one at it. Imagine just walking around and getting probably decent money for it. Looking at his recent videos they only have 24k views or so after being posted like a week ago. Unless he has sponsors or something, his youtube ad revenue is probably $5-$10 per day.
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zmcnulty posted:Looking at his recent videos they only have 24k views or so after being posted like a week ago. Unless he has sponsors or something, his youtube ad revenue is probably $5-$10 per day. He gets money from the government, he mentioned it in a live chat on YouTube
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Grand Fromage posted:NHK World has fun travel shows too. Sometimes you have to skip episodes if one of the insufferable douche presenters is on that episode but there aren't too many of those. Cycle Around Japan is a pro relaxing in bed watch. This reminds me. Someone in this thread might know this show. I saw it on a plane a few years ago. It was a segment during a Japanese half hour variety thing with several segments - one about a ramen place in Hokkaido, one about a wood worker, but the best one was called Backpacker and this kind of doughy Japanese guy went backpacking in other countries and they filmed it. He was absolutely not a fit backpacking type and the one I saw he went to Madagascar. The humor was in how he would struggle with the situations and odd customs. It was tucking hilarious. It was rebroadcast from Japanese TV and was all in Japanese. I’ve tried to google it but I just can’t find the show. Anyone have any ideas on that?
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Was it this guy? https://www.instagram.com/chikyu_nishimura/
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I spent 3 hours browsing hotels for my brother's family to stay in Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Osaka. It's exhausting x___X Bless Japan for futon options with young kids.
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zmcnulty posted:Looking at his recent videos they only have 24k views or so after being posted like a week ago. Unless he has sponsors or something, his youtube ad revenue is probably $5-$10 per day. Don't you also get ad revenue from all the old ones as well? I do wonder how much he's made overall. I know that youtube ad monitization is supposedly a lot worse than it used to be which is why everyone has ad/sponsors in their videos now. Suppose that's the downside as the atmospheric videos don't have much way to incorporate that.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Oh hell yes inject it in my veins https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGAdUaWI73E2b3eZCRNKURxBhB3QK2uY Try not to overdose on it 
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Planning a trip for next month, looking at several days in Tokyo followed by several in Kyoto (probably 9 and 6, respectively). i'm looking at staying in Shinjuku in Tokyo, for the ability to get around to everywhere else. Is there a particularly good area to stay in or particularly an area we'd want to avoid in Kyoto? Three single dudes.
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Not really. You can walk just about anywhere in Kyoto, it's not that big. More of the tourist sites are on the eastern side of the city.
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Seconding anywhere east near a railway station.
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Thanks guys, I got a hotel central-east-ish, that looks close to the downtown core. If I'm an American traveling to Japan, should I buy travel insurance? Is there a preferred provider?
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Just so you know, tourists can easily walk into any hospital in Japan and get affordable, fixed-rate prices for modern treatment. (JP insurance holders have a 30% copay, patients without insurance pay 100%). For example, a same-day x-ray is $100 or less (out of pocket cost: $30). If you can find something that will help rebook flights if you get quarantined, get that. peanut fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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