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Bofast posted:Did you try biking around any of the lakes? I was thinking of biking around at least one lake and maybe taking one day at the Fuji-Q Highland park. We walked all the way around lake Kawaguchi and there was plenty of people doing it on rental bikes, definitely a good call. There's some sightseeing busses that goes around a bunch of the lakes and stops at lots of interesting little spots, we went to the wind and ice caves, coming from Australia seeing underground volcanic caves full of ice was pretty cool and novel. We did Fuji-Q too, easily the best roller coasters I've been on but that's not a very long list lol.
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Thanatosian posted:*Japanese Distilleries: we want to do a distillery day; what distilleries particularly stand out? We were planning for Tokyo, but it may wind up being Osaka or Hiroshima. Whiskey is definitely the liquor of choice, but I'm totally down to try uniquely-Japanese liquor (or really anything you can't get in the States). This applies even if it's not good; novelty is sufficient. When are you coming here again? All major Japanese whisky distilleries are either currently closed to tours or will be closing by the end of the month. You should be able to find a minor sake brewery and/or shochu maker somewhere that is still open though. edit: oh, March 3. Yeah you're probably SOL. zmcnulty fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Whelp, just had my flight in March on China Air rescheduled. They changed my leg from Taipei to Japan so that it now leaves the day before my flight (on the same airline) from the US to Taipei 
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Stringent posted:Given the intense likelihood that a couple hundred people have decided to ride out their onsetting flu symptoms rather than risk going a few grand in the hole by visiting the doctor I like my odds in Japan better than the US atm. Once again the universe conspires to own me. http://www.news24.jp/articles/2020/02/26/06600827.html posted:大手保険会社、オリックス生命保険では２４日夜、東京・新宿区にあるオフィスで働く協力会社の社員が新型コロナウイルスに感染していることがわかった。このオフィスではおよそ８００人が働いていて、２５日は全員を自宅待機とし、オフィスや入居するビルのエレベーターなどの消毒を行ったという。２６日は濃厚接触者を除き出勤を認めているが、当面、出勤は最小限にとどめるという。
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zmcnulty posted:When are you coming here again? All major Japanese whisky distilleries are either currently closed to tours or will be closing by the end of the month.
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zmcnulty posted:When are you coming here again? All major Japanese whisky distilleries are either currently closed to tours or will be closing by the end of the month. https://www.suntory.co.jp/factory/yamazaki/ Woah the Yamazaki calendar is completely blocked off until "further notice" x___x But I just booked a free shuttle bus to a beer factory/buffet (Asahi Brewery, Saijo) for my brother's visit 
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I just found out that people can graffiti evangelical Christian signboards like these http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/monzou/christ.html and change 神 to ネコ (GOD to CAT) Please GIS "キリスト ネコ 看板" https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88+%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B3+%E7%9C%8B%E6%9D%BF And here's a bonus Christian signboard generator lmao https://christ.every-little.com/ Example: "The judgement of CATS comes suddenly"
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You might want to check on that one too. Because the homepage says no tours since Feb 22. https://www.asahibeer.co.jp/brewery/shikoku/
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I called today and the restaurant is still open.
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ntan1 posted:Actually the US is probably OK for now (but may not be later). There were four cases in the bay area about 4 weeks ago, but no other additional cases have popped up here. The US is doing some really strong checks at all airports right now, including flagging anyone who they have history of visiting Asia. lol the us is not doing strong checks at all. I came in directly from China, got my temp taken and then was told to "not go to crowded places until I have to". That was after I was put in a special line where I and the rest of the people freshly in from China waited for about an hour in close proximity to everyone else coming through immigration. I'm on like day 12 of sitting around inside and I'm one of about 3 people I know who left China and did any sort of self-quarantine because the gov is not really checking this at all. And news came out today the CDC tests are faulty (for the minuscule % of people who actually went to get tested) tldr: I wouldn't be afraid going from the US to japan cuz Japan is very likely
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Magna Kaser posted:tldr: I wouldn't be afraid going from the US to japan cuz Japan is very likely I still haven't canceled my trip to Japan in late April yet but I am starting to worry that everything is going to be closed if we go...
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Mons Hubris posted:I still haven't canceled my trip to Japan in late April yet but I am starting to worry that everything is going to be closed if we go... This is what I'm worried about, now. And I'm supposed to leave on Tuesday.
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Good thing my plans are just to bum around konbini, tokyu hands, and a bunch of soba places Lotsa luck closing those, suckers
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I think you’ll find good plans are the only kinds of plans I make In non shitposting news, I checked and airbnb has a bunch of new availability around my stay. I guess people are really cancelling this far out.
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Martytoof posted:Good thing my plans are just to bum around konbini, tokyu hands, and a bunch of soba places Well, I guess that’s basically my plan too. But with some museums and sushi thrown in.
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Thanatosian posted:This is what I'm worried about, now. And I'm supposed to leave on Tuesday. Same but 36 hours from now! So far so good, all my plans are still available, but a lot can happen over the course of the next week.
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I'm leaving on Sunday after two weeks  my plans were mostly walking a lot, eating and hanging around random coffee places (oh and buying tons of nerd poo poo)
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Magna Kaser posted:tldr: I wouldn't be afraid going from the US to japan cuz Japan is very likely Japan's loving up too and has a lot of issues. This dude hate Abe with a passion which informs but he cites a lot of stuff that underlines how poorly at a national level they're handling things, and in Japan people go to work and outside sick alll the drat time, and the chances that things could soon go bad and fast (or already are and it hasn't been detected yet) are far from zero. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-japan-abe.html I'm not fearmongering here; we're mostly young healthy and chances are that even if we were to get it we'd survive, but at the same time Japanese leadership is not at all competent with things like this, and even down to a smaller institutional level hospital leadership etc. would be more than happy to just not test people so they don't become that hospital with several confirmed cases. At a lot of levels, from density of population/use of mass transit, cultural practices like not taking time off when sick, and lack of leadership at all levels willing to make hard decisive decisions, Japan has the potential to be very bad.
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Picnic Princess posted:Same but 36 hours from now! So far so good, all my plans are still available, but a lot can happen over the course of the next week. I really, really don't want to get there an have to spend two weeks in our tiny-rear end hotel rooms because everything is closed. I feel like we're going to get there, then a day or two later everything will shut down, which is the worst, as cancelling would only cost me $300 on the plane ticket, but getting hosed like that costs me the hotel rooms, the PTO, and the plane tickets. Half-tempted to look at hotels and see if we can book someplace nicer for cheaper, now. EDIT: Jesus. Just re-booked both hotel rooms (Tokyo and Kyoto) through Hotels.com (where I'd initially booked them); same hotels, same rooms; shaved ~35% off the total price. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Thanatosian posted:EDIT: Jesus. Just re-booked both hotel rooms (Tokyo and Kyoto) through Hotels.com (where I'd initially booked them); same hotels, same rooms; shaved ~35% off the total price. Cool I'm glad I read this, I could rebook my last hotel before going home, almost 50% cheaper. Wish I had checked this with my other places too.
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I'm at Odaiba right now and it's kinda quiet but everything is open. I think y'all are overthinking it, japan still rules even if all you do is get drunk and eat food at izakaya and family mart
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field balm posted:I'm at Odaiba right now and it's kinda quiet but everything is open. I think y'all are overthinking it, japan still rules even if all you do is get drunk and eat food at izakaya and family mart I'll be quoting this post again, but next time it's just gonna say "lol" under it.
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Also my testing has found that the blue suntory is the best happoshu if you're being cheap at the combini and don't feel like going nuts on those 9% chuhis. If money is no object then yebisu is your boy. There doesn't seem to be any of the cool seasonal beers out at the mo
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sale on Banksy art posted:I'll be quoting this post again, but next time it's just gonna say "lol" under it. Lol yea it's already gotten noticeably busier. I guess we just got here early lol
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field balm posted:I'm at Odaiba right now and it's kinda quiet but everything is open. I think y'all are overthinking it, japan still rules even if all you do is get drunk and eat food at izakaya and family mart
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Thanatosian posted:I live in Seattle, and while it's definitely not the same, if I want to get drunk and eat food at an izakaya, I can do it without spending a ton of money on airfare and hotels. This is my first big vacation in three years, so I'd like to make the most of it. It would be really disappointing if all the tourist stuff I'd like to see is closed. I get it. I guess I'm trying to be positive, we've still got a week left and closures haven't affected anything for us yet so fingers crossed for your trip friend
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field balm posted:I'm at Odaiba right now and it's kinda quiet but everything is open. I think y'all are overthinking it, japan still rules even if all you do is get drunk and eat food at izakaya and family mart The bigger point is that the government is rumbling into action, and while everything is open now, there’s no guarantee it’ll stay that way one week from now.
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I once bought a sandwich from a Canadian 7-11 and the cheese on it tasted like gasoline.
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field balm posted:There doesn't seem to be any of the cool seasonal beers out at the mo i bought an asahi something or other with cherry blossoms on it and it was gross. in case anyone was curious. also if you're cheap, stock up on booze at donki.
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Lol, they just canceled school until April. Thx Abe.
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Spanish Inquisition posted:i bought an asahi something or other with cherry blossoms on it and it was gross. in case anyone was curious. Usually Asahi with the cherry blossoms on it is just normal Asahi with a special can they put out every year for sakura season. So you're right it's gross because Asahi is hot garbage the moment it gets anything less than ice cold.
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LimburgLimbo posted:https://www.asahibeer.co.jp/news/2020/0108_4.html yeah i got got big time. lesson learned. has anyone seen kirin's ume chu hai in the tokyo area ever? is that flavor still available? i had some in hiroshima / miyajima when i was here in fall 2018, but haven't seen it since. what a treat.
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Spanish Inquisition posted:yeah i got got big time. lesson learned. https://www.kirin.co.jp/products/list/item/rtd/hyoketsuume.html This one? Yeah it's not a limited time thing and is usually just around. Should be somewhere in conbini or supermarkets.
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Stringent posted:Lol, they just canceled school until April. Thx Abe. ffffffffffffffffft motherfuck
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Indolent Bastard posted:The last message from my friend in Tokyo is suddenly way less funny. *AKIRA intensifies*
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