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harperdc posted:Ah yes, the old 700 m underground transfer is a feature of a couple Tokyo stations as well. Fun stuff. Yeah, sorry. It's on ANA and we're flying in to ITM from Haneda itself. There's another flight that leaves at 6 pm. I paid extra to be able to change our flights, so I think I'll do it just to be safe. I looked this all up before, but I'm just being extra paranoid as it's fast approaching. Once we arrive to ITM/Kansai Airport, we plan to take the Nankai Limited Express from the airport to Namba. Looks like there are trains departing every few minutes...just to be safe, am I missing anything here? We're arriving on a Monday night, if that makes any difference. 
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You'll be fine. A bus is also an option to Namba if you don't want to stand with your luggage and stuff.
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Thanks, everyone. This is our second trip to Japan. The first was just a week in Tokyo that got cut even shorter because of the worst typhoon to hit the area in 50 years.This time we're doing two weeks with the first week in Kansai (Osaka and Kyoto--we'll leave Nara for a future trip) and the second week in Tokyo. Tokyo has too much to see/do/eat, but we mostly have our Kansai trip figured out: Monday - Arrive at ITM Airport -> Hotel -> Dotonbori that night (likely to get cut due to exhaustion...might just grab something at a convenience store) Tuesday - Osaka - Shin Sekai in the morning -> Denden Town -> Namba Yasaka Jinja -> Dotonbori Wednesday - Osaka + Kyoto - Umeda Sky -> Osaka station -> Train (Thunderbird or Super Hakuto) -> Gion -> Nishiki Market Thursday - Kyoto - Kiyomizudera -> Ninenzaka -> Sannenzaka Friday - Kyoto - Philosopher’s Walk -> Temples (Okazaki Jinja) -> Ginkaku -> Kinkaku Saturday - Kyoto - Fujimi Inari -> Uji station area Sunday - Kyoto + Tokyo - Arashiyama Bamboo Grove -> Tenryuji Temple + Arashiyama town -> Kyoto Station -> Shinkansen -> Tokyo Station I can't tell if I'm trying to cram too much in or if I'll be done really early every day. I want the Kansai part of the trip to be fairly relaxing, which is why I'm trying to limit it to a handful of close together spots. If we do end up finishing early, our hotel is less than a 15 minute walk between both Gion and Nishiki Market, so we can always hop over to either. Please judge me. Nanigans fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Oct 29, 2023 05:06
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Nanigans posted:Yeah, sorry. It's on ANA and we're flying in to ITM from Haneda itself. There's another flight that leaves at 6 pm. I paid extra to be able to change our flights, so I think I'll do it just to be safe. Might be just the wording that's confusing me, but are you flying in to Itami or Kansai Airport? You'll be fine either way, but if it's Itami, your options are either faffing around with commuter trains or taking the bus, and the bus definitely looks like the best choice.
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slinkimalinki posted:Might be just the wording that's confusing me, but are you flying in to Itami or Kansai Airport? You'll be fine either way, but if it's Itami, your options are either faffing around with commuter trains or taking the bus, and the bus definitely looks like the best choice. ITM · Osaka Itami Airport I don't know why I thought Kansai and ITM were the same. Welp. Yes, looks like airport bus is the way to go. Thank you for catching that! Nanigans fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Oct 29, 2023 05:09
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Nanigans posted:ITM · Osaka Itami Airport Tbh it's kind of confusing because Itami is formally known as "Osaka International Airport" which is misleading at best. Edit: as far as trains go, I looked into it a couple of years back when I was supposed to be flying into Itami, and came to the conclusion that the simplest answer would be to monorail to senri-chuo, and get one of the trains at senri- chuo that goes all the way through to Namba on the midosuji line. No idea if that was a good idea though. Someone in thread may have experimented with Itami airport and found the perfect answer. Looks like you'll have time to catch the bus though, so probably a moot point. slinkimalinki fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Oct 29, 2023 05:17
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Get the bus from Itami into Namba, the trains are too much of a hassle. If you were going to Umeda the train would be OK. edit: also that's a good Kyoto schedule
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Oct 29, 2023 07:35
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TeamLab botanical garden review: it’s a bunch of eggs.
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Unko Museum review: it's lovely
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Question Mark Mound posted:TeamLab botanical garden review: it’s a bunch of eggs. I liked it better than Planets. I think both are a waste of time if time is limited. Wife would probably disagree.
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That's what I said. Borderless is/was the good one.
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My wife is into sofubi. Anywhere in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto that's recommended to find some?
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Waltzing Along posted:That's what I said. Borderless is/was the good one. What about teamLab Forests in fukuoka? I liked Borderless a lot but I got time to kill in Fukuoka.
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Speaking of TeamLab Planets, if you can’t fit in the provided shorts can you still do it and just skip the wading through water section? One of our group is worried they won’t have shorts that fit their size and doesn’t have clothing that’ll roll up to the knees.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Speaking of TeamLab Planets, if you can’t fit in the provided shorts can you still do it and just skip the wading through water section? One of our group is worried they won’t have shorts that fit their size and doesn’t have clothing that’ll roll up to the knees. Yeah, you should be able to bypass the wading rooms. Also consider wearing a mask to help with the smell in some of the wet rooms. It wasn't there in most of them but a couple of the water ones definitely did smell.
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You can skip all the water rooms. And definitely skip the stinky foot room. It looks like a big uneven bounce house or something. Oh, so that's 1/2 the exhibits.
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Skip nothing. If your friend needs to source large shorts, check Shimamura or Sakazen.
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Nanigans posted:My wife is into sofubi. Anywhere in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto that's recommended to find some? leather fedora fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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peanut posted:Skip nothing.
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Nebuta museum in Aomori is a really pro experience. Try to catch a live performance of the music and get your ears blasted by a huge taiko drum, then watch a bunch of strangers sync up on a simple beat. Plus the interactive parts of the museum where they do indulge in your desire to touch the floats.
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cheese eats mouse posted:Nebuta museum in Aomori is a really pro experience. Try to catch a live performance of the music and get your ears blasted by a huge taiko drum, then watch a bunch of strangers sync up on a simple beat. Plus the interactive parts of the museum where they do indulge in your desire to touch the floats. It is cool. Also that general area next to the harbor is a nice spot to have a meal.
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There are so many worse choices than TeamLabs. At least TeamLabs "feels" like the Japan a lot of tourists expect to see when they visit- vaguely techy artistic stuff with polite staff. Getting absolutely horrible food at any of the major licensed cafes like Pokemon/Harry Potter, wasting money at the robot cafe, praying they don't harm the animals at animal cafes and many many other mid tourist traps are far larger wastes of time and money.
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Oct 30, 2023 04:51
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Walking around barefoot in that one TeamLabs is pretty gross tbh
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Oct 30, 2023 06:00
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So...would any of you recommend trying to get some chanko nabe whilst on a Japan trip? Anything one should look for like..which Tokyo burb is gonna have the good stuff haha
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Oct 30, 2023 06:13
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Ryogoku is your best bet. That's where all the sumo stuff is, so chanko restaurants are a-plenty.
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Revitalized posted:What about teamLab Forests in fukuoka? I liked Borderless a lot but I got time to kill in Fukuoka. I really liked the other Teamlab stuff I've seen but forests kind of sucks. The main installation just doesn't work well. The app sucks at tracking your position. It's also a bit hokey to be using your phone instead of the more natural touch interaction at their other installations.
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cheese eats mouse posted:Nebuta museum in Aomori is a really pro experience. Try to catch a live performance of the music and get your ears blasted by a huge taiko drum, then watch a bunch of strangers sync up on a simple beat. Plus the interactive parts of the museum where they do indulge in your desire to touch the floats.
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Asteroid Alert posted:Ryogoku is your best bet. That's where all the sumo stuff is, so chanko restaurants are a-plenty. Thanks! I'll research stuff there!
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The way they sell TeamLabs Planets on their website is awesome, the “uneven bounce castle” room had a huge Stalker vibe on their videos. But then I realized there would be 30 goobs trying to cross it in poor lightning at a time and it didn’t appear so appealing anyway. Then I come here and see people describing it as a stinky feet room. Uhhhhh
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That room is like a giant beanbag, I basically had give my mother-in-law a piggy back ride through it because she can't lift her legs high enough after hip surgery.
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It's also so uneven that you have to be really careful where you step. It's easy to take a weird step and hurt yourself. And it smells because it is the first room after the first place people get their feet wet. And even though there is a foot drying room in between, even if everyone were to make sure their feet were 100% dry before moving on (they don't) you'd still have a ton of freshly moistened feet wandering through there constantly. It's gross.
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People also linger in the room when it specifically says you shouldn't causing even more over crowding so yeah...people suck.
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I guess I was lucky, having gone after they had a day off for cleaning/replacing water. I didn't have any smell and everything was clean and mold free. However, half of the TeamLabs events, like everything in Tokyo, is just there because they needed filler and is really bad. The flower room was total rear end, the outdoor egg room was total rear end. Right now I lean heavy toward recommending itineraries to Japan that don't include any of the major tourist trap items, unless they are super duper into a specific thing before ever going.
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I've had chanko nabe a few times and isn't really anything special imho, at least not worth spending time or money on. I mean it's not bad but it's nothing crazy to make a stop for It's just a fairly light cabbage, tofu and pork meatball "stew" in a fairly watery broth. I don't even know why sumo wrestlers still eat it to "get big" or whatever considering you can get way higher calorie foods for cheaper and less work without the vegetables filling you up. Maybe it was high calorie like 100 years ago but these days it's drat near a healthy soup.
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Sumo wrestlers are basically body builders with additional mass. They're trying to build that mass while staying relatively healthy. They still have to watch what they eat like any other professional athlete.
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I think they eat a shitload of chankonabe.
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Shammypants posted:There are so many worse choices than TeamLabs. At least TeamLabs "feels" like the Japan a lot of tourists expect to see when they visit- vaguely techy artistic stuff with polite staff. Getting absolutely horrible food at any of the major licensed cafes like Pokemon/Harry Potter, wasting money at the robot cafe, praying they don't harm the animals at animal cafes and many many other mid tourist traps are far larger wastes of time and money. Very very good post
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There’s honestly nothing wrong with indulging in a tourist trap tbh. My friend who’s here for the first time said going to the renewed robot restaurant thing was the first time they didn’t feel homesick because it’s so fake and artificial that it felt like a “Japanese live performance” happening back in Ireland rather than actually being in Japan.
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I loved going to the Robot Restaurant 2 days into my first ever trip to Japan 6 years ago. The whole country was overwhelming, and the show mimicked that even if it was nothing but a giant tourist trap ripoff. But now there's no way I would even want to go to that when I can spend a day at Tokyu Hands looking at pens. I kind of miss that feeling, though.
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