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I'm a fan of Khaosan's hostels; I stayed in their Kyoto one and a now-closed one in Tokyo. I'm told these two locations (both in Asakusa) are good: World and Lab.
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It's been a few years since I went, but I think you can see everything at a leisurely pace and be done in about three hours.
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I've just booked tickets for a trip to Tokyo during Hanami next spring. This will be my third time going to Tokyo, but my first since I started transition (M2F-ish). I'm genderqueer and my presentation on most days is somewhat androgynous. The gender marker on all my ID (including passport) is female, but I suspect on most days it will be fairly obvious I'm not a cis woman. My traveling partner, on the other hand, is a cis woman. Should I expect confusion/trouble/etc if I use women's restrooms when out and about in the city? I figure Tokyo is pretty cosmopolitan, but I know perception of trans folks in Japan differs a lot from the perception in the US. (On that note, are there any onsens worth visiting where I wouldn't be causing trouble for the staff and other guests? I know some onsens have private areas instead of just two sex-segregated communal areas.)
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Stringent posted:Oh yeah, Pollyana you're into cooking right? Tsukiji Masamoto has a shop in the outer market. They've got a listing of their knives here so you can see what they've got: https://www.mtckitchen.com/japanese-knives/brand/tsukiji-masamoto/ Dang, this looks like a great idea. I'm going to have to try getting one myself when I go next.
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I'm arriving Sunday with my Schwab Bank (no ATM fee, no international fee, refunds all third-party ATM fees) card and will investigate.
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Then you really shouldn't have gone to Japan, should you now?
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inklesspen posted:I'm arriving Sunday with my Schwab Bank (no ATM fee, no international fee, refunds all third-party ATM fees) card and will investigate. Got 30k from the 7-11 ATM at Narita on Sunday, which showed up as $288.79 in my Schwab Bank account. There's no transaction fee for my card, and the receipt says the "handling fee" is charged by Seven Bank, so I'm guessing it's an ATM fee from the Seven Bank side.
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Magic Underwear posted:Having just got back I will endorse tmobile big time for internet. I paid $10 extra for the month for extra speed and it was no different than being back home except for streaming video, which wasn't a big deal. No sim swapping, no extra thing to haul and charge and pick up/drop off, etc. I used tmobile too, and it mostly worked, but there were periods where it'd seem connected, but nothing would load (and Google Maps wouldn't be able to route me anywhere) and then 5 minutes later it'd switch from Softbank to Docomo or something.
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