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Yeah, himeji's cool, and if you can shinkansen there it should reduce the pain- in- the- arse factor of getting there. I say go for it.
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Pollyanna posted:Dad and I are seriously considering another trip for late next year, possibly centered around Shikoku and including biking Shimanami. What's there to do in western Japan (southern tip of Honshu/Shikoku/Kyushu)? Places I know of are Hiroshima, Onomichi, Ehime, and Fukuoka, but I'm not sure exactly what the itinerary would look like. Any suggestions? Nagasaki is really cool and has a big festival from 7-9 October.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Saga, the prefecture so dull a second-rate comedian got briefly very famous for his song about just how dull and backwards it is. I tried looking for an airb'n'b in Saga and airb'n'b was like "maybe u mean fukuoka"
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A friend was once talking to a Japanese guy who had been living in Kobe at the time of the big earthquake. She asked him what Kobe was like just after the earthquake and he said "It was terrible, it looked like Saga"
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zmcnulty posted:It's called Saizeriya, but instead of unlimited soup and breadsticks you get unlimited wine Fuuuuuck, I had no idea Olive Garden was that bad.
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BB2K posted:kinosaki in northern hyogo is pretty nice, just a bit far from everything Worth going? I'm planning to take a friend there when I show her around Japan so I can fit her requirements for "I want to go to an onsen", "i want to go somewhere rural" (i couldn't find an airbnb in Saga lol), and "I know tattoos aren't ok in onsen but mine will all be covered by a swimsuit" (I will always treasure the look on her face when I disillusioned her about the swimsuit). Kinosaki is supposed to be tattoo friendly so seemed like a good choice.
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harperdc posted:There are roads which can take you to more interesting places, and there are rice paddies to almost fall into while driving around. Some hot springs and one good festival. Ok this is kind of reminding me of New Years Eve 1999/2000 when I tried to hitchhike from nagasaki to fukuoka with a friend and ended up speeding through the backstreets [back rice paddies]of saga with junior yakuza truck drivers on speed oh god i'm so old.
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LimburgLimbo posted:“Junior yakuza truck drivers” Tbh I never worked out whether they were or weren't but they seemed very keen for us to think they were
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Dec 28, 2019 10:19
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harperdc posted:Like are we talking kei trucks or big old medium and heavy-duty trucks. Small but not particularly kei. I'm beginning to think I was bamboozled.
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peanut posted:Construction trucks are usually -gumi too, sounds like a nice time and fun memory for everyone ^___^ Tbh a lot more fun in retrospect than at the time, when it was more like "maybe I will die in a rice field in Shiga* from bad driving". *Saga, not Shiga, though Shiga is the Saga of kansai. slinkimalinki fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Dec 29, 2019 |
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captkirk posted:my memory of his book is mostly dominated by the awkwardness of him describing getting fingered during a handjob at a Soapland). Welp, now I don't need to read the book.
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captkirk posted:I can't remember the name of the sento I went to when I was in Kyoto (it had Showa era wood carvings). Sounds like Funaoka. They're apparently completely fine with tattoos
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Also if you're in Kyoto for three days you might want to look at going to Arashiyama. Monkeys are there too. Autumn leaves in Arashiyama should be absolutely going off in late November, and it's possible at the moment it might not be absolutely gridlocked with tourists 24/7.
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Waltzing Along posted:Wouldn't bathing in sake dry out your skin pretty badly? Nah it's used as an ingredient in high- end skincare. Assuming the bath isn't 100% sake.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i wonder what it was like being a taxi driver in tokyo before google maps was a thing, and when "turn right after the third family mart you see" was the best directions you could get or give Wasn't that like 90% of the purpose of the neighborhood police box? Or was that just a myth - I usually relied on giving semi-incoherent directions
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Mons Hubris posted:There is a garden in Nara that’s pretty close to the train station that I thought was stunning, I think it’s the Yoshikien Garden from a quick google, but it’s like something out of a movie. If you go to Nara it’s really worth visiting. I like this place in Nara because you wander through the less touristed parts of the park (where the deer behave like deer rather than muggers) out the back into the suburbs and there's this random temple with a hall full of 1000 year-old statues that hardly anyone goes to. http://www.shinyakushiji.or.jp/
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The goon who is planning on going to Yufuin needs to go to Shimon-yu and check if it's still cool 下ん湯 Yufuincho Kawakami, Yufu, Oita 879-5102, Hapani +81 977-84-3111 https://g.co/kgs/J6i7aF
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ntan1 posted:When you went how many non-Japanese tourists were there? I've always been iffy about kinrinko b/c there's usually a lot of Korean/Chinese tourists there. it's also a Tanjun Onsen, I'm spending most of the time in Yufuin at a luxury ryokan, like the 4 days before will all be dedicated to onsen already! Lol sounds like it's probably not cool any more. I'm jealous of your luxury ryokan!
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peanut posted:Once I had to stand in the smoking car of a completely full shinkansen for 90 min Lol same. RIP smoking cars, you are not missed.
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Has anyone used the ecbo cloak app for luggage storage? If so, was it a reliable way to find luggage storage?
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Carbon dioxide posted:Hello, If you're going to do a day trip from kyoto, Nara is going to be a hell of a lot easier than Koyasan. Unless you want to spend most of the day on the train.
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There will be some garden stuff in sept/oct (red spider lilies etc) and there's some good autumn festivals (kishiwada danjiri, nagasaki kunchi etc) so you can definitely have a great holiday if you plan it right.
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May 23, 2023 08:25
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bee posted:Aaaaaa this makes me kinda sad I'm going in Dec/Jan but at least I get to go at all There's always going to be something good to do! Even if it's only warming your feet under a kotatsu.
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I think osaka style but maybe I just got brainwashed when I lived in Kansai. Hiroshima style is fun to watch being constructed though.
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Waltzing Along posted:Eating rear end? Jack Sprat would eat no rear end, His wife would eat no peen?
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Pollyanna posted:So not goons, then? Unless poo poo has changed dramatically (which it might have) being a weird goon shouldn't be a barrier to teaching private English lessons. It's just that the clientele would also be weird, socially inept people.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Is there a viable slow train at any point between them? We were thinking of taking it a little slow and finding something quiet to do between the big cities if it's practical. I mean, you could get off the shinkansen in Shiga, which is notoriously quiet.
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Revitalized posted:What's cool to do in Fukuoka? I want to go visit the Nu Gundam over there but I figure I want to do more than that while I'm there. FUK Coffee does really good coffee and also it's called FUK Coffee.
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Ibblebibble posted:To anyone who's been to the Gundam Factory Yokohama, are you able to buy entrance tickets to the facility itself (not the Gundam Dock Experience thingy where you get up close to the Gundam, just the factory) at the entrance itself, or do you have to prebook them online? Yeah i bought them at the gate and it was really easy (though the staff seemed oddly sure that we wanted the gundam dock tower experience thingy). I think they have a good capacity so I don't think you'd have a problem getting in.
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Tiny snort at the memory of a guy I knew who asked for "mo oppai kudasai" when trying to get a refill at a bar. Sadly they just gave him another beer.
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Grand Fromage posted:In Korea I once asked a woman at the market for jamji instead of chamchi. Oh god. Did you flee korea after that?
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AHH F/UGH posted:They do that to me regardless when I go to the blowjob bar, what gives You're supposed to get an old lady with a megaphone to annouce your needs, like you're running for election.
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A lot of youtubers/ instagrammers etc seem to be keen to convince people that overnight intercity busses in Japan are a cool experience that saves money and doesn't suck. I'm not sure if it's a prank or if they're being paid off.
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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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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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All you need in the Inaka is a small selection of dad jokes that everyone can have a hearty chortle about. Local (pointing): "ah, gaijin da!" You (pointing back): "ah, nihonjin da!" Guffaws, back-slapping, beers all round etc.
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go_banana posted:Made the above post earlier, got some helpful suggestions. So helpful that it sent me into frantic research into Kyushu vs Shikoku. Finally after a week of researching I decided its better to take it slow rather than try and see everything. There is 3 nights between post towns - Tokyo we could head back, but it might be easier to continue through the Kiso Valley. We've also been able to extend our stay for 3 nights, so now leave HND on 17/12. Depends what you want. Osaka's cool and I recommend the nakazakicho area near umeda - on one side of the road you've got the hipster, shimokita- style stuff and on the other you've got the old- school, downmarket area of the tenjinbashisuji arcade and its offshoots. I loving loved it and it's not a tourist hellscape like dotonbori (yet). On the other hand every extra stop is a pain in the arse so it depends on your appetite for changing cities. Btw the relay- shinkansen system from hakata to Nagasaki is kind of a hassle but Nagasaki is so worth it. Someone needs to bribe the mayor of Saga to let the complete shinkansen track be built.
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bee posted:Dammit, it's been 35 years since I got earthquaked too. We were walking from the Shukkeien Garden to Hiroshima station when it happened and didn't feel anything. Didn't even realise something was up til we got on the Shinkansen and there was a delay warning on the info screen thingy. I gotta say, that's turning out to be an unusually strong jinx
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Riptor posted:Jimmy Kuruma Jimi kuruma
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