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the sushi is good, except when it's bad
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Jan 5, 2016 14:03
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the sushi is still good. If you don't like it then you're simply wrong.
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Jan 5, 2016 14:15
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Is the best way to get cheap unlimited internet access on all your devices still to rent a portable wifi hotspot from one of the numerous companies that provide this service with English websites and convenient postal pickup from your arrival airport, such as global advanced communications? If possible please reply before my next trip to Japan which will probably be some time in 2017.
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Jan 5, 2016 15:41
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ALFbrot posted:Is there any place good to eat in Tokyo???? ??? ? yes, there's a place that does amazing tonkatsu, it's the one with the name outside in kanji, just down the road from the curry place
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Jan 5, 2016 18:00
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Eifert Posting posted:Hey, Y'all. I work for a company that finds employees for Japanese manufacturers in the US Midwest. My company was just asked to look for a candidate for a sales position located in Japan. ftfy
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Jan 26, 2016 23:12
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Don't forget to go to an onsen to show off your new ink
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Jan 30, 2016 18:45
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Tea.EarlGrey.Hot. posted:not sure if I'm allowed to link to reddit but these guys might be better suited to your extremely vague request くぉーと・ふぉあ・万
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Feb 1, 2016 00:46
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Giant Ethicist posted:(most) people read much more slowly than they can listen You're underestimating people. In English, the average reading speed is something like 250wpm, while speech starts to sound fast above about 150.
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Feb 11, 2016 10:21
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goonbatte kudasai
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Feb 20, 2016 03:14
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Tequila Sunrise posted:Hey guys I have some questions maybe you can help me with. please stay out of my posting history
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Feb 22, 2016 10:49
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Tea.EarlGrey.Hot. posted:what happens after valentine's day!! the suspense is killing me!!!! the whitest of white days
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Feb 23, 2016 10:43
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"Akita" is Japanese for "I got fed up with it". Probably just one of those coincidences though!
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Feb 23, 2016 20:01
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Thrasophius posted:Looking to travel to japan this year, not really looking to travel about the place too much so would prefer to stop in one area. What's a good place to go to in Japan for someone who has never been? Unless you dislike cities, you can't go wrong with Tokyo. You can find good examples of everything Japanese and/or international there, and there are easy day (or overnight) trips to places like Nikko to get up into the mountains and see historical stuff and so forth. Kyoto is also good, and again there are plenty of day/overnight trips from there if you want to see stuff in the region without crossing the whole country; it's in easy reach of famous sights like Himeji Castle and you can feasibly reach Hiroshima if that interests you. Soricidus fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 23:09
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Vidaeus posted:Temples (recommendations?) go to nikko, it's an easy day trip from tokyo. world heritage site, massive temple/shrine complex, has the original three wise monkeys. failing that, sensoji in asakusa is deece.
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Feb 29, 2016 09:26
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caberham posted:Man going to a Soba bar in London was annoying. I waited 40 minutes in line and it turns out people go there on "special dates" and linger forever. It's just soba, and nothing fancy or exotic. gently caress those guys. don't order japanese food in london, or any other eastern food that isn't indian preferably just don't be in london in the first place
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Mar 4, 2016 20:03
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weirdos, in MY japan?
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Mar 29, 2016 08:33
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Lol if you claim to want an authentic Japan experience and don't even confine yourself to a tiny compound in Nagasaki bay in accordance with the shogun's decrees
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Mar 30, 2016 00:48
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peanut posted:I heard that traveler's checks have been replaced by prepaid cards. It's not as bad as it used to be, loads of restaurants and such take credit cards these days. Which is nice if you have a good bank that doesn't charge a fee for foreign card transactions.
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Apr 3, 2016 21:31
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Jake Soo posted:Why are Japanese people clumping the Nordic countries into one? That's just the way people are in Asia.
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May 8, 2016 08:42
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*running down street in bloodstained clothes waving dripping cleaver* stop being frightened of me! I'm really friendly!
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Jun 10, 2016 08:17
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Phone posted:On that note, can any one recommend me food to eat in Japan? I am allergic to the thought of fish, legumes, and soy products. Thanks! Plain white bread and plain onigiri 
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Jun 16, 2016 18:43
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Just draw an anime face on it. Anything goes in Japan if it's anthropomorphised hard enough.
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Aug 15, 2016 11:20
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The Great Autismo! posted:why would you take a surfboard to an onsen please don't waifushame
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Aug 15, 2016 18:29
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There's the genbaku dome, the peace park, the museum itself (but I wouldn't take a 7yo round that personally, a few of the reconstructions of the aftermath of the bomb are a bit nightmarish). Miyajima is a short ferry ride away and has deer and a pretty accessible mountain with cable car up and great views of the inland sea. There's other minor stuff but those are the main things people visit Hiroshima for.
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Oct 18, 2016 22:19
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LimburgLimbo posted:Yeah there's actually exceptions all over like places where the tickets are still only taken by a human etc. But that's out in the country enough that a tourist isn't likely to go. nah, pretty sure there are still exceptions in popular tourist destinations, like the streetcars in hiroshima accept some regional ic cards but not suica unless they've changed that very recently. same thing in kanazawa iirc i'd love to be wrong though, more unification would be great
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Nov 4, 2016 18:27
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Stumbling Block posted:In which case, is there any difference between Pasmo to suica or any of the other IC cards? Or are they largely all are accepted in much of the country and services? Literally discussed just a few posts up. They're almost entirely interchangeable, with a few exceptions in some smaller cities.
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Nov 7, 2016 11:21
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one time the winter storms got so bad I had to brush some snow off the car
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Nov 7, 2016 23:43
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peepee dokdo it is a bad country
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Nov 23, 2016 10:44
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Those are reasonable things to do. Drop in on Himeji on your way past.
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Nov 24, 2016 12:14
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loving tourists, always wanting to see the famous things they're interested in instead of finding joy in scrutinising the unique pattern of roof tiles in this little side street in bumfuck inaka that no other gaijin has ever seen
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Dec 15, 2016 11:15
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prompt posted:Wow I’ve never disagreed with anything more than your post. Tokyo boring for a few weeks? Then almost any other city in any other country gonna suck after a few days. Wow. yes? hard as you may find it to believe, this is an accurate representation of what some of your fellow human beings experience.
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Feb 27, 2019 23:27
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Pollyanna posted:Figures. I guess I just wonder if I’ll get a warmer reception by trying or not trying, but I’m there as a tourist anyway, so... i generally get the impression people appreciate foreigners making an effort to speak their language even if they prefer to switch to english for actual results. if they overestimate my skills and i don't understand a word they're saying then looking blank and stupid generally works out ok too! most people are nice and want you to have a nice time and want to communicate with you so it's hard to go wrong as a tourist you probably made the right call about the reservation tho. i made a restaurant reservation in japanese once, after carefully preparing a script so i wouldn't forget any important words. then we turned up at the restaurant and i was terrible at japanese on the fly and they didn't believe it could possibly be the same person and went and phoned their other location to ask whether they were expecting any foreigners who might have got lost. then they eventually gave us a table and asked, in japanese, whether we were ok with chopsticks. that was a fun evening.
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Feb 28, 2019 22:37
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Gatts posted:I was actually going to do the opposite. Stay in Osaka but visit Kyoto. You would recommend the opposite? i've done it this way round when the only reasonably priced accommodation i could find was in osaka, it was fine but ... koyasan and nara in a single day? i also enjoy moving around a lot so i can appreciate what you're trying to do here, but koyasan is pretty remote. you're looking at like 6+ hours just on trains there, not allowing for the fact that the stations aren't right next to the sights. you'll basically have time to pop your head out of the bus on koyasan and say "yup there sure are some temples here" and then get right back on the bus back to the cable car. if you have any flexibility in your timing or budget you really should do koyasan as an overnight trip, stay at a temple, it's pretty neat, you can do nara on the way home the next day
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Mar 5, 2019 23:30
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yeah, the overall tempo looks fine if you're a high-energy sort of person, you just need to plan the second half as precisely as you've planned the first half and remember to look up actual journey times, because once you get out of tokyo/off the shinkansen the trains can be quite slow and infrequent. don't forget, hyperdia will give you exact times for any rail trip you want to make, so you can play around with the options and see which areas you need to stay in to be near the right stations. like you can knock a chunk off the time to get to koyasan if you stay near namba station in osaka, which is where the fastest trains to koyasan leave from - but i think it then takes longer to get to kyoto instead. if you like micromanaging your time then it's a great site.
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Mar 6, 2019 01:13
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LimburgLimbo posted:What exactly are you after with piss alley and Golden gai? Mostly people want to check those for the little quirky bars and atmosphere, but honestly it’s literally around 90% tourists now, which isn’t the end of the world but be aware that you’re not getting your unique Japanese adventure. problem: whenever tourists start going to a bar, the locals leave and it ends up being 90% tourists solution: keep sending tourists to new bars and expecting it to somehow go differently this time as a tourist, just admit you're not going to get a ~unique japanese adventure~ anyway. you're going to go to all the same places and take all the same photos as everybody else, and that's absolutely fine. if you have a friend who lives in the city and can take you somewhere they're a regular then that's one thing, but if you're just swinging by for one night and don't know anybody local then you might as well go to the tourist bars where the staff are used to tourists. you'll have a good time and it'll be less awkward for everybody concerned.
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Mar 7, 2019 21:39
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LimburgLimbo posted:Yeah I’m being facetious anyway. mods please rename all threads in this subforum to ask/tell > tourism & travel > $PLACE: I'm not sure what the point of going all that way just to look at it is
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Mar 22, 2019 01:48
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why travel to japan at all when google street view exists
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Mar 22, 2019 10:05
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LimburgLimbo posted:It's about a metric century with 1500m of combined elevation over the course of it, so yeah that would actually be a good workout. but why travel all that way when there are gyms in Tokyo?
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Mar 22, 2019 10:14
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nielsm posted:No. the only time i've ever had trouble getting a reserved seat immediately before travel on any japanese train was on the ltd exp out of takayama at the end of the spring festival. so if you're going to something stupidly busy like that then either reserve in advance or travel first class, otherwise it's fine
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Mar 27, 2019 01:39
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