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On second thought I guess more people will be free on a Saturday night than a weeknight. I know it's short notice but anyone free? PS I can't join LINE because I have neither facebook nor network coverage (not even roaming) so I can't set an account up
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peanut posted:PM Aredna for max hard chilling.
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simplefish posted:PS I can't join LINE Welcome to the club, LINE is terrible and joining it is terrible and if you have LINE I unironically judge you. My wife is locked out of her LINE and can't get back in and she's a gd Japanese citizen. It's literally the worst
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Hey join LINE! all you need is: an amazing desire to get on another social media platform to try to connect to some people you may not connect with on literally every other platform you've registered in your entire life
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Dec 26, 2015 14:32
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That's my opinion of LINE, I wrote that
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I hate LINE, and I'm going to have another beer. I know this isn't the LAN thread. Sorry!
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I agree with gbm, line sucks a fat one.
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Dec 26, 2015 14:42
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Registering for LINE sucks but once you have it it's crazy easy to use and has the best stickers. The second best part of LINE is turning off alerts by individual user.
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peanut posted:Registering for LINE sucks but once you have it it's crazy easy to use and has the best stickers. The second best part of LINE is turning off alerts by individual user. and tsum tsum
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Hey zmcnulty you went to Yakushima before right? I totally saw you post pictures of it in the general thread. I'm going to go there and am curious where you stayed at/what you did/what you'd recommend I not miss. We're planning on doing a 7-8 hour hike through Shiratani Unsuikyo for sure.
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ntan1 posted:Hey zmcnulty you went to Yakushima before right? I totally saw you post pictures of it in the general thread. I did it last March. You really ought to rent a car if you want to see stuff, public transport is pretty patchy and there are enough hills to make bicycling not fun (unless you're into bicycling for its own sake, I guess). You can bring one over on the ferry from Kagoshima, but in most cases it makes more sense to fly in and rent. On that, unless you're already going to be down in southern Kyushu, flying from Fukuoka or Nagasaki or wherever is probably cheaper and less hassle than overlanding + ferrying it. Travellers commonly overestimate how much money ferries save you over flying, especially in Japan. On the lower end of accommodation, if having your own bathroom is important be sure to read the fine print because a lot of them have common facilities. We stayed at the Minshuku Kaisei 2 which had own bathrooms and wasn't much more expensive than the others that didn't, and as a bonus didn't try to foist overpriced minshuku washoku meals on you. Didn't get to do any major hikes as I had my parents in tow, but there were a number of easier hikes at Shiratani Unsuikyo and we did something like a 4 hour loop that was pretty good. Also saw the big waterfall, drove entirely around the island (gets down to 1 lane for a good stretch, don't recommend having a large car if you're not used to tiny Japanese roads), making stops as we went, can't really remember everything. If you don't mind getting seen naked, there's a (free, IIRC) seaside onsen as well. There was also an Italian restaurant out in the middle of nowhere we stopped at that was very good. Probably the only one on the island so shouldn't be too hard to find via googling, if you're interested.
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Sounds like PR and I had wildly different experiences there. For starters I'd say the main attraction of the island is hiking around, so a car will only get you as far as the trailhead anyway. Buses obviously aren't as frequent but it's not like terrible (maybe one every 30min instead of one every 10 min?). All of the tourist attractions are well serviced too. Also my friend and I rented bicycles and biked the entire east side of the island, from the ferry dock to the seaside onsen. I don't remember it being especially hilly or challenging. So for hiking you may also want to consider Jomon Sugi. It's an all day one but definitely worth it. I think we stayed at a place called Yakushima Youth Hostel though I screwed up the reservations and we had to move once. Will check the name of that second place, definitely better than the hostel. Make sure to try the deer sashimi! Also went to a snack and the hostess said she was overwhelmed the one time in her life she visited Fukuoka, because it was too urban.
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zmcnulty posted:I think we stayed at a place called Yakushima Youth Hostel though I screwed up the reservations and we had to move once. Will check the name of that second place, definitely better than the hostel. Haha, when I was in college the youth hostel would have sounded perfectly fine, but these days I'm pretty ok with paying more money for a fancier place. Will do on the deer sushi - although I'm a bit afraid that I wont like it. Deer is generally pretty gamey, and pretty much anything gamey like lamb turns me off. I'm considering getting a guide for Yakushima. My friend who is coming with me doesn't speak/read Japanese even though I can, and it might enhance a trip.
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This is a pretty ignorant question, but I hear all sorts of flak about Eastern work ethic being pretty awful compared to what I am used to in the West. If I wanted to work for a bit in Japan would the only hope of finding a "western" work ethic be within a US embassy ?
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Lol that's not going to happen
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Fat_Cow posted:This is a pretty ignorant question, but I hear all sorts of flak about Eastern work ethic being pretty awful compared to what I am used to in the West. If I wanted to work for a bit in Japan would the only hope of finding a "western" work ethic be within a US embassy ? Yeah it is an ignorant question, so you should do a bit of googling and reading and become less ignorant before asking Also, you want to come to Japan? Don't have a specific job in mind or applicable skills? Welcome to the wonderful world of English teaching!
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Eh, booked a flight to Japan for the end of March. I'm flying into Osaka and would like a recommendation for a hotel/AirBnB/whatever in the area. I'm gonna travel around a bit, but my go to hotel has no available rooms for the weekends anywhere near Osaka (Fukuyama? Nagoya? No problem). Thanks! e: I guess I should have said that I was fishing more for "AirBnB won't be impossible with my nonexistent level of Japanese, right?" I see a few places that shouldn't be an issue; I can just send a sim card to my buddy in Kobe and pick it up in the morning. Phone fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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The end of march is spring break - peak time for tourism, changing jobs and moving for school. Goobatte ne (I've only stayed at Takeyaso (Amagasaki City) or Hotel Chuo (Shin-Imamiya Station) because I'm cheap and weird peanut fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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That's the point of airbnb you silly. You can message potential hosts and see who responds. And lots of profiles are written in English. Even most of the Japanese profiles will have some rudimentary understanding of English. Now setting up a pickup or checkin time will be trickier. If you have constant internet to message or Skype call your hosts that's great. An actually cell number to call even better. But some hosts have specific instructions already laid down to automate the whole process without seeing your tourist face.
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So I'm heading to Japan with some buddies tommorow for a couple of weeks (splitting time between Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto) and I was wandering if there are any tours/sights around these places (especially in tokyo, since that's where we'll be the most)that we really need to go to that require booking/tickets in advance? Also, since my friends are ditching me to go skiing, leaving me in Tokyo alone for a couple of days, are there any cool things a goon on his lonesome could do for that time?
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Tokyo has a population of 38.6 million people. There are "cool things" to do in Tokyo. What sort of cool things does forums poster "Mwaha!" like to do?
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Jan 4, 2016 23:36
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Days alone are good for museums, wandering and eating whatever you want (non-Japanese food)
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Mwaha! posted:Also, since my friends are ditching me to go skiing, leaving me in Tokyo alone for a couple of days, are there any cool things a goon on his lonesome could do for that time? For your days alone, check out meetup.com for Tokyo and go to anything that looks interesting to you.
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The only constructive advice I can offer is getting some Studio Ghibli tickets beforehand but you are probably too late  inklesspen posted:Tokyo has a population of 38.6 million people. There are "cool things" to do in Tokyo.  Well Shanghai as a population of only 27 million but Tokyo is a hundred times more cooler 
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New thread plz.
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