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- Heracleum Persicum
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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
- NapLajoieonSteroids
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Hope your trip goes well.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
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I've no info for Japan. I don't know if I'd ever been interested in a 15 hour+ flight from the east coast. And splitting the journey up a bit works better on paper than in real life for me. The post 9/11 airport experience (at least in the US) is not fun or convenient.
- Heracleum Persicum
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:44 amHope your trip goes well.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
I've no info for Japan. I don't know if I'd ever been interested in a 15 hour+ flight from the east coast. And splitting the journey up a bit works better on paper than in real life for me. The post 9/11 airport experience (at least in the US) is not fun or convenient.
This is a new Japan Airlines subsidiary Airlines .. B787 .. NON stop Vancouver to Tokyo, back same .. 9 hrs each way .. very funny airline, asks at what time do you want your meal and other funny questions.
I myself not fan of Japanese cuisine but my wife loves it .. for me best cuisine is Iranian and next Italian
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Kanto regionHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
Tokyo: https://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2164.html
A short train ride is
Yokohama: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2156.html
also
Kamakura: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2166.html
Kansai region
History and aesthetics
Kyoto: https://kyoto.travel/en/
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2158.html
Food and fun
Osaka: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2157.html
https://osaka-info.jp/en/
Also
Nara: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2165.html
Don't fly from Tokyo [Narita or Haneda airport] to Kansai [Kansai or Itami airport]. Take the shinkansen [high speed train].
City centre [Tokyo or Shinagawa station] to city centre [Kyoto or Shin-Osaka station]
If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
- Heracleum Persicum
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Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:42 pmKanto regionHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
Tokyo: https://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2164.html
A short train ride is
Yokohama: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2156.html
also
Kamakura: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2166.html
Kansai region
History and aesthetics
Kyoto: https://kyoto.travel/en/
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2158.html
Food and fun
Osaka: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2157.html
https://osaka-info.jp/en/
Also
Nara: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2165.html
Don't fly from Tokyo [Narita or Haneda airport] to Kansai [Kansai or Itami airport]. Take the shinkansen [high speed train].
City centre [Tokyo or Shinagawa station] to city centre [Kyoto or Shin-Osaka station]
If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them.
Very much appreciated .. will check the above
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- NapLajoieonSteroids
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Sounds like a good deal.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:39 pmNapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:44 amHope your trip goes well.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
I've no info for Japan. I don't know if I'd ever been interested in a 15 hour+ flight from the east coast. And splitting the journey up a bit works better on paper than in real life for me. The post 9/11 airport experience (at least in the US) is not fun or convenient.
This is a new Japan Airlines subsidiary Airlines .. B787 .. NON stop Vancouver to Tokyo, back same .. 9 hrs each way .. very funny airline, asks at what time do you want your meal and other funny questions.
I myself not fan of Japanese cuisine but my wife loves it .. for me best cuisine is Iranian and next Italian
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Should you go eat sushi, here's what you should know.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:46 pmTyphoon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:42 pmKanto regionHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouv ... ts-airline
visiting Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
.
Tokyo: https://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2164.html
A short train ride is
Yokohama: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2156.html
also
Kamakura: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2166.html
Kansai region
History and aesthetics
Kyoto: https://kyoto.travel/en/
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2158.html
Food and fun
Osaka: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2157.html
https://osaka-info.jp/en/
Also
Nara: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2165.html
Don't fly from Tokyo [Narita or Haneda airport] to Kansai [Kansai or Itami airport]. Take the shinkansen [high speed train].
City centre [Tokyo or Shinagawa station] to city centre [Kyoto or Shin-Osaka station]
If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them.
Very much appreciated .. will check the above
.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
- Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
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When gentlemen in business suits show up in a place after 8:00 pm, be glad you are not the person they are there to do business with.....'>.......Typhoon wrote:Should you go eat sushi, here's what you should know.
She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
- Heracleum Persicum
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I assume you'll be landing at Haneda airport.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:35 am .
Can one buy a Temp SIM in Tokyo for 10 days stay ?
Here's a list of places where you can buy SIM cards and rent WiFi
https://tokyo-haneda.com/en/service/fac ... ental.html
Select the terminal at which you'll be arriving.
The Softbank “501HW” WiFi device seems like a reasonable choice.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Visiting Japan is on my bucket list too and so is Iran. HP, you will need to tell me how to behave and not get into trouble! Also USA, Madagascar... Suriname. Walk the Pyrenees East-West...to finish an old project. Inshallah.
Deep down I'm very superficial
- Heracleum Persicum
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A very close Dutch friend of mine, very knowledgable conservative, he and wife went to Iran, and fell in love with
Another friend, French lady Jewish Ashkenazim gynaecologist in Paris went to Iran for 2 weeks trip (for medical symposium) .. fell in love with people and country
Iran is the safest country for western tourist in all ME .. extremely friendly AND good value
Iran is the place that many civilizations crossed and were absorbed, Greek, Moguls, Turks , Russians AND west .. you will see zoroastrian, Sassanid, Achaemenid Empire, Mogul empire, Turkic tribe empire, Islamic, Jewish, Christian civilizations all at one place.
All "religions" we understand of. are BORN in Persia, all. ..
Simple Iranians are very up to date about world affaires, know West quite well.
Pretty much everybody understands and sort of speaks english .. absolutely free to say and debate whatever you want.
Should be your first choice ..
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- Heracleum Persicum
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Preparing for Japan Trip .. Non Stop Vancouver - Narita
Installed "Google Translate app"
You point your camera , and instant translation
Tested .. excellent
Reserving potable WiFi
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/lp/?i=uwifi ... 100&link=5
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/japan-sim-c ... fi-rental/
Decided to go with Sakura
Tokyo , here we come
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Preparing for Japan Trip .. Non Stop Vancouver - Narita
Installed "Google Translate app"
You point your camera , and instant translation
Tested .. excellent
Reserving potable WiFi
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/lp/?i=uwifi ... 100&link=5
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/japan-sim-c ... fi-rental/
Decided to go with Sakura
Tokyo , here we come
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Bon voyage. Wishing you a pleasant and enjoyable trip.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:03 pm .
Preparing for Japan Trip .. Non Stop Vancouver - Narita
Installed "Google Translate app"
You point your camera , and instant translation
Tested .. excellent
Reserving potable WiFi
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/lp/?i=uwifi ... 100&link=5
https://www.sakuramobile.jp/japan-sim-c ... fi-rental/
Decided to go with Sakura
Tokyo , here we come
.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
- Nonc Hilaire
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なんという災難だろう!Preparing for Japan Trip .. Non Stop Vancouver - Narita
Installed "Google Translate app"
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
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ムラーたちは笑っている!
Enjoy your trip, stay tuned
Enjoy your trip, stay tuned
Deep down I'm very superficial
- Nonc Hilaire
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Post some pictures, HP!
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
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- Heracleum Persicum
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As you'll be spending 6 days in Tokyo, suggest day side trips to Yokohama - Sankeien Koen [Garden], Chinatown, and Minto Mirai - and Kamakura.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:33 am
For sure will .. 3 days Tokyo, 3 days Kyoto, 3 days Tokyo and back
Shabu Shabu, here we come.
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When you're in Kyoto, suggest a day side trip to Nara.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
- Heracleum Persicum
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Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:51 amAs you'll be spending 6 days in Tokyo, suggest day side trips to Yokohama - Sankeien Koen [Garden], Chinatown, and Minto Mirai - and Kamakura.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:33 am
For sure will .. 3 days Tokyo, 3 days Kyoto, 3 days Tokyo and back
Shabu Shabu, here we come.
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When you're in Kyoto, suggest a day side trip to Nara.
Thank you .. we will try to go to Yokohama and Nara
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- Heracleum Persicum
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Next week will be in Japan
If one wants to "mingle" with ordinary Japanese, go to where they eat, drink and have fun, how is to visit Shinbashi ?
https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/ ... e-izakaya/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEeh14RaUs&t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGy0YJ7wI3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryVLD3KI9M
Where else to go "To see real japan" ..
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Next week will be in Japan
If one wants to "mingle" with ordinary Japanese, go to where they eat, drink and have fun, how is to visit Shinbashi ?
https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/ ... e-izakaya/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEeh14RaUs&t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGy0YJ7wI3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryVLD3KI9M
Where else to go "To see real japan" ..
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Well, "real Japan" may mean very different things to different people.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:42 am .
Next week will be in Japan
If one wants to "mingle" with ordinary Japanese, go to where they eat, drink and have fun, how is to visit Shinbashi ?
https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/ ... e-izakaya/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEeh14RaUs&t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGy0YJ7wI3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryVLD3KI9M
Where else to go "To see real japan" ..
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For some it's "historical Japan", for others it's anime and cosplay.
Anyways, every part of Tokyo is "real" to someone.
Being a Kansai-jin, Kanto-Tokyo is my region of real expertise, however.
For contrast, Kabukicho - Shinjuki and Nishi [West] Shinjuku are worth visiting.
Nishi-Shinjuku during the day, and Kabukicho only at night.
A stroll through Golden-Gai in the evening.
Shinjuku
A walk from Omote sando station along Omotesando - dori [street] towards Yoyogi park [1964 Olympics buildings designed by Tadao Ando] and a visit to the Meiji Jingu shrine with a side trip to nearby Harajuku.
Harajuki
For some, Ginza is the "real Japan.
https://tokyocheapo.com/locations/centr ... nza/]Ginza
A bit late, but an overnight trip to a onsen [natural hot spring spa] in Hakone is popular with the locals.
[The person who looks after you and your room at an onsen, the nakai-san, is the only person in Japan
one tips. Remember to wash up before entering the hot spring.]
Hakone.
A bit past Yokohama from Tokyo, so perhaps you could combine the two.
If you're interested in seafood, the
Toyosu Market
which replaced the famous Tsukiji Fish Market.
Anyways, the site you linked is quite extensive, suggest you go through the locations and pick what may be of interest to you.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
- NapLajoieonSteroids
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Survived the Great Quake of 2024.
What, no, not the serious ones in the Pacific. The tiny little one which freaked out the media because it happened to them right in Manhattan.
Felt throughout the northeast; the aftershock we felt seemed to last longer than the initial earthquake.
What, no, not the serious ones in the Pacific. The tiny little one which freaked out the media because it happened to them right in Manhattan.
Felt throughout the northeast; the aftershock we felt seemed to last longer than the initial earthquake.
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Glad to learn that you survivedNapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:14 am Survived the Great Quake of 2024.
What, no, not the serious ones in the Pacific. The tiny little one which freaked out the media because it happened to them right in Manhattan.
Felt throughout the northeast; the aftershock we felt seemed to last longer than the initial earthquake.
For comparison, the Taiwan earthquake was about 316 times more powerful than the one that rattled the chattering classes in New York.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.