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visiting Japan


Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
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Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:04 pm .

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visiting Japan


Tokyo and Kyoto .. info where to go, visit, do welcome
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Hope your trip goes well.

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.

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:44 am

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
.

Hope your trip goes well.

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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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
.

Kanto region

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.

Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:42 pm

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
.

Kanto region

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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Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:39 pm

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:44 am

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
.

Hope your trip goes well.

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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Sounds like a good deal.

Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:46 pm

Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:42 pm

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
.

Kanto region

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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Should you go eat sushi, here's what you should know.

Typhoon wrote:Should you go eat sushi, here's what you should know.

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.....'>.......

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Can one buy a Temp SIM in Tokyo for 10 days stay ?


what about this ?

https://pupuruwifi.com/en

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Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:35 am .

Can one buy a Temp SIM in Tokyo for 10 days stay ?

I assume you'll be landing at Haneda airport.

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.

what about this ?

https://pupuruwifi.com/en

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The Softbank “501HW” WiFi device seems like a reasonable choice.

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.

Parodite wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:20 pm 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.

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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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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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
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Bon voyage. Wishing you a pleasant and enjoyable trip.

Preparing for Japan Trip .. Non Stop Vancouver - Narita

Installed "Google Translate app"

なんという災難だろう！

ムラーたちは笑っている!
Enjoy your trip, stay tuned

Post some pictures, HP!

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:23 am
Post some pictures, HP!

For sure will .. 3 days Tokyo, 3 days Kyoto, 3 days Tokyo and back

Shabu Shabu, here we come.

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Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:33 am

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:23 am
Post some pictures, HP!

For sure will .. 3 days Tokyo, 3 days Kyoto, 3 days Tokyo and back

Shabu Shabu, here we come.

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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.

When you're in Kyoto, suggest a day side trip to Nara.

Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:51 am

Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:33 am

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:23 am
Post some pictures, HP!

For sure will .. 3 days Tokyo, 3 days Kyoto, 3 days Tokyo and back

Shabu Shabu, here we come.

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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.

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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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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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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Well, "real Japan" may mean very different things to different people.

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.

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.

NapLajoieonSteroids 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.

Glad to learn that you survived

For comparison, the Taiwan earthquake was about 316 times more powerful than the one that rattled the chattering classes in New York.