>>2889534
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>>2889535
Mongering is just as valid a discussion topic as sightseeing and far more rewarding. Sometimes you even get presents that last 7-10 days with treatment.

I know it's popular to hate on Ichiran, but I still think its way better than Ippudo. Ichiran is like high tier junk food, while Ippudo is like a mid tier chain restaurant. I still eat Ichiran a few times every trip. Of course neither is as good as a regular non chain Ramen place, but I think Ichiran gets more hate than it deserves and Ippudo is overrated.

>>2889544
I've never gotten the hype around ramen period. The ingredients never have enough time to soak in all the flavors since ramen places are always rushing you so the noodles and meat are always kind of bland and the broth is way too salty. I also never feel like a single bowl has enough actual food but the salt content is so high it makes going through multiple bowls to be a chore. And don't "muh authentic artisanal ramen" me since I've eaten bowls from kyushuu to hokkaido and found them all mid.

>>2889535
Think about ogatoonsen - small town where you just go to onsen and then to soapland and then back to onsen - entire weekend. Eeee, eeeeto. What a paradise.
Btw tobita kills everything you can get in Tokyo. Tokyo is so shit and expensive, I paid short of 60k yen for meeting with AV actress and she did not even yelled like a pig. Massive disappointment and scams - all these deriherus "for le foreigner"

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>>2889547
Ramen to me is just Japanese home grown fast food that's high in salt, cholesterol and calories. Akin to hamburgers for Americans.
On my last trip to Japan I never bothered with their ramen. There are so many other cheap, delicious things you can have in Japan anyway

>>2889547
Yeah its definitely a guilty pleasure. I love miso Ramen with a nice big block of butter in it. Definitely not healthy but I'd I'm on holiday I don't really care about being healthy. I prefer Mazemen these days. I think Ramen is just easy, when you can't be fucked and just want to be in and out in 15 minutes and get on with your day/night. Its perfect for that.

>>2889555
It is common knowledge in Japan that authentic ramen from a restaurant is more of a guilty pleasure than a proper daily meal, and eating it too often is bad for your health.

Cold udon with tamago and miso soup are both better than ramen

>>2889544
>>2889547
Japanese people don't get the hype around ramen either. It's junk food to them.

The best foods I've experienced in Japan are champon in nagasaki and potato croquets in hokkaido.

I had ramen every night for almost two weeks and it bloated the fuck out of me.
I had to remove a link from the watch I bought there when I got home lol

>>2889558
Of course, instant ramen is also considered junk food. While it's a staple for lazy bachelors and broke students,
most people usually just eat it as a quick weekend lunch or a snack between meals when they get a bit hungry.

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Asked last thread but got no answer.

What's anons' thoughts on the Seto Islands daytrippable from Takamatsu? Shodoshima is the biggest with the most going on but Ogi and Megi are also popular.

>>2889595
I've only been to Megi Island. It was a brief ferry ride from Takamatsu dock IIRC. Spent several hours there hiking up to the sights. Not a ton of amenities there when I went. Took the ferry back. It was pretty fun.

>>2889573
For me it's Japanese BBQ and Osaka-style Kushikatsu.

>>2889547
>I also never feel like a single bowl has enough actual food but the salt content is so high it makes going through multiple bowls to be a chore.
That's why you can order extra noodles for fatfucks like you

>>2889598
Did you find Megi worth it? What were your personal highlights beyond just enjoying the hike?

Going back-and-forth with Chat GPT about details it suggested Ogi and Megi as a package deal for a day trip, or going to Shodo's inland rice fields.

I'd be going in January so I'm leaning towards Shodo and haven't seen anyone online really have an opinion of Teshima or Naoshima.

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>>2889595
I went to Naoshima and Teshima in March.
Naoshima is an alright, if slightly expensive day wandering the no-cars-allowed art museum zone. Some of them are nice, some are like 3 bare rooms, and you will want tickets in advance for the most popular one. The natual coastline is quite nice as well. Overall it depends on your tolerance for modern "art".

Teshima on the other hand is an absolute scam with a single 'exhibit' that got my socks wet and then I forgot my bag and had to walk 15 mins back up the hill I just walked down (I don't have the balance to ride a bike) and then it rained for the whole rest of the afternoon so I just sat at the ferry terminal rather than visit the last one or two spots to see. The only thing that redeemed Teshima was the jap granny that gave me some kumquats off her tree because I said her garden was nice while taking photos of the flowers (pic related). It seems I forgot to take a photo of her sakura tree despite her telling me to, but I liked the flowers more and the sakura wasn't really in bloom by then. Oh, I guess the 'Needle Factory' art house on Teshima was alright too but again there was very little worth spending a whole day there for, I basically only did it because I had to take the ferry from Naoshima to Uno anyway to take the train further south and decided to get an evening train and go Nao -> Te -> Uno

Both of them were utterly mogged by the Onomichi Art Museum though, which was still running the '100 Views of Kyoto: Four Seasons Depicted' exhibit with 83 paintings on loan from Kyoto (out of like 119 or something) until May 6th. Honestly I didn't even plan to visit the art museum I just had time to kill before an afternoon ferry so I checked it out cause I was up the hill anyway for the temples and it was a real "Finally, some good fucking food" moment.

>>2889605
I found the Momotaro/Oni stuff fascinating so I enjoyed that. If you were to do Ogijima too I would probably pack a lunch and have on comfortable shoes. It would probably take up the whole day I imagine.
Shodoshima has monkeys apparently and was the setting for a manga. If you like that more, then you may enjoy that.

>be fat
>be bald, but can‘t cut hair back to 0.9mm in the apa hotel
>have a threeday beard
It‘s over for me isn‘t it? Mongering is probably the only option, but is mongering even possible if I can‘t talk japanese? And how are the

>>2889626
How are the gaijin hunter bars*

>>2889626
Just go to a barber?

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Chest bags worth it for 2 weeks in japan? I hate looking like I'm carrying a small village worth of shit in one of those large travel backpacks, not to mention after 2 hours my shoulders and back will be dead at only 11am. My plan is to leave basically everything in the hotels, and just walk around with nothing but one of these chest slings. Anybody else do this sort of "minimalist" travel?

>>2889685
yes but get an even smaller one, i only carried my passport, some cash, wallet and a charger. only used a backpack during degen shopping trips

you can hide it under a jumper/shirt etc

>>2889608
Thanks anon, saved me bothering to consider them. I'd been to Hiroshima already but hadn't been to the art museum because the person I was with really wanted to go to the atomic bomb museum & memorial instead. Maybe next time I go to Hiroshima.

>>2889615
>pack a lunch and have on comfortable shoes
Walking is no problem for me, especially in cold weather I could hike all day. There's some decent looking cafés & lunch restaurants on both islands, I'd rather get something to eat from the locals than bring a currypan.

Not really interested in monkeys over museums, historic architecture and nice scenery.

>>2889685
My chest purse was my life for my whole trip this year. I brought minimal shit so I could carry all my really important stuff in the pouch on my person and left my backpack with nothing but clothes and cheap souvenirs back at the hotel without any worries.

I got a really cheap and ugly one that made me look like a jackass but it served my purposes and I wasn't there to impress randos so I didn't care.

Steps for using the toilet when wearing a kimono
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SfthwEhjbkk

In the past, women didn't wear underwear under their kimonos.

So not sure why exactly, maybe because I am ugly or a gaijin, but sometimes people here are like afraid of me.
>walk into konbini to search for trash, woman instantly grabs her bag
>stand in line for the train, suddenly the two people in front of me go 5m to the right and wait there
Kinda fun lol
>>2889642
>please pay 30 bucks for something you need to do every 2-3days
Anon I am not rich. I will do it in the hotel (somehow)

>>2889717
Onomichi art museum isn't hiroshima, I went to the Hiroshima art museum also and it was fine. If you can find where they're displaying those Kyoto paintings now and it's on your route I'd say visit there it's kinda a must imo.

>>2889685
Everyone just walks around with chest packs or daypacks.
And if you send your luggage to your next accommodation via courier, traveling will be much easier.

Tobita > traditional Thai massage > pinksaro > soapies >> deriheru

>>2889751
matsushima > tobita

Don't make me tap the sign again, coomers

If you had to live in one area of Tokyo, what would it be?

>>2889750
>>2889751
I'm curious what stores you ordered from to have had such bad deliheru experiences. The absolute best and most affectionate girls have all been outcalls for me. A few stinkers here and there but the worst ones were mostly thc. Tobita is nasty and all you get are a few wipes and 30 minutes to pump and dump. Most don't even let you kiss there. I guess you guys really likes the lolipops.

>>2889777
azaudai

>>2889777
Ikebukuro

>get on a train in Tokyo
>sweaty drunk woman next to me struggling to not fall asleep
Does this happen often

>>2889873
This is what a high-trust society is like.

>>2889873
Was she hot tho. I like when cute girls fall sleep on me on the subways.