Valkerionseven
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Rolling into Osaka this evening for the weekend, anyone got recommended places to visit? Only want to hit like 2 places for sure lol, Kofun and freaking NMB48 theater haha. Everything else is just "lets see what happens"
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Does anyone know the cheapest way for me to ship something from Tokyo to my city in Ibaraki like 50min away? Can I just go to kuroneko and onegai them?
I want to buy a bike on craigslist since it's the best option available but I can't really bring it on a train unless I take it apart, which I could do I guess.
Alternatively, one of you drive me :^)
I want to buy a bike on craigslist since it's the best option available but I can't really bring it on a train unless I take it apart, which I could do I guess.
Alternatively, one of you drive me :^)
Not too be too obvious, but you could ride it?
From Matsudo onwards it should be beautiful!
According to Google, you can bring a bike on the train if you fold it, or remove the front wheel and put it all in one of those bike bags. The bags are like ¥4,000円〜 though.
ABC?
what size are you feet? 14 US? can't imagine you'd fine tennis shoes for playing tennis in any H&M or Uniqlo store in the world lol.
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you need to get out more if youre questioning this
Nothing crazy, just well outside the Japanese norm
Okie dokie. I'll give that a shot.
http://www.abc-mart.net/shop/goods/search.aspx
searching テニス grabs Tennis style shoes, more an apparel range tho.
clicking スポーツシューズ will net you stuff that you could actually play Tennis in
heaps of sizes so you don't even need to leave home
searching テニス grabs Tennis style shoes, more an apparel range tho.
clicking スポーツシューズ will net you stuff that you could actually play Tennis in
heaps of sizes so you don't even need to leave home
I feel you. On the bright side, I've probably saved some (a lot of) cash on shoes I wanted but could never buy since the max size is way below mine.
Btw, be careful shopping shoes online. I've found most shoe size convertion charts to be extremely inaccurate. I'm a EU 39/40, and if you convert to JP and back, it says I'm anywhere between 36 and 38. ( ._.)
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Well the point is you can't trust the online sizes much and you really would need to try them on to be sure since most people are dealing with multiple systems. Trying to recall, I don't think I've ever bought any shoes in Japan.. maybe Nike's once? In Osaka? I just buy them when overseas and never even think about it. I think like 10 years ago I was in Kobe trying to get a new pair of Tims and it didn't end well. Now if I want a pair of Ferragamo's I'd just buy them when back in Europe or the States.
Sweet. Hopefully you find what you needed!Nothing crazy, just well outside the Japanese norm
Okie dokie. I'll give that a shot.
Same here. I'm also a 28 to 28.5 (depending on the shoes) and have never had any issues. What I have issues with is finding neat t-shirts with a good slim fit that I like. Found some, but end up going to some overseas sites that I have purchased from before and know their fits are what I want, for some of them.
If it was like 3 years ago I could, but I haven't owned a bike since I moved here and I don't know about doing 70km ride right off the bat :v
Yeah as a last resort I was thinking of just taking it apart and bringing it then building it here but kind of annoying. Oh well.
You can always go to kuroneko and ask...
I sent a microwave (around 4kg) to inside Tokyo.. and was around ¥1000
Or you can consult it online.
http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/en/links/#link01
TheBryanJZX90
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28 is the most common stopping point for most shoes at most stores, including ABC Mart in my experience. I had to go to specialty stores to find anything in US 12/Japanese 30, and even then the store would have like one pair of Nikes one pair of Adidas in size 30, and they would be hideously ugly.. I think the store was Kutsu no Hikari in Shinjuku? Maybe Ten?
da fuck. trying to make an account on qm.nintendo.co.jp, and it's not letting me make a password. keeps saying アルファベットだけや数字だけのパスワードは禁止されています。 great. i can't use alphabet characters or numbers. only kana? except i can't make the IME keyboard input kana in the password field. and i can't copy and paste kana into the password field because it just appears as an asterisks. am i shit out of luck here? happens on iPhone too. even tho my iphone is set to Japanese, and i've got the eng and JP keyboard enabled..
edit: MMMM dake, what does that mean again? oh yeah, it means only. leaving this here as a mark of shame. i'm wearing it.
edit: MMMM dake, what does that mean again? oh yeah, it means only. leaving this here as a mark of shame. i'm wearing it.
Doesn't that mean that you can't have a password which has only letters or only numbers?
Nothing in that message sounds like a mixed letter/number password wouldn't work.
Hasemo, you would be correct. the dumbass that I am read it as, alphabet passwords and number passwords are prohibited, meaning you gotta use JPN. but, i have never learned the word だけ so i had to look it up in my 辞書 and now i've added it to my writing list.
now excuse me while i go kick my own 尻。
also, thanks for your reply
now excuse me while i go kick my own 尻。
also, thanks for your reply
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Are you fuckin with us, please say yes
I see. Never had to ask for anything above 28.5 so I didn't really know
And even then I just go to the Adidas shop most of the time, where I know they at least always have 29 also.
ZackieChan
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Yeah, that was a long one. I did get to meet my cute neighbor because of it, though...
ThreePiMatt
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I'm staying in Tokyo at the moment and that was my first earthquake. Felt like, dunno, "wobbling." I wouldn't call it shaking, but it was an eerie feeling.
ZackieChan
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ZackieChan
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Felt like a big truck was driving by outside at first, but then it kept going...
I was once listening to a CD at Tsutaya in Shibuya so I had them headphones on in front of a CD shelf and I notice that it was slightly wobbling. My first reaction was like "who the hell is pushing against this CD shelf? It's shaking quite a bit" and only when I looked around and realised that people were calmly next to walls that I took off my headphones and noticed that we might be going through a mild quake. Only lasted like a couple of seconds mind you but it was my first time experiencing one. Quite surreal.
Yup, used it last week. Took 3 days or so. I didn't know about it until a friend of mine who works there said told me about it.
Just remember that you still have to pay for the Japanese bank tranfer fee, although that isn't much, and certainly not as much as it would if you did a direct international bank transfer. I did that twice and I cried both times.
Okie dokie. Yeah, this still seems like a much better alternative for my occasional transfers back home. My girlfriend got slammed with pretty steep fees when she did a direct international bank transfer too. I'm glad to hear that this is legit! I think I'll test it out on my end of June paycheck.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
so , i've done the Yamathon a few times before but at a previous firm where we, basically, walked the course. The Yamathon : you have to visit each station on the Yamanote line and take a photo of your 3-4 person team infront of the station sign.
The firm i'm with now had a walking and a running team and i ended up in the running team.
7 hours, 42.7km. And not a cloud in the sky.
A lot of fun but christ. I'm walking like John Wayne.
The firm i'm with now had a walking and a running team and i ended up in the running team.
7 hours, 42.7km. And not a cloud in the sky.
A lot of fun but christ. I'm walking like John Wayne.
that sounds somewhat awesome... I should do that the next time I'm in the area (so far I've only managed to walk from Gotanda to Shinjuku once...)
But daylight + summer doesn't sound very appealing...
you could also use the post office! recently I had about a million yen transferred to my European account and the fee was only around 2k yen?
Indeed it is.
Packed, sweaty, too crowded and sweaty. Hot as fuck in the summer, cold in the winter. I went twice, but never looked back. It you want a fun experience, I recommend you go to Wonder Festival instead. A lot less people, but with more interesting items and events, imo. Comiket has doujin and artwork you can usually buy online, and if you want to buy stuff from industry booths, you have to line up from pretty much the night before to even get the chance.
Wonfes has a lot of cool stuff. It's nice if you like figures/nendoroids, and other stuff. I don't collect figures but I really enjoy looking at them, and they also sell tons of (vintage, new) second-hand items that you may not be able to find anywhere else. It's crowded too, but it's way better for walking around and looking.