Tips on: Japan (move this to travel subforum thanks)

[Bammer]

The Bamily has been talking about this as our next big trip.

Tell me what to do there.

[wease]

Dang. Jealous. We were gonna try to go next year, but it just got too expensive. Hopefully we’ll get to go once the kids are out of the house.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Bammer]

Dang. Jealous. We were gonna try to go next year, but it just got too expensive. Hopefully we’ll get to go once the kids are out of the house.

Nothing is booked - just an idea we have discussed.

[E.H. Ruddock]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

[VinylGuy]

Spent a month there in 2017. best place on earth. have fun.

[daft twat]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

[Bammer]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

Kyoto? As in Tokyo spelled backwards? Sounds made up.

[wease]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

Culturally significant

[doug rr]

just eat your way through and try all of their different chip flavors...we flew out of Tokyo in 2011 about 2 hours before the tsunami hit..we got back to California and just thought wtf..

[dad]

Want to go so bad. We’re doing one more Europe trip, and will likely go to Japan in 2026. Hopefully, it’s still relatively cheap to go by then.

[Jorge]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

Kyoto? As in Tokyo spelled backwards? Sounds made up.

Tokyo spelled backwards is Oykot

[spike]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

Kyoto? As in Tokyo spelled backwards? Sounds made up.

Tokyo spelled backwards is Oykot

At least he can sort of read forwards.

[spike]

This is probably tops on my list to visit once I can leave the country. Only a nine hour flight to Tokyo.

[wease]

My stepson from my previous marriage goes for a month once a year with his wife to Japan. They are currently in Kyoto and said it is their favorite of all of the places they've visited.

Is Kyoto the place the US removed from possible a-bomb targets during WWII because it was deemed too beautiful?

Kyoto? As in Tokyo spelled backwards? Sounds made up.

Tokyo spelled backwards is Oykot

At least he can sort of read forwards.

I figured he did that on purpose and didn’t reward him with the attention he was obviously seeking.

[bart]

Get some yakitori from a street stall. Tokyo Disney is worth visiting if only to experience a theme park with polite crowds.

[doug rr]

their specialty ramens rival on that from Montana

[E.H. Ruddock]

[wease]

Haha

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.