高橋 Haruka :saitama: / is on Nostr

Lived abroad during childhood. Feels lost living here. 海外育ちました。英語得意ですけど、代わりに日本語が苦手です。

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2024-07-29 07:05:50

The Yanbaru bus that travels between Naha airport and Churaumi Aquarium accepts QR payments, IC cards used nationwide, and various credit card payments. Funnily enough, OKICA isn’t accepted.
Further research shows that I can’t reach the aquarium before it opens, and the last bus departs before closing time.

2024-07-22 14:02:29

Refunds can mate :doge_horny_jail:
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/112/830/508/774/895/958/original/a9dbcf2c169291f6.png

2024-05-17 20:34:52

My room is starting to look noticeably tidier ever since I decided to tackle the visual headache of cheap mismatched hangers of different shapes and colours.

2024-05-16 05:11:04

How did I "pass through" Okinawa?
Well, if you are flying into Japan from Taiwan or Southeast Asia, the first part of Japan you enter would be Okinawa, right?

2024-05-16 05:07:35

Looks like I have visited quite a lot of Japan. Shikoku, southern Kyushu, and most of Tohoku being regions that I never visited.
Unexpected when filling this out: Yamaguchi (Iwakuni is here), Yamanashi (Kawaguchiko is here), Mie (Nabana-no-Sato), Gifu (Inuyama was the closest, never visited Shirakawa-go)
I never seen others using green. I take it to mean that you got off the transport that brought you there, but never visited anything.
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/112/448/988/247/294/626/original/a4bad5bf52c72062.png

2024-05-15 18:45:04

During my first trip to Sapporo, I flew in from Hiroshima. I only knew about the bus from the station and how long it took, and nothing about where it is.
But the trip there was long, with the bus travelling on the expressway for an uncomfortably long time. The airport was 50km away from Hiroshima station, which is about 70% of the distance between Tokyo station and Narita Airport.
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/112/446/537/876/529/787/original/2da87bf7ae4be111.jpeg

2024-05-14 06:46:27

Ueno Zoo used to have a suspended monorail that connects the two parts of the zoo that had to be closed in 2023 due to difficulty in obtaining replacement parts.
But just last month, the metropolitan government (who operated the monorails) announced a replacement system that is like a people-mover on roller-coaster tracks.
https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/tosei/hodohappyo/press/2024/03/29/21.html
Yes, you heard that right: roller coaster tracks.
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2024-05-12 02:55:48

Locating Takeshita-dori from the Omotesando area is like entering a random alley when it looks like this from the outside.
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/112/425/863/481/961/413/original/9b72519e0c640bcf.jpeg

2024-05-10 07:26:03

Want to come to take the trains in Japan, but you can’t get the Suica card, and you use an Android phone?
Come experience the means of exchanging money for an admission ticket 🎟️ (TM)
*(this is sarcasm about how Japan travel guide don’t mention how buying a train paper ticket are an option)

2024-05-07 10:33:08

If Tokyo has less rails, more roads of at least 6 lanes, more tall buildings and less of the small ones, less up to date with interior architecture, it would look like…
Wait, isn’t that basically what Nagoya is?

2024-05-07 10:17:10

Imagine writing 能勢(のせ) as “Nose”, but people thinking it is read as if it’s👃
Oh, and don’t get me onto what people think when a university that had 近畿 in the name being romanised.

2024-05-05 02:29:34

International flights typically require you to be at the airport about 2-3 hours before departure, and that does not include the time needed to get there! Even when staying an hour away, you need to wake up at 6am or earlier to catch an 11am flight.
If the flight is in the morning, you need to “camp” at the airport the night before, or catch one of the first trains that head there. You may want to consider a hotel close to said station when looking at hotels in the city.

2024-04-12 00:50:53

Scary to think that 1964 was 60 years ago.
It’s even scarier to even think of 2004 as 20 years ago.

2024-04-10 03:26:21

Narita Airport being quite far from the centre of Tokyo appears to be an anomaly among most airports of major cities around the world. Price per km is also amongst the highest, relative to cost of living in Japan.
Combine that with visitors that don’t do their research, with Americans defaulting to taxis due to the US generally having terrible public transport, you get this…
(Post from: https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1777127480471757307)
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2024-03-28 04:28:48

I didn't know what なまらめんこい meant.
なまら means very much / really in Hokkaido dialect (is that really a thing?), used where とっても (standard) or めっちゃ (kansai) is expected.
めんこい is also another Hokkaido dialect (and Tohoku too) to mean darling / lovely / cute / adorable