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I'll happily take any recommendations you have! Thank you so much. We're hoping to visit at some point soon; weirdly enough we were recently in France and there was actually a Japanese restaurant two doors up from our flat, so we got to try miso (which I adored and hogged most of), yakisoba and takoyaki. I did enjoy the takoyaki overall, but I was definitely squeamish. (Was raised vegetarian until I was in my late teens, still have some lingering issues with texture and octopus isn't a common ingredient where I live)

My other big worry is that I can't stand eggs, and I know they're another Japanese staple. I know the quality of eggs in Japan is crazy good, I just can't get on with them and I worry about being seen as picky or difficult, I guess! They look so pretty in situ, I just can't do them. :(

Thank you again for your advice! It's really nice to hear from someone with some experience!

I won't lie, I was one of those people who was skeptical as fuck.

And then I played it and took back every skeptical thing I had said about it because DAMN if that game isn't fun and charming.

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks that 1 week is way too little time

Seconded re: there being plenty of options besides fish. Seafood is certainly a big part of Japanese cuisine, but there are traditional dishes which feature beef, pork and chicken as well. You won't have any trouble finding stuff to eat.

New Zealand is gorgeous. Mountains, grasslands, the coast, temperate rainforest, it really does have everything and the people are so gosh darn NICE and laid back.

Italy, I think. Major foodie tour, plus staying in some beautiful villa in a coastal town or hill town sounds heavenly.

For real sightseeing, it is definitely too short. But for just relaxing and a little sightseeing, it is probably fine in my opinion. I'd pick somewhere smaller with less things to do, just a few specific ones I want to see, rather than a whole big place with a lot of things I want to do.

Absolutely. I've been to Japan twice and I'm planning a third trip for this year and the plane tickets are always the most expensive part. Food is cheap, hotels are cheap, and if you get a JR pass then traveling around is cheap too.

Given their shared font choices, I'm inclined to assume they're the same person. I don't think they even intended us to think otherwise.

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I've been to Hawaii. It was awesome

True. For relaxing I need 2-3 days top, I get bored and annoyed pretty fast. And I've been doing week vacations for a long time now. It just not a dream place and vacation...

I don't have any opinion on KH, but I absolutely filter out crossovers in my fanfiction, and I did even when it was a lot more common for people to only be mashing together two canons at a time.

no problem, I love spreading love of Japanese cuisine! especially if it helps planning a trip, Japan is so wonderful to visit.

So, there are "family" yoshoku chains all over the country that are the safest for westerners: Gust (Cafe Gusto) and Royal Host are the biggest and pretty consistent in quality, there's also Ootoya which isn't as widespread. It's like going to Dennys but the food is better. For beef (donburi = rice bowls) you're looking for Yoshinoya and Gyu-kaku. For chicken you want Torikizoku. For ramen, you'll see Ichiran in every youtube but the truth is, Ichiran is where tourists go because they don't know better. Any corner market ramen place with the vending-machine tickets is better than Ichiran.

Eggs is definitely harder. Almost every ramen dish includes them, and you'd have to have some slight ability to speak Japanese to communicate that you'd like the dish without eggs, or else just eat around them. Don't order omurice, obviously. It's not common for most dishes to include egg, so whether it's scrambled egg added to something or a raw egg on top, you'll have to do your due diligence ahead of ordering a specific dish. Menu photos and plastic food displays are accurate, if that helps. In truly hairy situations, have some phrases pre-loaded into a google translate app on your phone and spring them on the wait staff, who can help. It's not like a protein where you know ahead of time whether it's beef, chicken, pork, or fish, egg can pop up in weird places. FTR Japanese eggs are surprisingly safe, if you can mentally get past your blocks. I have an ingrained expectation that raw egg isn't safe but I chanced it at the amazing kaiseki place in Gion, Kyoto because the chef recommended it as a dip for the A5 wagyu and it was incredible. Anyway.

Get familiar with words in english/romaji and kana: egg is tamago, fish is sakana but that's a generic word, you will have a harder time if all fish is labeled by species (salmon/sake, tuna/maguro, and fish with no direct translation like uo). If you don't have time to get gud at reading kana, use a phone translation app that uses the camera to scan photos, you can hold it up to a menu and get an instant look at what's what. Saved my damn bacon (no pun intended) in Sendai when the only lunch place was the Date castle museum cafe on top of Aoba-yama in the snow, we could read the labels on the vending machine instantly and order the most amazing curry-pan I had the entire time. No fish no egg just quick-translated labels on a machine.

right?? I regretted stuffing myself a few times but it was like...if I don't eat this amazing custard taiyaki right off the griddle right now I will be mad at myself even though I just had a big lunch. Don't care still delicious I promise I'll walk it off on my way through this shotengai.

I'm so mad that they jacked up the JR pass but I get it. JR was losing money on tourists only doing the golden route and nothing else, it's supposed to encourage tourists to go further. We maxed out our passes in '23, we went from Osaka to Hiroshima, to Miyajima (hell yes the JR ferry counts too), to Kumamoto, to Kyoto, to Matsumoto, to Nagano, then back and forth between Nagano and Ueda a couple times, to Saitama, to Sendai, then finally to Tokyo, which was both within Tokyo and out to Odawaraw and back. The only train we had to pay for was the special local route from Ueda to Bessho Onsen and back, and that was like...five bucks lol.

It was my once-in-a-lifetime mid-life crisis trip and somehow we're still able to afford to go again, so the next time we're doing a smaller regional Kansai trip to historical locations circling Lake Biwa and sumo tournament in Osaka. We're literally staring at plane tickets right now, the only obstacle to going right away in March next year or waiting a year or two is the plane tickets. UGH.

That makes sense. For me it depends on the dream. Because I could go to a beach for a week and happily spend every day swimming. I love swimming that much.

haha well, I think there are two kinds of international travelers: the rich for whom a week is something they do five times a year no sweat, and those who have to save everything they have and eat ramen for every meal for a year to afford the chance to go. There is no in-between. If you genuinely think this trip is going to be the only one you'll ever take in your whole life, you want at least 2 weeks, up to 3. I've been to Japan so my next real bucket-list trip is the British Isles, again for historical reasons, so 1 week is Ireland. 2 weeks? Now I can fit in Scotland and a couple places in the UK. I hear Stonehenge is kind of a letdown but Avebury is where it's at.

Is binging (rhyming with ringing) even a word though?

I played the first game but Goofy with his dumb design and Donald with his dumb voice always killed every scene for me, it just was such a weird disconnect for my tastes. The gameplay was actually fun for the most part but I'm still hearing that damn plink plink plink sound of the stuff the enemies lost on defeat in my nightmares decades later.

Is the book really that bad, or did a couple anons who didn't even read it just see "trans" and decide to prove once again that FS isn't the left-wing space everyone here thinks it is?

For those interested in Japan but apprehensive about food options, I read the following books before my trip:
Not One Shrine, by Becky Selengut and Matthew Amster-Burton
Pretty Good Number One, by Matthew Amster-Burton

This will give you a great overview and deep dive into Japanese cuisine, written for Western travelers. Yes, a good amount of it is fish/seafood, but so much of it ISN'T. I made a list of all the things I wanted to try, and barely scratched the surface.

The books are also good for general travel tips and cultural advice.

As someone who also doesn't like crossovers and was skeptical about Kingdom Hearts for this reason, well, okay, it IS a crossover and the crossover elements make it incredibly cheesy, but it also has its own strong original cast, themes, aesthetic, etc. going on that I don't think the crossover aspects end up being part of its appeal. The games are cheesy as fuck (not even just because of the crossover stuff; the original portions of the game and the aesthetic it develops REALLY leans into the cheese), but they are honestly charming in a unique way, and I love them. I don't think you have to be an appreciator of crossovers to dig what the games are doing.

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