The Official Japan Thread 2.0 "Nani?"

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so I went to shibuya kaikan arcade. lots of 3s competition and some fucking crazy music-games guys but hardly sf4 players. I played some ken player with 12k bp and 60% win rate and he was terrible, later a rufus player came and raped me, but apart from that no players. where is some more competition? are the other arcades 50 yen per game too?

wow gaspanic is a real shithole. I’ll keep going there to get some 300yen drinks and get hammered but no way I’ll ever spend a whole night there. Went to new lex and it was awesome.

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Thanks forgenjuro. :china:

I assume you will be joining us in the debauchery? :woot: I needs me some twinkie bromance lol :lovin:

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and i say this every now and then to posts like this…

yes gas panic is a shithole, it is ment to be nothing more than a free whore house for foreigners.

shibuya is quite convenient for hopping around to get some tail, instructions are as follows:

[minimal spending, as much as you drink amount]
-Go buy some chuhai strongs from conbini and drink on your way to shibuyakaikan
-play there untill the rest of the comp leaves (around 2313 IIR) then drink another chuhai
-go to teh gas panic on the same street as sakuraya and the fake jewlery shop
-take a look in, if there is not a good female:male ratio, leave IMMEDIATLY, don’t hesitate or waste time
-cross the street and walk towards shibuya mark city west (going away from the station towards yoshinoya)
-no go into the 2nd gas panic (2nd floor IIR)
-do the check and stay/leave
-if no good ratio, cross the street, and you should see a lawson conbini on your left, go down that side street towards club asia
-if you are a strong drinker, drink another chuhai and kick it with the crow outside the clubs (stay away from the Love Hotel Hill ppl because they are hookers/youg yaks)
-if you didn’t find a good place, repeat from above.

[friday night]
goto club muze (or fuze) by the brazillian restuaunt (name is tucan in portagues IIR)
JPY3000 nomihodai and club action… girls are easy, but pick them up within the first hour or you will be getting sloppy secons

[if you are coo with spending JPY10,000 on the night]
do the [minimal spending, as much as you drink amount] instructions, but go into club asia if you run out of luck. Girls are all younger [some too young so watch out], but you need a J-friend to get in, just walk with speak with some girls that are going there, dont be too strong, just ask where club asia is and they will most likely be going too, this gets you your “you are ok” to get in pass.

have fun, wear a condom, dont take them to your appt/hotel (the bathroom or love hotel is much safer), and WATCH THE BARTENDER WHEN THEY MAKE YOUR DRINK OR OPEN YOUR BEER/FUFU DRINK.

Last time I didnt, I woke up in a back alley with no wallet, no my ass was not hurting.

HAVE FUN!

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You gotta remember that people have been playing Super SF 4 at home for a while. Even the Japanese won’t pay money for a beta in the gamecenters. The competition in arcades just isnt high right now. I play games in Taito station in Shibuya. The SSF4 comp is consistant over there, but not as strong as before. No 50 yen play, just best out of 7, which I kind of hate.

I hear SSF4 is coming to the arcades. Any truth to that?

BTW, IparryU’s “find-a-skank-for-cheaps guide” was money, but a small update is needed. “Dogenzaga Gas Panic,” the second one listed, shut down. If I am going to be out all night in Shibuya, something I hate now, I would much rather go to a proper club. Hell, I’ve even walked to Omote Sando for different atmosphere.

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Dont ever go to Vuenos. That place is hater city. fuckin shame hillside GP shut down but Vuenos didnt get sucked into oblivion by a black hole.

Id love to take a shit into that black hole.

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so who’s going to godsgarden for sure?

is it still possible to register? if not I’ll just watch, I’d probably get kicked out first round anyway

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So about to buy a Rail pass (jesus christ they’re expensive) and was wondering how the process works. The North American locations listed on the website are… exactly none of the airports I’m going through. Is it all online, and something I print out… or? The site doesn’t seem to specify or I’m very dense.

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do you really need a rail pass? i never bought/used it so im not sure… dont make the same mistake as i did for my euro trip, bought a rail pass that happens to be not so useful for my trip lol… you proly dont need a rail pass anyway…

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If you’re certain, I’d probably be using the Tokyo subway, catching a train to Osaka, Yokohama, and Kyoto. If all those don’t add up to $500 then I don’t think I’ll need the rail pass. Probably just won’t worry about it.

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all of those wont add up to 500 bucks.

from tokyo to kyoto by bullet train should be around 100 bucks-ish(200 if youre going back to tokyo)… kyoto is close to osaka, the trains wont cost so much.

yokohoma doesnt cost much from tokyo.

its proly convenient for you to get a suica/passmo card.

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rail passes are really only good if you plan on going to like, fukuoka, hiroshima, osaka, tokyo etc all by shinkansen, and then back or something. If you plan on travelling everyday really far, then they’re good. If you’re going Tokyo -> Yokohama -> Kyoto -> Osaka and then back, you def won’t need a rail pass.

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Sweet, thanks guys! Suica cards can be bought in-country, right? Tight stuff.

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Yup.

Railway passes are fucking awesome if you plan on making a mega tour of Japan. You get to sit in the nice Green car seets on the bullet train and everything. If you plan on just lazing your way around a couple of big cities, than you probably won’t need it, but be careful. Travel fare can add up pretty quick. IMO, if you know exactly the places you want to go, you can decide on whether you need one or not.

If you are super organized you can add up the prices using this website.

jorudan.co.jp/english

keeping in mind that 100 yen is almost 1 dollar. so 500 dollars would be a total of 50,000 yen.

Edit BY THE WAY. AFAIK the Railpass does NOT work with subways. I may be wrong, but you might want to check that. Their are a lot of train companies in Japan and the railpass only works for the big one.

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yeah railpass is JR only if im not mistaken.

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Yeah, it’s a shame that the GP on the hill closed. It wasn’t that bad and the music was definitely better. ALL GPs are hunting grounds but the hachiko GP is the slimiest! But I have had the most success there on Tues, Wed, and Thurs because you can actually have a conversation.

@Calibur: I can’t. I can’t win!

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Wanna trade DVDs?

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Word, thanks. I didn’t realize the railpass didn’t work on the subway… that’s silly, I think I’ll just stick with getting one of those Suica cards and making do. I’m hoping to stay with friends in Yokohama in order to cut down on some costs that way, but we’ll see.

As for God’s Garden, I’m extra hype. Though I can’t really make sense of the article, how I’d go about registering for it.

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Aiite folks. Dont know if theres anything going on but on the 26th Mister Donut (apparently i dont know how to spell non-plural donut) is having some sort of fair at the tokyo kokusai forum.

Which means a shitload of free donuts! I think ima bring me a duffle bag or something…

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The Kokusai Forum is right in the backyard of one of Tokyo’s illustrious Krispy Kremes (Marui Itocia B1F). Giving away 16,000 donuts is quite a shot across the bow.

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fuck both those places

NYC Doughnut Factory for the win. If you don’t know about “???”, you don’t know about life.