Hallo allemaal, ik heb een nieuw project, ik heb 4 Phoenix Blue Reaper F4 (kruising van een Carolina Reaper met een Yaki Blue) staan in mijn tent. Die ga ik opkweken met CANNA Nederland Terra voeding. Doormiddel van YT-filmpjes laat ik jullie de voortgang zien. Vind je ze leuk laat een duimpje achter en/of een berichtje.
Hello everyone, I have a new project, I have 4 Phoenix Blue Reaper F4 (crossing a Carolina Reaper with a Yaki Blue) in my tent. I will grow them with CANNA Nederland Terra nutrition. I show you the progress through YT videos. If you like them, leave a thumbs up and/or a message.

Hello everyone! Me and my boyfriend are traveling to Japan in May, and while I've been to Tokyo, neither of us have been to Kyoto, Osaka or Nara, so that's where we are heading the first part of our trip. We're in generally good shape, but I have MS, so I might need a bit more rest than most people, and I try to take that in consideration when planning our trip, but it's HARD to limit things :') But we are very flexible and I hope I have done enough research to fit everything together in a way that makes sense and isn't too stressful. With this in mind, what do you think of our itinerary? Please feel free to make any other suggestions and/or changes you would recommend!
Our luggage will be shipped from Haneda to the hotel in Kyoto and we're arriving in Kyoto around 2PM .
5.May, SUNDAY: CENTRAL KYOTO

• Toji Temple Antique and Handicraft market (Closes 4:30PM)

Toji pagoda and temple * Maybe I'll get some nail extensions (book an appointment?)
6.May, MONDAY: NORTH-EAST KYOTO

• Depart from hotel at 8AM and take a bus to Kiyomizu-Dera Temple + Jojuin garden
• Ninenzaka/Sannenzaka + Kodaiji Temple (between Kiyomizu-Dera and Yasaka shrine)
• Stop and eat some ramen
• End the evening at the Yasaka shrine (can switch order with Kiyomizu-Dera)
• Maybe get some Gyoza?

7.May, TUESDAY: WEST KYOTO
Leave at 8AM and BRING FOOD, since I’ve read that it’s a busy area

• Adashino Nenbutsuji temple + Otagi nenbutsu-ji - Spend 1-2 hours?
• Daikaku-ji Temple - Spend 1-1.5 hours?
• Sagano/Arashiyama Bamboo forest + Tenryu-ji - Spend 2 hours?
• KOKEDERA Moss temple - Spend 1-1,5 hours?

8.May, WEDNESDAY: Nara Park

• Take either JR Nara Line or Kintetsu Nara Line
• KASUGA TAISHA
• Todai-ji
• Isuien garden
• Hozanji maybe?

9.May, Thursday: NORTH EAST KYOTO + NORTH WEST KYOTO?

• Travel to Ginkakuji/ Higashiyama Jisho-ji - spend 1-2 hours there?
• Go down philosopher's path
• Heian Rakuichi Handicraft Market – spend 1-2 hours? - ( I LOVE flea markets and crafts)
• Danno-horinji temple – spend 1 hour?
• On the way back to the hotel, stop by some special stores

10.May, Friday: OSAKA

• Depart from Kyoto at 0730 AM
• Katsuoji temple – Spend 1-1,5 hours?
• Osaka aquarium - maybe in the evening?
• TeamLab Osaka (19-21:30) If not the aquarium in the evening?

11.May, Saturday: OSAKA

• Dotonburi
• Hozenji Yokocho
• America-Mura
• Namba Yasaka shrine

12.May, Sunday: NORTH KYOTO + SOUTH?

• Kamigamo shrine (has a Sunday market) Spend 1-2 hours?
• Maybe take a taxi to Shimogamo?
• Kinkaku-ji – Spend 2 hours?
• Walk through Yokai street/ Taishogun Shopping Street - Ichijo Yokai Street
• Hirano shrine - 1-1.5 hours?
• Hōrinji (Darumadera) Temple – 30 mins?

MOVE TO TUESDAY MAYBE? * Byodo-in - spend 1-2 hours there?
13.May, Monday: EAST KYOTO

• 07AM Go to Fushimi Inari Taisha - spend 2-2.5 hours there (OR go in the evening?)
• Walk down to Tōfuku-ji Temple - spend 1 hour there?
• TAXI to Kiyomizu-yaki en Sato Museum - spend 2 hours there?

(MAYBE FINISH HERE? I read that Shuttlebus to the station is available) * TAXI to Daigo-ji temple - spend 1-2 hours? * Send our luggage with KuroNeko yamamoto via the convenience store to Hiroshima.
14.May, Tuesday: LEAVING

• Check out before 11 AM.
• Do some shopping at Teramachi and Shinkyogoku Shopping Arcades
• Travel to Himeji castle (9AM-5PM) and then to the AirBnb in Hiroshima

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Questions for you:

• To some of the activities/plans I've added approximate time we're going to spend there, we're of course totally flexible if anything lasts longer or shorter, but if you see anything that looks strange or have any idea of the time people usually spend there, please tell.
• Usually we'll use public transport and walk, and taxis in case I get fatigued. BUT we're planning on taking taxis a lot on May 13th, since public transport in this area would take a bit too long for us, does anyone have any experience with taxis or taxis in the area?
• Will Byodo-in be too much on Sunday, if so, where would you move this?
• The Osaka aquarium and Fushimi Inari are two activities we can do in the evening, anyone have any recommendation or experience regarding these?
• Any recommendations for places to eat in the different areas?

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experiences with us! :)

Welcome to the Peanut Gallery! Today we're turning back to Ukraine.
Please remember that I know nothing.
Ukraine:

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is falsely equating the April 13 large-scale Iranian strikes targeting Israel with the April 1 Israeli strike targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officials in Damascus, amplifying Iran’s “justification” for the April 13 strikes.
The Russian MFA issued a statement on April 14 in response to the April 13 Iranian strikes amplifying Iran's claim that Iran conducted the April 13 strikes as an act of “self-defense” in response to claimed Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets, including the April 1 strike targeting IRGC officials in Damascus.

Please be advised that there are several information operations floating around right now, one of which Yaki_Kaki correctly called me on I've seen a few of the narratives ISW mentioned floating around on Reddit myself. Big events like this always get the bots riled up, so just be on your guard.
The Iran-Israel situation is obviously still in flux, and thankfully cooler heads are prevailing. Biden informed Netanyahu in no uncertain terms that America’s protection will vanish the moment he steps beyond his borders. If Israel marches into Lebanon, then it marches alone. And you know what? Biden is doing his job by deescalating the situation. Well done, dude. When this nightmare is over, I hope we give him & Blinken the Nobel Peace Prize. Those two deserve it.
Now I’m not saying we’re out of the woods, but unlike yesterday we can actually see daylight.

Israel’s success in defending against large-scale Iranian missile and drone strikes from Iranian territory on April 13 underscores the vulnerabilities that Ukrainian geography and the continued degradation of Ukraine’s air defense umbrella pose for Ukrainian efforts to defend against regular Russian missile and drone strikes.

Yeah, it also goes to show that apparently we could have done this all along? What the fuck, man? Why didn’t we at least knock down that missile flying over Polish air space the other week?
In one breath I praise Biden for his patience and clearheaded management of the Israel-Iran conflict, then in the very next passage we see the consequences of said patience. By refusing to take decisive, direct action, we leave Ukraine to pick up the tab for our fears. Women and children die because of America’s failure to act.
Hopefully tomorrow that changes. Hopefully tomorrow Mike Johnson brings the damn funding package to the floor. Because the longer we let this catastrophe continue? The bigger these brushfires will get.

Russian milbloggers largely responded to the April 13 Iranian strikes against Israel by suggesting that the increased threat of military escalation in the Middle East will likely draw Western, specifically US, attention and aid away from Ukraine.

Fat chance, chief.
I can’t speak for Europe, but here in America when we fuck up we tend to over correct. We’re fucking up now on the Ukraine-Israel aid bill in the House of Representatives, but give us enough incentive and we’ll pass that thing and then some. The milbloggers should be concerned an expanding conflict will mean more weapons, not less.

The exhaustion of US-provided air defenses resulting from delays in the resumption of US military assistance to Ukraine combined with improvements in Russian strike tactics have led to increasing effectiveness of the Russian strike campaign in Ukraine.

Of course Russia’s hitting more targets lately—Ukraine lacks the tools they require to defend their skies. And advantages are cumulative. While the focus is obviously on the strikes against Ukrainian cities, the real threat comes from the near constant glide bomb attacks against Ukrainian frontline positions. In many ways they substitute for Russia’s declining tube-artillery advantage. The glide bombs aren’t accurate, but they’ll hit where you tell them to, and when defenses are fixed, that’s a big deal.
More Patriot batteries to Ukraine would obviously solve this issue, obviously. Thankfully Germany appears to be stepping up.

”Germany will immediately transfer another Patriot air defense system to Ukraine to protect it from Russian air attacks. It will be transferred in addition to the air defense systems already delivered and planned for delivery,” the German Defense Ministry said.

• https://mil.in.ua/en/news/germany-to-provide-ukraine-with-additional-patriot-air-defense-system/

As in immediately. Not six months from now, not between the hours of ‘eventually’ and ‘maybe later’, nor when the black cat dances on a harvest moon while Mercury is in retrograde. Today. Or tomorrow. They need to stick it on a plane first.
Am I crazy in hoping Ukraine stick this thing on the front line? I want to see jets falling again! I understand that Ukrainian infrastructure must be protected...but exploding planes! Sukhois make such pretty fireballs.
Corrections:
I am flawed because I am human. And because I am human, I want to do better.
Yesterday I wrote a passage mistaking Aires and Ares, one being the zodiac the other being the Greek god of war. I’m not really a big fan of astrology, to be honest. At least when it comes to prophecy. To me it’s the same as staring at goat entrails. I sort of heard the phonetic similarity and assumed the connection. Turns out there ain’t any.

Ukrainian officials continue to warn that Russian forces are systematically and increasingly using chemical weapons and other likely-banned chemical substances in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Support Forces Command stated on April 5 that Ukrainian forces have recorded 371 cases of Russian forces using munitions containing chemical substances during the last month and 1,412 cases of Russian forces using chemical weapons between February 2023 and March 2024.

Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
‘Q’ for the Community:

• What do you think? Will an expanded conflict between Israel and Iran negatively or positively affect NATO’s support for the Ukrainians?

I think there is some confusion about mei -- why signatures are important and what you should expect. This is important if you're starting to look for an antique Nihontō, or trying to understand one you've discovered.
So when we find ourselves looking at a nakago, as far as the signature is concerned, there are basically three buckets: it was never signed, it was once signed (maybe), or it still is signed.

Never was

Some swords were just not signed when they were made.
Why? If the sword was ordered by a high-ranking daimyo or the Imperial family, or made for a shrine, maybe it was left unsigned as a token of respect. Maybe the smith was illiterate and couldn't sign their name. Swords also commonly broke in yaki-ire (clay tempering) process, so maybe the smith made a few for a commission, had an extra one survive, and sold it as unsigned to someone else. Who knows; there are lots of theories.
What we do know is that this is much more common in the kotō (old swords), and that the practice varied by school. If we look at the jūyō tōken for unshortened tachi or katana, we find:

school	ubu nakago blades that are mumei
Yamato-den	66%
Yamashiro-den	33%
Bizen-den	9%
Sōshū-den	3%
Mino-den	0%
Shintō-den	0%

Two special things to note:
If you're looking at a Yamato-den blade, the vast majority of these were unsigned. These were blades made by swordsmiths associated with the powerful Buddhist temples. Maybe they didn't sign their blades because that would be offensive in the eyes of a vengeful Fudō-Myōō.
Also, if you know something about Nihontō you may be shocked at the Sōshū-den percentage being so high -- nowadays almost all Sōshū-den swords are unsigned. Please note that we are only looking at ubu swords here. There are extremely few of these left from the Sōshū-den, because the vast majority were shortened (more on this in the next section).

Once was

A sword might have once been signed, but now the signature has been lost.
One possibility is that it had a signature that was struck off. The most common case is that the signature was gimei (false) and a prior owner had the forgery removed. Famously, though, this has happened to many works of 村正 Muramasa -- his swords acquired an "evil" reputation for having repeatedly injured members of the Tokugawa family. As a result, these signatures were sometimes stricken or modified: better not to get in trouble by having an "evil" (read: anti-Tokugawa) sword.
Sometimes, particularly on very old or poorly maintaned swords, the nakago can have corroded to the point where a character or even the entire signature is unreadable. The NBTHK will note this on a certificate, or use the term fumei, which you can interpret as "illegible signature." This is sad, but there's nothing much we can do about it now.
The final -- and most common reason by far -- for a sword to have lost a signature is through suriage (shortening). In the Kamakura and Nanbokuchō periods, swords were often made substantially longer than the 70 cm or so that came into favor. As a result, many blades were cut down to make them more usable. This process happened from the nakago end, which meant that many signatures were lost. Shortening is also a way to save damaged swords. If a blade has a particularly bad chip, it might not be possible to polish it out. If it's in the lower portion of the blade, though, you can shorten the blade and take it out that way.
We can go back to the jūyō records to see how many blades have survived without shortening:

school	ubu nakago blades
Yamato-den	6%
Yamashiro-den	16%
Bizen-den	24%
Sōshū-den	9%
Mino-den	24%
Shintō-den	98%

The key insight here is that blades made before the Shintō period were often victims of suriage. Mino-den blades made in the early part of the Muromachi period were shortened more frequently, later in Muromachi much less. By the time of the shortening trend, Bizen and Yamashiro blades were already revered as heirlooms, and so they seem to have been shortened proportionately less. But Sōshū-den work at the time was associated with the martial class, and so they were commonly shortened up for wear. This explains why it is so hard to find ubu zaimei Sōshű blades -- it's not that they weren't signed, it's that they were almost shortened.
We can combine these metrics to see what percentage of swords from each school survive with signatures:

school	zaimei
Yamato-den	2%
Yamashiro-den	10%
Bizen-den	22%
Sōshū-den	9%
Mino-den	23%
Shintō-den	98%

Remember that these are the jūyō, which is heavily biased towards the best-preserved and most important swords, and there is a substantial bias towards kotō. So this is probably an upper bound, not a lower one. (That is, at most 10% of Yamashiro-den blades are zaimei.)

Still is

Finally, the sword might have a signature on it.
By the data above, you will see that absolutely all jūyō ubu Mino-den and Shintō works are zaimei. This should tell you that by the beginning of the Muromachi period, the default practice is for swords to be signed, and if you don't see a signature, you should think "hey, that's funny."
Conversely, if you are lucky enough to see an old Kamakura Bizen-den tachi and it's zaimei, you need to think that you are in the presence of something very special.
But the most important thing to remember that the work comes first, not the mei. If the work looks crude and heavy-handed, and the signature says 正宗 Masamune -- sorry, but it's gimei (falsely signed), not a long-lost heirloom that redefines how badly Masamune could make a sword! The topic of identifying gimei is pretty complex and I'm not sure I have the expertise to write with authority on it, but especially with big names, the possibility should be in forefront of your mind.
Of course, if the sword is zaimei and has a matching Hozon (or better) paper, you're good. There are two kinds of papers that are completely useless: old Kicho papers are very suspect, and a torokusho will just copy whatever is on the tang. Don't trust those at all.
A quick note on old signatures, they can look very rustic and almost childish. Many swordsmiths were illiterate, and had to get priests to teach them how to write their names. I like old mei, they feel very honest and unaffected -- it's really nice. But if you're used to looking at strong, consistent, clear Shintō signatures, these are often going to look different.

TL;DR

For a late Muromachi, Shintō, or Shinshintō blade: if it's not ubu and zaimei, you have to understand that you are almost certainly looking at something that is not a premier-class blade. Maybe it once was, but it isn't now: 98% of the jūyō Shintō blades are ubu zaimei.
If the one you're looking at is o-suriage mumei, that's fine, but you have to understand that it is a diminished work. No matter how nice it is in your hand now, it was nicer when it was longer and signed, and the price of the blade should reflect that.
I'm not saying "don't buy unsigned Shintō work." I'm saying "don't overpay for unsigned Shintō work." If your budget doesn't stretch far enough for something signed, that's cool! Unsigned it is, and don't be ashamed of it. Or save some more pennies and wait for something signed. There are quite a few Shintō blades left, so you can be choosy.
But, the farther back in time we go, the more accepting we have to be. It is a miracle that the old swords survived at all.
If, for example, you want to collect Sōshū-den and are unwilling to accept mumei blades, you are going to find it difficult to find anything, and what you do find that is remotely affordable will be almost all gimei.
And if you want ubu, zaimei, well-known smith, perfect health, Kamakura-era blade... this is getting into the rarified air of tokubetsu jūyō or jūyō bunkazai, and if you can buy it at all it is going to be a lot of money.
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Thanks for reading all the way through this, I hope it helps someone!

Double spoiler warning, you were warned. I have a huge problem and I need you guys' opinions on how to solve it.
Long story short, I told Delilah that Yaki are a threat, and then sent ARG/ANT to war with TER. I didn't account for the mission ship Spear of Odin smashing into the ANT space trying to get to the Yaki base. ANT space now has rampant asgard and ANT has no capital ships.
So now I have a problem. I really like ARG/ANT and I want them to succeed, I feed their economy with over 10 hull/adv.elec factories but they're so incompetent that they lost their shipyard to single syn(which I then captured lol). Now, the intervention fleet led by Asgard failed TWICE to destroy yaki themselves, like, 60+ hours and not a single success. The 3. intervention fleet, en route to Yaki, suddenly found themselves in Second Contact, hostile space. The Asgard has already desteoyed 5 station, hundreds of S/M ships (no capitals bcs ANT shipyard is being rebuilt). Argon doesnt have sufficient fleetpower to stop Asgard and the road to Yaki is full of ARG/ANT ships and stations. Asgard will excrete down their throat and dance on their graves.
THIS is where Im asking for your help. I have a number of solutions to this problem but don't know which to follow. I'll list them:

1. Lead xenon into TER(optional). I can just drop nav beacons and send xenon into TER space. It will slow terrans advance a bit and give ARG/ANT a breathing room. Will cost me a bit but I'm willing to do anything to save ARG/ANT.
   
2. Go destroy Yaki by myself. I have 2 syn, 3 oddyE, 2 rattlesnakes, but cant ordemake any more(galaxy is going through a big shortage). Best I can do is 2 more behemoths(SCA capitals Im following) It will be hard but I think I can pull it off. I can also go in with my 6 falx and a katana like special forces, to destroy yaki. Will it stop the Spear of Odin? Maybe? At least it won't try to rampage through all the ARG/ANT space
   
3. Destroy asgard by myself. This will ruin my TER rep and all my capitals might pull it off if I use my corvette to cripple asgard. But another asgard will take it's place sooner or later. Can combine this with the number 2 to completely save ARG/ANT. I can also try to capture asgard, but I need to go on a hiring spree for good marines
   
4. Destroy the amplifier..? I dont know how that wll help.
   
5. All of the above?
   
6. ....? Your opinions go here?
   

I want ARG/ANT to win the TER war, at least push them back to asteroid belt, but don't want to lose my 25+ TER rep unless absolutely necessary. I also changed my mind and want Yaki to exist, but I cant go back on the mission or reverse my choices, can I?( I wil destroy them if I have to, since I can't do the heart of pirate for Yaki and turn them into proper faction, no need to keep tgem around)
How should I approach this problem? What do you guys think?

TLDR in the bottom.
Is food insecurity in Gaza Israel’s fault? Or is it because Hamas is stealing the aid going into Gaza? In this post I will look at evidence to see what has led to a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza. How many people are starving in Gaza? It is hard to quantify this for obvious reasons but according to A senior UN aid official (maybe you don’t think that this is a trustworthy source) warned that at least 576,000 people across the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - faced catastrophic levels of food insecurity and one in six children under the age of two in the north were suffering from acute malnutrition.
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68471572) So whose fault is it? Evidence of Hamas stealing the aid: So there are videos reportedly of Hamas stealing aid. As soon as aid enters certain areas of Gaza, armed masked men jump on the aid trucks; possibly Hamas. There are some claims items such as flour are being resold for $90 on the black market. https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-aid-trucks-stolen-by-gunmen-and-looted-as-convoys-start-crossing-from-israel/#:\~:text=In%20October%2C%20the%20United%20Nations,the%20posts%20were%20later%20deleted. But is it Hamas stealing the aid? USA officials claim that they have seen no evidence that Hamas is the ones stealing the aid. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-israel-hasnt-provided-specific-evidence-hamas-is-stealing-aid-shipments/ Then who is stealing the aid? Supposedly, criminal gangs (possibly connected to Hamas but once again no evidence to prove this) have taken advantage of the scarcity of food in Gaza to make a profit. They are stealing aid and selling it at extorted prices. They do this by getting a hold of the trucks before they reach the distribution points. https://www.ft.com/content/9c7253aa-d201-487a-bf5c-901b142eb7e4 White House Senior Administration Officials have also claimed that some of the aid is being stolen by criminal gangs. https://www.miragenews.com/white-house-discusses-gaza-humanitarian-aid-1186008/ Who is the aid going to? There seems to be 3 outcomes for aid that goes into Gaza: We know that some of the aid is reaching the areas it is supposed to be distributed at as we can watch various videos of this. We know some of the aid going into Gaza is being stolen by criminal gangs as we can watch videos of this and this has been reported by US officials. We know that some of the aid is being looted by Palestinian civilians before reaching the distribution points as well. Now some may use this as a reason to criticize Palestinian civilians but I think that is rather ignorant as many Palestinians will be sheltering in areas with no distribution points and risk being killed in traveling to distribution points. On a side note this is similar to what happened in Mogadishu (Somalia) in the 1990s when there was a famine: some groups stole aid to sell at extorted prices and some civilians looted aid out of desperation. So these events are not uncommon in a population suffering from a mass food shortage. https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/hrw/1993/en/92972 Claims of food theft were also reported in 2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/world/africa/17somalia.html Now while I think it is extremely immoral that criminal gangs would extort a famine to profit from (in Gaza and Somalia), I try to avoid judgment (even though it definitely is immoral) on those doing the crimes as I have never lived through a famine and been put in a situation where I have had to survive/make money (or ensure my family survives) in such dire circumstances. While I am disgusted I also think how many in these criminal gangs feel it is the only way to keep them and their families alive. Hopefully, you or I will never have to be put into such a tough situation to find out if my desire to survive would overpower my moral values. Were Hamas police officers stealing aid? Eylon Levy, the Israeli spokesperson to western media, has used a picture of Hamas police on an aid truck going into an UNRWA distribution center to prove that both Hamas is stealing aid and is working directly with UNRWA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8YCr1c2zMI https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751308605586858407 Now does this picture prove Hamas police are stealing aid? No not really, the picture originated from the Hamas police facebook page. It was actually a PR photo posted by the Gaza police force to show that they were safely facilitating aid. Now some of you may be saying this proves that UNRWA and aid distributors are complicit with Hamas but answer me this: Do you expect UNRWA employees or other aid distributors to guard the aid? Are aid distributors supposed to fight off criminal gangs and dozens of looters? Is it really that ridiculous that they would accept help from the Gaza police in an attempt to have some protection?
Were Hamas police stopping aid from being stolen? Now we can speculate and say that Hamas (or the police) were stealing the aid but there is no evidence to prove this and once again US officials have said there is no evidence that Hamas is stealing aid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-israel-hasnt-provided-specific-evidence-hamas-is-stealing-aid-shipments/). So you can believe Hamas or the hamas police officers are stealing aid if you like but there is no evidence of this. However, there are reports that a lot more aid is being stolen now by criminal gangs (or looters) than earlier in the war because the Gaza police have refused to continue protecting the aid because IDF soldiers keep on shooting the Hamas police while guarding the aid. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/as-israel-drives-out-hamas-lawlessness-hampers-gaza-aid-efforts-2438be11 “UN officials have accused Israeli strikes of targeting police guarding aid convoys, as well as police stations and cars. Officers have also not been paid in months due to the war.” David Satterfield, the US ambassador appointed by Mr Biden to co-ordinate humanitarian aid to Gaza, said recently: “With the departure of police escorts it has been virtually impossible for the UN or anyone else… to safely move assistance in Gaza because of criminal gangs.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/01/palestinian-blue-police-gaza-aid-convoy-israel-attack-hamas/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/22/gaza-aid-deliveries-looting-police-hamas/ “The gangs exploit the fact that Hamas police officers are unable to go out armed and in uniform to protect the aid trucks” https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-22/ty-article/.premium/as-hunger-spreads-in-gaza-gangs-looting-aid-become-increasingly-brazen/0000018d-d06c-df79-a5cd-f07eebd30000 Should the Gaza Police be allowed to protect the aid (if they are really doing so)? The Gaza police is Hamas-run (as Hamas is the government and control every public sector in Gaza) and composed of Hamas members but also politically unaffiliated people and the remnants of the Palestinian Authority force. Now some may feel as the Gaza police force is composed of some Hamas members (some of whom are likely militants) that it is justified that the IDF kills anyone in a Police uniform distributing aid. Some may argue that as long as the police are not using the aid trucks to fire at IDF soldiers (and there has been no evidence of this) then it is important that aid is distributed safely (as long as that is what the police are actually doing) to the starving population. Perhaps as many police officers are not Hamas members or militants, it is worth allowing them to distribute aid properly as long as they are doing so. This I suppose is just a matter of opinion: Is it more important to kill all Gaza police protecting aid as they might be Hamas militants? Or is it more important that aid is distributed correctly and not stolen by criminal gangs (for exploitation) even if it means that some potential (and it is unlikely to be known if they are militants or not) Hamas militants aren’t killed (as long as they are distributing aid)? I suppose this comes down to how important it is from a military perspective to kill all Gaza police officers (many of whom are not Hamas militants). Now is Israel to blame for any of this? Now you could say that the IDF killing Gaza police is partly responsible for gangs stealing aid and selling it at extorted prices. But is there anything else? First we have to look into how much aid is getting into Gaza now versus before war: Before the war, 500 aid trucks were going into Gaza carrying aid and commercial goods, including things like food, water, animal fodder, medical supplies and fuel. What proportion of this aid was food and water is unclear. But what we do know is that before the war even started approximately half of the people in Gaza were food insecure and more than 80 percent reliant on humanitarian aid. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/over-one-hundred-days-war-israel-destroying-gazas-food-system-and#:\~:text=Since%209%20October%2C%20Israel%20declared,insecure%20and%20more%20than%2080 So there were already high levels of food insecurity before the war even started and reducing aid going into Gaza would worsen that. The UN claims that 500 trucks a day of just humanitarian aid need to go in at a bare minimum. Some may claim that these numbers have been exaggerated by the UN but these calculations assume that one aid truck could feed 4,000 people a day which seems like an overestimate if anything. However the most aid trucks allowed in on a single day since the war began was 300. There have been days where less than 10 trucks go in (less than 2% of the aid needed for that day). (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1232605200/humanitarian-aid-gaza-israel#:\~:text=Roughly%20500%20trucks%20of%20humanitarian,spokesperson%20for%20UNRWA%2C%20the%20U.N.) Additionally in February less than 100 aid trucks went into Gaza a day on average. From January 1st to January 6th, only 21 per cent (5 out of 24) of planned deliveries of aid containing food and other lifesaving supplies reached north Gaza (where 300,000 people are still living) as the majority were rejected by the IDF. (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/over-one-hundred-days-war-israel-destroying-gazas-food-system-and#:\~:text=Since%209%20October%2C%20Israel%20declared,insecure%20and%20more%20than%2080). According to the WHO, Israel blocked all aid going into Northern Gaza from January 23rd to February 27th. This is where starvation is at its highest levels and Israel started allowing aid into Northern Gaza once these reports came out as there were also reports of children starving to death in Northern Gaza (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/gaza-children-dying-malnutrition-israel-ceasefire-talks-intl-hnk/index.html).
But is it Israel’s fault a lack of aid is getting into Gaza? Well aid takes a long time getting in due to lengthy inspections by Israel (some may say this is necessary, others may say this is done purposely to starve Gaza). The long queues for inspection have led to bottlenecks at the Rafah crossing, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said last month, adding that among items deemed “dual use” by Israel are power generators, crutches, field hospital kits, inflatable water tanks, wooden boxes of children’s toys and, “perhaps most depressingly, 600 oxygen tanks.” https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/11/middleeast/why-only-a-trickle-of-aid-is-getting-into-gaza-mime-intl/index.html “Israel forces aid organizations to purchase food from Egypt and prevents them from buying it in Israel, which would allow for a more efficient and rapid transfer of goods. Israel also prohibits the private sector in Gaza from purchasing food, which could significantly increase supply.” “the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, listed several reasons why aid cannot be efficiently distributed. Among other things, he noted that trucks are inspected several times before Israel allows them into Gaza, and even then, long lines form due to the conditions at Rafah Crossing. The little food that does get in is very difficult to distribute due to the constant bombings, destroyed roads, frequent communication blackouts, and shelters overflowing with of hundreds of thousands of IDPs crowding into smaller and smaller areas.” https://www.btselem.org/gaza\_strip/20240108\_israel\_is\_starving\_gaza But what about the aid providers themselves, are they not to blame? Israel has blamed the lack of aid in Gaza on the aid providers themselves and some aid deliveries are postponed and cancelled by those providing aid themselves but how much and why? In January about 10% of aid missions (in the North and South) were postponed by aid organisations themselves ‘due to internal operational constraints’. But in North Gaza, 71% of aid deliveries were denied by the IDF or initially facilitated then impeded and in the South of Gaza 32% of aid deliveries were denied by the IDF or initially facilitated. So in my opinion, the IDF is more to blame for aid not getting into Gaza than the aid distributors themselves as far more aid deliveries are being denied being let into Gaza by the IDF than are being suspended by the aid distributors themselves. Statistics for January: Aid to North of Wadi Gaza: 16% of planned aid missions were facilitated. Of 61 planned missions to the north, ten (16%) were facilitated by the Israeli authorities, two (3%) were partially facilitated, 34 (56%) were denied access, and six (10%) were postponed by aid organizations due to internal operational constraints. In an emerging pattern, the access of an additional nine missions (15%) was initially facilitated, but subsequently impeded as routes designated by the Israeli military proved to be unpassable, or due to the imposition of excessive delays prior to the departure of the missions or at checkpoints en route. Aid to South of Wadi Gaza: 57% of planned aid missions were facilitated. Of 114 planned missions to areas assessed as necessitating coordination to the south of Wadi Gaza, 65 (57%) were facilitated, one was partially facilitated, eight (7%) were initially facilitated but then impeded, 28 (25%) were denied access, and 12 (11%) were postponed internally. The 25% denial rate represents an increase compared with December 2023, where two (12%) of 16 missions were denied access. The 12 postponed missions, all destined for or returning from hospitals and humanitarian sites, were an emerging trend related to the geographical spread of military activities. The denials Included critical resupply missions to hospitals and to address unexploded ordnance (UXOs). Additionally, IDF Checkpoints that inspect aid often opened later than planned (even though the planned times were already inadequate) https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-access-snapshot-gaza-strip-end-january-2024 Israel has also reportedly rejected items going into Gaza with no clear reason (even those with no ‘dual-use’ functions) https://youtu.be/bFRsRhkIHiw https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240201-un-israel-refusing-entry-of-aid-to-gaza-for-unclear-reasons/ Why can’t Israel starve Gaza? Well other than the fact it is deeply immoral, it is against several international laws to starve a civilian population as a method of warfare: “The starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is a serious violation of the laws and customs of war. This conduct has been prohibited under IHL since the adoption of two Additional Protocols (AP) to the Geneva Conventions.” https://starvationaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Factsheet\_1\_Prohibition\_of\_Starvation\_EN.pdf “by 1919 the Report of the Commission on Responsibility set up after the First World War listed “deliberate starvation of civilians” as a violation of the laws and customs of war subject to criminal prosecution.[2] The prohibition of starvation as a method of warfare is codified in Article 54(1) of Additional Protocol I.[3] This provision was generally considered new at the time of the adoption of Additional Protocol I but since then has hardened into a rule of customary international law. Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, “intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” is a war crime in international armed conflicts.[4] The prohibition of starvation is set forth in numerous military manuals.[5] Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is an offence under the legislation of many States.[6] This rule is also supported by official statements and other practice.[7] This practice includes that of States not, or not at the time, party to Additional Protocol I.[8] Contrary practice has been generally condemned or has been denied by the accused party.[9]” https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule53 Some have asserted Israel is weaponising starvation as a bargaining chip to get its hostages back. Again whether you think this is justified or not, it is clearly against international law (see above). Even if you think every adult in Gaza is linked to Hamas and has the ability to free hostages, 40% of Gaza are children under 14. Therefore, starving Gaza would lead to 800,000 children (under 14) not being able to eat. That’s 800,000 children who have no control over whether hostages are released or not being punished for the actions of Hamas. Statistically, only about 2% of Gaza are militants, obviously more people in Gaza will be connected to Hamas but we can realistically say that a majority of Gaza has no control over hostages being released. You may claim that these civilians should be focused on getting Hamas to release the hostages. Maybe, but they are probably more concerned about not dying and Israel plans to continue to attack Gaza even if the hostages are freed. Additionally, the people who have control over whether the hostages are released or not (Hamas, IJ etc.) have food stockpiled so preventing aid going into Gaza practically hurts everyone apart from the people that have the ability to free the hostages. So let me just make this clear: Stopping aid from going into Gaza will punish those who have the least amount of control of whether hostages are released or not. And even if starving the population of Gaza would force Palestinian civilians to encourage Hamas to release the hostages; it is still against international law. It is also important to note that many genocides (perhaps even most) have been committed through forced mass starvation/dehydration. Israel allowing some food into Gaza does not mean that it is not purposely causing mass starvation. For example, during the Holodmor in Ukraine (where 4 million people were killed through mass starvation), the Russians allowed the Ukrainians to eat some food just not enough to keep them alive. Is there any evidence Israel is using starvation against civilians in gaza as a weapon of warfare? There are several statements from Israeli government and IDF officials supporting starvation being used as a weapon of warfare (which is against several international laws). Here are some of them: https://twitter.com/ME\_Observer\_/status/1743067758374334571 Knesset member Tally Gotliv : "Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, we will not be able to recruit intelligence, we will not be able to bribe people, with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence, and we know that finding the abductees is a supreme and super important goal alongside the goals of fighting." Israeli General Giora Eiland’s in an article in Yediot Ahronot calls for genocide “The international community warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from it, as hard as it is. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the Strip will hasten victory.” https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/1726206510286647501?s=20 Israeli Army Colonel, Deputy Head of COGAT: speaking in a video filmed in Beit Lahia — one of the areas of Gaza which appears to have suffered particularly severe levels of destruction — and broadcast on Israeli television on 4 November 2023, Colonel Yogev Bar- Sheshet stated: “[w]hoever returns here, if they return here after, will find scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future;” another Army Colonel recorded in the same video, Colonel Erez Eshel (Reserve), also commented that: “Vengeance is a great value. There is vengeance over what they did to us … This place will be a fallow land. They will not be able to live here”. Tally Gotliv, MK for Likud Party “A brave government must announce that there is no deal[11]!! That’s it. There is no second chance for a terrorist organization that is playing with Israel. And from now, bombing without mercy! Full siege on Gaza! Until the Gazans beg we take the abductees and give them water and food supply. That is the language.” https://twitter.com/TallyGotliv/status/1727654112659915154 Amihai Eliyahu, Minister of Heritage in an interview to Israel Cohen and Kol Barma (Twitter, 5 November) "We would not give humanitarian aid to the Nazis. There is no such thing as non-involved in Gaza.” Question: So what? Should we drop an atomic bomb on all of Gaza? https://twitter.com/YakiAdamkestatus/1721050987526336964?s=20 What about food that is produced within Gaza? “Most cultivated fields have been destroyed, and accessing open areas during the war is dangerous in any case. Bakeries, factories and food warehouses have been bombed or shut down due to lack of basic supplies, fuel and electricity. Stockpiles in private homes, stores and warehouses have long since run out. In these conditions, the family and social support networks that helped residents at the beginning of the war collapsed, too.” https://www.btselem.org/gaza\_strip/20240108\_israel\_is\_starving\_gaza Israel used the temporary ceasefire as an opportunity to destroy agricultural land used to grow food. https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1359638/israeli-army-razed-agricultural-land-during-truce-hrw-reports.html This is nothing new by the way. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/01/gaza-food-crisis https://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/200202\_policy\_of\_destruction Starvation problems made worse by Bakeries being bombed https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog\_entry/bakeries-smashed-in-gaza-bombardment-exacerbate-hunger-crisis/ What about the Israeli protestors blocking aid? There are some Israeli protesters blocking aid into Gaza. They have successfully delayed aid getting into Egypt and caused many trucks to be diverted but there is no evidence to prove they are causing a significant level of disruption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjB4y32mXM It is clear however the IDF and Israeli police could be doing a lot more to prevent this from happening. They are certainly a lot more rough with Israeli citizens protesting the war. Can someone please explain to me why the Israeli police are far more rough when dispersing orthodox Jews opposing military conscription than they are with protesters blocking aid going into a starving population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNt5f\_AKAA Why are the protestors blocking aid? Protesters believe that no aid should be allowed to go into Gaza until the hostages are released. Is this wrong? In my opinion using mass starvation as a weapon is abhorrent under any circumstances but even if you think it is justified, it is still against international law on many levels. TLDsummary: There are several factors leading to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza:

• Palestinian criminal gangs stealing food to sell them at extorted prices.
  
• Only 20% of the aid that is needed to go into Gaza at a bare minimum is being allowed in. This is partly because aid distributors themselves have suspended deliveries (about 10% of cases) but mainly because Israel rejects aid deliveries going into Gaza (about 40% of cases).
  
• Israel takes an extremely large amount of time to inspect aid.
  
• IDF destroying a majority of agricultural land/farmland (bulldozing much of it during the temporary ceasefire).
  
• IDF destroying bakeries.
  
• A small amount of aid being blocked/delayed due to Israeli protesters (which the police/IDF have been very relaxed about compared to other Israeli protests).
  
• It seems that many in Israel are against aid being sent into Gaza at all (almost 70% of all Israelis according to Israeli channel 12 survey) including many members of the the Knesset who have expressed a wish to use starvation as a method of warfare.
  
• Aid was not allowed into Gaza whatsoever for the first two weeks of the war and water was cut off to the Gaza strip for 10 days.
  
• No aid was let into the North of Gaza for over a month leading to children dying of starvation.
  

Caja Misteriosa #41

Volvieron!!!...Volvieron las Cajas Misteriosas!!! por Fin!.. están de vuelta!
La mayoría de los seguidores de Vectores y Otras Cosas ya lo saben... y los que no, pues ya lo sabrán; Las Cajas Misteriosas vienen llenas de vectores y todos en CDR, o tal vez venga llena de fotos de la abuela en vikini, lo cuál no te serviría de bendita sea la cosa... pero en caso contrario... trae por lo menos 100 Archivos... y cada archivo puede traer mínimo 10 o 12 vectores!
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https://vectoresyotrascosas.blogspot.com/2024/02/caja-misteriosa-41.html

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``` kama li ike tawa sina
monsi sina lon poka sinpin
kon sina ali li pakala ike tawa sina
sina pilin jaki sama tomo jaki pi tomo nana jaki
li ken ala e toki tawa ma sama ni
​
sina jo ala e nasin
kon sina li pakala
o ken ni: mi toki e...
lon a!
​
jan pona o, sina jan ike
li jan pakala ike
li jan pakala lili
sina o, jan ike sama mi!
​
jan pona o, sina jan nasa mute
li taso jan suno wan
sina anpa wawa lon kama anpa
taso sina jo e kulupu
​
mi sona ni tenpo pini:
jan ala li ken sama e ni:
mi pakala tan nasin ike mute
taso sina pona la
sina weka e monsi a!
mi ali lon sama moku yaki
​
mi esun e kon mi
tawa jan nasa mute
a a a!
sina pilin ike tan ni ala ni?!
​
jan pona o, mi tu li jan ike
mi tu li jan ike taso ni li ken e pona:
jan unpa li moku e palisa unpa ala ni?
jan pona o, ni li pona tawa mi
​
jan olin o, mi jan ike
li toki pona li jan sona ala
taso mi wan ala a! tan
sina jan ike sama mi
​
mi wile e esun musi
mi wile e lukin ni:
moku nasa ali en ilo unpa ali a!
jan pona o, kalama a!
mi jo ala e lupa tan moku
mi esun e kon mi tan awen wawa mi
​
jan selo li lawa e mi tenpo sama
mi awen li kama ni li awen ike
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jan pona o, sina jan ike
li jan ike taso ken ni:
kama li nasin ante la
mi tu li ike kepeken tu
​
jan pona o, weka e pilin sina tawa sina
o sina olin e sina
o ken insa e pilin pona
o kepen lipu sina, o li sina
li jan ike sama mi

Questions

• Team borderless : when you buy it online is there still a long line to enter?
  • are there separate lines for purchased ticket vs buying it on site? is it still long with that?
• if we are going to yakushima, will we see monkeys? Should we skip arashiyama iwatayama monkey park in that case?
• would going to fushimi inari taisha at night a good idea? or should it be a must to go during the daylight?
• Based on the places that we will be, does anyone have recommendations of places to eat? I read here a lot that really anywhere is good, or to just open up Tablelog. But if anyone has a specific place to recommend that would be appreciated
• With what we have planned, roughly how much should we bring as far as cash goes? We are thinking 7,000 USD
• For a trip like this, how much would you pack? We are thinking two backpacks and two carry on suitcases. Enough clothes for maybe 10 days, and utilize washing machines when we can/need
• Any other lesser talked about tips would also be appreciated
• s
• Special thanks to u/dougwray for some really solid advice

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• Tokyo

May 11-14th
stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
Saturday, May 11th
PM:
-arrival NRT at 5pm
-Tokyo sky tree (closes at 9pm)
-Explore around/Eat
Sunday, May 12th
AM
-Tsukuiji outer market -opens at 8am (Tsukiji Outer Market, 4 Chome-13 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan). Hours 8am-2pm
-Tokyo tower (see the Zojo-ji Temple, the gardens around it)
-Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden(closed on Mondays) admission ticket. Hours. 9-4pm.
-Hotel Gracery Shinjuku (godzilla), shinjuku
PM:
-Food tour 5pm-8pm (1-chōme-2-10 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan)
Monday, May 13th
AM
-Team lab borderless MORI building digital art museum (Japan, 〒106-0041 Tokyo, Minato City, Azabudai, 1-chōme−2−4 ヒルズ ガーデンプラザ B B1)
-hours 10am
PM
-Sumo around 2pm-6pm (Ryogoku Kokugikan National Sumo Arena (1 Chome-3-28 Yokoami, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0015, Japan)
-Akihabara (electric city): manga and anime.Lots of aracade games. There is a building with 8 floors of it.
Mt Fuji
stay: fujikawaguchiko onsen konanso (401-0301 Yamanashi, Fujikawaguchiko, Funatsu 4020, Japan)
-transport is about 3hrs from tokyo
Tuesday, May 14
AM
-Fuji Shibazakura festival held by the fuji motosuko lake resort (Address-212 Motosu, Fu) 8-4pm
purchase tickets:
https://japancheapo.com/events/fuji-shibazakura-festival/
-Mt. Fuji Panoramic Ropeway
-Chureito Padoga
PM: onsen at our hotel
Osaka
May 15-19th
Stay: Tokyu stay osaka honmach
Japan, 〒541-0056 Osaka, Chuo Ward, Kyutaromachi, 2 Chome−4−24 東急ステイ大阪本町 1F
Wednesday, May 15th
AM
-5hr travel; best/quickets time to leave at 10am. Arrive by 3pm at the hotel
PM
-Dotonbori Bridge-street food, takoyaki (balls with octupus), okonomyaki
-Shinsaibashi (for shopping) closes at 10pm
Thursday, May 16th
Day trip Osaka Kyoto (NE of Osaka)
1.15 hr travel
AM
-Arashiyama Iwatayama Monkey Park
Hours 9am-4pm; ticket admission
(50 min ride to the next destination)
-Kinkaku-ji (gold pavillion). Hours 9am-5pm (47 min to the next destination)
-Kenninji Temple (cool dragon art work); Hours 10am-4:30pm. Buy admission ticket. (About 13 min to the nishimarket)
PM
-nishiki market: eat sweets and soba noodles. Hours 9-6pm
(pontoko alley : alley in kyoto- eat kosho yaki)
-Higashiyama and Gion (old neighbothood/geisha distric)
+/-Fushimi Inari Taisha (maybe at night?) 21min to get here
Friday, May 17th
Day trip to Nara (East of Osaka) 1.17 min transport
AM
-Nara Deer Park hours: 24 hrs; free admission
-Kasuga-Taisha (has 3K stone lanterns)
PM:
-return to osaka for food tour by 4pm
Saturday, May 18th
AM:
-Osaka Aquarium 10am-8pm
-Kuromon market-fresh food/osaka food; scallops, oysters, okonomiyaki, puffer fish sashimi . closes at 6pm best time to get there is 11
PM:
-Shinsekai- "new world" go to south for food and bar scene
-don quijote (cheap store)
#Use luggage forwarding service luggage to Hiroshima
May 19-21st
Hiroshima
Stay: Hotel Kuretakeso Hiroshima Otemachi (3 Chome-7-3 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0051, Japan)
Sunday, May 19th
Osaka Hemiji Castle 1.32 hrs. Hemiji Castle Hiroshima 2.5hrs
AM
-Hemji castle (not touring) hours 9-4pm
-Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum closes at 5pm
-Atomic Bomb Dome
-Peace park
PM
Resturants on Hondori Street
-Fumi Chan Okonomiyaki resturant (Hiroshima style)
Monday, May 20th
AM
Boat trip to Miyajima Island
-Itsukushima Shrine , the floating Torii
-Daisho in temple
PM:
Resturants on Hondori Street
May 21-25th
Yakushima Island
Stay: Cottage Morinokokage 292-9 Funayuki, Yakushima, Kumage District, Kagoshima 891-4312, Japan
https://yesyakushima.com/getting-to-yakushima/by-sea/
Tuesday, May 21st
AM: take the train from Hiroshima Kagoshima 4hrs of travel by train
-ferry at 13:20 to Yakushima Island
-pick up the car and check in by 15:00
PM- grab dinner and hang out on the beach
Wednesday, May 22nd
-am: forest tour
-pm: grab dinner
Thursday, May 23rd:
-am: SUP
-pm: grab dinner
Friday, May 24th
-am: go diving
-pm: grab dinner
May 25th-27th
Fukuoka
Stay: Daiwa Roynet Hotel Hakata Reisen PREMIER
812-0039 Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Reisenmachi 2-7, Japan
Saturday, May 25th
AM: Kagoshima Fukuoka
-Drop the car off at Anbo port, take the ferry at 7am and arrive by 9:30am
-2.40 hrs travel by train
PM
-Arrive around 1pm
-ACROS fukuoka (cool building slanted with garden steps. Can go up to the 14th floor. On weekends and national holiday can go to roof top for views). Hours 10-6pm
-Eat at the food stall in Nakasu/Tejin and Yakuin; tonkotsu ramen, yatai in tenjin area
Sunday, May 26th
AM:
-Nanzoin temple (reclining buddah) and explore surrounding area. Hours 9-4:30pm; About 54 min ride.
PM:
-Eat at the food stall in Nakasu/Tejin and Yakuin; tonkotsu ramen, yatai in tenjin area
-go to canal city for light show near the fountains
May 27th-June 1st back to Tokyo
stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
Monday, May 27th
AM: fly Fukuoka Tokyo
PM:
Arrive in Tokyo 1:25pm at HND
-drop the luggage at the hotel
-go to costco in Makahuri (2 floors)
PM
-kabuki-cho (entrance where there is lots of bars/resturants/golden gai is there)eat yakaturi
shinjuku golden gai (alley with food)
Tuesday, May 28th
AM
-Nathan's hair cut at Wolfman barber shop at 10am
(address:
1F U Building, 3-27-23 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001)
https://www.wolfmanbarber.com/
-Kojima productions co
-Unicorn gundam statue
-China town, Yokohama
PM
baseball game at the Yokohama municipal stadium
address: Yokohamakoen, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0022, Japan
https://npb.jp/games/2024/schedule\_05\_detail.html
Wednesday, May 29th
AM: Explore/shopping/eat
PM:
4:30pm our photo shoot in Asakusa
-visit the Sensoji temple
-go to a fancy dinner after the photo shoot
Thursday, May 30th
AM
-cooking sun at 9:30-12:00 in shinjuku
-walk through Meji Jingu Garden Ginkgo ave
-Shibuya crossing/Shops
PM:
-Explore Harajuku +/- Karaoke
Friday, May 31st
AM
-at 9am Tea ceremoney (90-120 min long)
-at 11am Samurai cutting and basic ninja/samurai tour (90 min long)
-at 11am the basic samurai tour (60 min long)
OPEN
PM
OPEN
-packing
Saturday, June 1s- Fly back home 5:45pm
Check out at 11am
Need to do:
-book festival ticket in mt fuji for May 14th.
-book ferry ticket to miyajima for May 20th
-book baseball game in Tokyo May 28th at yokohama stadium
-book sumo tickets for May 13th
-book team labs borderless for May 13th
-book hydrofoil to and from kagoshima
-book aquarium osaka for May 18th
Things to know:
need to make account visit japan website. Need 3 screen shots of the quarantine page, customs and for immigration.
-get a masters card to use pasmo card
-need cash
-akihabra and shinjuku best palces to get cash exchange
-ecbo cloak app for luggage lockers
-get a notebook for stamps
-bring trash bags
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Extra
tokyo
NEZU SHRINE IN TOKYO alternative to fushimi inari
the tobacco and salt museum
Hakone
Stay: Karuka Gora: 1300-8 Gora, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0408, Japan
-hakone sightseeing cruise/lake ashi
https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/
-take the rope way to togendai-ko port for the cruise
-see the jakon jinja temple
-owakudani sulphur springs
+/-old tokaido road cedar (Old Tōkaidō Road Ancient Cedar Avenue - East End)
-open air museum
Shibuya crossing
-note: Sumida river walk to walk from tokyo sky tree to sensoji
-In shibuya
Meiji Jingu shrine (oldest buddhist temple in tokyo. The gate of 2 kings.)
Mt Fuji
+/-Oshino Omiya Bridge in oshino park (best with cherry blossom and backround of mt fuji, Oishi Park, ２５２５番地の１１先 Oishi, Fujikawaguchiko, Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi 401-0305, Japan)
-+/-Kawaguchiki music forest museum (10-6pm) mt fuji
Osaka
+/-Kōfuku-ji temple
+/-Todai-ji (has the largest bronze buddha)
-Osaka castle (make sure to look at the view from the top)
has museum inside, around it there is parks, osaka museum of history. Explore the park.
+/-Shitennoji Temple (oldest temple in osaka)
+/- umeda sky building
Kyoto
+/-Arashiyama bamboo grove; Alternatives (Adashino Nenbutsuji Temple Bamboo Forest)
*costco in makahuri
Hiroshima
Shukkei en garden
+/-Five storied podaga (Goju-no-To) Horyuji temple
Kagoshima
+/- Eat at: Mawaru Sushi Mekkemon Dolphin Port in Kagoshima opens at 11am
Kyushu
+/- step at Kurume to see: Tsuzura rice terrace, hishino triple water wheels, ukiha inari shrine
Fukuoka
+/-Dazaifu tenmangu
+/-Uminonakamichi Seaside Park; closes at 5pm
(address 18-25 Saitozaki, Higashi Ward, Fukuoka, 811-0321, Japan)
+/-tenjin underground mall closes at 8pm
Nikko
-Shinkyo bridge
-Toshogu Temple
-Kegon Falls
cruise info: https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/
https://www.hakonenavi.jp/international/en/transportation/hakone-kankosen
PM: dinner
https://www.theinvisibletourist.com/6-days-in-tokyo-itinerary-first-time/
https://www.theinvisibletourist.com/japan-honeymoon-itinerary/
https://www.theinvisibletourist.com/best-day-trips-from-tokyo-year-round/
https://www.theinvisibletourist.com/japan-travel/
https://www.japan.travel/en/destinations/kyushu/

Hello all, this is the itinerary for my wife and I's honeymoon trip this upcoming May. Some things we are wondering is:

• are we overlooking any sights in areas we will already be?
• What things on our list are overrated?
• Based on where we are going and doing, how much around would you budget each day?
• Anyone whose done Homestay, was it worth it?
• Any other recommendations/critiques

Tokyo May 11-14th
stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 11th
PM:
-arrival NRT
-purchase Pasmo or SUICA card
-purchase wifi internet
+/- Tokyo sky tree
-kabuki-cho (entrance where there is lots of bars/resturants/golden gai is there)eat yakaturi
shinjuku golden gai (alley with food) (37 minute train ride one way from hotel, maybe check out something closer?)
May 12th
AM:
-Tsukuiji market(27 minute train ride from hotel), shibuya
-eat seared tuna, Kitsuyena, most stalls are cash only
- Tokyo tower (see the temple near it) (26 min train ride from Tsukiji market)
-Shibuya sramble crossing (Hachiko statue- outside the shibuya station) (34 minute train ride from tokyo tower)
-Hotel Gracery Shinjuku (godzilla), shinjuku (21 minute train from shibuya scramble)
-Shinjuku gyoen national park (closed on Mondays)(20 minute walk v 16 minute train ride from hotel gracery)
-Meiji Jingu shrine (oldest shinto temple in tokyo. The gate of 2 kings.)
PM:
-the food tour 5pm (1-chōme-2-10 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan)
-(15 minute walk from the national garden)
May 13th
AM and PM Sumo
-permitted only one re-entry?(go for lunch)
-eat at the venue(coffee jelly?)
-can eat at your seat
-bring in own food, just dont make a scene
-they do not check bags
-helpers where purple robes, assist in finding seats
Mt Fuji
Stay: Fujikawaguchiko Onsen Konanso 401-0301 Yamanashi, Fujikawaguchiko, Funatsu 4020, Japan, Fujikawaguchiko , JP
May 14
-Chureito Padoga (55 minute train from ryokan)
+/-North shore of Lake Kawaguchiko
-panoramic ropeway(latest ascent up is 420pm and last to descend is 520pm)

\-5 minute walk from ryokan to cable car station 

-Fuji Shibazakura festival (over grown moss and flowers) Mid April - late May
-Oshino Omiya Bridge (best with cherry blossom and backround of mt fuji)(1 hr 10 min train ride from hotel)
-Kawaguchiki music forest museum(40 minute walk, can walk the bridge across the lake and also see Ubuyagasaki shrine)
-food at ryokan is delicious
Osaka May 15-19th
Stay: Tokyu stay osaka honmachi
Japan, 〒541-0056 Osaka, Chuo Ward, Kyutaromachi, 2 Chome−4−24 東急ステイ大阪本町 1F
May 15th
AM
-Himeji Castle (UNESCO world heritage site) (2.5 hr one way train from hotel)

\-stop by himeji castle on the way to Hiroshima? 

-Osaka Castle?

\-Nishinomaru Garden at Osaka Castle (hanami spot) 

-Kuromon market-fresh food/osaka food; scallops, oysters, puffer fish sashimi
+/-Shitennoji Temple (oldest temple in osaka)
PM
-Dotonbori Bridge-street food, takoyaki (balls with octupus), okonomyaki
+/- umeda sky building (27 minutes from dotonobori)(Abeno harukas for better view?)
+/-Shinsaibashi (for shopping)(Tenjinbashi-suji shopping street?)
May 16th
Day trip to Kyoto (NE of Osaka)
AM
-Fushimi Inari Taisha(1 hr 10 min from hotel)
-Higashiyama and Gion (old neighbothood/geisha distric)(22min train v 42 min walk)
+/-kodaiji temple (alternative to the one below)
-Kenninji Temple (cool dragon art work)
-Kimkaku - Ji (gold pavillion)
-Arashiyama bamboo grove
-Arashiyama Iwatayama Monkey Park
PM
-nishiki market: eat sweets and soba noodles
-pontoko alley : alley in kyoto- eat kosho yaki
-saki brewery
May 17th
Day trip to Nara (East of Osaka)
AM
-Kōfuku-ji temple
-Todai-jiv(has the largest bronze buddha)
-Kasuga-Taisha (has 3K stone lenterns)
-Nara Deer Park
-Eat @ Magurogoya(toro)
PM:
-return to osaka for food tour by 4pm
May 18th
AM: heading west
Kobe to eat kobe beef
Hemji castle
PM:
-Shinsekai- "new world" go to south for food and bar scene
May 19-21st Hiroshima
Stay: Hotel Kuretakeso Hiroshima Otemachi (3 Chome-7-3 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0051, Japan)
May 19th
AM
+/- take a tour
-Atomic Bomb Dome
-Peace park
-Shukkei en garden
-Hiroshima Castle
PM
Fumi Chan Okonomiyaki resturant
May 20th
Miyajima Island
AM
-giant torii japan
-Itsukushima Shrine
+/-Five storied podaga (Goju-no-To) Horyuji temple
-Daisho in temple
PM: somewhere to eat
May 21-25th Yakushima Island
Stay: Cottage Morinokokage 292-9 Funayuki, Yakushima, Kumage District, Kagoshima 891-4312, Japan
AM: take the train from Hiroshima to Kagoshima
+/- Eat at: Mawaru Sushi Mekkemon Dolphin Port in Kagoshima opens at 11am
-ferry to Yakushima Island to pick up the car and check in by 3:00pm
PM- grab dinner
22nd
-am: forest tour
-pm: grab dinner
23rd:
-am: SUP(stand up paddle boardding)
-pm: grab dinner
24th
-am: go diving
-pm: grab dinner
May 25th-27th
Fukuoka
Stay: Quintessa Hotel Fukuoka Tenjin Comic&Books
3 Chome-2-10 Tenjin, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, 810-0001, Japan
AM: Kagoshima Fukuoka
Drop the car off at Anbo port, take the ferry and arrive by 9:30am.
+/-Ibusuki Natural Sand Bath
+/- luggage services to our hotel
+/- explore kagoshima
+/- Eat at: Mawaru Sushi Mekkemon Dolphin Port in Kagoshima opens at 11am
+/- step at Kurume to see: Tsuzura rice terrace, hishino triple water wheels, ukiha inari shrine
PM:
Eat at the food stall in Nakasu/Tejin and Yakuin
-tonkotsu ramen
May 26th
+/- go to Saga area "the air baloon city" (SW from Fukuaoka) instead of Beppu
-Mifuneyama Rakuen in Takeo
-Ureshino’s hot springs
-Kiyomizu Falls
-The city
-Yoshinogari Historical Park
AM:
PM:Back to Fukuoka to eat at the food stall in Nakasu/Tejin and Yakuin
May 27th-June 1st back to Tokyo
stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 27th
AM: fly into Tokyo(HND) from Fukuoka(flight leaves @ 1145am lands @ 125pm)
PM:
-spend time in Akihabara (electric city): manga and anime.Lots of aracade games. There is 8 floors of it.
-shop at retro game camp
-Dinner
May 28th
AM
Team labs
shopping
PM
Harajuku Karaoke
May 29th
AM
10am Samurai cutting and basic ninja/samurai tour.
4:30- photo shoot in Akasuka
PM: fancy dinner
-contenders for fancy dinner:
-Ryuzu
- EsqUISSE
-
May 30th
Nikko (3hrs away)
AM:
-Shinkyo bridge
-Rinnoji Temple
-Toshogu Temple
-Kegon Falls
+/-Ryuzu falls
PM:
Dinner
May 31st
AM Shopping
PM dinner and packing
June 1s- Fly back home

Festival Avándaro, un concierto de rock realizado en 1971 en Valle del Bravo, Estado de México, que marcó un hito en la escena contracultural del país.
Su nombre fue Festival de Rock y Ruedas en Avándaro y fue organizado por Justino Compeán, Eduardo y Alfonso Negrete y Luis del Llano. El concepto original era crear una carrera anual de autos, idea que terminó convirtiéndose en festival de música.
El festival se llevó a cabo en lo que entonces eran unos terrenos utilizados para correr autos deportivos en las cercanías de un club de golf. El éxito fue tal que se estima que logró reunir alrededor de 300 mil personas.
Para dimensionar el impacto de este evento es importante ubicarlo históricamente, pues en el país se vivía un ambiente de represión contra los jóvenes. Unos meses atrás tuvo lugar la Masacre de Corpus Christi y 3 años antes la Matanza de Tlatelolco.
Se convirtió en el primer evento multitudinario de su tipo en México y contó con una gran presencia de público joven que supo divertirse, hecho que escandalizó a la prensa y los sectores sociales más conservadores de la época.
El impacto de este evento en la sociedad mexicana y el gobierno fue tal que desde entonces los eventos de música rock fueron prohibidos, censura que fue erradicada hasta 1980.
El festival inició el sábado 11 de septiembre a las 20:00 horas y contó con la participación de 11 bandas: Los Dug Dug’s, El Epílogo, La Division del Norte, Tequila, Peace & Love, El Ritual, Los Yaki, Bandido, Tinta Blanca, El Amor y Three Souls in the Mind, representativas de la llamada Onda Chicana.
Avándaro representó la cima de un movimiento juvenil, marcó un importante capítulo en la historia del rock en México y, a pesar de la campaña mediática de desprestigio pervive en el imaginario como un hito y fenómeno sociocultural único.
Fuente: @culturamx

Just some general questions
-should we nix Mt Fuji stay in favor of extending Osaka or Tokyo? -is there anything we have planned that might be overhyped? -should we get sumo tickets on our own or through a third party? -should we do the pirate shop tour or hakone free pass? -is Nikko worth it? -fine dining restaurant recommendations? -we are flying from kagoshima to Tokyo after yakushima -other then that what types of passes should we buy? -does luggage forwarding work all over Japan? -is it worth it to get a tour guide in Hiroshima? -karaoke spots?
Thank you all!
Tokyo May 11-13th stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 11th -arrival +/- Tokyo sky tree -kabuki-cho (entrance where there is lots of bars/resturants/golden gai is there)eat yakaturi shinjuku golden gai (alley with food)
May 12th AM -Tsukuiji market, shibuya -Tokyo tower next to it is the zojoji temple -Shibuya sramble crossing (Hachiko statue- outside the shibuya station) -Hotel Gracery Shinjuku (godzilla), shinjuku -Meiji Jingu shrine (oldest buddhist temple in tokyo. The gate of 2 kings.) note: Sumida river walk to walk from tokyo sky tree to sensoji
pm: -the food tour 5pm (1-chōme-2-10 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan)
May 13th AM and PM Sumo
Mt Fuji May 14 -Chureito Padoga -North shore of Lake Kawaguchiko -panoramic ropeway -onsen
Osaka May 15-19th Stay: Tokyu stay osaka honmach Japan, 〒541-0056 Osaka, Chuo Ward, Kyutaromachi, 2 Chome−4−24 東急ステイ大阪本町 1F
May 15th AM -Osaka castle (make sure to look at the view from the top) -Kuromon market-fresh food/osaka food; scallops, oysters, puffer fish sashimi +/-Shitennoji Temple (oldest temple in osaka)
PM -Dotonbori Bridge-street food, takoyaki (balls with octupus), okonomyaki +/- umeda sky building +/-Shinsaibashi (for shopping)
May 16th Day trip to Kyoto (NE of Osaka) AM -Fushimi Inari Taisha -Higashiyama and Gion (old neighbothood/geisha distric) +/-kodaiji temple (alternative to the one below) -Kenninji Temple (cool dragon art work) -Kimkaku - Ji (gold pavillion) -Arashiyama bamboo grove -Arashiyama Iwatayama Monkey Park
PM -nishiki market: eat sweets and soba noodles -pontoko alley : alley in kyoto- eat kosho yaki -saki brewery
May 17th Day trip to Nara (East of Osaka) AM -Kōfuku-ji temple -Todai-jiv(has the largest bronze buddha) -Kasuga-Taisha (has 3K stone lenterns) -Nara Deer Park
PM: -return to osaka for food tour by 4pm
May 18th
AM: heading west Kobe to eat kobe beef Hemji castle
PM: -Shinsekai- "new world" go to south for food and bar scene
May 19-21st Hiroshima Stay: Hotel Kuretakeso Hiroshima Otemachi (3 Chome-7-3 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0051, Japan)
May 19th AM +/- take a tour -Atomic Bomb Dome -Peace park -Shukkei en garden -Hiroshima Castle PM Fumi Chan Okonomiyaki resturant
May 20th Miyajima Island AM -giant torii japan -Itsukushima Shrine +/-Five storied podaga (Goju-no-To) Horyuji temple -Daisho in temple
PM: somewhere to eat
May 21-25th Yakushima Island Stay: Cottage Morinokokage 292-9 Funayuki, Yakushima, Kumage District, Kagoshima 891-4312, Japan
AM: ferry in and pick up the car PM- grab dinner
22nd -am: forest tour -pm: grab dinner
23rd: -am: SUP -pm: grab dinner
24th -am: go diving -pm: grab dinner
May 25th-27th Hakone Stay: Karuka Gora: 1300-8 Gora, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0408, Japan
May 25th AM: travleling to hakone PM:dinner
May 26th -hakone sightseeing cruise/lake ashi https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/
-take the rope way to togendai-ko port for the cruise -see the jakon jinja temple -owakudani sulphur springs +/-old tokaido road cedar (Old Tōkaidō Road Ancient Cedar Avenue - East End) -open air museum
cruise infor: https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/ https://www.hakonenavi.jp/international/en/transportation/hakone-kankosen
PM: dinner
May 27th-June 1st back to Tokyo stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 27th travel back AM and PM spend time in Akihabara (electric city): manga and anime.Lots of aracade games -There is 8 floors of it. -shop at retro game camp
May 28th Nikko (3hrs away) AM: -Shinkyo bridge -Rinnoji Temple -Toshogu Temple -Kegon Falls +/-Ryuzu falls
PM: Dinner
May 29th AM 10am Samurai cutting and basic ninja/samurai tour. 4:30- photo shoot in akasuka
PM: fancy dinner
May 30th AM Team labs
PM Harajuku Karaoke
May 31st AM shopping PM dinner and packing
June 1st- leave

Hello all, just want to say I've submitted one before and it wasn't as fleshed out as this, and this is about as fleshed out as its gonna get before my brain melts.
Just a few questions: -is there anything we are doing that is repetitive? (We might nix Kawaguchiko to extend either Tokyo or Osaka) -what other highlights of Tokyo are we missing that might be better suited? -should we do the pirate ship tour or hakone free pass? -what are some good day trips from Tokyo north of Tokyo (2hr max one way)? -is it worth it to get a guided tour in Hiroshima? -is Nikko worth it?
Thank you!
*+/- means maybe do it
Tokyo May 11-13th stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 11th -arrival +/- Tokyo sky tree -kabuki-cho (entrance where there is lots of bars/resturants/golden gai is there)eat yakaturi shinjuku golden gai (alley with food)
May 12th AM -Tsukuiji market, shibuya -Tokyo tower next to it is the zojoji temple -Shibuya sramble crossing (Hachiko statue- outside the shibuya station) -Hotel Gracery Shinjuku (godzilla), shinjuku -Meiji Jingu shrine (oldest buddhist temple in tokyo. The gate of 2 kings.) note: Sumida river walk to walk from tokyo sky tree to sensoji
pm: -the food tour 5pm (1-chōme-2-10 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan)
May 13th AM and PM Sumo
Mt Fuji May 14 -Chureito Padoga -North shore of Lake Kawaguchiko -panoramic ropeway
Osaka May 15-19th Stay: Tokyu stay osaka honmach Japan, 〒541-0056 Osaka, Chuo Ward, Kyutaromachi, 2 Chome−4−24 東急ステイ大阪本町 1F
May 15th AM -Osaka castle (make sure to look at the view from the top) -Kuromon market-fresh food/osaka food; scallops, oysters, puffer fish sashimi +/-Shitennoji Temple (oldest temple in osaka)
PM -Dotonbori Bridge-street food, takoyaki (balls with octupus), okonomyaki +/- umeda sky building +/-Shinsaibashi (for shopping)
May 16th Day trip to Kyoto (NE of Osaka) AM -Fushimi Inari Taisha -Higashiyama and Gion (old neighbothood/geisha distric) +/-kodaiji temple (alternative to the one below) -Kenninji Temple (cool dragon art work) -Kimkaku - Ji (gold pavillion) -Arashiyama bamboo grove -Arashiyama Iwatayama Monkey Park
PM -nishiki market: eat sweets and soba noodles -pontoko alley : alley in kyoto- eat kosho yaki -saki brewery
May 17th Day trip to Nara (East of Osaka) AM -Kōfuku-ji temple -Todai-jiv(has the largest bronze buddha) -Kasuga-Taisha (has 3K stone lenterns) -Nara Deer Park
PM: -return to osaka for food tour by 4pm
May 18th
AM: heading west Kobe to eat kobe beef Hemji castle
PM: -Shinsekai- "new world" go to south for food and bar scene
May 19-21st Hiroshima Stay: Hotel Kuretakeso Hiroshima Otemachi (3 Chome-7-3 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0051, Japan)
May 19th AM +/- take a tour -Atomic Bomb Dome -Peace park -Shukkei en garden -Hiroshima Castle PM Fumi Chan Okonomiyaki resturant
May 20th Miyajima Island AM -giant torii japan -Itsukushima Shrine +/-Five storied podaga (Goju-no-To) Horyuji temple -Daisho in temple
PM: somewhere to eat
May 21-25th Yakushima Island Stay: Cottage Morinokokage 292-9 Funayuki, Yakushima, Kumage District, Kagoshima 891-4312, Japan
AM: ferry in and pick up the car PM- grab dinner
22nd -am: forest tour -pm: grab dinner
23rd: -am: do SUP -pm: grab dinner
24th -am: go diving -pm: grab dinner
May 25th-27th Hakone Stay: Karuka Gora: 1300-8 Gora, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0408, Japan
May 25th AM: traveling to hakone PM:dinner
May 26th -hakone sightseeing cruise/lake ashi https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/
-take the rope way to togendai-ko port for the cruise -see the jakon jinja temple -owakudani sulphur springs +/-old tokaido road cedar (Old Tōkaidō Road Ancient Cedar Avenue - East End) -open air museum
cruise infor: https://www.hakonenavi.jp/hakone-kankosen/ https://www.hakonenavi.jp/international/en/transportation/hakone-kankosen
PM: dinner
May 27th-June 1st back to Tokyo stay: Petit Grande Miyabi, 1 Chome-2-10 Ishiwara, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0011, Japan
May 27th travel back AM and PM spend time in Akihabara (electric city): manga and anime.Lots of aracade games -There is 8 floors of it. -shop at retro game camp
May 28th Nikko (3hrs away) AM: -Shinkyo bridge -Rinnoji Temple -Toshogu Temple -Kegon Falls +/-Ryuzu falls
PM: Dinner
May 29th AM 10am Samurai cutting and basic ninja/samurai tour. 4:30- photo shoot in akasuka
PM: fancy dinner
May 30th AM Team labs borderless
PM Harajuku Karaoke
May 31st AM shopping PM dinner and packing
June 1st- leave

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• Japanese commentary stream on ABEMA (free during live broadcast only).
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Dark Matches start at 2:30pm JST Right now as of this edit, Main card starts at 3pm JST

Card

1. Dark Match - Taishi Ozawa vs Yu Owada
2. Dark Match - Muhammad Yone, Atsushi Kotoge, Super Crazy, TERRY YAKI vs Akitoshi Saito, Hajime Ohara, Hi69, Kai Fujimura
3. GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Championship 3WAY Match Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf (c) vs YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs Ninja Mack & Alejandro
4. International Sensation - Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene vs Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Vinnie Massaro, Titus Alexander
5. NOAH vs NJPW - Masa Kitamiya vs Tomohiro Ishii
6. NOAH vs NJPW - Go Shiozaki vs Satoshi Kojima
7. Great Sakuya Arrival - Great Sakuya, Nagisa Nozaki vs Haruka Umesaki, Miyuki Takase
8. Ulka Sasaki Pro Wrestling Debut Match - Takashi Sugiura vs Ulka Sasaki
9. Intermission
10. WRESTLING SYMPHONY - Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, HAYATA
11. GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship - Daga (c) vs Eita
12. NOAH & NJPW vs HOUSE OF TORTURE 6v6 Elimination- Kaito Kiyomiya, Shota Umino, Ryohei Oiwa, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo, Junta Miyawaki vs EVIL, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Dick Togo
13. GHC Heavyweight Championship - Kenoh (c) vs Manabu Soya
14. DESTINY2024 - Naomichi Marufuji vs Kota Ibushi

¿Existe algún lugar acá en Chihuas que sea buffet de sushi?
Recuerdo que allá por el 2016 Yaki Yang tenía uno, pero no sé si la promoción siga activa o si la calidad sea buena actualmente.

The following is the itinerary my family (6 people) will be following for our Japan trip in 2 days. Any suggestions, advice or recommendations to make the trip more fun and interesting are appreciated. Thank you!
DAY 1 18/12 OKAYAMA MON
1pm Reach okayama airport
4pm Reach airbnb, Leave luggage in airbnb
4.30pm Shopping around okayama station (AEON mall, Sun Station Terrace Okayama, Omotecho Shopping Street)
6pm Dinner (Yamato, Okonomiyaki Mori )
8pm continue shopping
DAY 2 19/12 OKAYAMA->KURASHIKI TUES
8.30am reach Okayama Station (Momotaro statue)
9.30am Reach kurashiki
10am kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter + Yuurin-an Cafe + Denim Street
1pm lunch then Mitsui Outlet Park Kurashiki(closes 8pm) + Ario Kurashiki(closes 9pm, has supermarket) (must try: peach soft serve ice cream)
10pm go back to Okayama
DAY 3 20/12 OKAYAMA WED
8am breakfast
10am okayama castle + Bizen-yaki Pottery Studio (need reserve?)
12pm lunch (oyster restaurant at bridge)
3pm Korakuen garden
5pm Dinner (Yakiniku J’s En / Niku no Hosoda near okayama station)
7pm Shopping (Okayama Ekimae Shopping Street, Hokancho Shopping Street)
DAY 4 21/12 OKAYAMA->HIROSHIMA THURS
9.30am Leave for Hiroshima
12pm Lunch
2pm Hiroshima Castle
5pm dinner
7pm Aioi dori/ Hondori
DAY 5 22/12 HIROSHIMA -> MIYAJIMA FRI
Itsukushima shrine
mount misen
DAY 6 23/12 HIROSHIMA SAT
9am Peace Memorial Park & Museum-> A Bomb Dome
1pm Lunch
3pm Hondori Street
DAY 7 24/12 HIROSHIMA SUN
9am shukkaien Garden
12pm Lunch
2pm the Outlets Hiroshima
DAY 8 25/12 HIROSHIMA -> MON
christmas!! what’s open
etSETOra sightseeing train to get to onomichi
DAY 9 26/12 Onomichi TUES
9am Onomichi temple walk + tennei-ji temple
Senko-ji Park + senko-ji temple
12pm Lunch (Ramen Miyachi)
Must try: Onomichi custard pudding (Oyatsu-to-Yamaneko, Yamaneko Mill), Setouchi lemon, Hassaku daifuku, ice monaka (Karasawa Ice Cream), Panya Koro (bakery)
7pm Dinner (Komedoko Shokudo, above Yamaneko Mill)
8pm Onomichi Fukuya
DAY 10 27/12 ONOMICHI -> TOMONOURA -> OKAYAMA WED
9am Fukuyama Station (JR Sanyo Line), Tomo Port (bus)
Joyato Lighthouse
12pm lunch
Ioji Temple
Fukuzenji Temple
6pm dinner
Go back okayama
DAY 11 28/12 OKAYAMA -> NAOSHIMA THURS
7.50am Reach Okayama station (1h to Uno, change at chayamachi station)
8.50am Reach Uno station
9.45am Reach Naoshima, Miyanoura port + red pumpkin
10am Benesse house museum (Valley Gallery, Cultural Melting Bath, Seaside Gallery, and House Park) + Yellow pumpkin (15min walk from benesse house museum)
12pm Lunch (chichu cafe) + Chichu art museum
3.30pm Art house project (esp Minamidera House) Yakuba-mae stop, buy multi-site ticket from the “Haisha” house (>3 houses)
5.30pm Ando museum (if have time)
6pm dinner (Cafe Salon Nakaoku) recs: daily fish specials
7.30pm (3min walk to port) Naoshima public bath house (need reserve?)
8.45pm (last ferry) Ferry back to Uno
DAY 12 29/12 OKAYAMA
Explore okayama
lunch
Go to airport
2pm flight back home
Thanks for reading to the end! I’d love ur comments! :)