When will I be able to visit Tokyo?

In my mind, due to the gaijin flippers being blocked from hoovering up all the good cheap shit for resale in their own countries, the Disk Union stores are bulging at the seams with goodies just waiting for me to get the fuck down there and get hoovering. I'm not technically a full-on flipper but I will buy cheap shit for potential resale if it will get my paypal balance up high enough to blow the lot on a wholesale order of goodies for me.

Japan will surely not open in 2022. You might say late 2022 but by then the Omicron variant will have been usurped by the far more deadly Gavaskarse variant and around and around we go.

Although fffs last time I went to Tokio in 2018 (?) the Disk Unions had wised up to the flippers and there were utterly fuckall bargains. Cheaper to save the airfare and just buy the same shit for roughly the same price on discogs.

Yah, I think WW3 will be involved but doubt anyone will be visiting after that. Plus, Japan might sink into the ocean sooner than you can get back in!

I think I could get back in with my wife, but we have been waiting for those fabled vaccine passports that would lead to quarantine-free travel...ahahahahahahaaaahh...If omicron turns out to be weak sauce, I predict Juneish I will be able to return with extremely minimal (3-day) or no quarantine on both Japanese and Vietnamese sides, but man, how long can they bar tourists from entering? 

Anyhow, looking forward to meeting you all across the river from the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Sept. 17th, 2023! The future, she so bright...

So, war first...

 

japantoday.com/category/national/focus-travel-firms-thrown-in-confusion-as-japan-reopens-to-foreign-tourists
We are watching you, Nikkei. Please fill out these forms in triplicate documenting WHY you sat in the back third of the bus and in the aisle seat of all places. Are you trying to kill us all? You insensitive bubonic apefaced CUNT.

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There's a Sushiro by my crib that I have always avoided because it looks so terribly drab from the outside and is part of a handful of terrible chain places by me that I have been to once and vowed "never again" (sorry Genbaku survivors!). But the other day some of my buds here were singing it's praises - one dude manages a nice udon joint so I have to take it seriously and well, with the price of things here, I will most likely be visiting it soon, soy sauce lickers be damned. The key to kaiten sushi is to order what you want and get it fresh made- not just grabbing dishes that have been travelling around for god knows how long and licked by some local freak-oh young or old.

The other crap chain places around me are a Joyfull (I thought it was Chinese food but now it's just generic fami-resto fare), Jolly Pasta (where "al dente" is really "al denture" soft) and a Coco's which I might consider for a coffee to sneak some smokos but I am sure they have been forced to abandon the smoking section.

There are luckily a handful of decent options within walking distance including legit Indian that I will have to check out soon. There is also a famous "Shirunashi tantanmen" that I went to once. Terrible dark atmosphere and everyone sat around silent like it was some fuggin Michelin place or something. I like Hiroshima style tsukemen (and of course okonomiyaki). I had tsukemen in Tokyo once and it was just a heavy gross sauce - Hiroshima style is much lighter...

twinspeakeatgo.com/hiroshimas-best-eats-unique-spicy-noodle-specialties-reimen-shirunashi-tantanmen/

"gaijin curse of the sumimasen"   ahaha right? Just yell "SUI MASSSENN" and zero reaction...You'll be happy to know it's the same or worse in Vietnam "em oi..EM oi...EMMMMM OOOIIIIII!!!"

I was just spoiled way too rotten on western and Indian and other Asian and of course Viet food* in Sai Gon. They have Uber Eats here now, so I tried an interesting looking sandwich place: two nice but small sandos for 2000 yen total delivered from across town an hour+ later, in a car I think. The whole experience just made me sad and think "well, Bourdain loved those crap conbini tuna salad sandos so..."  At least my rant about shirunashi tantanmen yielded results: Just saw a new place near me, much more normal and lighter than that other famous place...

*Viet restos are more numerous even here in Hiroshima now but I passed a place with a fresh-squeezed sugarcane drink stand set up outside: 550 yen or about 5+ times the price on the dirty streets of Sai Gon.

moar LOL the sushi licker got 3 years in jail



japantoday.com/category/crime/man-convicted-over-viral-video-of-sauce-bottle-licking-at-sushi-chain

3 years, coppers prolly thought "let's throw the book at this little tik tok rik rol lol spacker, maybe it'll deter future bogan juuveee cunts from trying this shit." 

Little toad is still getting sued to hell too I suppose so his fam are now in debt forever. 

Plus the fucker will NEVER get a job now. He'll turn up to an interview at 7-11 and they'll say "heyyyy aren't you the fucktard who spat on the sushi? Well, well, well. The only question remaining in this interview is just how quick I can get around this table and bury my foot up your arse. No, crying won't help you, ffs, you should be using this time while I'm still talking to give yourself a running headstart......"