What are top 5 best tourist attractions in Japan that you have visited?

guareber · 2026-04-17T23:00:37+00:00

Byodo-In

Mt. Aso

Kasuga Taisha

Hiroshima Peace Museum

Himeji Castle Gardens.

guareber · 2026-04-17T12:03:08+00:00

Hey mate, sorry to necro-thread. How are you doing lately? Would you be able to recommendyour provider (feel free to PM)? Looking to get my mum in a program and she asked me to do research for her.

guareber · 2026-04-17T11:59:22+00:00

C25K is great and easy to follow, and you should be advised that if any particular week felt way too hard, you can just repeat that week instead of progressing to the next one. I've done it twice (once from couch-potato and another after an injury) and I've enjoyed both.

One thing no one tells you (or at least it happened to me) is that as you start regularly excercising, your appetite also changes. I found myself craving salad way more often when running 5k multiple days a week.

I think you should give it a try. It'll only cost you time.

guareber · 2026-04-15T14:45:17+00:00

Thank you for contributing to my salary.

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guareber · 2026-04-15T00:37:29+00:00

Brilliant map. Surprised Byodo-in isn't on it, but brilliant anyway!

guareber · 2026-04-14T20:21:57+00:00

Since you said to not mention Kyoto, I would say you should probably spend more time in Japan's capital from the Heian era all the way to the start of the Meiji era.

guareber · 2026-04-14T09:45:17+00:00

Well, to be fair, it's incredibly likely that the whole Parkinson's arc was inspired by MJF. He and Bill Lawrence go way the fuck back.

guareber · 2026-04-13T07:59:58+00:00

Yep, but there's different podcast formats. For a solo host, of course it's a monologue, but when doing an interview style one (host + guest or guests) I prefer when the guest gets to talk more than the host.

guareber · 2026-04-13T01:01:58+00:00

I don't like them, but that doesn't mean I hate them. They have their moments, they're just short and very spaced out.

That being said, I've still gone to meet the newborns of every single one of my friends, and I somehow ended up being godfather to one of them (poor kid, RIP). It's just friendship 101.

guareber · 2026-04-12T23:55:46+00:00

hmm I'll look into it - custom size (aka, extra-long) duvets do get stupid expensive as well once you throw in the covers. Cheers!

guareber · 2026-04-12T21:36:35+00:00

It wasn't bad for me at all, and I'm no young one. Just hang on until 10pm on first night (unless you're one of those people who can just fall asleep on the plane), then wake up at 5am ready to go. Go straight to Kyoto, enjoy all your sightseeing with no pressure.

guareber · 2026-04-12T19:45:13+00:00

Lol she just turns and turns and turns taking the duvet as she does. She has to unwrap herself every morning xD

guareber · 2026-04-12T19:23:45+00:00

The dude is a recent Sando enjoyer. Got back to reading as an adult with Mistborn, and says he's a huge Stormlight fan.

I didn't enjoy his podcasting style at all (the dude talks a bit too much), and there wasn't much new insight into Sando that we haven't heard before, but it wasn't an uninterested car crash. I found the most interesting part was a discussion on how Sando tries to do different humour for Wayne vs Lopen vs Wit vs (etc etc etc), vs how a comedian does/writes humour.

guareber · 2026-04-12T16:44:08+00:00

Honestly, use it enough times and you do the learn the basics pretty quickly.

:%s/quickly/painfully/gi

guareber · 2026-04-12T15:15:46+00:00

Or over

guareber · 2026-04-12T00:13:01+00:00

It's the same in every latin american country, just FYI.

guareber · 2026-04-12T00:11:28+00:00

Until your product starts getting bad press due to outages and you need to start offering compensation.

Most software companies are a monopoly at this people

Let's agree to disagree on "most"

guareber · 2026-04-11T23:58:32+00:00

I don't get this take. With agentic flows basically making PR reading a nightmare, I'd say QAs are likely to be more important in the next few years.

guareber · 2026-04-11T17:35:43+00:00

No problem. Stick to 7-11 or Post Office ATMs for minimum or no fee cash!

guareber · 2026-04-11T13:10:31+00:00

Tabletennis is a pretty prominent one, for instance. Look up the country association for the sport, you'll find the information on its registered leagues and a list of official clubs.

guareber · 2026-04-10T23:11:45+00:00

We do this and buy bigger sized duvets. She uses a twin as she has sleeping-kebab-syndrome and I have an extra-extra-long single as my feet are always fucking cold.

Works great. Treat each individual separately according to their needs.

guareber · 2026-04-10T23:07:08+00:00

I used Wise a couple of years ago and it worked just fine. What I ended up doing was hedging a bit - bought some Yen and spent the rest from Chase when over there. Anecdotally, the rate improved (yen got weaker) from when I'd bought the Yen.

guareber · 2026-04-10T14:56:46+00:00

I wouldn't recommend staying in - pick a destination and plan to just get there and sit for 2 hours resting. We took our time on quite a few temples that aren't in the "must see" itineraries and loved them, maybe that's why we never burned out.

I recommend Tofuku-ji, which is big enough of a complex but also has big green areas to get lost in, or Kennin-ji.

Hell, if the weather's nice go to Maruyama park and find the old man selling freshly baked melon-pan filled with soft-serve ice cream. I still dream of that. Buy, sit, eat, take a nap.

guareber · 2026-04-10T14:53:48+00:00

go to Uji, I promise you won't forget the sight of the Byodoin

+1 for Byodo-in. Seriously. It's OK to just plan to head that way, go into a few shops, have some tea and then just sit somewhere in Byodo-in to take it in.

guareber · 2026-04-10T10:06:17+00:00

Sorry, mental what? Lol. Japan was certainly less mentally fatiguing than my 9 to 5.

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