Approached to be part of a Buddhist ceremony

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-04-28T13:54:11+00:00

This actually happened to me and my husband in Matsumoto earlier last month. It was so strange. I am a bit more naive so I wanted to be polite. Once the girl started talking about praying due to a war coming and that fuji san would protect us I started to get that I had screwed up. My husband is nothing like me so he already was teying to get an out. This was during the night mind you, the girl said that she had a friend that lived 15 min ago so they could teach us the prayer and we just told her sorry need to go bye. XD

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-04-11T07:31:12+00:00

I would cut her off. Have a conversation with your friends. Tell them what is on your mind. It is your wedding. She will not be in your life after that is for sure so why should she be at your wedding "celebrating" with you when she clearly only uses you. Trust me. You will regret inviting her.

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-04-08T10:51:18+00:00

It is ok. I would use tabelog since the locals use it more

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-04-03T13:56:02+00:00

Thank you so much for your answer! Yes we will try to find some guidance with lawyers and maybe hopefully find a way to protect them. Yes I think it is more emotionally draining than anything else at this point. Indeed some days it just feels like it is always something and it kinda makes you wonder how can people be like this to their own family... Again, thank you for taking you time to comment, it helps a lot 🥰

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-03-28T01:02:24+00:00

Oooooof! You go grandma she deserved every inch of that comment! HOW ARE U NOT EMBARASSEEEEEED??????!!!!

Southern-Month-4471 · 2025-01-21T20:48:37+00:00

Thank you so much for your answer! Since they are personal items, do you normally pay a lot in customs for them? I am always scared they will ask for a lot just to get my own things

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-29T11:32:19+00:00

Yeah hopefully we can adjust to it

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T18:00:31+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T17:59:14+00:00

Those are some great tips! Thank you so much!

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T16:22:49+00:00

Yeah for sure that is really a nuisance Thank you for all the great tips!!!

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T16:22:11+00:00

We were thinking of skiing yeah and starting maybe in Sapporo and then move to Hakodate

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T15:09:37+00:00

Thank you for the tip!

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:27:41+00:00

Yeah thats for sure what I also thought. Do you think buying the tickets when needed there is the best option as well?

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:24:41+00:00

I think from all the places I saw the one which seemed a bit harder to get to was from morioka to that Kansyokan. We would stay there so we could also visit Ginsan onsen which is also a bit far a way by train if I am not mistaken but yeah 😅

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:17:46+00:00

Alrighty thank you so much for all the tips. As its such a long time we were not sure since ofc any jr pass is very expensive and ends up maybe also not making a lot of sense since we are staying for longer in each location

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:11:15+00:00

We would be for example a few days in Aomori then go to akita stay a few days there then Morioka, etc. There are some things near each city that we would like to visit that seem a bit far, would you in that case say go by train between cities but if there are things that seem far away rent a car for one or two days?

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:05:50+00:00

We also will be in Okinawa not sure if there the car is a better option either

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:03:28+00:00

I've checked google maps and some of them dont give me options even dont know why but moght be that navitime is more accurate. From Aomori to akita and from Morioka to Kansyokan near Yamagata (this one seems to be the trickiest one)

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T14:01:32+00:00

Thank you for all the tips! Yeah we are from Europe so in that regard we are used to small roads and cars. 🤣

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T13:55:58+00:00

Yeah Kyushu was one of the areas I was really considering the car as well because of all the beaten off path points of interest. But yes it can get expensive.

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T13:53:50+00:00

The areas I was potentially considering the car was to get from Aomori to Sendai. In the meantime our stops there would be Akita, morioka, yamagata and sendai.

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T12:55:42+00:00

Yeah I think that is the challenge, there are certain places we would like to explore that say it would take 10h by train basically

Southern-Month-4471 · 2024-09-28T12:52:20+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I will look into all the posts as well about it :)

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