Mar 31, 2017, 12:49 pm
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Thursday, 13 April
Friday, 14 April
Saturday, 15 April
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Planning to Attend Welcome Drinks at Pub Cardinal Akasaka, Thursday, 13 April 19:00~
beckoa (assuming I don't get lost)
Fifa
Mr Fifa
NewbieRunner
pudgym29
restlessinRNO
TravelKane
awc4
perthite
perthite+1
nme7
Mapleg
Mrs Mapleg
bk3day
RichardInSF+1
firstglobal
Planning to Join Tokyo Shitamachi Walk, Friday, 14 April 09:45~
angra
beckoa
Fifa
Mr Fifa
GarySTL
Mrs GarySTL
kirkwoodj
krazykanuck
Mapleg
Mrs Mapleg
NewbieRunner
pudgym29
restlessinRNO
TravelKane
wysiwyg
nomadic.relief
awc4
perthite
perthite+1
BigRedBears
nme7
bk3day
firstglobal
Thursday, 13 April
- Welcome drinks 19:00~ (Pub Cardinal Akasaka) Map
Friday, 14 April
- Tokyo Shitamachi Walk 09:45 (Meet at JR Shinjuku Station West Entrance Police Box - 新宿駅西口交番)
- Official Do dinner 19:00-22:00 (Awajishima to Kurae) -Map - Leave the Hilton Lobby at 18:35
Saturday, 15 April
- Day trip to Matsumoto 08:00 (Leave Shinjuku Station Platform 9 Super Azusa #5)
Please do not edit above this line
Planning to Attend Welcome Drinks at Pub Cardinal Akasaka, Thursday, 13 April 19:00~
beckoa (assuming I don't get lost)
Fifa
Mr Fifa
NewbieRunner
pudgym29
restlessinRNO
TravelKane
awc4
perthite
perthite+1
nme7
Mapleg
Mrs Mapleg
bk3day
RichardInSF+1
firstglobal
Planning to Join Tokyo Shitamachi Walk, Friday, 14 April 09:45~
angra
beckoa
Fifa
Mr Fifa
GarySTL
Mrs GarySTL
kirkwoodj
krazykanuck
Mapleg
Mrs Mapleg
NewbieRunner
pudgym29
restlessinRNO
TravelKane
wysiwyg
nomadic.relief
awc4
perthite
perthite+1
BigRedBears
nme7
bk3day
firstglobal
Japan Do #5 - Tokyo - April 13-15, 2017
Apr 16, 2017, 12:10 am
#437
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Thanks to the organizers & FTers for making my 1st Japan DO a great time. Looking forward to keeping the good times rolling in Seoul and wherever ispickedfor next year's DO!
Apr 16, 2017, 2:12 am
#439
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Bit bumpy across the water today- JW helped.
Apr 16, 2017, 5:57 am
#440
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It was interesting to get to- but a nice experience. And I was able to follow along for the most part despite the language differences (Mostly in JP, some RU and a handful of EN).
Sounds like the 1AM-5AM I took to Osaka last year from HKG
Bit bumpy across the water today- JW helped.
Sounds like the 1AM-5AM I took to Osaka last year from HKG
Bit bumpy across the water today- JW helped.
will come tro again in 2 weeks, n between a very humane friday 3pm departure (0.5 days off work) vs friday 0100 flight, guess which flight my friends picked!
btw, is anyone still at the shinjuku area?
Apr 19, 2017, 2:13 am
#441
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Thanks to armagebedar for all the set-up work. We didn't get to talk at dinner, but next time. Mrs. GarySTL & I had a wonderful time. First Do. Thanks, fifa, for spearheading the mark-car. Let's do again next year.
Look forward to seeing you all again. Thinking hard about doing EZE in Sept.^
Look forward to seeing you all again. Thinking hard about doing EZE in Sept.^
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Apr 25, 2017, 1:10 am
#442
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Friends - I ended up the Korea portion of this combi-do with excess KRW. Now I am back in Japan hanging about. Does anyone have any suggestion of particularly good places to change KRW to JPY in either Osaka or Tokyo?
Apr 25, 2017, 11:51 pm
#443
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May 24, 2017, 10:55 pm
#444
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Some Japan Do snaps.
It's time for some images of Japan Do! #5 to be glimpsed.
My preference when posting images is to host them on a free, ad-hoc service, and to refer 180 pixel thumbnails into the thread so as to not take up everybody's time waiting for sixteen 1MB pictures to load before you can proceed to reading any succeeding replies. The images are hosted on picsee .net, which may be hosted in Russia, but I don't think there is any internet hanky-panky going on with it.
My preference when posting images is to host them on a free, ad-hoc service, and to refer 180 pixel thumbnails into the thread so as to not take up everybody's time waiting for sixteen 1MB pictures to load before you can proceed to reading any succeeding replies. The images are hosted on picsee .net, which may be hosted in Russia, but I don't think there is any internet hanky-panky going on with it.
Jul 2, 2017, 3:38 pm
#446
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,114
KJ,
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Jul 2, 2017, 4:38 pm
#447
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KJ,
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Jul 4, 2017, 3:20 am
#448
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Jul 4, 2017, 3:42 pm
#449
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Okinawa
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KJ,
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Just book some speculative flights to Naha and Hyatt Naha (Hilton is a bit too far) for the Easter Weekend 2018. There are enough craft beer bars to keep you occupied if no one else shows up
Though a post/pre-DO trip to another Okinawa island might be interesting.
Nice, hopefully our Costco will be announced by then, but unfortunately it won't be open yet!
Jul 4, 2017, 4:20 pm
#450
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Just did a speculative booking at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Naha for 5 nights.
Last edited by beckoa; Jul 4, 2017 at 4:37 pm