Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2011-01-02 12:07 am
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Yay

[profile] bhudson is here. He's asleep on the futon in the other room and I am still buried under my kotatsu in the TV room.

All I really did today was get up, go to the airport to get him, come back... that in itself took like 5 hours, since we rode the cheaper trains both ways instead of the Skyliner. The Hokuso line is so new that it's not on Google Maps or on my Daiso transit map yet.

Also, apparently whatever company he has his iPhone with locked it so he can't just rent a simcard. That also kinda sucks.

Benoit's vegetarian, so I tried to think of somewhere we could go around here for dinner and decided on Otoya because I knew they have various noodle dishes and veggie side dishes. What I didn't realize was like, you order a plate of greens, and it comes with katsuobushi fish flakes and those annoying little white fish that we always had buried in rice at school. Yuck. I had the tatsuta karaage and it was YUMMMMYYYYY.

Tomorrow we're going to go around Tokyo. The next day we might embark on our big trip... or not. I am so bad at planning. My idea is something like:

Jan 3: Tokyo->Tottori (via Himeji and Okayama, I think -- gonna cheat and shinkansen a bit)
Jan 4: Tottori->Kokura (via Matsue and Shimonoseki)
Jan 5: Kokura->Miyazaki (via Oita)
Jan 6: Miyazaki->Kumamoto (via Kareigawa)
Jan 7: Kumamoto->Kokura (via Saga, hopefully Saga Kita HS ;) )

Then in theory we meet up with [profile] cdinwood, and either I return to Tokyo on my own or we all go off somewhere together or something, during the 3-day weekend 8-10. I've heard they're interested in going to Koyasan but I have no clue yet. I guess the nice thing about Deanna-style travel is that I often improvise, as all I really need is my train timetable book, a Seishun 18 pass, and my Toyoko member's card, and the tracks will lead me somewhere.
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[identity profile] isamum.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The Hokuso line is so new that it's not on Google Maps or on my Daiso transit map yet.

It's new, but it's not that new. I first heard about it when I was still playing football back in the 1990s because we were able to have a patch of land near Shin-shibamata station lent to our league as a football field.

Anyway, put 北総線 into the Japanese version of Google Maps or 日本北総線 into the English version and it will come up.

[personal profile] dr4b 2011-01-01 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me rephrase. The part of the Hokuso line that goes from Inba-Nihon-Idai to Narita-Yukawa to the airport itself is not on any maps.

[identity profile] isamum.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay. That kind of makes sense since it takes at least a year for the map companies to update their stuff. (The exception being road maps because they can sell more map data if they update them more frequently.)

Re the iPhone: the problem might be that Softbank has some weird special SIM card that they use with their iPhones so that they can force their regular cell phone subscribers to buy another number.
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