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I'll give that a shot!
Inspiring! My wife and I are too tied down in the west to move to Japan anytime soon unfortunately, but it's reassuring to see that even people who live there have a hard time lol
Tips: check tabelog (Japanese yelp) for restaurant recs. They're real harsh on reviews there -- if a restaurant is rated above 3.5 you know you're in for a good meal, and finding one above 4 is very rare. Many of the "best meals of my life" I talked about were from restaurants rated about 3.8 or so on tabelog (the 4+ ones were too expensive or too hard to book).
If you know some Japanese, calling restaurants to reserve will sometimes let you eat somewhere that you wouldn't have been able to otherwise. Many restaurants in Japan are very small and/or reservation only without an online option, so being able to reserve in Japanese is a huge advantage. I used Skype to get a Japanese number to reserve with
In terms of Japanese language, like the other guy said prioritize your katakana reading ability. It's by far the most useful bang for buck you could get in terms of language ability.
I did a lot of research before I went so there wasn't much that we didn't expect, but one big thing was how gruelling the jet lag is after the 13 hour flight. We definitely didn't schedule enough restful days upon landing, and next time we'll be sure to take it easy when we first arrive. Best of luck planning your trip!
Thanks for the helpful advice! Already looking forward to my next trip, hopefully will have my N2 by then
An absolute blast! So much good food there. We essentially planned our trip around the food and restaurants we would try and said "this is the best meal of our lives" on quite a handful of different meals lol. 10/10 would recommend
This is much better content than what you'd see on /r/learnjapanese
Wow that's a good one. Thanks for this explanation post! I totally would have came up with the same English translation they did with my current level of Japanase, glad to see context on the grammar they used.
Glad the English translation is still understandable, even if it's pretty funny.
I was originally going to post this to Reddit but procrastinated pretty hard on it. Glad I did, because now I get to post it on Lemmy and not give Reddit my free labour :D
It's so much more expressive and looks like it has so much more creative energy than the New smb series. Excited to play this