Alright, thanks for the recommendation (seriously)!

Definitely planned for next time. This time we went south to Fukuoka (already very few tourists) and rented a car back to Tokyo, staying in smaller towns. Highly recommend.

True. Especially the more “popular” temples are only open during regular hours, though.

In any case, I don’t doubt that you can have lots of fun and have the city for yourself at early hours!

Yeah but then most of the things people come to Kyoto for a closed.

Not saying I disagree.

If there’s specific things you want to do that happen to be in Kyoto, I agree. I just think (somewhat from personal experience) that going to Kyoto because that’s what you should do on a Japan trip is a bad idea.

Interesting. We really enjoyed Tokyo, but spent most of our time there in smaller, out of the way areas. Absolutely loved it.

Though my favorite memories are from a super tiny seaside town (no public transport, ended up there because we misread the map) in the middle of nowhere.

I mean… that’s a pretty memorable trip, no?

Oh, and while I’m at it: do not trust any food recommendation written in English. Good or bad.

If you travel to Japan, honestly just… Skip Kyoto. It is so full of tourists (national and international), you cannot possibly imagine unless you’ve seen it.

Sure, there’s a lot of impressive temples there. But so is the rest of the country.

We were lucky enough to spend 4 weeks in Japan earlier this year, and if I could do the trip again, I would straight-up skip Kyoto and Osaka.

Rent a car, drive in some random direction. You’ll he a lot happier, it it will actually be your trip. By far the best memories coke from places not in any travel guide.

❤️

Link?

IDK man. AfD are the ones raging against “political correctness” here. Dude decided to not be politically correct and label the Nazis Nazis.

Lol. Living alone does not make you lonely.

Honestly, I’m gappy for my fellow Germans that so many are able to live by themselves! It’s a good sign that fewer people need to share rent.

Which is not true, hence my comment.

That’s a good faith interpretation, but I’ve never seen a comment like this that isn’t whining “but what about men”.

The comment is saying: “oh, so we are pointing out that sending people to places like these is bad when it’s happening to women, but not when it’s happening to men”, which is whataboutism, derailment, and a misreading of the article.

Said who, besides you?

No, sending men there is not OK; but yes, sending pregnant people and children there is indeed even worse than sending men and women in good health there.

Glad to have cleared that up for you! As soon as you’ve worked on your reading comprehension, I recommend looking up the term “straw-man argument”.

Context?

Is it just me or has the number of lunatics on Lemmy really spiked in the past week? I mean, look at this guy… Or have we “finally” been discovered by the disinformation bots?

Never in my life hage I known people (in Germany, but probably everywhere) to he happy with politics. I would also argue that for the vast majority (again, here in Germany) life has improved over the past decades.

IMO the reason for right wing surges aren’t actual real-world problems or failings of ruling parties (though flawed they are), but the new forms of propaganda and outreach that right wing parties have mastered, and left wing parties have failed at.