Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Photos from Japan Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:29:36 +0900 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <42134AC0.7070203@hotmail.com> References: <1107804821.384344.31100@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <_8ZNd.2894$ZZ.1870@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> <1107866358.241285.323390@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1107870608.080167.293270@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jCzSSQfwUyhbx8WLaPIsjgtoZ3D8j/vhuHLpf0Hr0b5ACaogS3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1107870608.080167.293270@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25244 declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote: > I don't live in Sapporo, but basically I've never been denied entry to > any establishment in Susukino that I've wanted to get into, and haven't > had any trouble obtaining reservations or introductions when > entertaining customers, guests or myself. To some extent that simply > reflects my exquisite tastes (or the tax-deductable expense accounts). > Either way I'm actually about to step outside into the inhospitable > wilds of Susukino in a few minutes, and may be out for quite some time. > > Only place I've ever had trouble getting into was a minshuku in Nagano > during a blizzard. I got back to Aichi today and an intray the size of Chausuyama. Apart from hitting a bunch of places in Susukino that night (and for each of the next few) I enjoyed an onsen in Otaru etc etc. No problems anywhere. Not that I was expected any. Only difference I could see between Hokkaido (4th visit) and Aichi is that here the locals are a little more used to gaigin. Walk silently into some obscure museum in Aichi, Gifu or Nagano and you get a nervous smile and an irrashai. Walk silently into say the Winter Sports Museum in Sapporo and you just get a nervous smile. Talk and there is no difference. From what I can gather, Hokkaido (particularly Sapporo) gets lots of short term tourists, but not much in the way of long term ying yong speaking gaigin residents as a percentage of the population. -- "UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.