Want fun and quirky travel tips worldwide AND all the helpful tips on Japan this is where you come! By the makers of Differentville and Japlanease.com.
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3 Jan 2019
What are the most unique, cute or just plain weird things you can do in Tokyo? Well, it took us a few visits, but here's the top 47 we'd choose. differentville.com/unique-th…
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15 Aug 2024
I need a system to organise my tasks, but I am not a system person. I’ve looked at Trello, Notion, Clickup. My brain does not work like that. Is there a simple system where I can just list all my jobs, dates and tick them off in one place without it feeling like I’m running ICI?
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2 Aug 2024
I had suspicions a site that outranking me after HCU-pcalypse hadn't been to the places they're writing about. There's no first-person experience in them. I've just read a post I'm not longer in the top 100 for. It has this snappy line of 'Helpful Content' in the middle. Grrr...
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24 Jul 2024
A giant peach dispenser that provides peach juice on tap in Fukushima.
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17 Jul 2024
Don't make these mistakes if you're planning a visit to Narai Juku in Central Japan. japlanease.com/visiting-nara…
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12 Jul 2024
A very normal tower that is neither nefarious nor plotting world domination.
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26 Jun 2024
I made this new map for all the foreign tourists planning to visit Tokyo this summer, so they may have some idea of what they’re stepping into 😅
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24 Jun 2024
For those interested in what lies beneath the world’s largest city, our podcast with host @jt_sloosh and producer @DCortez869 on the topic. Take the descent: japantimes.co.jp/podcast/202…
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20 Jun 2024
Okay, I need to have one last rant on this and then I'm done. My name is Helen and I've been hit by the HCU. But, what makes me so angry about this is, my site was only doing as well as it was, because I had a rater hub visit which flicked some kind of switch (cont).
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20 Jun 2024
So, did I deserve the hit at that moment in time - possibly, but do I deserve to now have my site blacklisted for everything - No. I made this my full-time job in July. I'm lucky, I have savings, I can ride this out while I pivot but...
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20 Jun 2024
The fact that I got hit because I was above the parapet because a google human thought I was good enough, and now, my site is blacklisted makes me really really angry. Okay, rant over. I just needed to get it off my chest as I've spent enough time in tears over this. Onwards.
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20 Jun 2024
I was ranking for things I shouldn't have been ranking for - so, fair enough, demote me. But, my site was also still growing - it had 50 posts. It's on a country that didn't open it's borders until way later than everyone else. I hadn't had the chance to get back there.
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20 Jun 2024
It didn't have a home page yet, because it had 50 posts! Was it perfect no, but I go back to the point, it was growing. It shouldn't really even have been on the radar of the big G for what it started ranking me for after that raterhub visit.
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20 Jun 2024
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14 Jun 2024
Our house last night watching something on TV.
Him. ‘Oooh a ZX81’.
Me: ‘That’s a Spectrum, ZX81 had a flat keyboard.’
I just outgeeked the geek. I have never been more proud of myself. Sadly basic was the end of my coding career but still.
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31 May 2024
Every European City Map
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12 May 2024
As much as I love Japan, the baths in the hotels I usually stay in are tiny (and I’m not exactly tall). Todays hotel bath is obviously made for Western bodies. So I’m off for dinner then it’s time to wallow. Can’t wait. I’ve walked 80km since Wednesday.
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3 May 2024
Miniature artist Tatsuya Tanaka has installed a gigantic stalk of broccoli on the observation deck of Kobe Airport so people can feel like miniatures
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2 May 2024
Can anyone explain to me why I just ate a steak tartare taco which was absolutely amazing and I’ll eat beef carpaccio no problems, but I cannot eat a steak that’s actually cooked less than medium?
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30 Apr 2024
I’m an early trip packer. Everything I’m taking next week is on the case ready to go. But there is still washing to be done…. So, if the Sydney Rain Bomb could take, say 8 hours off between now and Sunday the people of Japan would probably thank you!
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28 Apr 2024
Me: Time to get serious about my newsletter. Writes this months one, and next months as I’ll be away. Schedule both a month apart…Or so I thought. Yep, not only did I spam my subscribers with two mails in half an hour, I now don’t have any more new content for next month. FML!
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