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@domino3404 Glad you're interested! Ramen tours range based on length and how many stops, and you can see exact pricing, plus pair it with the rest of your trip in our app: navi-me.jp/lp-jp-guest/. Happy to answer anything else!

@NaviMeJP Cost? Including Ramen 🍜?

The best ramen spots in Japan are known by locals. NaviMe connects you with a real local guide who'll take you there.

Crowded tourist spots. Google Maps leading you nowhere. Restaurants you can’t read the menu at. A trip that felt more stressful than relaxing. Now here’s Japan with NaviMe: A local guide who knows every hidden corner of the city. A custom tour built around exactly what you love. Someone in your corner from the moment you land. Same country. Completely different experience. This is why we built NaviMe --> Download the app (link in bio)

@trevor_abroad This is the move. The itinerary gets you there, but throwing it out is when Tokyo actually opens up. Looking forward to volume 2

japan is indescribable. i had a whole itinerary for tokyo / osaka / kyoto & more. when i looked out my plane window and saw all of tokyo i gave up on the plan and went for novelty instead. in tokyo you will find like 10-20 businesses per building, and if you find yourself on any given street corner / intersection anywhere in tokyo, you're already between 100+ businesses: spa's & salons, restaurants, karaoke, you name it. it's so novel an experience getting lost was my go-to. lost in jaban volume 1

@Baris_913 Welcome to Japan! That dream feeling is real, and the small, ordinary moments are about to make it even better🇯🇵

Première soirée au Japon peut-être je suis dans un rêve

@6ixImmortal Now that's a bucket list. The owners always have the best stories, too

travel the world. go to all the manga shops possible. talk for hours with the owners.

@MarkCorbo4 What's turned you off it? Genuinely curious. The ramen scene varies wildly by region and shop

@NaviMeJP Ramen is an overrated mess

@wuropl Honestly the best trips mix both. Maid cafe at night, quiet garden in the morning, balance achieved

Normies probably come up with cool ideas for a japan trip because they wouldn't go to retro game stores and maid cafes everyday

@japan_nobunaga There's something deeply Japanese about taking the most ordinary errand and turning it into a quiet act of beauty. The depachika is that idea in physical form🇯🇵

Most visitors arrive in Japan with a list: temples, sushi, neon nights. Few expect the real magic to be waiting one floor down. This is depachika. In the basements of stores like Isetan Shinjuku and Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, escalators open into vast halls of ready-to-eat gourmet food. Glass cases overflow with colorful bentos, seasonal wagashi, and regional specialties. Free samples appear at every turn. The packaging alone feels like a gift. A traveler buys a beautiful box for the Shinkansen ride home. A local quietly chooses tonight’s dinner that says “I thought of you.” Japan didn’t just make shopping for food convenient. It turned the most ordinary errand into something quietly worth traveling for.

Most people visit Japan and see the tourist version. NaviMe connects you with a real local guide; someone who knows the spots that never make it online. Custom tours, English-friendly, available today. 🇯🇵

@onyekanwelue It's more doable than people think. Convenience store meals are great, transit is cheap, and the best experiences (neighborhoods, parks, small shrines) are free :)

Visit Japan before you die, but make sure you are not poor.

@amiraikagami You forgot: explaining to family why you're awake at 3 am watching a press conference about a video game

Relatable things to foreigners who like Japanese culture Learning Japanese is required Switching your phone to the Japanese App Store Using a vpn Needing a Japanese phone number just to make an account somewhere Needing proxy services to buy items Terrible sleep schedule

@acadianx @kunoichi_jp_ Don't underestimate how much that appreciation already connects you, and Musashi is incredible. It's one of the few books that earns its length. Have you read Taiko by him, too?

@kunoichi_jp_ I notice, wish I knew more, wish I had another life and could be born into your culture but that can’t happen. How do you feel about Eiji Yoshikawa 吉川英治 specifically his series Musashi 宮本武蔵. I loved it.

Japan has many beautiful places. But what I want foreigners to notice is not only temples or anime. It is the small kindness in daily life. A clean street. A quiet train. A careful shop clerk. That is Japan too.

@kunoichi_jp_ Exactly this. The famous places are wonderful, but the soul of Japan lives in the small daily moments. That's what we hope every visitor gets to experience.

@Greensteinsgate @kunoichi_jp_ Bucket list trips with this kind of history behind them are the best ones. Whenever you go, the country has a way of rewarding people who've been quietly loving it from afar🇯🇵

Subconsciously it was probably anime- I was born in 80, so watched Transformers and GI Joe, both animated by Toei. There was also Robotech/Macross and Voltron. When I was in Kindergarten, someone brought in sushi and I was hooked. A few years later my best friend who lived a few blocks away was half-Japanese. Going to visit Japan is on my bucket list- hopefully someday soon. 😊

To everyone who loves Japan: What made you interested in this country first? Anime? Food? History? Travel? Games? Culture? I’d love to hear your Japan story.

@d_jeune_ @kunoichi_jp_ Stories like that are how love for a place gets passed down. Japan has held onto exactly what made her fall for it🇯🇵

My mom visited Japan as far back as 1997. She was an English teacher and head of the Ethics committee. The trip was sponsored by the school...all expense paid... She came back with stories and pictures of how clean Japan is and how hospitable the people were. For days, she regaled us with stories of her travel experience while we listened wide-eyed and impressed, hanging on her every word🤩🤩 That never left me. The impression of Japan is forever indented in my memory

@GodListens777 @kunoichi_jp_ That's a great era to come up in. Kurosawa to Project A-ko to Slayers is a journey! Slayers, especially, was peak late-90s anime energy🇯🇵

I was born in 1981, so I vividly remember Nintendo and Sega games growing up like Mario and Sonic along with some Akira Kurusawa flicks. I watched my first Anime in 1997. It was project A-ko and discovered the Slayers series shortly after that and have been a fan of anime ever since.

@WDWTX1 @kunoichi_jp_ Sorry for your loss. If you ever make the trip, a lot of people find that visiting the places connected to family history hits differently than expected. Wishing you well with the search

@kunoichi_jp_ My mother was Japanese. Unfortunately, she passed when I was 15, but I still have a lot of memories from that time. I'm interested in finding out more about her history and maybe distant relatives.

@DigitalArchonHU @kunoichi_jp_ That shift from 'interested' to 'in love' usually happens on the ground. Japan has a way of making that click!

@kunoichi_jp_ I would say I "liked" Japan and was interested for a while. But finally visiting is what made me love it. Primarily because it's the only civilized country in the world that actually maintains a unique culture. Basically every other country just feels like the USA or Australia.

@harukaawake The way Japan rebuilds, quietly, together, without losing its character, is one of the most remarkable things about the country 🇯🇵❤️

🇯🇵 Living in Japan means enjoying one of the safest, most orderly societies on Earth. Yet we face constant threats such as earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons. No matter how devastating, our culture and discipline always bring us back stronger. For that, I’m deeply grateful.