A guide to Yokohama, Japan’s original gateway to the world | CNN

Of all the cities in Japan, Yokohama is without doubt the most international and cosmopolitan.

           

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Alright so as I got into a 15 hours meeting I will now try to summarize the context. So there are only a few handful of people that are able to play Fortnite and CSGO at extremely highly competitive levels. I am proud to just have been nominated just 5 minutes ago as one of them. It is somewhat of lost art in explaining concepts such as UPKEEP and stagflation or how credibility is directly tied to the actions of 2 or 3 years worth of training of a certain entity and if worst case scenario you can just back it off with precious metals or internet pics. No need for further attachments or extra research the i-sports industry usually either contacts you with 1 work yacht one leisure one and one for family or you have to contact them. Nothing is left to pure randomness and Grey is usually the norm. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Yu4H6qK7rgfbN3bo/


It's time to stir-up tensions and anger in China....a US delegation is visiting Taiwan, "again"...and China has become irritated, "again" and told the US to cease all "interference" in Taiwan's affairs. "Interference" is the goal of the US in many countries. The delegation was led by Congressman Mike Gallagher, a major Beijing hawk and chair of the House select committee on China, who uttered those tedious words "The United States stands with Taiwan, for your freedom and for ours." His last part "...and for ours" was interesting. He must know that if China finally decides to absorb Taiwan, that there's nothing the US can do about it.


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26 reasons why visiting Japan is almost akin to visiting hell on earth:

-Dull, grey and sad-looking buildings almost akin to those found in North Korea
-Horrendous and ever-present sewage stench in Central Tokyo
-Train stations which not only have few escalators (very “friendly” to the elderly and the disabled), little barricades and also appear not to have been properly maintained for years
-Extremely confusing and illogically-designed train system with poor signages
-Elevators in subways won’t even use Arabic numerals, causing unnecessary inconvenience and pain
-You can’t get Uber because you don’t have a Japanese-registered phone number
-Cabs with no aircon and trains with minimal aircon leading you to wonder if you would suffocate to death in a supposedly first world country
-Cab drivers with long-sightedness who would need your help to compute the address of your hotel into his phone
-Cab drivers who don’t know your destination even after you have clearly pointed out the name of your hotel and the address
-What’s the point of having a “foreign friendly taxi” queue when extremely few taxis are actually “foreign friendly”?
-Why are there several attendants cleaning the Shinkansen train after each route but not even a soul to instruct travellers where to store their heavy luggages?
-Nauseating density which makes Singapore feel like Mongolia
-Nonsensical gimmicky scrambled walkway at Shibuya which only function is to kill sufferers of claustrophobia
-Most service staff have an extremely poor command of English leading to avoidable misunderstandings. For instance, telling you that the sushi was one portion instead of one pair thus causing you to order everything twice over resulting in over-ordering and the gross dissecting of rice from the sushi as the only way for me to finish my food was to avoid ingesting the carbs
-The intense chore of using Google translate for everything and using it 17 times throughout the course of a meal
-It’s extremely difficult to buy iced cocoa or any type of non-caffeinated drink anywhere so good luck to those with acid reflux
-You can’t find any distinctive signature landmarks except for the billboards as most streets and buildings consist of hybrid features borrowed from/found in many other cities
-Streets and toilets are no longer as spotlessly clean as before, you would find some streets with rubbish spewing all over the place.
-Restaurants with questionable policies like those claiming that appetisers are “compulsory” even when such a rule was not clearly written or conveyed to the customers. There’s an easy escape clause for these unethical merchants-just subsumed it under “Japanese culture”.
-Exemplary service crew who would take your order and then disappear for the day as it’s the end of their shift. They won’t even have the courtesy of passing your order to the chef leading you to wait indefinitely before realising what has gone wrong.
-Food quality is still above average in general but there are now several clear “bombs”. Something that was uncommon just a decade ago.
-There are even fewer dustbins than Singapore. So everyone must carry their trash for hours. How disgusting is that?
-There are also multiple mentally-ill sadists who would have no qualms mowing you down with their heavy bags/luggages and a few potential murderers who would shout “Bakaero” at service staff for no good reason.
-Staff at places of interest such as Osaka castle are apparently so dumb that their only way to avoid a bottleneck at the entrance is to ask whether tourists have special passes in order to skip the manual queue (most don’t) when the better thing to do is to simply ask tourists to buy the tickets online to skip the manual queue
-There’s no freaking way to go up the Osaka castle except through 8 storeys of stairs. Are they trying to kill elderly visitors?
-Even though they do allow visitors who are incapable to descend the stairs down the Osaka castle to take the lift down from the top floor, no staff was around when I was feigning an asthma attack in the attempt to take the lift down. Had to wait close to 5 minutes to attract the attention of staff at the souvenir shop. What if I wasn’t faking the asthma attack?




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