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Durg50 said:
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www....rancisco-poop-feces-dirty-street-13281837.php
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That's no joke. I haven't been back to SF in a while but I've heard absolute horror stories. In Honolulu, disgusted citizens have started a website called Chinatown Watch (Chinatown is Downtown Honolulu) where they can share the pictures and locations of disgusting human behavior by the crackheads and homeless flooding the city. Some of the pictures are actually pretty funny, if you've got 20 minutes to kill. Since it's always possible I may be relocating back to the Seattle area, I was back there a couple years ago for a meeting and to scout out the old neighborhood. I couldn't walk one block without being accosted by deranged meth-heads from the homeless tent cities that line the streets up and down the main avenues. I stopped at Pioneer Square around 8pm, where I used to enjoy a quiet drink and cigar back in the day, and was treated to at least a half dozen female crackheads approaching me asking if I "need something," and the delightful view of another half dozen urinating or defecating in the plants at what was once a pretty famous park.

With COVID around, I can't even fathom moving back to such disgusting shitholes. I guess I'm stuck where I am until probably 2022.
 
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Sorry for being blunt and borderline racist (or at least snobby) about it guys, but I’m in no hurry to see tourists in Tokyo again. However good it would be for the economy, P4P business etc...

Over the last 6 months i got used to travelling in this country with only locals or long-term residents who paid their dues (learnt the language, work here etc) in it. And I prefer that. Said it. Yay Covid. Cast the stones if you want
 
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Frenchy said:
Said it.
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You are late to the party; I have always told any foreign tourists to get the hell out of my city.

And if covid gets the olympics cancelled I will get so long lasting hard-on I will not need any Viagra next year.
 
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MikeH said:
You are late to the party; I have always told any foreign tourists to get the hell out of my city.

And if covid gets the olympics cancelled I will get so long lasting hard-on I will not need any Viagra next year.
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agreed . But obviously we say this with loads of light and love and omotenashi :D
 
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Frenchy said:
we say this with loads of light and love and omotenashi
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Perhaps you do. I make no secret of my disdain for tourists. They should all be rounded up on arrival and confined to Nikko Edo-mura until their flights leave. Let them be each others' hell.
 
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Sudsy said:
Perhaps you do. I make no secret of my disdain for tourists. They should all be rounded up on arrival and confined to Nikko Edo-mura until their flights leave. Let them be each others' hell.
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tourists by themselves are usually ok, its as soon as they are in groups, in any city not just here, they become a nuisance.
 
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Durg50 said:
tourists by themselves are usually ok, its as soon as they are in groups, in any city not just here, they become a nuisance.
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I don't mind the young, pretty and adventurous female tourists. Their presence - even in groups up to 3 - can be very enriching. I am sure @MisterYoda will approve that.
 
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Durg50 said:
tourists by themselves are usually ok, its as soon as they are in groups, in any city not just here, they become a nuisance.
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Tourists in small numbers are merely travellers. :)
 
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How do they know if i will be traveling on business or as tourist? My company has offices in Tokyo....
 
UnicornHunter said:
How do they know if i will be traveling on business or as tourist? My company has offices in Tokyo....
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They most probably require a fax from your company to confirm the trip.
 
UnicornHunter said:
How do they know if i will be traveling on business or as tourist? My company has offices in Tokyo....
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My understanding is that people will be required to get a business visa for the duration of their trip, and that visa waivers will not be issued just yet. This requires some paperwork to be filled out by your employer or by the business who you will be visiting, along with an itinerary, etc.
 
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Sudsy said:
My understanding is that people will be required to get a business visa for the duration of their trip, and that visa waivers will not be issued just yet. This requires some paperwork to be filled out by your employer or by the business who you will be visiting, along with an itinerary, etc.
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Yeah, first they said "people who have applied for long term visa" in other words over 3 months. But then the wording was changed to "business travellers".

Then again at the moment it is just leaked stuff from anonymous sources filtered and most probably misinterpreted by the media. The embassies have still not received any new information and are not processing new visas.
 
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The States currently didn't have to get a visa to Japan. Or are they only allowing the long term only?
 
UnicornHunter said:
The States currently didn't have to get a visa to Japan. Or are they only allowing the long term only?
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Yeah, that is a funny fact, they haven't stopped the visa waiver program for US or Canada but pretty much to every other country.

Still they are not allowing people from US or Canada to Japan. Basically just foreigners living in Japan can return now.
 
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MikeH said:
Yeah, that is a funny fact, they haven't stopped the visa waiver program for US or Canada but pretty much to every other country.

Still they are not allowing people from US or Canada to Japan. Basically just foreigners living in Japan can return now.
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Understood that. It's just one step closer to hopefully allowing entry next year...
 
UnicornHunter said:
The States currently didn't have to get a visa to Japan. Or are they only allowing the long term only?
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Yes, the visa waiver for US passport holders is not suspended. That means that, as has already been discussed in this thread (or different one?), you can enter Japan if you fly from a non black-listed country with a proof that you have stayed in that country over two weeks.

There was a window, Addis Ababa, till the end of last month. Ethiopian Air has a direct flight between IAD and ADD/ADD and NRT. I'm not sure if any US citizen tried that route.
 
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Ken1988 said:
Yes, the visa waiver for US passport holders is not suspended. That means that, as has already been discussed in this thread (or different one?), you can enter Japan if you fly from a non black-listed country with a proof that you have stayed in that country over two weeks.

There was a window, Addis Ababa, till the end of last month. Ethiopian Air has a direct flight between IAD and ADD/ADD and NRT. I'm not sure if any US citizen tried that route.
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i flew Ethiopian once (between NRT and HKG) and honestly it was great. Brand new plane, ok food and superb hostesses.
 
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Jordan resumed commercial flights this month (the first direct flight in 6 months from JFK to AMM today) and the country is still not yet black-listed. However, it's likely to be on it soon, probably before your "transit quarantine" at a Dead Sea resort is up...
 
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