Kennin ji Puns

My husband and I are anxiously waiting for Japan to open up. We were originally going to go in 2020, but we’ve been waiting ever since.

I’ve started doing some pre-planning because I’d like to be ready to book our trip whenever they start allowing tourists again.

What I'm having the most trouble with is figuring out how much time something is going to take us to do and if I'm planning enough, too much, or too little. I'm also having trouble figuring out how to balance our time in Kyoto and Osaka.

What we like:

We are foodies. We’ve had a lot of fun going on food tours or taking cooking classes when we travel abroad. We’re hoping to do a few of these in Japan. We love trying food we may not get to try elsewhere.

We also love anime.

Special considerations – I have fibromyalgia so I don’t want to over-exert myself, but I want enough planned that if I’m having a good day and I don’t need to rest too much, we have some extra stuff in mind that we can go do, but we won’t be sad if we miss it. I’m also trying to plan for alternating “easy” days with less walking to come after days that might have a lot of walking.

Relating to the fibromyalgia, I have problems with my feet and I generally can’t walk barefoot without a lot of pain, so I want to make sure I know in advance if I will need to take off my shoes so I can plan or decide if it’s worth it for me.

Day 1 – arrive in Tokyo

Stay in Shinjuku

Not sure what time we’ll arrive yet but maybe we’ll leave it open to go exploring Shinjuku for the rest of the day.

Day 2 – Akihabara

Since we love anime I think we'll have a lot of fun exploring here. Open to hearing about things in this area that we will not want to miss.

Maid café? Owl café?

At night go on a food tour

Day 3 – Toyosu/Asakusa

Trying to decide if we should do a guided tour of the market (with food of course) or explore on our own.

Day 4 – Shibuya/Harajuku

Day 5 – Studio Ghibli museum.

(I think this is a half day so we'd be free for the second part of the day. Not sure if we can combine this with a different day and then spend fewer days in Tokyo and add one day to see more in Osaka)

Day 6 – Disney Sea

Day 7 – Travel day to Kyoto

Maybe check into a Ryokan for 1 night

Thinking about Staying in Gion. Open to Ryokan suggestions that have a bath in the room

Day 8

If we stayed at a Ryokan, we’ll transfer to new hotel in Gion (also open to suggestions)

Go to Nara for a half day (maybe go to Osaka for 2nd half of the day

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Hey folks, I've never been to Japan but I've always dreamt of going ever since I was a teenager watching NHK morning shows back in Hong Kong. Now that I'm in my 40s and living in US, I've finally saved up enough to do it and I'm pretty convinced I won't have the chance to go again after this. Anyway, I have planned an itinerary down to the minute for my partner and me and want to know if it's realistic and doable. We love food, architecture, art and I'm a video game and comic fan. Given I don't know Japanese but I can read kanji, so the language barrier might slow us down but I intend to learn some basic conversational Japanese before going.

Day 1 2:00pm Tokyo (NRT) (Get Sim Card, get Suica card and/or JR Pass) 3:00pm Narita Express with JR Rail Pass to Shibuya Hotel? 4:00pm Hotel (Shibuya) 5:00pm TeamLab Borderless 8:00pm Explore Odaiba (Dinner) (Saikyo Line/Rinkai Line to Shibuya Station ~35mins) 9:30pm Shibuya Crossing at Night 10:00pm Hotel

Day 2 8:15am Depart Hotel (walk 15mins) 8:30am Yoyogi Park (walk 20mins) 9:15am Meiji Jingu (walk 20mins) 10:30am Brahm’s Path (walk 5mins) 11:00am Takeshita St (Snack) 12:30pm Meiji-jingumae Station (to OmoteSando Station to Hanzomon Line to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station ~45mins) 1:15pm Fukagawa Edo Museum 2:30pm Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station (Oedo line to Daimon Station ~30mins) 3:00pm Zojoji Temple (Next Door) 3:45pm Tokyo Tower (Walk 25mins) 5:00pm Mori Art Museum (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) (Walk 7mins) 7:00pm Ichiran Roppongi (Dinner)

• or - 7:00pm Gompachi Nishiazabu (Dinner) (Shi 8 8 Bus/To 0 1 ~20mins) 9:30pm Hotel

Day 3 8:00am Hotel (Hanzomon Line to OmoteSando Station to Chiyoda Line to Nezu Station ~40mins) 8:45am Nezu Shrine (Walk ~30mins or Cab) 10:00am Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum ??? (Walk ~30mins) or (Ueno 26 Bus ~20mins) 12:00pm Ameyokocho (Lunch) 1:30pm Senso-ji (Walk) 2:30pm Nakamise Shopping St (Walk) 3:00pm Kaminarimon (Asakusa Station to Tokyo Skytree Station ~15 mins) 3:15pm Sky Tree (Asakusa Line to Ningyocho Station to Akihabara Station ~20 mins) 5:00pm Akihabara (2k540 Aki-Oka Artisan, Akihabara Gachapon Hall, Kinda Myojin, Mandarake omplex) 7:30pm (Dinner) 8:30pm Animate Akihabara, Gamers Main Store, Yodobashi Camera (Ginza Line ~40 mins) 10:00pm Hotel

Day 4 8:00am Hotel (Pick Up or Destination?) 8:15am From Tokyo: Mount Fuji and Hakone Cruise and Bus Tour

• or - Tokyo: Mt. Fuji, Hakone, and Owakudani Tour 6:30pm Shibuya (Yamanote Line to Meguro Station ~20mins) 7:00pm Zauo Meguro (Din

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob