Osaka

[Coligny]

I have to go to Osaka for undisclosed reasons. Does anybody know shops who have computer peripherals related the flight/driving simulators and not just the +18 pedo-eroge crap?

The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya. Which can be translated easily as just as interesting as an episode of explosive diarhea while stuck in an elevator for few hours. I already plan on going to RC Champs if I find a taxi clever enough to understand that If I show him a map with an adress it means I want to go there (don't laugh, it failed several times in Nagoya).

So if any of you have any advice for light hearted shopping... (no restaurant, I'm good at finding McDo's by myself... and no hostess club, I'm not a big fan of burning sensation when I pee, even if the last time it was involving darkness ans loose electric wires instead of local whores)

[Kuang_Grade]

While I've only spent a few days in Osaka, I liked it a fair bit...The vibe isn't as fast paced as Tokyo but that's not a bad thing...It struck me a far more livable city and less zombiefied than Tokyo

Anyway, while its a few years old, this thread has some info I wrote on Den Den town in Osaka. I don't have a specific shop for you to look for, but the odds are if you look in this part of town, you'll find something.
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14075


J page for general den den town info
http://www.denden-town.or.jp/

[Typhoon]

I have to go to Osaka for undisclosed reasons. Does anybody know shops who have computer peripherals related the flight/driving simulators and not just the +18 pedo-eroge crap?

Den Den Town is one place to look. Another is the Yodobashi Camera megastore by the central JR Umeda station.

http://www.yodobashi-umeda.com/

The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya. Which can be translated easily as just as interesting as an episode of explosive diarhea while stuck in an elevator for few hours.

Suggest new friends. Your current set are clueless.

I already plan on going to RC Champs if I find a taxi clever enough to understand that If I show him a map with an adress it means I want to go there (don't laugh, it failed several times in Nagoya).

Btw, Osaka is the centre of the robotics industry in Japan.

So if any of you have any advice for light hearted shopping... (no restaurant, I'm good at finding McDo's by myself... and no hostess club, I'm not a big fan of burning sensation when I pee,

You should be so lucky.

even if the last time it was involving darkness ans loose electric wires instead of local whores)

To each his own.

Try any bar that caters to expats,

http://www.samanddave.jp/

sounds like you'd be more at home there.

[kusai Jijii]

The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya.

Fuck, your friends sound like clueless wankers. Osaka as less interesting than Nagoya? Is this a serious post?

[Gilligan]

Fuck, your friends sound like clueless wankers.

I think his post tells us more about him than it does about his friends.

Osaka as less interesting than Nagoya? Is this a serious post?

I keep telling you kj, there's nothing wrong with good, old Nag-town.

[Adhesive]

I have to go to Osaka for undisclosed reasons. Does anybody know shops who have computer peripherals related the flight/driving simulators and not just the +18 pedo-eroge crap?

The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya. Which can be translated easily as just as interesting as an episode of explosive diarhea while stuck in an elevator for few hours. I already plan on going to RC Champs if I find a taxi clever enough to understand that If I show him a map with an adress it means I want to go there (don't laugh, it failed several times in Nagoya).

So if any of you have any advice for light hearted shopping... (no restaurant, I'm good at finding McDo's by myself... and no hostess club, I'm not a big fan of burning sensation when I pee, even if the last time it was involving darkness ans loose electric wires instead of local whores)

A guy on the hunt for simulator peripherals may have a notion of what's interesting that's different from my own, but it sounds to me like your gang of literati don't know shit about having a good time. Osaka can be a blast, and is miles ahead of Nagoya. I even prefer it to Tokyo.

[Typhoon]

[quote="Gilligan"]
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I keep telling you kj, there's nothing wrong with good, old Nag-town. ]

Agreed.

Any town is only as boring as the person visiting it.

[Ketou]

It's often a lot cheaper and more convenient to get your gear online.
I just got some rudder pedals from Faith for cheaper than advertised on Kakaku.
They also have a store in Osaka. Lots of those shops around Yebisucho station on the Saikaisuji line.

[Coligny]

It's often a lot cheaper and more convenient to get your gear online.
I just got some rudder pedals from Faith for cheaper than advertised on Kakaku.
They also have a store in Osaka. Lots of those shops around Yebisucho station on the Saikaisuji line.

Excellent... (you fly civilian or military ? fixed or rotary wings ?)

And thanks a lot for the other constructive answers.

For the others... well... there was not much argument said to help me shape my view differently about Osaka. So... shoganai...

I usually 'hang out' with retired academics that I met at my previous jobs. I don't know if they are younger than their age or me older than I should. But whatever. For these people, lapdancing is not considered a plus when going out somewhere.

[Iraira]

The girls in Osaka are much much more aggressive than their Kanto sisters. That being said, there are other reasons why when returning to Tokyo from a Kansai vacation that I'm depressed, but it's really only necessary to illuminate the girls as a reason.

[Ketou]

Excellent... (you fly civilian or military ? fixed or rotary wings ?)

Bf 109 E1 / E4 at the moment. Still a noob flyer trying my best to get over bad habits...particularly jerking the stick....

[Typhoon]

For the others... well... there was not much argument said to help me shape my view differently about Osaka. So... shoganai...

It doesn't matter what you think about Osaka. It's a great city.

I usually 'hang out' with retired academics that I met at my previous jobs. I don't know if they are younger than their age or me older than I should. But whatever. For these people, lapdancing is not considered a plus when going out somewhere.

Lapdancing? It, of course, exists but is not common. As opposed to hostess bars, hostessed karaoke bars, image clubs, soaplands, health delivery services, etc . . . Have you ever actually been to Japan never mind being in it?

[Coligny]

It doesn't matter what you think about Osaka. It's a great city.

One man trash is another man's treasure.

Lapdancing? It, of course, exists but is not common. As opposed to hostess bars, hostessed karaoke bars, image clubs, soaplands, health delivery services, etc . . . Have you ever actually been to Japan never mind being in it?

No, no, never went to japan, don't even know where it is on a map. I'm all making up shit from a coffe shop in the center of Paris. That's why everybody around me is japanese... In fact, it not locals, its TOURISTS... YES JUST TOURISTS... The fact that all the cars are Nissan Honda and Toyota is to make them feel at home, in fact it's Renault and Peugeot with fake stickers. They even painted the TGV in white to make them look like shinkansen... Shit... hopefully you wuz here to open me eyes...

Now... I'm living in japan...I'm living like some guy who settled and don't plan to move for another country again anytime soon. I grow carrots and aromatic herbs in my garden, feed the stray cats, speak my broken japanese with the old neighbourgs and even got a tomb to flourish. So excuse me if you join my ignore list. But like in the streets of my little city where everything except the McDo is closed at 9pm. There's people I can communicate with... theres people I can't. And those strangely insecure blasting me with the "have you even been to japan" are in the second category and end up in my ignore list. Japan is just a country with it's shitload of pros and cons. Not Valhalla, I see no point or interest in saying I'm here if I'm not.

[Adhesive]

There's people I can communicate with... theres people I can't. And those strangely insecure blasting me with the "have you even been to japan" are in the second category and end up in my ignore list.

Read your post again, and if you can't understand why you'd get a few people taking the piss out of you, I can certainly understand why you'd need to develop the ability to so quickly give up on the possibility of communicating with certain people. ]The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya. Which can be translated easily as just as interesting as an episode of explosive diarhea while stuck in an elevator for few hours.[/quote]
Just to satiate my masochistic sense of curiosity, what exactly is light-hearted shopping? Den Den Town is your best bet for electronics, but you can be sure to run into your fair share of bizarro J-porn there. If you are looking for more upscale type stuff, Umeda is one of my favorite spots. If you want more artsy historic type stuff there is Tennoji. Osaka is the third largest city in Japan, I can't imagine that you'd be at a loss for things to do, regardless of your preferences.

[Coligny]

Just to satiate my masochistic sense of curiosity, what exactly is light-hearted shopping? Den Den Town is your best bet for electronics, but you can be sure to run into your fair share of bizarro J-porn there. If you are looking for more upscale type stuff, Umeda is one of my favorite spots. If you want more artsy historic type stuff there is Tennoji. Osaka is the third largest city in Japan, I can't imagine that you'd be at a loss for things to do, regardless of your preferences.

To be honest, anything better than the usual goodwill/Compmart where everyshop have the same stuff. Only what the most basic computer user might buy, and sometimes not even what gramdma Tanaka need for her IMac. Also going to 5-10 computer games shop to find only 1 copy of Flight Simulator and 7 aisle of pedoporn-date-rape simulator like in Osu get old really fast.

[Gilligan]

The city has been described to me by friends (I mean litterate friends, guys that don't just read books, but also write some, and not exactly Tom Clancy bottom of the barrel stuff) as being just a little less interesting than Nagoya. Which can be translated easily as just as interesting as an episode of explosive diarhea while stuck in an elevator for few hours.

I usually 'hang out' with retired academics that I met at my previous jobs. I don't know if they are younger than their age or me older than I should. But whatever. For these people, lapdancing is not considered a plus when going out somewhere.

One of the problems with the internet is that it makes it difficult to overlook national stereotypes when it's so easy to find those who are so proud to be the typing embodiment of them.

[Typhoon]

To be honest, anything better than the usual goodwill/Compmart where everyshop have the same stuff. Only what the most basic computer user might buy, and sometimes not even what gramdma Tanaka need for her IMac. Also going to 5-10 computer games shop to find only 1 copy of Flight Simulator and 7 aisle of pedoporn-date-rape simulator like in Osu get old really fast.

Goodness. How many copies of pedoporn-date-rape simulators do you need?

[kusai Jijii]

I have to go to Osaka for undisclosed reasons.

Sorry. Our bad. We should have understood you from your first sentence in this thread. Those 'undisclosed reasons' clearly involve taking a

[SIZE="7"]long hard double-fisted wank!!![/SIZE]

[Coligny]

Sorry. Our bad. We should have understood you from your first sentence in this thread. Those 'undisclosed reasons' clearly involve taking a

[SIZE="7"]long hard double-fisted wank!!![/SIZE]

Ok, that's now the official codeword for 'trip to the French consulate', seems fitting anyway.

[Greji]

Ok, that's now the official codeword for 'trip to the French consulate', seems fitting anyway.

No, make that the codeword for the embassy trip, the consulate guys and gals seem a bit better....

[Ketou]

Embassy trip is a long hard double-fisted wank with potato peeler gloves.

[dimwit]

Embassy trip is a long hard double-fisted wank with potato peeler gloves.

Don't talk like that or you'll get everyone wanting to go.

[Greji]

Don't talk like that or you'll get everyone wanting to go.

I got a stiffy already. Gotta get me a pair of them gloves.....

[Coligny]

No, make that the codeword for the embassy trip, the consulate guys and gals seem a bit better....

Agreed... i'm drowning in a charly foxtrot of administrative creativity, but they are seemingly helpfull. Unfortunately it cut short on my tourist time. So the few impression I got were mostly from the trip between ShinOsaka and the business district (cue the "clueless coutryside tourist go uptown intro")

City seems less tight packed than Nagoya/Tokyo (with their narrow streets/high buildings, if you twist your head you might be able to see the sky)

Girls... they color and style-match their clothes... Didn't knew it wuz possible... (Nagoya being either dwelled by escaped from drama style housewife, dumpster diving school of fashion, blowup doll Nagoya Joe or the usual gangaroo/yamamba. Toyohashi... well... let say... it's the countryside... deep countryside...)

Schoolgirls... They don't look like they just exited the filming set of a scat-porn movie and didn't have chances to switch outfits...

Everything seems a little bit slower and more relaxed... no headbutting in the metro. Didn't see anybody trying hard to look like the busiest guy in the place.

There's seems to be a sewer museum... If anybody aleady went... is it as promising as it sound (from a urbex standpoint... the question come from a Parisian catacombs lover)

[Coligny]

Bf 109 E1 / E4 at the moment. Still a noob flyer trying my best to get over bad habits...particularly jerking the stick....

Check your stick settings. Your control response curve should look like an expo curve:

(graph is unrelated, just the shape of the curve.)

You want little deflection at first, that increase as an expo function the more you move the control. It's a trick to compensate the lack of physical feedback from the plane.

[kusai Jijii]

Agreed... i'm drowning in a charly foxtrot of administrative creativity, but they are seemingly helpfull. Unfortunately it cut short on my tourist time. So the few impression I got were mostly from the trip between ShinOsaka and the business district (cue the "clueless coutryside tourist go uptown intro")

City seems less tight packed than Nagoya/Tokyo (with their narrow streets/high buildings, if you twist your head you might be able to see the sky)

Girls... they color and style-match their clothes... Didn't knew it wuz possible... (Nagoya being either dwelled by escaped from drama style housewife, dumpster diving school of fashion, blowup doll Nagoya Joe or the usual gangaroo/yamamba. Toyohashi... well... let say... it's the countryside... deep countryside...)

Schoolgirls... They don't look like they just exited the filming set of a scat-porn movie and didn't have chances to switch outfits...

Everything seems a little bit slower and more relaxed... no headbutting in the metro. Didn't see anybody trying hard to look like the busiest guy in the place.

There's seems to be a sewer museum... If anybody aleady went... is it as promising as it sound (from a urbex standpoint... the question come from a Parisian catacombs lover)

Fuck me. Some mothers do 'ave 'em...

[Tsuru]

Can we knock it off with the handbagging there Jiji?

[Mike Oxlong]

Never learned much French beyond "tapette" & "tabernac"...it IS Canuckistan's national day...

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[Cyka UchuuJin]

osaka rules.

as mentioned, den den down for electronics is good. as is bic camera in namba. amemura for that fun 'j-jin just wanna be gaijin' people watching, shinsaibashi for clubbing. umeda isn't all it's made out to be.

[kusai Jijii]

Can we knock it off with the handbagging there Jiji?

What?