HoTRoD

The recent remake of Cannonball. Terrible.

I'll take that off you if you don't like it!

They are but a memory. Sooooo quick

You're making this all up, aren't you?

I heard Tiffany was busy just being a mum. God knows where I heard that. (But I did)

Anyone here with experience care to point us to the most effective one for J > E?

We care what his story is because it is first hand from someone who has been there. Word of mouth, it's called.

Anyone know where to get decent pies in Japan? You know, like pork pies, meat pies, etc with a good hard crust on them? Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Hurrah!

Thanks for that. Just for a bit of fun. Ready for a dare, Blair? (I'm a poet). Can you get yourself to write the word Arai not in capitals....go on, be naughty, I dare you!

Got a new leisure center being built about 500m from my home - complete with gym, sauna and the works.

Great article drew

Until recently I had a "love sofa" which seems to mean a crappy spongy like low-lying sofa thing, but just bought a decent high-backed sofa for the living room. Most of the sofas I have seen have ridiculously low backs so you cant realy relax on them, but this new one has a nice long back to it. Great!

Is there a day go by without there being something on the news about crimes being committed by gaijin? A Japanese person I know last night if I knew the Chinese person who had been held for some petty crime or something in the city last weekend. And he was serious.

Saunas are good, but not THAT good

Poor barok I have more Japanese friends than foreign ones.

Love it!

I was kidding, forgot the smileys, gomen.

I think you should all being so anti-American (for you non-Americans) and un-American (for you Americans posting). Stop it! Now! Wheres RayInJapan the last week or so?

Thems just right

Its just a 1-off, ain't it?

Thanks for replying Blair! I am sure the costs are high. That is not being disputed here. But that brings us back to the main point.... why not have a cheaper, local-style izakaya at Arai that would not only be more popular and always be busy and cater to all those people that don't want to spend 5000 yen each on dinner - AND it would cost far less to run. It seemed to me, and apparently other people, that Arai does not have any reasonably priced eating places (or stay places) to choose from - driving people out of the resort area to get their dindins. As for atmosphere

I'm just about starting on that one.

Blair, I think the point was that everything is so damn expensive. That Nenohi, it's hardly what you'd call an izakaya (the kind we all know anyways), is it? And there was hardly anyone in the one time we went and considered it. We ended up driving out to a local famiresu.

Winter sports seems just so far from my mind right now. Only coming to this site and forum reminds me of it - good thing - but actually going out.... nah!