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Why is it painful to see public transport lines on Google Maps? Any alternatives?
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honestly just use the JR East app or website for the route map, it's way clearer than trying to fight with google maps. they have a proper PDF that shows every station with the line colors and you can zoom in without losing detail. for apartment searching i'd cross-reference that with suumo or home's, both let you filter by walking distance to a specific station and show the line name right there. saves you the headache of guessing which district is on the chuo-sobu line
Yeah, Google Maps just straight up hides certain lines depending on zoom level. Try Hyperdia's map view instead, it's made for train nerds and shows every single JR, private, and subway line clearly.
You're running into a known issue where Google Maps prioritizes subway lines over JR lines in its transit layer. The Chuo-Sobu line is JR East and it often gets buried or dropped entirely when you zoom out. Try using the "Transit" tab on the station's info card instead of the layer filter, it will show you every line that stops there.
For apartment hunting near the Chuo-Sobu line, I'd switch to Yahoo Chizu or Goo Maps on desktop. They both have a proper railway network overlay that shows JR lines in their actual colors and doesn't hide them. The interface is clunkier but you can actually see the orange Chuo-Sobu line running east-west.
Another option is to pull up the official JR East route map PDF from their website. It's high resolution and shows every station from Mitaka to Chiba with the local and rapid services marked. Keep that open in a second tab while you search on Google Maps for apartments, just match the station names by eye.
Where can I find crispy, pan-fried bacon similar to a certain international style?
if u have a costco membership the kirkland thick cut is the move, 4 packs of 500g for around 2500 yen and it crisps up proper in a cold pan. for smaller runs, precce in azabudai hills & the basement at isetan shinjuku both carry imported US & danish brands in the chilled case, just read the label for "thick cut" or "smoked" and not "loin". also worth knowing japanese bacon is often wet-cured so pat it dry before frying or it steams instead of crisping
kaldi coffee farm is hit or miss but their smoked bacon from denmark shows up pretty regular, the 200g pack runs about 600 yen. what actually works better for me is asking the butcher counter at peacock or life to slice the block bacon thick, like 5mm, they do it for free and it crisps way better than the pre-packed stuff. also fwiw cheap bacon crisps faster, the fatty supermarket kind at 300 yen a pack works fine if u cook it from cold in a dry pan and pour off the fat as it renders.
tbh the gyomu super store brand bacon is surprisingly decent for crisping up, its not thick cut but if you cook it low and slow it gets pretty crunchy. the key is the dry cure vs wet cure thing, wet cure steams. also check hanamasa if you have one nearby, they sell big packs of american style bacon thats actually smoked and firm.
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