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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
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I'm off to Tokyo next week for four days, but I don't know much about the city.
Any suggestions for the following:
1) Historical sites;
2) Museums;
3) Bars;
4) Clubs with live music (rock or jazz); and
5) Cool places to hang out just to soak up the atmosphere.
A friend suggested that I should go to Kyoto for one day. Is this good advice?
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Seeker
The Imperial Palace offers tours.
If you have 500 bucks to blow at one place, Shinjuku has tons of karaoke bars.
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Way out of my price range and I wouldn't go to a karaoke bar if it only cost $10, unless karaoke is a euphemism.
I know Tokyo is expensive so I'm budgeting $200 a day, not including hotel. Is that too much, or not enough?
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Lord Merciless
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Tokyo subway during the rush hour.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Tingkai
I'm off to Tokyo next week for four days, but I don't know much about the city.
Any suggestions for the following:
1) Historical sites;
2) Museums;
3) Bars;
4) Clubs with live music (rock or jazz); and
5) Cool places to hang out just to soak up the atmosphere.
A friend suggested that I should go to Kyoto for one day. Is this good advice? |
There aren't many historical sites in Tokyo, between Curtis LeMay and redevelopment. Kyoto and back in a day doesn't give you much time to see stuff, but Kamakura is much closer and has a number of cool sites close together.
To hang out and just to look at the area and peoplewatch, Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Harajuku are all cool, and are adjacent stops (IIRC, there may be one more in there somewhere, but they're at most a four stop spread) on the Yamanote line, which is the main loop line on the Tokyo train system.
Harajuku is well known for the outrageous and frequently hilarious street fashions, and it's the goth, punk, and wannabe hang out. Definitely the best peoplewatching area in Tokyo.
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Oerdin
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:27
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Oh, yeah. Don't go to the supposedly super cheap electronics district. I forgot the name but it's in all the guide books as supposedly a cheap place to pick up Japanese made goods, but, it's not. Just about everything there I could buy more cheaply in the US and the warrenties don't work if you take them back home.
Last edited by Oerdin on 03-05-2003 at 06:10
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Odd
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São Paulo Brazil
Apr 2002
time: 02:27
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What is feroconcrete?
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:27
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Thanks for all the advice.
I'll definitely check out the Imperial Palace. Harajuku sounds cool.
I have to decide in the next couple of hours whether to stay in Ginza or Shinjuku. I leaning towards Shinjuku. Sounds like a more interesting area.
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