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Subject: Re: I'm in Tokyo for the first time ever... Author: Dena [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:16:27 07/11/03 Fri In reply to: Alex 's message, "I'm in Tokyo for the first time ever..." on 17:52:56 07/09/03 Wed Well... I spent most of my Japan time in the Osaka area, so I'd have more advice on that than Tokyo, but here goes... oh yeah, and do you have a JR pass that covers the Shinkansen? If so, those things RULE... Go see the Izu peninsula sometime if you like greenery and less city-looking stuff; that's a little north of Tokyo but not all the way to the other end of the country... Go see Himeji-jo if you have any interest in Japanese castle architecture... Kyoto has a little bit of everything. Some very old-feeling things, some very modern-feeling things, and (if you go to Nara) killer attack deer that will strip-search anything that stops moving long enough to be frisked for anything edible and some things that really shouldn't be... Nipponbashi/Den Den Town in Osaka is my personal definition of anime lovers' mecca. They have dozens of used video, CD, and DVD stores in a several-block area, and then there's the Animate store which has all kinds of collectible kitsch. (Too bad it was closed when we got there; I SO wanted to get one of those Asuka or Rei bathtub toys to sell at the next JAC auction just to see what would happen... ^_~) I liked Matsue, because the air was nicer there than anywhere on the other coast, but it was mostly just a sleepy relatively-little town. I'm a small town person more than a Tokyo-Osaka person, so whether or not you'd be interested in Matsue would depend on that... Okayama has some of the most gorgeous bento in the country if you ever end up on that rail line... I wish I'd gotten the chance to go up north toward Aomori and Hokkaido, but there just wasn't time. (Next time! ^_^) Anyhow, that's my $.02. I haven't been to most of the places where the U of I students were, though -- Kanazawa? I think that's on the western side, closer to Matsue and Kyoto than Tokyo, but I could be nuts... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]