Tuesday, 14 July 2009
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Recommendations for Our Trip to Tokyo?
View of Tokyo at night (image source)
Hi Tripcrazers! Hope you all are enjoying the summer and getting some traveling in.
This year my husband and I are taking a trip to Tokyo, Japan for six days and nights. We're staying in Central Tokyo and for the most part want to spend the majority of our time in Tokyo. Do you all have any recommendations on what to see, do and eat?
Here's our shortlist of things we're planning on doing so far:- Day trip to Hakone Hot Springs (onsen)
- Tsukiji Market for fresh fish/seafood
- Check out Harajuku district to see the awesome and wild style of the Harajuku teens
- Eat lots of yummy street food
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on places to check out (cultural, historical sites as well as modern) and places to eat and shop. If you've previously blogged about your own experiences in Tokyo please leave a link to your posts so everyone can check them out.
Thanks in advance!
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Tour the Hello Kitty factory.
Got to Harajuku and take pictures! Lots and lots of pictures! The scene there is supposed to be amazing.
harajuku bridge
don't forget to dress crazy
you'll fit in perfectly if you do :]
Go and do karaoke! there's a lot of places so you can choose a good one :) And go around shibuya. It's a crazy place- but I love it! My friend lives there so I stay there often.
If you're going to Harajuku, you should check out the Meiji shrine there.
It's pretty cool (:
Ooh, and if you like tempura, you should go to Tenya.
http://www.tenya.co.jp/group/index.html
There should be one in Harajuku
Enjoy your trip!
I've never been there but plan on going next year to meet my best friend who's living in Japan. I guess the only thing I can say right now is not to get lost at Shinjuku station.
oh. i was in tokyo for a week in may. then headed to seoul, korea. i didn't blog too much on my trip (it was too pack of going to all the sites and we would return at 2am and go off at 7am again). We went to LOTS of shrines, tokyo tower of course and disney world. Shopped around and basically used our travel books to the max. Here are the few blogs i did on my trip so my family and friends back home can see what i was up too during that time: http://studbeltsanddiamonds.lovelyish.com/weblog/?uni-22-direction=n&uni-22-nextdate=5%2f6%2f2009+12%3a11%3a44.040#module--22 Didn't put up all my pictures or went back to blog about the trip, got lazy and too many pictures.
i asked people here too what was good in korea and japan. now i'm paying it forward i guess! :D b/c people here helped me get an idea where to start. got to love tripcraze :D Hope you have tons of fun!
see the dancing Elvises at Yoyogi Park
some of my blogs on Xanga are about Tokyo as I have lived in Tokyo for 10 plus years...
@studbeltsanddiamonds@lovelyish - Thanks so much for sharing your post on Japan! It looks like you had a great time and did tons of fun things. :)
Im really mad at myself for not keeping a daily journal of my trip to Japan back during Gion Matsuri on 07. So many awesome places/things we did. Touristy things, and things locals get into alike. I should've been writing down street/restaurant names... I only did it for 9 days though.
My first and most important recommendation is to take at least 2-3 weeks that way you don't have to feel obligated to fill your ENTIRE DAY with touristy things and souvenir shopping so you can take your time and really explore the cities. That might sound expensive but the first place we stayed in Roppongi(called Roppongi Towers) was SUPER cheap. There were 4 of us and we had two bed rooms, one and a half baths with a dining room/living room/full kitchen and it was ontop of a hill looking down on the city sorta of(which kinda sucked after a long day of walking, having to walk back up that hill) and a beautiful view of the actual Roppongi Tower which is like a brightly colord Eiffer tower. Also less than a block up was a post office where you can exchange US currency 24/7 in an atm machine type deal and only a 3 block trek from the heart of the city in one direction, 5 blocks to a huge palace/shrine in another direction.
Plus in Roppongi most of the locals we encountered spoke really good english and they helped us with translations and questions and so forth. Harajuku was awesome, we also took the bullet train(which ended up costing more than the hotels.. which we didnt plan out and sucked.. but that was our fault) down to Kyoto which was a blast(but FAR more expensive than Tokyo)... saw the red-light district, the geisha district... I have some photos from the trip HERE in you're interested.
Loved it so much I've been trying to find work out there ever since I left so I can move out there for a few years. No joke.