Places to go in Japan!

[r3n]

ive decided with a friend to go spend 3 or 4 weeks in japan in the summer (august/september), and was wondering if any1 had sugestions of places i should visit in particular.

im flying into tokyo so will be spending around a week there probably, most definately visiting Akihabara region .

this isnt just relating to anime, if any1 has any suggestions in general for places of interest around the main island, please tell me!

thanks

[Vash105]

yeah me2... but only for 10 days....some advice?

[jing]

last summer i went to Odaiba and went to the official shonnen jump store and bught tons of naruto merchandise!!!!!!!&#33 ;!!!!! n for sure eat as much as you can!.

edit: remember to go to Onsens(hot springs)

[Ingram98]

I went last september on a study tour and we went to Tokyo, Nikko, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Hiroshima. We did a lot of cultural things like visiting temples and such, I recommend a bike tour of the cultural sites in Kyoto and a walk through the woods in Nara. In Tokyo just outside Nara station you have a large toy store. Akihabara is mostly the same electronics store over and over again, but there are some great videogame stores. For transportation I recommend getting a JR-pass (the Japanese Railways), this is cheaper than getting loose tickets everytime and the maps are in english. Food by the way is not really expansive, we ate for around 20 euros a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner and lots of beverages. Japan is very humid and warm in september.

[Crimson_Behelit]

I would try to get a lightweight, fast, manual transmission rental car and take it for a spin on the nearest mountain range!

[r3n]

lol crimson behelit, i havent learnt to drive yet (17)

thanks Ingram98 and jing for the advice, ill be sure to check that stuff out, especially the naruto store


need to fill up 3 weeks tho! so keep the advice coming! im sure loads of u have been to japan

[Uzumaki Naruto]

hey how much does it cost for a round trip to japan, and name some places where i can go and buy a whole lot of shit thatw e dont have in america hmm i think imma grab me a katana while im there and send to my house

[Xollence]

I might go there after stopping by Korea... but basically Korea is Japan Jr.

[Ingram98]

I went to South-Korea as well (and 5 minutes to North-Korea), Here we also did a trip through the country. We ended in Seoul, they have a lot af american fastfood, but I could not find a toystore or musicstore. We did get to see the miltairy parade.

[sangai]

well i was told by a japanese chick that if your lookin to get some go to porongi lots of hot girls there or is it rapongi i cant rember exactly hell just go to hokaido

[r3n]

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the flight is around £600 from the UK, but i would presume its less from america. to stay there for 3 weeks costs about £1000, if ur gunna spend lots of money on electronics and anime stuff like me that is

*maxes CC*

[jing]

woah 3 weeks&#33;&#33; so lucky&#33;&#33;&#33;
okay, i think you should definitely go shopping for sure&#33;
and &quot;Palet Town&quot; was a very wicked place. trust me on it.
play naruto &quot;UFO catchers&quot;
n if ur old enough play PACHINKO
i visted an aquarium, it was interesting actually...

n someone mentioned about getting katana earlier, you might have to mail that back to home. because imagine the ppl on the plane if they saw ur katana.

[hiddenpookie]

well i would recommend..to osaka and kyoto and if i went i wold like to check out the scholls form inside the car it would be intresting...oo and play pachinko and vesit the gundam park thingy.. or w/e have fun

[jing]

gundam park? o man i wish i had gone there&#33; i missed out on some good stuff..

[itachi_]

Japanese Culture are truely strange. But visit Kyoto and read about the tokugawa shogun.

[jing]

oh n make sure u go on the world&#39;s tallest fearis wheel omg, that was so fun&#33;

[r3n]

katana would be nice...

apparently theres loadsa theme parks, and japan has the fastest roller coaster in the world...so ill be going on that, obviously gunna buy shit loadsa naruto stuff....and playing on pachinko if i have any money left&#33;

[Assassin]

stop with all this japan talk ppl.....ur makign me sad

i wanna go to japan so much.....but i wont b able to untill i finish uni atleast

my dad went to japan for like 6 months for training (sent by his company) but thats like when i was a born........otherwise i would&#39;ve gotten him to bring me back lots of kool stuff.


oh, and if anyone plans on buying a katana, how about u buy one for me too .....i&#39;ll send u the money, and u have it mailed to my palce (now if only i could hide it from my mom)

[Pvt Joker]

You should check out Sapporo.

[r3n]

mm k ill have to get a map of japan out and note down all these places so i can organise everything