Been to Tokyo? Suggestions?

[KingSpanner]

I haven't posted here in a while, but I'm havering for some suggestions. I'm going to Tokyo for a week soon. I've been before, so I know a bit about the culture, so I'm just looking for places to go, things to buy etc.

Got any?

[Lyman Zerga]

tokio hotel (y)

[trailerprincess]

The HMV in Shibuya has a great vinyl section.
The view at night from the Westin hotel
Ueno for the park and musuem

I'll have a look when I get home at my photos and see where else I went.

[skra75]

a good website with links to places (http://superfuture.com/city/home/)

lots of places in tokyo close after a year, so you may need to ask around.
If you are just a gaijin walking around your best bet is Shinjuku (The red light district) or Ueno (the shopping and sneakers) district. Shibuya Square is pretty cool too (from lost in translation). There is a great shinto shrine called the Meiji Jingu in Shibuya-ku as well.

Try to find a sushi place with the conveyor belt. And go to Bic Camera (you'll lol you face off). And Tokyu Hands (A gigantic department/crafts/lifestyle/hardware store) has everything you could every imagine, costumes, all sorts of wierd shit.

If you like anime, little robot models, and electronics and stuff go to Akehabara.

Good luck in the subway, lol.

Also, don't go to the "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS" places in Rappongi because you have to pay hundreds of dollars just to have the chicks talk to you, nothing else, just talk.

[MC Moot]

oh yeah....so much to do and see....remember though Tokyo is MADLY expensive....the Imperial Palace is a must and I liked the Asahi Beer building tour which has free beer and amzing food at the end.....Ginza is a MAD shopping district,the cheapest of the 3 major shopping areas....Akihabara is the coolest shopping area,especially at night,mindblowing lights and commerce,all mostly electronics,store after store of the best gadgets and future gizmo's you've ever seen,really cool....Roppongi is the hipster/nightlife/discoteque scene and goes allllll night till the break of dawn when you get some soba and do it all again.....my favorite thing about Tokyo is the mixture of shrines and temples amongst this ultra modern blade runner metropolis....good times.....(y)

[-T-]

Send me a B16B(CTR) swap and a EF8 RHD conversion. Cut out the middle men.

[ms.peachy]

Well when mr.peachy and I went I had just learned I was pregnant, so it wasn't exactly the sake and sushi filled extravaganza we'd envisioned when we booked the trip. So I can't tell you much about bars or nightlife. But we really enjoyed staying in Asakusa at a ryokan called Ryokan Shigetsu. It is right off the Nakimese-Dori, which is a superb place for souvenier shopping - fantastically kitsch, we did all of our Christmas shopping there. This is also where the Asakusa Kannon Temple is, which is the oldest temple in Tokyo, and that whole area is well worth a visit. Explore some of the streets back behind the temple - it's a nice, old-style working class neighbourhood and a great place just to see a slice of Japanese life that is slowly but surely disappearing.

Not too far from there is a street called Kappabashi-Dori; this street has the shops that are suppliers to the restaurant industry and is a really unique stroll. The shops filled with every kind of plastic sushi you can imagine are FAB. You have never seen anything quite like it, I promise you.

You also should plan to get up quite early one day and go to the Tsukiji fish market. Another site that will be like nothing you have ever experienced before, I promise. If it can be dragged up out of the sea, it will be on sale here. Get there early for the tuna auction. Look out for the men racing all over the place in their little barrel-carts. I can't even carry on describing this place; you just have to go see it for yourself.

Oh and also, buy a beer from a vending machine, just for the sheer novelty of it. Why not.

[BangkokB]

Read The Ugly American$ That book is bullet proof. I finished it last night and I don't know what your game is but they were hedgefund cowboys. Tokyo is where to be.

Suggestions would be go to Osaka, Japan. Learn how to put trades in on the Nikkei then move to the Big Show "Tokyo". Reap a fortune and then write a book

[ms.peachy]

The aquarium in Osaka is brilliant.

[Otis Driftwood]

Gas Panic in Ruppongi. Girls, girls, girls! :D