Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
This trip of yours sounds like it will be the most thoroughly mapped out and planned trip ever taken. I understand that can be a lot of fun but I have a suggestion: one of the great pleasures of Tokyo for me are the little, unexpected surprises that one invariably sees on a random walk. Tokyo is much more a city of many little surprises than of huge world-famous monuments -- of which there really aren't any. So leave a bit of time free to just do a few things at random or to choose a restaurant on the spur of the moment.
^. Although I think what you say is true of travel everywhere.
For example - my husband and I were mesmerized by depachikas (department store food basements) and wound up spending way too much time in them. I loved exploring all the foodstuffs. And my husband enjoyed practicing his very basic Japanese with the young ladies who were giving out free food samples. Robyn