Originally Posted by ksandness
I disagree with the poster who said that a week is long enough for Japan. I've been going there for 28 years on and off, and I still haven't seen everything. For a homogenous country, it has a surprising amount of regional variety.
Hear hear. Just yesterday I spent a whole day walking around the hills of Kamakura, and saw a fraction of the interesting stuff. Particularly entertaining was the Zeniarai Benten, since it was snake day, there was a boatload of people washing their money for good luck. I didn't even get to the singularly uninteresting "Great Buddha" of Kamakura, which everybody just
has to visit on their half-day tour to Kamakura.
One could spend months in Japan and barely scratch the surface. It is one of the most complex and fascinating countries on earth.