tokyo dec
Oct 24, 2012 | 11:09 am
#34
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: WAS
Posts: 892
If you want to check a Japanese experience off your list, why not go to Hikone, the castle town and see a real Japanese castle? And/or spend a day in Kyoto and see a few of the best temples and gardens. All of this is much closer to Tokyo than Hiroshima, giving you more time to actually see things.
Oct 24, 2012 | 7:11 pm
#35
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 81
Sometime it is better to base at one city and do day trip to adjacent cities. So that you do not have to check-out / in of the hotels too many times given the gap between check-out / in timing of about 4-5 hours. Previously based at Kyoto and did day trip to Osaka.
Oct 25, 2012 | 10:48 am
#36
formerly known as Tad's Broiled Steaks
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 6,424
The wife and I shlepped out there and enjoyed this (Trad. Craft Center), but something tells me the experience would be lost on the OP.
Oct 25, 2012 | 10:14 pm
#37
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Tokyo, Japan (or Vienna whenever possible)
Posts: 6,985
I'd just as well like to cull Roppongi (except that shady Buddhist Children's Hall; can't remember the Japanese name) and Shibuya from Tokyo都. Pointless areas for a non-clothes shopper/drug-taker like me. Luckily, as my ventures usually run from Shimbashi/Uchisaiwaicho towards the north, then west from Asakusa, and ending up in the greater Lake Bag (Ikebukuro)/New Inn (Shinjuku) 'hoods, they are easily avoided.
Oct 26, 2012 | 1:12 am
#38
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: TYO / WAS / NYC
Programs: American Express got a hit man lookin' for me
Posts: 5,275