going to japan
 

Hi im new here and i'm planning a trip to japan im might go this summer or the next summer i wanted to know what are the best htels over there and best prices for hotels and flights to japan if you know:confused::cool:;):eek:

help please
 

help me please any comment helps:(

Welcome to flyertalk.

Please read the stickie FAQ and use the search function for this forum. There are many discussions of hotels in the many different places in all price ranges.

welcome to FT japanflyer

I'm afraid that most of people here aren't blessed with psychic abilities.

Here's my own reading from your post's aura:

You want to fly to Japan from somewhere in North America.

You don't really want to know about Japan's best hotels as you aren't interested in paying $400+ for a room.



Uncanny, huh?

Cross my palm with silver and I may tell you more

thank you and thank you but um how did you know that and yes 400 is fine a night but im goin with other people

I think you might have missed a little of Laplap's sarcasm...let me explain.

It's common accepted practice to read around the forum a bit. There is plenty of advice about planning a trip to Japan including travel options, where to stay and what to do.

Instead of asking a general question like yours you will get a much fuller response by reading around, come up with some ideas, make a rough plan and then ask SPECIFIC questions to help finalize your itinerary and then ask for critique on your finalized itinerary. In that way we are more able to help you than your current post.


-mrploddy

oh so laplap is the sarcastic kind thank you mr.ploddy

No. Lap Lap is one of the most prolific, thoughtful and helpful contributors to this forum.

Although you probably did not intend it, you have already managed to annoy most of the regular posters here with your attitude. The Japan Forum is one of the most knowledgeable, helpful groups around with tons of first-hand experience on travel to and around Japan. We do, however, grow very weary of answering the same, vague questions over and over. Virtually every general question has already been answered many times in this forum and a quick search through previous posts will turn all that up. The general informational "sticky" post at the top of the page is a good place to start. The "Search" function, using such terms as "hotel in Tokyo" or similar would be a good second step. Or do like many do and just go back 4 or 5 pages and start reading forward through the thread titles for topics of interest.

Please come back and post specific questions when you have them. Hotels where? There are literally thousands of wonderful hotels in Japan. Try at least narrowing it down to a city or region and type of hotel. Luxury or inexpensive? Close to attractions or away from the noise and hub-bub of the city? How long will you be in Japan? Staying in one location or moving around? What do you want to do when you get there?

Cheap airfare isn't really something we do here but we can offer some ideas on where to look. Where are you departing from and to where? Fares from San Francisco to Tokyo would be significantly different from say Helsinki to Naha, Okinawa. Give us some idea of your proposed travel plans and we might be able to offer some help.

Try doing some homework and then posting some clear, specific questions (preferably using such things as puctuation) and we can probably help you a lot. Keep firing off vague one-liners and you will just be ignored - or worse.

I'll start you off with a freeby. Summer in some parts of Japan is not the best time to visit. June is the monsoon season and July-September can be insufferably hot in some areas. If you have no choice in time of year to visit, then I'd say go. But if you have some flexibility, you might want to consider spring or fall for a visit.

JR

Thank you abmj-jr for that thoughtful and precise post. And let me add another freebie for you, in case it is in your plans: Rappungi for the nightlife, and Ginza for the shopping.

And, also don't forget to spend no more than 1.5 days in Tokyo. Nothing really to see or do there.

:D I knew I could count on you for that. We really need to add it to the forum banner. I wonder if Randy would let us add it to the "Lost in Translation - - gifting the kimono" description under the forum name. :p

Sarcastic? Moi?

Occasionally, sure! But not on this thread. I'm enjoying the mind reading challenge!

Congratulations! With money being no object, here's a small selection of some of Japan's best lodging options which have proved welcoming and hospitable to foreigners

In Kyoto you might all like to stay at the
Hiiragiya http://www.hiiragiya.co.jp/en/info.html where rates are from $300 per person

or the
Tawaraya http://www.tawaraya.co.jp/index.html which might cost a bit more (you'll need to enquire directly to find out)

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Near Tokyo in the mountainous Hakone region there's the
Gora Kaidan http://www.gorakadan.com/

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Within Tokyo how about
Peninsular http://tokyo.peninsula.com/
Four Seasons Marunouchi http://www.fourseasons.com/marunouchi/
or the
Mandarin Oriental
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/tokyo/

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For discount fares originating somewhere on your vast continent you could try https://www.iace-usa.com/index_us.htm

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Given what I know of you so far, I would recommend that you seriously look into travelling on an organised tour. IACE travel can help you with that, so can the Japan Travel Bureau http://www.jtbgmt.com/sunrisetour/index.aspx

More suggestions for packaged tours can be given if you specifically request this information.
I urge you to consider this option, it could honestly be the best solution for your group.

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japanflyer, If you don't want people to give literal answers to your queries (like I have), or sarcastic ones to match the tone of your questions (as someone else has), do please read abmj-jr's post carefully as he has offered you some excellent advice on how to make the best use of this forum (and Flyertalk as a whole). It is particularly important that you take his comments about Japan in the summer on board.

And here I thought that "Ginza" was a knife!:o

Randy will do anything for his "former" members.........believe me!^

Need to get someone to design some tasteful clothing with that slogan...

"Rappungi for the nightlife. Ginza for the shopping"

It doesn't seem quite right for a T-Shirt or a yukata. I'm thinking it would be nice on a fundoshi.

Niiiice!

How about an alternative jinbei range.
Check this out for inspiration before you dismiss the idea.

I think you're onto something.

... and maybe a haramaki for winter wear.

I wouldn't necessarily strike up a conversation with a person who had Flyertalk tags on his bags, but you can bet that I'd introduce myself to anyone wearing "Rappungi for the nightlife" wafuku.

Customised tabi are certainly 'in' at the moment amongst wafuku wearers

http://www.a-yarn.com/product/2007/01/__fb8d.html

With a bit of fabric dye I'm considering writing "The Ginza for shopping" on a left tabi and "Rappungi for the nightlife" on a right one.

And I'm coincidentally in the market for a good quality haramaki, so I'll be first in line with an order.

I'm already signed up for http://www.thing-a-day.com/
One of this week's themes is "follow instructions"

I have some spare tabi, and I have black thread.

Protoype is now in production. Photo in a few hours.

Ah. But if I saw that I would say...

<<Sorry to be a pedant, but the phrase is 'Ginza for the shopping' I think>>

And any other pedants in the vicinity would wonder why on earth I was ignoring the other tabi with "Rappungi for the nightlife"

In a sense, they'd be waiting for the other tabi to drop.

no
 

i meant that so is he like the sarcastic and should i wait for sarcasim from him and im new thats why i was thinking that

So this is what is meant by the phrase "divided by a common language".

japanflyer, is your stream of consciousness directed at anyone in particular?

japanflyer, I am a fairly new member to Flyertalk community but can say that many regulars will help a new member who shows that he/she has done some homework on the subject. Please ask specific questions about your upcoming trip.

I am not a native English speaker myself but I think it will help if you collect your thoughts and write complete sentences instead of free associating.

I have not met nor correspond with LapLap but I'm pretty sure she's a woman.

Drew

Thank you, ddrewboy. You're quite right.

Back off on the Japan Forum merchandise tangent.

Here's today's 'thing'. I haven't chain stitched in decades so I'll do the second part tomorrow and that can be the next 'thing'.

http://www.thing-a-day.com/wp-conten...08/02/tad1.jpg

and the second part
http://www.thing-a-day.com/wp-conten...8/02/tabi2.jpg

Love it! ^

Hilarious. Perhaps you could wear them with one of those embroidered "Yokosuka" bomber jackets.

Actually, you'd better run that sartorial experiment by Mr. LapLap before trying it out. I very nearly broke up with a girl because of her embroidered Yokosuka bomber jacket. (We actually broke up over something else - but I think that I realized the relationship was doomed when I saw that jacket).

Would you believe? I actually found a photo of her wearing the jacket:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2848108...7600001210475/

I'll have some of whatever the OP is having. Make it a double.

Can I have my reputation back now, please?
 

I used my psychic skills to great effect here and came up with a reading that, initially, seemed a little off the mark, but after the non-response from japanflyer to my reasoned and considered answers in post#11, turned out to be completely accurate.

Instead of a silvery shower of recognition, I have been pretty much branded a 'sarcastic'.

Let this be a warning to you all!

*Sigh.* For those not offended by really crude NSFW language... Clickity.

maybe it's what japanflyer not having that gave him the edge it would be no fun if he got his ritalin oh my head is gonna explode failure to parse my sentence into syntax tree lalala

hey
 

so whats new

Japanflyer,

Please take this response in the spirit in which it is intended - as a helpful effort to get you on the right track to receive the help you seem to be requesting.

I could be wrong but you seem to be fairly young. At least, your posts have come across that way. I think you have a misunderstanding of what FlyerTalk and the Japan Forum are. Flyertalk is not some kind of chat room or IM service. The members of this forum are, for the most part, serious leisure and business travelers and a few expatriot residents of Japan. We attempt to provide real assistance to new or less experienced Japan travelers by using our experiences and collected knowledge in answering questions and offering suggestions to help those folks and to trade useful information among the users of this forum. Along the way, we also occasionally drift into humorous interludes and "inside jokes" among the regulars who have come to know each other through our message exchanges and "paid our dues" among the group.

No offense intended, but most of your postings have come off as some kind of chat room babble. You won't get much help that way and may very well just become the target of more jokes. If we have misunderstood you, that is regrettable. However, your method of posting makes it difficult to take you seriously.

If you have actual serious, specific questions about travel to Japan, please post them. Otherwise, you are just wasting your time.

JR

question
 

what other things can you see in japan other than temples and museums and night life?

Parks .. amusement parks... theres more to see than your eye can meet. Sometimes you'll just bump into what you like, literally. :D

Sanosuke!

JTB has a nice Sunrise Tour of a Toyota factory.....

You could always hang out on the Yamanote line during rush-hours, stopping in Shinjuku multiple times trying not to get lost.......

I'm sure people watching could occupy your time......

A 24HR Mangakisa might give you something to do, and it is relatively inexpensive and often comes with free drinks and massage.

Take Smidgen for a walk.

This is a major event. We put him in a giant wicker basket and we walk up and down Ginza, causing a commotion wherever he goes. Most Japanese haven't seen a cat that large ever. Come to think of it, I don't think most Japanese have seen a dog that large either.

If Mrs. Pickles didn't mind so much, I could use him as pick-up bait, I'd have the ladies taking a number for service.

amusement parks
 

really amusement parks do you know the names of the amusement parks?

another question
 

oh and lets say if i buy a computer down in japan do they go according to what its worth here for example if a computer is worth 900 dollars here would it be worth the same down there or something different and how much tax do i have to pay when i come back to the usa (does it go by the state i live in?)

Japan has a lot of neat computers. However...

They're EXPENSIVE. Discounting like we have here is rare.

The operating systems and keyboards are in Japanese

Anything you buy there will be subject to 5% GST when you purchase it (you can get some of that back at NRT) and you will need to declare and pay (federal) Customs Duty on the purchase price. You will probably need to provide receipts. Your home state may have some kind of use tax that you may be liable for.

Unless you're looking for something very specific (such as a 10.4" laptop), you're probably better off purchasing your computer back in the US.

Click here and scroll down to "Japan".

the purchase
 

but how do people in japan type in both japanese and english how do they do that?