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Japan in December for 2 weeks
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:45 pm
Landing in Tokyo and planning to bullet train to Osaka and Kyoto.
Anyone have any advice. Must see stuff. Good eats.
Thanks in advance
Anyone have any advice. Must see stuff. Good eats.
Thanks in advance
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Posted on 8/10/23 at 9:15 pm to vilma4prez
There is a fantastic area where they beautifully light a ton of trees in Tokyo over the holidays. I can't remember exactly which neighborhood, as I was shuttled out there for a work function, but your hotel concierge will know. I assume you're staying at a major brand hotel (Marriott, etc.)
Rely heavily on the concierges. While you can show cab drivers Google Maps destinations in Japanese, especially when you get into the inner webs of Izakaya, etc., all over the place, you can have no idea where the hell you are. The concierges will write destinations in Japanese that will make more sense to the cabbies.
I'm sure there are others, but if you're staying anywhere near the Shinagawa station, come down the escalators on the west side, and veer left and go downstairs into the "food court/department store." You can buy groceries, clothing, desserts, toys, prepared food from 20 different counters, etc. It's just an interesting cultural window.
Rely heavily on the concierges. While you can show cab drivers Google Maps destinations in Japanese, especially when you get into the inner webs of Izakaya, etc., all over the place, you can have no idea where the hell you are. The concierges will write destinations in Japanese that will make more sense to the cabbies.
I'm sure there are others, but if you're staying anywhere near the Shinagawa station, come down the escalators on the west side, and veer left and go downstairs into the "food court/department store." You can buy groceries, clothing, desserts, toys, prepared food from 20 different counters, etc. It's just an interesting cultural window.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 4:57 am to vilma4prez
I went to Tokyo once a few years ago. My hosts took me to an authentic Japanese hibachi grill restaurant. I highly recommend this experience if you find one.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:58 am to LemmyLives
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your hotel concierge will know
Great suggestion. Japan’s hotel concierge’s are awesome. We reached out to our first hotel concierge (Tokyo park Hyatt) prior to our trip to make us the advance reservations needed to see the moss garden in Kyoto, and our entry tickets to the gardens were there for us at check out. They handled all the correspondence, they will make good dinner reservations, they are just great.
Definitely go to the food court in the big department stores in Tokyo.
If you go to Kyoto/Osaka, himeji castle is an easy day trip by rail and worth it.
The circle k and lawson’s convenience stores are worth poking around one day and a great place to get legit snacks when walking around. Part of the joy of Japan is things you expect to be trash because of your experiences in America are great in Japan. Their floor for what is acceptable is so much higher than ours. One of the best meals we had was in the basement of a rural bus station. That meal in the US is inedible
Only other Japan tip I have is you can ship your luggage for cheap from one place to another. So depending on your trip if you only need certain things for part of your trip, ship those to your final destination when done to lighten your load. We did this with bulky cold weather gear needed to hike mt fuji.
Japan is truly the best. Buy a good guidebook and read it before you go.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 8:09 am to vilma4prez
Go to Hokkaido and ski some of the best powder in the world.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 1:53 pm to ned nederlander
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The circle k and lawson’s convenience stores are worth poking around one day and a great place to get legit snacks when walking around.
You can eat three meals a day out of Lawson's! Stand in front of all the cold coffee varieties and be amazed.
But do *not* eat or drink while walking around, it's a faux pas. Find a bench and eat/drink. Also, when you're in a bus or something, and there are signs telling you not to talk on the phone, obey them.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 7:23 pm to LemmyLives
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Rely heavily on the concierges. While you can show cab drivers Google Maps destinations in Japanese, especially when you get into the inner webs of Izakaya, etc., all over the place, you can have no idea where the hell you are
Very good advice. Even the drivers that speak English don’t understand what you are saying. You can see Hilton ten times and the driver won’t know where you are going until they see it in Japanese and then they’ll say “oh Hilton”.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 7:25 pm to LemmyLives
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But do *not* eat or drink while walking around, it's a faux pas. Find a bench and eat/drink. Also, when you're in a bus or something,
There are no public garbage cans. Whatever rubbish you take with you, you get to carry for the rest of the day. Other stores don’t accept garbage from other places.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 10:34 pm to Motownsix
The lack of both trash on the streets and public trash cans is a sign of advanced civilization.
Here in New Orleans we have both in spades.
Here in New Orleans we have both in spades.
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