Help Tingkai visit Tokyo

[Tingkai]

I'm off to Tokyo next week for four days, but I don't know much about the city.

Any suggestions for the following:
1) Historical sites;
2) Museums;
3) Bars;
4) Clubs with live music (rock or jazz); and
5) Cool places to hang out just to soak up the atmosphere.

A friend suggested that I should go to Kyoto for one day. Is this good advice?

[FrustratedPoet]

Going to Tokyo and Kyoto in one trip is a must if you like anagrams.

[Seeker]

The Imperial Palace offers tours.

If you have 500 bucks to blow at one place, Shinjuku has tons of karaoke bars.

Tokyo Tower is kinda tacky, it's just a bigger Eiffle Tower.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Seeker
The Imperial Palace offers tours.

If you have 500 bucks to blow at one place, Shinjuku has tons of karaoke bars.

Way out of my price range and I wouldn't go to a karaoke bar if it only cost $10, unless karaoke is a euphemism.

I know Tokyo is expensive so I'm budgeting $200 a day, not including hotel. Is that too much, or not enough?

[Seeker]

It's changing. My friend was there last year, he said some things are still outrageous, but their recession may be bringing prices back to our planet.

[Lord Merciless]

Tokyo subway during the rush hour.

[Frankychan]

Bah! I'm jealous that you get to go to Japan and I don't!

[Zero]

Why would you willingingly want to go see japanese businessman singing in karaoke?

Besides, major fighting game tournaments are over in japan. I see no reason to go.

http://www.tougeki.com/

[Drake Tungsten]

Bah! I'm jealous that you get to go to Japan and I don't!

I'll be living there in three months.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Re: Help Tingkai visit Tokyo

Originally posted by Tingkai
I'm off to Tokyo next week for four days, but I don't know much about the city.

Any suggestions for the following:
1) Historical sites;
2) Museums;
3) Bars;
4) Clubs with live music (rock or jazz); and
5) Cool places to hang out just to soak up the atmosphere.

A friend suggested that I should go to Kyoto for one day. Is this good advice?

There aren't many historical sites in Tokyo, between Curtis LeMay and redevelopment. Kyoto and back in a day doesn't give you much time to see stuff, but Kamakura is much closer and has a number of cool sites close together.

To hang out and just to look at the area and peoplewatch, Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Harajuku are all cool, and are adjacent stops (IIRC, there may be one more in there somewhere, but they're at most a four stop spread) on the Yamanote line, which is the main loop line on the Tokyo train system.

Harajuku is well known for the outrageous and frequently hilarious street fashions, and it's the goth, punk, and wannabe hang out. Definitely the best peoplewatching area in Tokyo.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Bah! I'm jealous that you get to go to Japan and I don't!

I'll be living there in three months.

Gee, thanks...

[Drake Tungsten]

If you want, I'll send you pictures of me having a great time with Japanese girls. Would that cheer you up?

[Spiffor]

:jealous:

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
If you want, I'll send you pictures of me having a great time with Japanese girls. Would that cheer you up?

Well son-of-a...

[Wraith]

--"Tokyo Tower is kinda tacky, it's just a bigger Eiffle Tower."

Yeah, but if you're lucky you'll get to see a magical girl being swept up by a beam of light

Anyway, as far as Tokyo goes, the number one must-see place is probably Akihabara.

Wraith
Of course I'm warped - it's faster than impulse