![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
List o'possibles in Japan
Starting to make a list of things I'd like to see/do in Japan, focusing on Tokyo and Kyoto, since that's where I'm likely to be. Will keep adding to this post as things occur to me.
And no, I have no intention of doing everything on the list, because I dislike overstructuring vacations and get bitchy when I'm overtired and trying to do too much. This is just to supply a list of potential things. Suggestions welcome.
Must-see/do things will be bolded. :)
Suggestions from the peanut gallery
And no, I have no intention of doing everything on the list, because I dislike overstructuring vacations and get bitchy when I'm overtired and trying to do too much. This is just to supply a list of potential things. Suggestions welcome.
Must-see/do things will be bolded. :)
- Meet up with
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
homasse, m00nface, kate_nepveu and anyone else who's in Japan at the time - I predict Mom wants a piece of some sort of traditional Japanese weaving that doesn't cost too much as a souvenir, so I'll need to get her one.
- A good wander with a camera through a large traditional formal garden.
- Tokyo: Gotta go to Akihabara Electric Town in Tokyo and collect anime figurines (rachelmanija)
- Tokyo: Kita-Kamakura (near Tokyo, lots of temples and gardens) because it's one of my favorite places in Japan. (so says rachelmanija)
- Tokyo: Ebisu in Tokyo has a beer museum and an excellent used bookshop with books in English. (so says rachelmanija)
- Tokyo: Tokyo Free Guide.
- Kyoto: the International Manga Museum is a must-see. (Note to self: closed Wednesdays, or Thursdays if Wed is a national holiday.)
- Kyoto: Book a room at Crossroads, in Kyoto. (rachelmanija)
- More to come as I think of it.
Suggestions from the peanut gallery
- Collect things from vending machines (the_z)
no subject
no subject
no subject
Ebisu in Tokyo has a beer museum and an excellent used bookshop with books in English.
no subject
no subject
Oh, wait that doesn't actually exist. :( Gotta get working on my mad-scientist lab to create the Rent-a-Zilla first.....
no subject
Not only is it a really cool, funky shrine, it may have extra coolness because of the Year of the Boar. Who knows what's going on there?
There's a bit about it here:
http://www.geocities.jp/general_sasaki/kyoto-index-eng.html
Also, when you're in Kyoto keep an eye out - there is a weekly free magazine printed in English that will have various events going on in the city. When I was there, I was able to see a really nifty ceremony at one of the Shinto shrines that I found from a blurb in there. (The blurb started out, "Fifteen men in loincloths jump into a small pool and thrash around." I was SO not missing that!) The coolest things in Kyoto are not in the big guidebooks.
On the other hand, if you want some cheese, Toei Uzumasa Movieland has some.
http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/visitkyoto/en/theme/others/uzumasa_movie/
If you are interested in traditional Japanese crafts, the Kyoto Handicraft Center has both displays of handicrafts and some hands-on fun stuff, like do-your-own woodblock prints. They also had relatively cheap silk kimono for sale.
no subject
I would add something to your list, but seeing that I've never been to Japan (and can't think of any particularly interesting things I've heard of right now for some reason)...yeah. :D;
no subject
I was so sad I couldn't afford to go to Kyoto this trip. Next time!
no subject
Do you have an idea if you're doing Kyoto before or after the con? I'd love to do the Manga Museum with you, but that may not be practical.
no subject
no subject
no subject
Also, Himeji-jo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle) is really worth seeing (Himeji's about 90 minutes local train from Kyoto) and for some naff pop culture (back in Kyoto now), go to Toei Movie Land (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3934.html)!
If you're venturing beyond Kyoto, I also recommend going to Takurazuka for the Tezuka Osamu museum and possibly the Takurazuka Revue, and Nara for Todaiji (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2165.html) (the world's biggest housed buddha) and Kasuga Taisha, gorgeous Shinto shrine of a thousand lanterns.
no subject
Go to bakeries and take pictures of all the interesting and yummy things they come up with and try them!
Go to convenience stores and take pictures of all the interesting and yummy things they come up with and try them!
Ok, in general: take pictures of tasty food and try random hole-in-the-wall restaurants!
Go to the ninja castle (I forgot what's it's actually called, but it's in Kyoto and it's famous) and bounce around on the squeaky floors and pretend you are an awful ninja.
Go to Harajuku and take pictures of all the loligoth girls and visual-kei-imitators and ogle at the things they sell in the specialty goth stores there and eat crepes.
Ogle at all the plastic food.
Go karaoke during the day (VERY CHEAP during the day, and often with free snacks thrown in) and sing anime theme songs.
Go find an arcade and play Dance Dance Revolution or the bongo game if you can find it or other fun and interesting games.
Find and take pictures of as many assorted vending machines as you can (drinks, hot drinks, soup, cigarettes, camera stuff, panties...).
See if you can wander across a street fair and have freshly made takoyaki and yakisoba and the little fish they make out of egg dough and pile on with vinegar and other good stuff.
(aka, these were all my favorite things to do in Japan)
no subject
Onegaishimasu
Re: Onegaishimasu
no subject