Preparation Before you leave
by leanne_pearc
Some cities you can go to and just easily navigate and never have a problem, Tokyo is not this city. A little preparation will go a long way. It will also save you so much time! I recommend the following:
1. Guide book
2. Train line map. Make yourself aware of the train station near your hotel.Make yourself aware of the train lines that you may travel on.
3. Ensure the guide book has some basic Japanese phrases
4. Print or write down your hotel name in Japanese
Visit the Emperors Palace, and...
by tfly
Visit the Emperors Palace, and visit Shinjiku. Then spend a day walking the city streets of Tokyo. The people are the most friendly in the world in my opinion. The train system is the worlds best and you can get to/from most place on the train with no need to rent a car. Driving is tough in Tokyo. The people. They are very kind to visitors.
New trains along Yamanote Line
by vincentf
If you encounter the new sleek trains (E231 series) on the JR Yamanote Line, you'll be informed by both Japanese and English announcements. On top of each door, these LCD displays show you the entire loop and how long it takes to reach the destination.
The LCD screen will also display the local weather, news and best of all, baseball box scores!
Fuji TV Broad Cast
by o00o
This city may be crowded enough to make New York seem like a quiet city, but its crime rate is lower than any other city in the world. In Tokyo crime is something that the average person rarely has to think about.
Dining in a restaurant seems to be easy
by Alain_Smeets
You need to experience the dining in a Japanese restaurant once in your life. Try to imagine the following, you don’t speak the language and you can’t communicate with them.
How to order in their Japanese menu, seems difficult, but it can be easy. Most restaurants have a plastic display of the food and you can say the number of the food that you want to eat and they will bring it to you once it’s cooked.
But wait a minute a beer, yes that is on display too, but the English number are to difficult so the pointing game starts and when they note everything down, they smile because they made another customer happy.
And when they bring the dish, well it looks just like the plastic display, but it tastes very good.