Stay a few weeks! This...
by Pavlik_NL
Stay a few weeks! This megalopolis is bigger then big and not for nothing the largest city in the world. It's agglomerations counts 30 million people and according to the landmass that it's one, the people must be packed in boxes (which sometimes indeed is like that. Still the business of Tokyo makes it's littel secrets even more special. The parks, the temples and some other places where you can find a miracelous peacefullness. The city kept it's balance, which on it's own can be considered to be a miracle. A drive over rainbowbridge at night gives you a breathtaking view of the million lights of Tokyo.
The Ever-Changing Lights of Odaiba
by FelixB
On of Tokyo's newest attractions is the Rainbow Bridge that was modelled after the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Its name comes from the fact that its color changes constantly between all the colors of the rainbow.
When going to the architectural wonderland Odaiba you will either take a ferry or take the Monorail Yurikamome that runs over the bridge (assuming you have a car, you could also take the highway that runs over it).
Best viewed from the decks in front of Aqua City/Joypolis at Daiba; although Rainbow Bridge is nice during daylight, too, the best time to see it is definitely at night. Make sure you have a long exposure time when taking a picture for catching every single light of it.
Squat Toilet
by vigi
Although there are te most talk-about high tech toilet in Tokyo, some public places (especially train station) still maintain old squat toilets. Most of them are clean and provide toilet paper, although there is exceptions.
Very polite and helpful
by clueless83
The Japanese have always had a reputation for being polite and our short experience of Tokyo confirmed this.
On our first night we ended up at the wrong hotel, in the dark and pouring rain. The bell man at the hotel got a taxi to take us to the hotel we were booked at and even helped us load our suitcases into the taxi!
On our first day we were standing in the train station and were trying to make our way to Harajuku but unfortunately neither of us speak or read Japanese so even though we had Harajuku on our English/Japanese map we struggle to work out which stop we needed and how much the fare was going to be. A lovely Japanese man approached us even though he could not speak a word of English, somehow with alot of pointing to various maps etc we got to Harajuku and suddenly the Japanese system seemed to be a whole lot clearer!
When we got to Harajuku we had some lunch at Wendys (don't judge us! we were experiencing a culture shock and we don't even have Wendys in the UK). Anyway, we were trying to work out how to get to the Oriental Bazaar shop and a really nice girl who was also dining in there came up to us and asked if we needed any help, told us how to get to the shop and then asked if we needed any more help!
We also met a friendly random man in Akihabara who asked if he could take our photograph and got us to guess his age... i think he just wanted to practice his English on us!
The only disappointing thing about the Japanese was that none of them did the Hiro Nakamura (from Heroes) Yatta!!! ;-)
Give me a machine any day
by sourbugger
Vending machines seem to be in breeding overdrive in Japan. I heard one source say there were over six million and still going strong.
I think they would only work in a society that is on the whole very law abiding, like Japan.
As a visitor it is the vast range of products that is available that amazes. Whilst soft drinks seems to account for about half of the the range, the selection of wierd concoctions available is suprising. It makes dandelion and Burdock look somewhat tame.
We saw machines for coffee in a tin (not as bad as it sounds), beer, food, Johnnies,manga and porn.
The illusive one was the machine that sells used schoolgirl panties - do they really exist or is it an urban myth?
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