weather wise, tokyo has all seasons, i've been caught in a snow storm that made a 30mins journey = 3hours x.x
came in during september, it was near 30C, dec = minus temps and back in spring the temp will shoot straight up.
Of course rainy season at the moment = endless days of rain, rain rain, i'm sure i wrote about it driving me insane at some point.
Oh, can't forget the lovely blood sucking vamps too that come out to play (mosquitoes)
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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
Off the top of my head: - Tsukiji Market (for fresh sushi; visit before it's gone; I read that it's moving soon)
- Shibuya (for the iconic youth culture of Japan; there is a major Mandarake store there as well)
- Harajuku (where the cosplayers hang out on weekends at Takeshi-dori, a sidestreet behind Harajuku; or so I read, because I didn't see them)
- The Imperial Palace (especially during sakura season)
- Asakusa (to see the famous Rei-mon)
- Tokyo University (to re-live your favourite Love Hina! moments
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- Sony Building, in Ginza (to see the latest gadgets)
- Akihabara (if you're an otaku, need I say more?)
Actually, I just realised all the above is out-of-topic. There's a Visiting Japan thread which may be a better place for more answers.  |
anyways for harajuku, you need to go to the bridge on a sunday, some examples (not my entire collection, lol) of some of the styles there.
hara 1
hara 2
hara 3
Also make sure to take a 10min walk to visit the meiji shrine that's around the corner, you may get lucky like we did and experience this:
meiji shrine
Spoiler for procession:
I kinda forget that this may need explaining, but it's a traditional Shino wedding that was happening at the time, the left side was all the man's family and the right was all the woman's family, side by side. They paraded the entire length of the shrine (it is huuuuuge) and she was dressed in traditional shinto bridal wear... well so was the husband to be honest.
Even though i've been lucky to spot a few shinto weddings in the shrine grounds (this was by far the largest and most grandest) it's definitely a rare (and very expsenive) occasion, so we kinda turned into pappazzi and snuck around grabbing more pics >.>
best place on the net for anything japan was well can be found here:
http://web-japan.org/
they've changed the website a lil since i last used it, but as you can see under 'content' it's basically a gateway to just about anything related to japan that you can thing of
(Kids web japan is awesome and just not for kids!!!!) ^^
Anyways happy researching FateAnomaly
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funny how i only notice now about the 'visiting japan' thread, lol.
Well i guess posts can be merged into there from when fate asked the question, if it's really out of place...