Travel Advice needed: Japan
Mar. 6th, 2006 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieYESSSSS! Husband and I decided that our vacation this year is...Japan. It was between this and India, and we don't have enough time for India. Rajastan will have to wait. It also has the parental seal of approval (as in "Parents loved the place") and I've already been sick in Asia so don't have to worry about the dread ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dangermousie curse of getting sick on every continent I've been on (so far, I am just missing South America and Antartica and that's because I haven't been to either).
I guess my sudden surge of interest in anime was prescient. Or something. Anyway, we are planning on Japan in the fall. And here is where my lovely, lovely flist comes in. Outside of the standards of Tokyo, Mt. Fuji and Kyoto (or as Futurama refers to it, "anagram lover's Tokyo"), I am not sure what we should see. True, I am reading a heavy, thick guidebook cover to cover, but extra advice is always invaluable. So I thought surely someone on my flist has been to Japan. Or has flown over it. Or heard about it on the radio. So I should ask advice for cool places to see and things to do. Generally I prefer historical stuff over super-modern (temples over newest cell-phone the size of my eyelash).
So, advice? Recommendations? Requests to bring back sushi?
I am in desperate need of guidance here, since watching anime left me with only scanty geographical, historical, and social knowledge, consisting of:
1. Tokyo is a large, modern, and teeming city that periodically gets destroyed by monsters.
2. Samurai were angsty gorgeous warriors with awesome hair, who sometimes preferred their comrades in arms to geishas.
3. If you are a Japanese schoolgirl, no skirt is short enough. And you will get tormented by bullies to such a degree that in the litigious U.S. of A. you'd be set for life with the amount of money your loving parents would get in their lawsuit against the school. Of course, in Japan such concerns are moot as the richest, most arrogant boy in school will undoubtedly become your slave (see point about shortness of skirts).
4. People of Japan have green, blue, purple and white hair. Black hair is really rare, as rare as eyes that don't take up half of your face.
Something tells me these aren't adequate pointers. Just a hunch.
So, advice?
dangermousie curse of getting sick on every continent I've been on (so far, I am just missing South America and Antartica and that's because I haven't been to either). I guess my sudden surge of interest in anime was prescient. Or something. Anyway, we are planning on Japan in the fall. And here is where my lovely, lovely flist comes in. Outside of the standards of Tokyo, Mt. Fuji and Kyoto (or as Futurama refers to it, "anagram lover's Tokyo"), I am not sure what we should see. True, I am reading a heavy, thick guidebook cover to cover, but extra advice is always invaluable. So I thought surely someone on my flist has been to Japan. Or has flown over it. Or heard about it on the radio. So I should ask advice for cool places to see and things to do. Generally I prefer historical stuff over super-modern (temples over newest cell-phone the size of my eyelash).
So, advice? Recommendations? Requests to bring back sushi?
I am in desperate need of guidance here, since watching anime left me with only scanty geographical, historical, and social knowledge, consisting of:
1. Tokyo is a large, modern, and teeming city that periodically gets destroyed by monsters.
2. Samurai were angsty gorgeous warriors with awesome hair, who sometimes preferred their comrades in arms to geishas.
3. If you are a Japanese schoolgirl, no skirt is short enough. And you will get tormented by bullies to such a degree that in the litigious U.S. of A. you'd be set for life with the amount of money your loving parents would get in their lawsuit against the school. Of course, in Japan such concerns are moot as the richest, most arrogant boy in school will undoubtedly become your slave (see point about shortness of skirts).
4. People of Japan have green, blue, purple and white hair. Black hair is really rare, as rare as eyes that don't take up half of your face.
Something tells me these aren't adequate pointers. Just a hunch.
So, advice?
