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[dangermousie]

Two Tours Visit Untraditional Tokyo

By HILARY HOWARD
Published: October 14, 2007

Pop Japan Travel (www.popjapantravel.com), which focuses on Japanese pop culture, is offering two new trips to Tokyo, both from April 11 to 18.

The Fujoshi Paradise Yaoi Tour caters to fans of yaoi, a comic-book genre created mostly by women that depicts love between two men. Participants shop along Otome Road, where yaoi manga stores abound; visit yaoi-themed cafes; and talk with Makoto Tateno, a prominent yaoi artist.

The Tokyo Darkside Goth-Loli Tour focuses on the fashion trend of combining Victorian and Rococo styles with 21st-century punk and girly girl movements, as above. The trip features shopping; a visit to Harajuku, a young and trend-setting neighborhood; and a meal at the Victorian-themed Christon Cafe.

Both trips cost $2,198, and include hotels, activities and round-trip air fare from Los Angeles.

From New York Times travel section

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

This sounds oddly entertaining. As something to watch, not as something to participate in. *is imagining a mass of yaoi fangirls converging on Tokyo and some poor artist*

I mean...yaoi themed CAFES???? And shops that are just yaoi?

[grey-fuzzy.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to meet someone willing to spend $2000 for yaoi-themed cafes. I think that'd be a pretty interesting bunch of people XD.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

:Makes a note to stay away from Tokyo during those dates:

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

heeee.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know, the amount of money is insane!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I can imagine the poor yaoi guy running away :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine the CONVERSATIONS? They have to be...amazing... I want to be a ghots and just kinda float around the cafe table while they read and chat...I feel it would be a unique experience.

And one I would never wish to experience again.

[pjt-ben.livejournal.com]

The tour includes round trip airfare, hotel, transportation in Tokyo and entry fees. Considering the high costs of seeing Japan and what we're including on the tour it's a very good price.

And it's not just a yaoi cafe. The tour goes to Harajuku on Sunday morning, to Meiji Shrine, Odaiba, Ginza, Ueno, Asakusa, Akihabara, Nakano and the Tsukiji fish market. We're also doing a day tour of Hakone as an option, plus a free day. And yes, there's a day of activities focused on boys' love and yaoi. We're going to Ikebukuro, two cafes, and to a dance show (Roppongi Kingyo -- http://www.kingyo.co.jp/ ) that I've been to myself several times and find extremely entertaining. For only five full days in Tokyo, that's a lot to do. (And a relatively small portion of it is focused on yaoi.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am sure it's good price for a trip all the way to Japan. I was speaking in absolute terms.

I am sure it's a lovely trip though.

[pjt-ben.livejournal.com]

Well thanks, that's very even-handed of you. And yes, it is a bit of moolah. But scientists say that experiences make you happier in the long term than purchases, so... ;)