3 options:

1) Leave your bags at hotel. Pickup on your way back to airport
2) Tokyo Sta. has coin lockers
3) Takkyubin service i.e. luggage delivery service from multiple companies like kuroneko yamato etc. Very common in Japan - we use this every time when we arrive. Around 1000-1500yen per bag. They pick up (usually 1 day before; sometimes 2) your bags and you get them back at their counters at the airport. As this is a common service, all hotels will have their phone numbers.

Based on personal experience, it is very safe to travel alone even at late night. Of course common sense prevails; avoid walking in dark alleys or hideous places.

Communication-wise, it's better to know more Japanese. If not, just grab a guide book, and point to the things you want when asking for help, they native Japanese would kill to provide you any sort of assistance 

Yeah ... it'll be crowded but that's the whole point right? To experience the crowd, the festivity and see the people.

Not everything have to be expensive in order to enjoy the occasion.
If you're on a boat, you won't be able to see the hordes of boys & girls in their summer yukata, or experience the hundreds of synchronized "sugoi" when the first fireworks shoots off, or how they manage the crowd of more than 50,000 people in one area.

The crowd in Japan is quite different as well in the sense that they'll all follow instructions and go with the flow so it's very orderly and manageable.

Problem is i not in Tokyo. If fly down to tokyo need 40k yen. I already check the website b4 and email them no reply. If i just go there directly without appointment i scared will waste my trip if they dun let me enter and attend to me cos from the yahoo group some ppl say they were not allowed to enter.

I have never been to the embassy b4 so i dunno how their service there. If typical malaysian attitude then u know la..

dats why tot if anyone know inside ppl easier for me to tok wif them.

But thnx anyway

Need to pay additional only can see LCD or FOC. you know la....Airasia evertyhing also count.

Really, we can ask for charging. i do not plan to take my notebook. its too heavy. i will bring my ipad. but one ipad is not enough to share with 3 kids (sure fighting).  Are you sure we can ask the stewardess to charge my ipad?

Perhaps you guys don't work in frontline positions for the airline. I too work "kind of" in an airline - from the consumer-side that is . I fly a lot (> 100K miles) as part of my job. After doing this for many years, I am intimately familiar with the CoC (Conditions of Carriage) for flying. Flying is like a contract between me and the operating carrier - I need to know what I can and cannot do. Of course, I am still learning all the time and sometimes, actual practise is not the same as what is laid out in the manual.

About the comparison with golf clubs, the reason some airlines specifically allow musical instruments is that they are fragile. Not so golf equipment. Instruments are also personal and sometimes can be very expensive. Not the thing you'd like to check-in.

Here are some facts:
1) There is enough space for a guitar onboard depending on the operating equipment. More so, if it is an electric guitar but also enough space for a regular acoustic if using a thin hardcase. Enough space most Airbus and Boeing wide and narrow-bodies.

2) Yes, a guitar will take up lots of overhead space and will prevent other passengers from using the space directly over their seats. Flying economy compounds the issue because of the increased density of seats. Is this fair? Maybe not, but then again air travel is hardly fair: people have dedicated check-in counters, bypass security lines, board earlier because they are elite frequent fliers. But are there any rules against this? No if the airline allows it. That's why I wrote earlier that you would want to pre-board to carry this out successfully. First-come-first served.

3) There is other space on an airplane besides the overhead compartments. There are multiple vertical closets onboard for coats etc. You ask the flight attendant to permission to use these.

4) At least 2 major US airlines: Delta and United, explicitly allow guitars (this may be academic since none of them fly to KUL)
http://www.delta.com/traveling_checkin/bag...ments/index.jsp
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6867,50773,00.html

5) However, specific to KUL, MAS seems to allow "musical instruments" bigger that the carry-on sizer
http://www.mas.com.my/my/en/book-and-plan/...pment-pets.html

In the end, carrying a guitar onboard will be YMMV. If it were me, I'd pack it carefully just in case, carry it through security and if there is no space onboard or they deny it for a reason, ask them to gate-check it. Gate-checked bags, at this moment, do not incur fees on major carriers.

RegentCid, i think you answered these type of questions to death already 

Probably bro Tanoshi should put a reminder for people to check the old posts or put all updates/Q&A on front page.

Stuck in the hotel in Shinjuku now. News reported 3 deaths for Tokyo so far and fires running up at the south side.

People are cleaning up the supermarkets (7-11, Lawson etc), I just got back from raiding the nearby 7-11 as well. People in Shibuya/Shinjuku area seems oblivious to the fact of bad things are on the north side, I was one of them as well. Had to walk back from Shibuya as trains are all out.

Bloody aftershock shaking is keeping my girlfriend up. I doubt anyone can sleep much tonight, sigh.

原子力保安院によると、東京電力・福島第1原発の1号機内で、冷却水が燃料棒の高さより低く表示されているという。
保安院は、これは燃料棒が露出して一部解けている可能性も否定できないとしているが、水位を表示している計器が正しく作動していない可能性もあり、保安院は、引き続き注視している。

According to the Nuclear Safety Agency, the first nuclear power plant No. 1 in the plane Hukuzima TEPCO has shown that less than the height of the fuel rod cooling water.
NISA, which is trying to not deny the possibility that the melted part is exposed to the fuel rods, there is a possibility is not working correctly gauge that displays the water level, NISA, attention will continue That.
That gauge should be wrong already....1000times than normal , already melt the whole plant already...maybe already nuclear explotion like Ukrain

I wonder what malaysia embassy doing to help those trap in airport.

Nice sharing there. I guess during hard times, humans only realize how important to be caring to each another and practice togetherness; most Malaysians are just too 'pampered'.

At last safely return back to Malaysia.
Bit disappointed that some our friends tried to contact our embassy but no reply.
I also understand that Sg embassy provide extra flight details to their citizen regarding the departing from Haneda.

But the fact, 20km radius is still not sufficient right?