More like everything is super clean and neatly organized.
We were super impressed as well

i noticed japanese only use iphone or japan phone like sony, sharp, ntt docomo....never seem them use samsung or china phone lol....

At least 90% of them using iPhone.

No other flagship phones on sight.

and I don't see them scrolling Facebook, but LINE instead.

no wonder i see many LINE ads at there...

Eh.....with a good currency, do you need to use cheap phone?

Most Japanese dont buy the phone.
U sign contract with telco company the you get the phone. Once you end contract you give back the phone back to telco company.
That why back of phone got Au / NTT / Docomo. It belongs to company property.



Unless you very very rich or phone collector then only buy the phone.

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Nov 26 2017, 11:04 AM

What train pass are you talking about?
Do your research and be specific with your question.

Nice...! I envy a little because it's such a nice long trip.
By the way, no Ginza? You can do Ginza on Day 10 since it's a weekend. Mentioned this a couple of times - if you go Ginza around noon on weekend, you'll see this: http://makunouchi-japan.com/lifestyle/taki...estrian-heaven/

Rare chance to see snow. Even if it does, likely to be in mid/ late Dec or Jan/ Feb.
Last year it did snow a little for awhile in Tokyo, but since I arrive the next day, only saw remnants of snow along mountain areas when I rode the train from Narita to city.

This post has been edited by sweet_pez: Nov 27 2017, 09:33 AM

Ya been following thread and saw you mentioning about Ginza weekend , btw my day 10 is Saturday which I need go to airport for 5pm flight. But after various consideration I would prefer go for Akiba weekend and place Ginza together with Tsukuji fish market and Odaiba since these area are close together I can slowly enjoy walking around. I should have make my trip longer than 10 days because there are lot more things to do in Tokyo and nearby area .

You can do it, but you will have to spend less time in the Nishisando and you'll have to reach there early too. It's quite unpleasant to rush this though. It will be better to stay a night there and split the days with one day for Nishisando and then another day to complete Chuzenji, Ryuzu falls and Yumoto Onsen. If you're only going to the shrines, just the city pass is enough, if you're going for Chuzenji as the furthest point, you can just take the city pass and then top up for the remaining ride to Chuzenji (You can ask for more detailed and updated instructions when you buy the pass in Asakusa Tobu station, they can speak fluent Mandarin and simple English if you need it)

1 thing I regret is I never get to try Japan's premium fruit.

guys, stuck at japanese room booking, what should i fill this かな ? tq

Thats is your name in hiragana. For example in kanji, its 田中。　So kana is: たなか

ic, tqvm

I see. If on your last day you're going to Tokyo Station, then the other nearby area of interest (within walking distance) is the Imperial Palace. Consider spending 2 hours or so visiting the place - it's big.

It's alright, there's never "enough time" when it comes to Tokyo. That's why you'll need a 2nd, 3rd, 4th. 5th... etc trip

And oh, you have quite a few things planned for Shinjuku's night activity. Consider the fact that you'll be tired after the long day at Hakone and cut down to 1 or 2 places.

Wasted liao, their fruits super sweet super juicy. But also expensive as hell 🤣

Yup last day will just hang around tokyo station and store my baggage into baggage storage. Shinjuku night activity will be mostly look and photo so ya won't spent too much time on there.

Now working on where to eat list based on TS chinti suggestion, feel like going all of them . My parent do like genmaicha any recommendation where to buy?

genmaicha i think i saw 7-11 / family mart do sell them...

anyone has extra JPY to exchange? or any recommended place to exchange? so far the best i saw is 1000JPY for rm37.25 at sunway pyrmiad. Thanks!

There is a tea specialty store in Marunouchi, but it's not cheap

http://www.ippodo-tea.co.jp/shop/marunouchi-tokyo.html

Thanks! Will look around.