i'm going to japan in mid april. any suggestion where i should eat, see, or do? we're planning to go to kamakura for cherry blosum festival, takayama lantern festival, onsen in nagano. that's what we have planned so far. we'll be staying in tokyo shinjuku for seven day.
2007-03-07 02:41:14 · 4 answers · asked by harmony 7 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
Nikko is just two hours north of Tokyo and worth a visit:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5&no=253565&rel_no=1
If you go to Nagano, you should go to Yudanaka and Jigokudani to see the snow monkeys:
http://samuraidave.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/japanese-snow-monkeys-enjoy-a-warm-dip-to-fight-winters-chill/
An hour or so south east of Nagano is Matsumoto which has a great castle - Karasu-jo (Crow Castle)
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/4149/p1010094mm0.jpg
2007-03-07 03:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having travelled around Japan a bit, the very best place for me is Kyoto. It's got an atmosphere unlike any city in Japan and many a foreigner has fallen in love with the place who may not be normally too keen on highly urbanised areas.
There is a story about Kyoto : Near the end of World War II, the American military was planning which of the cities would be just dandy to drop an atomic bomb. It was only the intervention of the then US ambassador for Japan that saved one of the great cities of the world from being sent back to the stone age.
2007-03-08 01:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by John M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe hanami season (cherry blossum) may be early this year and you may miss it.
Tokyo is a great place....Lonely Planet guide books give it a good run down.
2007-03-07 20:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jon H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you gotta go to Tokyo Disney Land !!!
2007-03-07 05:35:49 · answer #4 · answered by Devil Driver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋