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Originally Posted by godwine
1. Both Shibuya and Ueno are great location to stay at, as long as you stay close to the Yamanote line you are fine.
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Thanks, I will thus base my deceision of which hotel/area to stay at by cross-referencing a hotel in a price range I like, with the distance to the nearest station that serves the yamanote line.
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Originally Posted by godwine
Roppongi hill has a lot of nightlife yes, but its also a "foreigner" hang out (from my own experience), its no different from any pubs/bars/clubs district in the west or Europe, so don't expect it to be "way different"
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I see, maybe that is why it is largely talked about to go to if your a foreigner.
I will check it out for I guess one part of the evening and move on.
Since I am still interested in seeing the shops and art exhbitions there.
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Originally Posted by godwine
2. Japan Railway's site has a schedule finder that can help you find these info, thought most of these route you outlined will be somewhere around 20-30 minutes.
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Excellent ! I never figured going directly to the JR site would be so helpfull.
I figured something as native as that would surely have a website purely in unreadable (
to me) Kanji :-)
The 20-30 minutes will be do-able since I plan on mostly walking instead of going public-transit crazy for every lil distance.
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Originally Posted by godwine
3. The JR pass is great only if you need to ride the shinkansen, otherwise i would opt out on it, as you will probably discover that a lot of places you may rather walk than taking transit
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This is really helpfull, since I if I do stay in Tokyo, the JR pass wouldn`t justify the cost at all.
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Originally Posted by godwine
If you are into the culture and traidition, then you really should pay Kyoto a visit.
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I have given this some tought, but I`m not sure on this yet.
I`ll do some more planning and research for hotels etc. budgetting to see what I can do.
I would also rather additionally go to Kyoto, after all it`s not like I can just take a train from amsterdam to Japan any day I want right
Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it :-)