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Originally Posted by AllYouCanJapan
I'm going to have to disagree - Tokyo and its surrounding areas have more than enough to offer for 3 weeks. The trip is actually cheaper when you move around less.
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Unless you have a bottomless money supply, I think spending more than a week in Tokyo is going to leave you scratching your head for what to do.
Things in Tokyo are quick and easy to get to, relatively, so seeing two and three attractions in a day is no problem.
So after Tokyo Tower, Akihabara, Harajuku (Meiji Jingu Shrine), The Tokyo Metro Govt building, Ueno Park, Odaiba, Ginza, Kaminari-mon, Yokohama's China Town, Kamakura for the Daibutsu and maybe a day at Disneyland, and a night at Nikko, how are you going to fill the next two weeks?
I think naive travelers make the mistake thinking more is better. "The longer you spend in a place the better the trip will be. " I know by experience this isn't always true.
I have taken groups of high schoolers to Japan, an invariably they are disappointed we don't schedule a week of traveling in Tokyo. At the end they are always happy we schedule just three or four days.
I took teacher of Buddhism on a tour of Japan, and after 15 temples in a week he finally said "I have seen enough." Even though he originally wanted to see about twice that many.
Sometimes when traveling less is more.