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09-02-2010, 02:29 PM
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Akiba you may see a lot of real otaku on sunday. I remember an incident with some guy (Around 25 years old) running to the back alley to open up a Kato train he just purchased, he start sniffing it and rubbing it. I also saw a bunch of older guys (Like in their late 30s and early 40s) dressed as maid walking around Akiba... Cosplayers are cosplayers, but these hard core Otaku you will find in Akiba for sure 
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09-12-2010, 12:06 AM
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I think we left Akiba about 11:30, so yeah, if we hadn't decided to go and eat outside of the area, we could still have been knocking around the main area.
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09-12-2010, 10:02 AM
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I think the rail pass is worth it. I wish I could buy one, but I can't cos Im Japanese. sorry you might have already talked about it somewhere, but I couldn't find.. so For how long would you like to travel? And if you can tell your budget, I might be able to give you more information and better suggestions. I travel too, and I did one this summer for 8days in North part of Japan (Aomori and Hakodate). I travelled from Yokohama(near Tokyo), I used the coaches to travel (I wish I had the rail pass!) 12 hours to get there! (5500yen one way). I stayed at a cosy hotels for 4 nights(single room 3500-5000yen per nite) and at an internet cafe for a night(2000yen, you can have soft serve (icecream) and drinks as much as you want, there are all type of games and mangas and all that, and if you pay a little extra, you can use a tiny room for your own) and 2 nights on the bus! The cost of the food was arond 3000yen/day was enough for me.I just went to the places (not expensive ones) where local people would go, and I also used the supermarkets often to find the local food, snacks,sweets and all that! but you won't find many cosplay people around that area. I only saw 2 girls dressing up like dolls. You will LOVE Harajuku, just like you said to see all the cosplay girls,Sunday is the best but to enjoy shopping, a weekday is better. You will also enjoy Shibuya 109. If you really want to see every single shops in there, you'll need 3 hours or more I think. and if you could come in May, you might be able to see lovely "sakura" in the north part of Japan.This is just an example. http://goryokaku-tower.tabilog-hokka...y/0001870.html Anyway, I hope you will have a wonderful time in Japan 
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09-15-2010, 03:45 PM
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My family had only just arrived in Japan too so talk about a bad first impression. Luckily though, we had a lovely trip asides from that!
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10-18-2010, 02:10 PM
Thanks for all the feedback so far!
I have found a friend to go with me now, (she's on the forum too) and we are planning to go in late May time, after Golden Week. She's been to Japan before for a couple of months, and we also have the same interests so it will be awesome. I'll update you as we make more arrangements!
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10-18-2010, 02:50 PM
Yay hunny, can't wait for our trip
 As you knows I have been twice so got a good idea of cheap "business" hotels in major cities. For fashion trust me you will love Osaka triangle-land.. sorry ame-mura..but triangle land sounds better and I am sure it has a nickname something like that anyway due to the bizarre mini park in the middle! Wiki describes it pretty rubbish I'll find you more later Amerikamura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I thought I might as well post some of our plan discussion here then others can give us extra tips =) I was thinking we split the time between Osaka region and Tokyo region, we can fly into one and out from the other for under £600 with emirates on current prices. JR rail pass will pretty much pay for itself as we can get the bullet train between the two main cities on it, I also totally relied on it for getting around the Greater Tokyo region including going to Hello Kitty land (I know you want to go there  ) As a bonus we can use it for inner Tokyo for all the places everyone has heard of like shibuya/harajuku/shinjuku/akihabara/ueno although certain parts you can walk between. If we have it we don't have to worry too much about budgeting travel into going to see places if we suddenly see a city online with a random thing in it we want to see!Hotel wise, we should be able to get a room for around 4000Y in osaka more like 5000Y in tokyo (£30-£40 at current exchange pray for it to get better lol) a night each for a twin room. In Osaka I liked both Guest Rooms - Osaka business hotel, Hotel Kinki (best location ever,2 min walk from a street of arcades and shops that are open all night 10min walk from a central big shopping area open in the day and also near cheapy food cafe things, doesn't show summer prices yet but winter prices is 3200 each) Toyoko Inn Umeda Nakatsu little more expensive at 4200Y each but you do get free breakfast, location is still walk-able from some shops but I don't remember it being quite as good as kinki for me In Tokyo area I need a find a cheapy one because the ones i were in before were only cheap for double rooms (sharing a bed lol) Something like this might do but its a bit far out but we can jus get train into town everyday http://www.kurumi-mansion.com/room_eng.html I was also running away with the idea of staying a little bit longer and getting an apartment thing like the on above but we would have to spend at least a month in each location to make any real saving. Depends how long we can afford to/want to stay really like I said just an idea As for places to see and things to do, there are far too many to list here for now hehe 
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10-20-2010, 02:59 PM
A very nice hotel-group is the Toyoko Inn Group, it is cheap, very clean, very close to train stations, in every city and easy to book via internet, so I highly recommend it
I was there more then 2 month and slept all the time in this hotel-group enjoy japan c.
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10-20-2010, 08:03 PM
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 I will see which ones they have in Tokyo
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