I'm Going To Japan

Tu_triky wrote:

haha! this girl in akihabara looks more like a geisha in her costume than zhang ziyi ever did....

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oh yeah, definitely, :nyah: :naughty:

any recommendations for pubs and clubs to visit in tokyo?

Thanks for the great pics pcmodem, kenjilina and Tu_triky. :thumbsup:

tabana wrote:Thanks for the great pics pcmodem, kenjilina and Tu_triky. :thumbsup:

watever, man :) of course! no need for thanks, that is! share and share a like and we broaden each other's experience.

:mrgreen:

Indeed. I still can't forget your Hyatt pics. :sweat:

I can't get enough of great Japan pics, even if there's only a cute girl in the frame. :mrgreen:

I finally made it was over there for three weeks last summer. Was great! On day two I went to Akiba with a friend and got myself a digital camera so I could start snapping away like crazy.

Here's my online album that I put up to show friends. I never got around to labelling the photos, but here's a rough breakdown of them:

0006 - 0014 Akihabara
0018 - 0044 Shinjuku
0092 - 0206 Harajuku
0252 - 0543 Kyoto
0545 - 0632 Inari
0635 - 0643 Akihabara
0644 - 0663 Harajuku
0680 - 0749 Nagano
0755 - 0808 Matsumoto
0831 - 0884 Kobe
0900 - 0930 Himeji
0936 - 0998 Hiroshima
1009 - 1110 Aichi (EXPO)

As you can see I spent a lot of time in Harajuku :). It was probably my favourite part of Tokyo. A bit more relaxed that Shibuya where I was staying. Also it was the first train station that I didn't exit to the sight of huge shops and tall buildings.

Hopefully I'll return this year. I really need to get stuck into learning Japanese and it would be a whole lot easier there than here. So the plan is to go back as a language student and work hard at it!

you dont happen to be on macrumors, would you?

krim wrote:you dont happen to be on macrumors, would you?

If you're asking me, then no. Unless I went there once and forgot about it...

MomoNyo wrote:
If you're asking me, then no. Unless I went there once and forgot about it...

hmm.. i recall seeing those photos before, and the name "Applemark" is also familiar... just trying to figure out where i've seen those. :mrgreen:



edit:
oh, and if you're wondering why i mentioned Macrumors.com, it's because of photo 14 :hehe:

tabana wrote:Indeed. I still can't forget your Hyatt pics. :sweat:

I can't get enough of great Japan pics, even if there's only a cute girl in the frame. :mrgreen:

i agree!!!! :victory:

kenjilina wrote:any recommendations for pubs and clubs to visit in tokyo?

there's a billion to choose from...where to start....i thoroughly recommend the TIME OUT GUIDE to Tokyo...this book rocks...it's aimed at younger crowd not like Fodor's or Frommer's which primarily focuses on the oyaji crowd...

http://www.timeout.com/travel/tokyo

for clubs the following is a great resource and has a thorough breakdown too

http://www.cyberjapan.tv/contents/tokyoclubguide/indexE.html

my friend and i went to clubs A-Life and Yellow in Roppongi...guess it really depends what kind of music you like...I heard Club Pylon in Tokyo is cool, too.

http://www.club-pylon.com/


i think club Velfarre is the biggest or one of the biggest clubs in Tokyo...this one Japanese bartender we were chatting with says a lot of girls who recently moved to Tokyo go there ...so the male to female ratio is supposed to be pretty good.

the one club that I really wanted to check out was Club Ageha in Odaiba but I didn't have time plus it was really far from our hotel so we would definitely have had to stay up all night until the morning train ran in order to get back to our hotel...we had too much shiet we wanted to do to waste an afternoon sleeping the next day to recover from intense toxification.

Cool MomoNyo. You even have the famous LOVE thingy as seen in many drama. :)

MomoNyo wrote:I finally made it was over there for three weeks last summer. Was great! On day two I went to Akiba with a friend and got myself a digital camera so I could start snapping away like crazy.

great photos...

krim wrote:

hmm.. i recall seeing those photos before, and the name "Applemark" is also familiar... just trying to figure out where i've seen those. :mrgreen:

edit:
oh, and if you're wondering why i mentioned Macrumors.com, it's because of photo 14 :hehe:

Ah OK. Well, I posted them over at ACF when I got back from Japan. Maybe you saw them there?

The AppleMark thing is from iView Media Pro. It's the program I had on my iBook to catalogue the photos (read too many horror stories about iPhoto). I used it to generate a HTML gallery and then tweaked the HTML a bit with Dreamweaver until I had it the way I wanted :)

tabana wrote:Cool MomoNyo. You even have the famous LOVE thingy as seen in many drama. :)

Yup! It was fun seeing it again in Densha Otoko. Actually the whole start of that show was really nostalgic. I recognised nearly all the shops. Missed that maid cafe though :banghead:

Tu_triky wrote:

great photos...

Thanks :). I hope to take many more if I can make it back there.

MomoNyo wrote:
Thanks :). I hope to take many more if I can make it back there.

did you hear the Star Wars imperial march when you approached the LOVE sculpture?

MomoNyo wrote:
Ah OK. Well, I posted them over at ACF when I got back from Japan. Maybe you saw them there?

The AppleMark thing is from iView Media Pro. It's the program I had on my iBook to catalogue the photos (read too many horror stories about iPhoto). I used it to generate a HTML gallery and then tweaked the HTML a bit with Dreamweaver until I had it the way I wanted :D

I see, thanks for clearing that up. I do like the photos and im glad you linked them. (think i only saw half the last time)

Tu_triky wrote:

did you hear the Star Wars imperial march when you approached the LOVE sculpture?

Unfortunately not.

Or maybe fortunately. Would have just ended up in Jinnkama's dumped lovers' cafe. At least I didn't have an Evo to lose.

MomoNyo wrote:

Unfortunately not.

Or maybe fortunately. Would have just ended up in Jinnkama's dumped lovers' cafe. At least I didn't have an Evo to lose.

lol.

at least she didn't stick the check from the restaurant on your head :P


:rofl: :rofl:

Tu_triky wrote:


there's a billion to choose from...where to start....i thoroughly recommend the TIME OUT GUIDE to Tokyo...this book rocks...it's aimed at younger crowd not like Fodor's or Frommer's which primarily focuses on the oyaji crowd...

http://www.timeout.com/travel/tokyo

for clubs the following is a great resource and has a thorough breakdown too

http://www.cyberjapan.tv/contents/tokyoclubguide/indexE.html

my friend and i went to clubs A-Life and Yellow in Roppongi...guess it really depends what kind of music you like...I heard Club Pylon in Tokyo is cool, too.

http://www.club-pylon.com/


i think club Velfarre is the biggest or one of the biggest clubs in Tokyo...this one Japanese bartender we were chatting with says a lot of girls who recently moved to Tokyo go there ...so the male to female ratio is supposed to be pretty good.

the one club that I really wanted to check out was Club Ageha in Odaiba but I didn't have time plus it was really far from our hotel so we would definitely have had to stay up all night until the morning train ran in order to get back to our hotel...we had too much shiet we wanted to do to waste an afternoon sleeping the next day to recover from intense toxification.

thank you very much. we'll probably spend alot of time at night in roppongi but we'll certainly check out other places. :thumbsup:

kenjilina wrote:

thank you very much. we'll probably spend alot of time at night in roppongi but we'll certainly check out other places. :thumbsup:

read about on the map pamphlet i got while in Roppongi, about a club called gas panic, there are multiple ones in Roppongi/tokyo area, might do a search on it, unfortunately, my friend and i didn't get the chance to club there or any clubbing and hanging out with the hot j-girls, perhaps next time....in gaijin palace... :hehe: