I'm Going To Japan

looks like I might be making $900 over the next week or so, but shame I can't save the money up for the trip :(

jholic wrote:
just to clarify, though. when you GO to japan, their customs is rather relaxed. when you're COMING from japan, however, it is U.S. customs that is gonna check what you brought from there. they'll even tax it if it's a certain amount.

thanks for the clarification, i always thought that they were tight on the customs for items you were bring out from japan airport, and easier once you landed in the US and dealt with US customs. They did randomly search peoples bags. So as far as bring back souvenirs, i kept it clean, so it was a breeze, but told my friend AV idol stuff is a not a good idea, even if removing the cd/dvd onto another blank case... :bonk:

Fuwari wrote:I went to Akihabara for a little while. Hopped to Ginza and Shinjuku. Busy districts I tell ya... but its soooo colourful at night!

akihabara only for a little while? i think with the stuff they have, i would've love to stay a week just browsing and shopping on those two/three main streets. :bonk:
Shinjuku is hella nice at night, visited the "Lost In Translation" Park Hyatt Hotel at night... Ginza is ok, visited the Sony building again, but it is Akihabara and Nakano that i enjoy the most, the Otaku's Paradise, just didn't get the time to go to Mailish Cafe - (Maid-Cafe), would have love to talk to the j-girls dressed in Cosplay, have to do that next trip.
:bonk:

ahochaude wrote:
Welcome back, qilver! I can see that you had quite a time in Japan. :D



We'll be waiting for those pics! :naughty: :hehe:
Did you get to hook up with any J-chick for a night or two?

not quite, didn't get a chance to party in Roppongi like we wanted to, but i did get some j-girl's email, and she was a cutie, but hopefully she will email me back.
yeah, had such a great time, going to write an online travel blog of my trip to kyoto/tokyo and tons of pix to upload, like maybe over 500 pix w/videos from my digicam, have to go back there and visit again, love those j-girls/j-idols... :smitten:

My tour schedule was so packed I didn't have much time to stay in one place for barely more than 1 hour. Disappointing man...

I guess mine was more on sightseeing rather than shopping. Must make it a point to extend a day or two more the next time I go back to Japan...

ahochaude wrote:
Welcome back, qilver! I can see that you had quite a time in Japan. :D



We'll be waiting for those pics! :naughty: :hehe:
Did you get to hook up with any J-chick for a night or two?

yo, ahochaude....tell the peoples at LV to use this as advertising....you must admit it's fitting given japanese women's love for all things louis vuitton....yes, it is fitting...tight fitting....i like that. :hehe:

i knew the only skin they used wasn't just leather....

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Tu_triky wrote:

yo, ahochaude....tell the peoples at LV to use this as advertising....you must admit it's fitting given japanese women's love for all things louis vuitton....yes, it is fitting...tight fitting....i like that. :hehe:

i knew the only skin they used wasn't just leather....

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super nice pix of Chisato!, they had a nice poster of her at the Nakano Broadway mall, but opt'd out in getting it, already got one of nana and one of ai otsuka. yeah, great advertising, great j-idol! :naughty:

qilver wrote:yeah, great advertising, great j-idol! :naughty:

Like anyone really cares that the bikini is Louis Vuitton.... :hehe:

qilver wrote:
super nice pix of Chisato!, they had a nice poster of her at the Nakano Broadway mall, but opt'd out in getting it, already got one of nana and one of ai otsuka. yeah, great advertising, great j-idol! :naughty:

glad u liked it, man :mrgreen: bare skin sells leather goods...who would have thunk it. :crazy:

on a side note, i would love to know how much that two piece costs...that shiet prolly cost five to six hundred......

takai sugimasu. for so little that is...but i guess that's what makes it cool. :drooling: :naughty:

Fuwari wrote:My tour schedule was so packed I didn't have much time to stay in one place for barely more than 1 hour. Disappointing man...

I guess mine was more on sightseeing rather than shopping. Must make it a point to extend a day or two more the next time I go back to Japan...

@Fuwari, when did you last go to Japan? recently?
Yeah, that's why my friend and i decided to go with the self-guided tours and have the freedom. The disadvantage was sometimes getting lost and having to ask people for directions and help a lot, but i didn't mind, i practiced my japanese a lot and the use of a phrase book. We weren't that lost thanks to the maps of all the trains and people were very helpful, but generally we knew where we were going most of the time. We extended our trip a day and it helped, and we planned our general schedule for our trip. Ideally, atleast a week in Tokyo, and probably another week in Kyoto, and a third week around elsewhere in Japan. That would make it atleast a three week trip.

bmwracer wrote:
Like anyone really cares that the bikini is Louis Vuitton.... :hehe:

uh...you got me there.....

bmwracer wrote:
Like anyone really cares that the bikini is Louis Vuitton.... :hehe:

yeah, what we care about is Chisato!, a hot bikini idol! :google:

qilver, my trip to Japan only lasted 6 days. 2 "days" lost to flight. Nice trick to the itinerary huh?

So officially I had only 4 days of fun in Tokyo. About 1 day in Hakone, and the rest in Tokyo. Travelled abit in and out. Shucks... 3 weeks! I wished I had that much time. My Jap's pretty poor and such. So I guess a free & easy would be a niet-niet.

Strangely, one of the boring attractions was Disneyland! I was certainly shocked to see the amount of people queueing outside each ride/show. OMG! I was totally flabberghasted. Spent most of the day just walking around instead. -.-"

Tu_triky wrote:

yo, ahochaude....tell the peoples at LV to use this as advertising....you must admit it's fitting given japanese women's love for all things louis vuitton....yes, it is fitting...tight fitting....i like that. :hehe:

i knew the only skin they used wasn't just leather....

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Tu, who is this? Chisato? :shocked: :applaud: This is a nice break to this thread.

Fuwari wrote:qilver, my trip to Japan only lasted 6 days. 2 "days" lost to flight. Nice trick to the itinerary huh?

So officially I had only 4 days of fun in Tokyo. About 1 day in Hakone, and the rest in Tokyo. Travelled abit in and out. Shucks... 3 weeks! I wished I had that much time. My Jap's pretty poor and such. So I guess a free & easy would be a niet-niet.

Strangely, one of the boring attractions was Disneyland! I was certainly shocked to see the amount of people queueing outside each ride/show. OMG! I was totally flabberghasted. Spent most of the day just walking around instead. -.-"

4 actual days eh? sounds like my trip back in summer '03. I flew on a Sunday, arrived late monday afternoon, started the next day Tuesday, flew out on Saturday late afternoon. I actually had 4 1/2 days, since the last day i had to leave for the airport by 1pm for my 5:20pm flight in Narita. This time, i extended it, left on a Sat, arrived late afternoon Sun, started out early Monday-Sun, 6 1/2 days in japan.
The '03 trip, i too went to hakone for 1 1/2 days and account the travel time between tokyo and Hakone, which is about 3 - 4 hour round trip by the JR-train. Kyoto - Tokyo was longer, i think it was closer to 5 hours round trip( 2 1/2 hr each way).
yeah saw Disneyland from the Limobus on the way back to the airport on the way out, actually tried to take a pix, but it was blurry and the bus was moving, Disney is in Chiba, not too far from Narita. I figured that Disneyland would be almost like going to Orange County's DL, only with Japanese, maybe if i were there a month or so, i would visit DL there.

dochira wrote:
Tu, who is this? Chisato? :shocked: :applaud: This is a nice break to this thread.

a very well known race queen/bikini idol, Chisato Morishita, very nice!! :naughty:

qilver wrote:
a very well known race queen/bikini idol, Chisato Morishita, very nice!! :naughty:

Well known?? Shucks where have I been?

And with Disneyland celebrating 50 years in Anaheim, this year's the time to go to any Disney park. I think one of my wife's and my goal (if we had the money and time) is to visit every Disney theme park. Paris, Tokyo, Orlando, and the new Hong Kong. But from what I heard, Tokyo and Orlando are the most popular Disney parks, which would explain the long lines.

Pictures should be posted soon! :woot:

SubaruWRX wrote:Pictures should be posted soon! :woot:

believe me, i want to show'em as soon as i can, just got to figure out how to scal'em down, never done it before.

however the digital pix i took, some were clear, and some where, like thru glass, window shopping. just remember seeing a lot of yamada for vodafone advertisments, she is huge there. when you go, you should grab some of the lifesize cardboard figures of yamada, like the real thing ya know, but not quite.

dochira wrote:
Well known?? Shucks where have I been?

And with Disneyland celebrating 50 years in Anaheim, this year's the time to go to any Disney park. I think one of my wife's and my goal (if we had the money and time) is to visit every Disney theme park. Paris, Tokyo, Orlando, and the new Hong Kong. But from what I heard, Tokyo and Orlando are the most popular Disney parks, which would explain the long lines.

well, chisato is popular, but probably not as big as Misako Yasuda or Yuko Ogura, but they are nice to look at.
yeah 50 yrs for Disney in Anaheim, funny....i live 15 min away and i really don't have the desire to really go. Guess it's not that big of a deal for me really.