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I actually found a place in Arima, near Kobe; this time I'll visit Kobe, Arima, and then a mix of Kyoto and Tokyo, not sure how will I'll split my remaining days between the two. I'm still looking for hotels, but first I'll have to fix how much I'm going to stay in one place. As I'm going there in September/October, I hope that trees will be full of red leaves...if so, I would happily be in Kyoto for the whole time, except for the last two days as my flights are from/to Narita.Originally posted by ETC View PostIf you can travel a little out of Tokyo, Hakone is supposedly good. I was hoping to go but tattoos
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I stayed here, the room was large (very for Japan) and earthquake proof (I was in a 5.6
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One of the Gyoen Garden for you Chris
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View from world trade centre
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Golden Gai (Bartown
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A bloody wet day when I went to Akiba
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Back in 1998 that Sega arcade would have massive Dreaamcast adds all over it and before that it was Saturn. Oh, how the golden days of Akihabara have long gone. There were no stupid maid crap or a mountains of porn shops back then. Games were the true order of the day.Comment
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So true.Originally posted by Yakumo View Post
It's barely worth bothering with now.
Has anyone recommended Nakano Broadway in this thread? It's smaller, but pretty damn cool. A long walkway of shops, plus a bizarro toy museuem with antique toys costing thousands, plus an Okinawa restuarant that serves crocodile steak. (I'm not joking)
It's definitely worth a day's visit. I found it more enjoyable than Akiba tbh. There's a couple of good games stores, plus a magazine store that sells classic game mags (MegaDrive Fan etc) for only a few quid. Much cheaper than eBay gougers or Super Potato!
Even if you buy nothing, wandering some of the floors are like being transported back in time to the 1960s.
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Yup, did a search, back around page 269 there's talk.
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I left my wallet on top of a gashapon machine in that Sega arcade by Akihabara station. I ran back there and an attendant had collected it and was holding onto it can't imagine that ever happening in the Troc while Funland was still going, lol.
I liked Nakano Broadway too, it was a few years ago now that I went though. I remember picking up Metal Slug Mission 2 in there for about ?10.Comment
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Can't wait to move to Tokyo. I'll be hitting Nakano up and other places. My mate who lives there took me on an arcade crawl and it made me realise the little arcade places here are still buzzing. Literally. Smoke-filled underground dens of joy
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Nakano Broadway is amazing! The shopping arcade that leads from the station to where Broadway is is also worth a wander.
I remember finding a small game shop there where the chap behind the counter was cleaning UMDs with a can of compressed air!Comment
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Has anybody been on any Japanese roller coasters recently?
When I went, I squeezed in quite a few theme parks such as the Sega Joypolis, LaQua, Space World and some random coasters in shopping malls!Comment
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Fuji Q has some of the best white knuckle rides around imo. Dodonpa and Eejanaika are brilliant. Fujiyama is good too, although it was a bit rattly and rickety even when I went on it a few years ago. The queue times were insane though.Comment
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I didn't go to Fuji Q, which is a real shame as it has some amazing rides.
I didn't really have any time to squeeze it in to my trip (it deserves a day there, and it sounds like you need it with those queues!), but I don't feel like I could have dropped anything else in favour of it.
Good times!
I remember this random coaster in the middle of nowhere.
Delphis at Festivalgate in Osaka. It was pretty good, but was closed in 2007
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