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Re: Visiting Japan in January - Who's Been Before?	Wed, 02 November 2005 07:18

if your going to the tas then you will need to be able to navigate the japanese train system. Where are you staying. I was staying in a youth hostel for $35 a night with my own room if your looking for something a bit upmarket but still reasonable there is a hotel style accomodation at asakusa in tokyo for $50-55 a night with tv bed your own shower stuff like that it was called skycourt asakusa. If you need to get directions for how to get to anywhere on the train you should visit the information centers at tokyo station. They speak english and will draw/give you maps of how many stations to go where to get off change trains etc.. Maccas is chep $1.20 for cheesbergers so 300y gets you a decent feed dont worry about drinks as there is about a billion drinks machines on the streets. If you want to visit a racetrack or 2 for the drifting and dont have a hire car be prepared for ALOT of travelling on trains taxis buses etc. With busses you pay when you get off and you get on at the back door. You get a ticket from a dispenser and it has a number on it. There is a signboard at the front of the bus which displays the ticket # and the ammount of yen (the ammount increases as the further you go.) Dont buy a railpass i found it was just as cheap to buy tickets as i needed them unless you intend on travelling heaps each day. There is a train from the airport to tokyo and is by far the best way to get there. Cost $20 from memory. If you want to go say to a workshop and have looked up their website for their address then make sure you write down the total adress including the numbers. These numbers are references for the street directories so if you get lost ask a petrol station or 7 eleven for directions and they should be able to point you in the right direction (and in some cases will drive you there no shit) Speaking of workshops and spare parts places if you want spare parts speak to kevin at Up Garage in Machida their website is www.upgarage.com they have heaps of stores all over japan but the machida store is probably the main one and kevin speaks english. They even store the Up Garage D1 AE86 there which if you ask nice enough they will let you sit in and even start for you (oohh the memories). If you need to find an internet cafe one of the best ones i knew of was BB Station at Yoyogi Stn they had food on demand open 24hrs reasonable rates and even masage chairs that people often fell asleep in. The bullet trains are awesome and something to experience 300km/hr is so cumpfy!!! Anyways hope this helps a bit let me know if you have any more questions. [Report message to a moderator]

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