Louise Bremner <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote:
> <mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote:

>> > So I suppose the next question is: what would you suggest gaigin go and
>> > see on their one free day in Tokyo?
>> 
>> If they've got money, everyone enjoys the Ginza.

> Really? It just seems like a boring old shopping area to me (except at
> weekends when at least they have "pedestrian heaven"). 

Or at night, when all the neon's lighting the place up.

>> The Ueno Zoo and National Museums are always cool.

> Yup--took my sister to the museums, but not the zoo. 

Everyone liked the panda.

>> If they're younger, and you want to avoid Shibuya and Shinjuku crowds,
>> Kitchijoji is cool.

> Ah, but the whole point of Shibuya and Shinjuku is the crowds....

Check out Kitchijoji.

>> And if it's the right season, and you don't take them for hanami, you're
>> doing them a disservice.

> Yup. 

And if you hit Kitchijoji, you can walk quickly over to Inogashira Koen;
pretty any season.

Mike