Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail
From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: Am I unusual...
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:25:21 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us
Lines: 35
Sender: Mike Fester <scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org>
Message-ID: <bpaloh$ito$2@news.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1g4kb6q.osxy4gim95okN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <bp9mrm$igo$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <1g4kwmb.4c1ki5sft3y8N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.stanford.edu
X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1069079121 19384 171.64.19.149 (17 Nov 2003 14:25:21 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i586))
Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:7819

   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