Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.snarked.org!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!unknown!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Sorry for the interruption Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 24 Sender: scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <2gbt1758fm9unvie71dgr476o9o9mlvlb1@4ax.com> <80367cae-a0f0-47af-b1c6-c93ef43c0e7c@d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1310736412 15583 166.84.7.159 (15 Jul 2011 13:26:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35.4-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170107 John W. wrote: > On Jul 14, 8:29?pm, The 2-Belo > wrote: > > > > Oh, I know it's real. I've been twisted like a pepper mill on trains during > > business trips to Tokyo more times than I can count. But it's not only the > > native population that largely ignores the sticks... the offshore press does, > > too. I'll see country courses aimed at the backpacker guys time and again, but > > for the most part the image has always been "overcrowded, futuristic". > > > I have this argument quite a bit over on tripadvisor.com. People love > Tokyo. Tokyo is soo cool. Tokyo is so fascinating. Never mind that, if Tokyo is, in fact, fascinating, and I never got tired of it. (Best place in the world to be a single guy, IMO.) And if you're a tourist, you generally won't be dealing with the trains during the worst of the crushes, and that helps tremendously. But even in and around Tokyo there are relatively unspoiled areas most people know nothing about; some very nice areas are pretty accessible even on the Chuo-sen. Not the spectacular wooded valleys of other parts of Japan, but some nice, unspoiled waterfalls, some rolling hills, etc. Mike