planning a trip

[Gwen_Goth]

i agree with kain, get a Japana Rail Pass - theyre expensive, but if you plan to travel alot theyre so worth it - you can get teh bullet train for free (normally about �300), the ring line in tokyo and nearly all teh local railway systems in kyoto and osaka - was VERY useful for me
metro travel in central tokyo is really simple and cheap too - its all a standard fayre system about 80pence to travel accross tokyo - excellent
there are buses but theyre apparently kinda unreliable and the taxis are extortionate!

[sparky]

Now I'm discoureged about doing my own guide I'll have to make more specific information guides and not so generalized...Like,
How to get a guest hotel:
Step 1: unbuckel seatbelt when the airplane comes to a copmplete stop
Step 2: Wink at the Japanese stewardess as you exit the airplane
Step 3 Race everyone to the lugagge turn table so you can all wait together for 30 minutes while you eagerly wait to watch bags drop from the shoot onto the roundabout thingy
Step 4: Sweat while waiting to see the custom guy who is gonna decide weather you are a terorist or not and let you into Japan
Step 5: Do step 4 before Step 3
Step 6: sweat again while a custom guy searchs your bags for illegal uncensored porn.
Step 7: WELOCME TO JAPAN ...Wholly whipper smakers there are alot of people here this is chaos...hey shes cute
Step 8: concentrate you need to get on a train now.
Step 9: look for a booth that says SkyLiner cause this is a quick fairly resonably priced train to get you to the city quickly. Unless you wanna sit in a bus for another 1.5hours after your nice 10-15hour plane ride.
Step 10: say "konichiwa" (Hello) to the cute girl smiling at you at the SkyLiner booth
Step 11: after she replies to you "jafhjdhjsajh jashdjfh shafjkdh" say: "Hitori nippori made" ( 1 person to nippori - no that is not nipple its a station name)
Step 12: Look at your ticket for a time thats when your train leaves look for another time beside that thats when you will arrive.
Step 13: Look at your watch. Do you have to run to catch your train?
Step 14: Follow the signs for the trains and more specifacly the SkyLiner they will be in Englsih and Japanese and now Korean and Chinese.
to be continued...

Mabye thats a good idea for my guide what do you think?

[kainpendragon]

Originally Posted by sparky

Now I'm discoureged about doing my own guide I'll have to make more specific information guides and not so generalized...Like,
How to get a guest hotel:
Step 1: unbuckel seatbelt when the airplane comes to a copmplete stop
Step 2: Wink at the Japanese stewardess as you exit the airplane
Step 3 Race everyone to the lugagge turn table so you can all wait together for 30 minutes while you eagerly wait to watch bags drop from the shoot onto the roundabout thingy
Step 4: Sweat while waiting to see the custom guy who is gonna decide weather you are a terorist or not and let you into Japan
Step 5: Do step 4 before Step 3
Step 6: sweat again while a custom guy searchs your bags for illegal uncensored porn.
Step 7: WELOCME TO JAPAN ...Wholly whipper smakers there are alot of people here this is chaos...hey shes cute
Step 8: concentrate you need to get on a train now.
Step 9: look for a booth that says SkyLiner cause this is a quick fairly resonably priced train to get you to the city quickly. Unless you wanna sit in a bus for another 1.5hours after your nice 10-15hour plane ride.
Step 10: say "konichiwa" (Hello) to the cute girl smiling at you at the SkyLiner booth
Step 11: after she replies to you "jafhjdhjsajh jashdjfh shafjkdh" say: "Hitori nippori made" ( 1 person to nippori - no that is not nipple its a station name)
Step 12: Look at your ticket for a time thats when your train leaves look for another time beside that thats when you will arrive.
Step 13: Look at your watch. Do you have to run to catch your train?
Step 14: Follow the signs for the trains and more specifacly the SkyLiner they will be in Englsih and Japanese and now Korean and Chinese.
to be continued...

Mabye thats a good idea for my guide what do you think?

I like it lol but does the winkings and mild flirting get those girls to share a drink with me later lol. sorry feel very Henti today. hehehe

[kudo]

¬¬...its a little too detailed, no? with the unbuckling of seatbelts and whatnot.

actually, it might not a bad thing. o_O; (quick to change aren't i? lol)
even if its extremely detailed to the point of unbuckling seatbelts...it gives the reader a sense of confidenc that they'll know everyting they need. i mean..if the person goes as far to write unckle seat belts before getting off the plane...xD

[Gwen_Goth]

dont forget to put in finding the JR rail pass office, getting the pass, going down the uber-escalators then realising you left your handbag in the JR pass office...
as my mum did xD

[sparky]

Originally Posted by kainpendragon

I like it lol but does the winkings and mild flirting get those girls to share a drink with me later lol. sorry feel very Henti today. hehehe

Hehe I thought a little comedy inside the tutorial would be a good thing keeps everyone from falling asleep haha

And I think so many details adds to the comedy Obvioulsly the tutorials would have to be catagorized well so you can find what you need haha anyway ill decide weather to make it depending on replies and comments

[SamuraiAlchemistNinja]

Sounds fine to me...although in my case it'd be more of noticing the guys with the styled hair than the girls...lol!
Here's me waving goodbye--> so long, suckers!

[aldine]

I've been dying to go to Japan. I can only take two weeks off from work. Any suggestions on where i can go at such short time. Help will be very much appreciated. And oh...how much on average would be the daily cost.

[jasonbvr]

Depends on what you want to see. If I had two weeks in Japan, I would go to Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima stopping at different tourist traps along the way. I would say a budget of around 10,000 yen a day or a little more is appropriate depending where you stay and what sort of food and drink you are consuming. This doesn't include travel expenses. You could get by for less, but I don't know. I tend to spend a lot on vacations. For example two nights stay for 6,000 yen plus 10,000 in train fares plus 8,000 in lift tickets plus 4,000 in food then 10,000 in beer was my New Year's vacation in Hakuba snowboarding. That is almost 40,000 yen for a weekend trip or 350 US dollars, but I was planning for it all month.

[aldine]

Wow. So two weeks would be about 150,000 yen. Arrggh can't wait to get there...