Thanks House Tek!! You answered all my questions. I've been looking for a short stay apartment, and Sakura is perfect.

def a lot of usefull info on this thread. I've been thinkin about a trip for years and have always been curious about the japanese lifestyle. mostly about my generation. but i woke up this morning and decided i'm gonna start saving.

I do have questions like

when is it warmest there? and how hot does it get?

when would you suggest is the best time of year to travel there?

and how the hell do i convince my broke friends to go?

Summer is dreadfully hot, ill walk out of my apartment and 5 minutes to the JR and ill be soaked in sweat YUK CITY.


it gets into 100s easily and if your in the city, very little wind so its a oven, best to make way into a Ac'ed area lol

i love going during Cherry blossom season, its beautiful.

get friends who arent broke lol. or at least ones motivated enough to go to start saving and budgeting for it!

my issue now is, i since i moved to america i got a good job now i just dont have the time to go back for long. at most few weeks to a month

i wana buy a new camera and do like a walk around the city and show people stuff.

i was doing youtube videos for a bit about japan but not much response back from JR so i stopped.
i figured people would respond better to videos of me walking around and showing locations rather then talkin about them. but baack then i had a crapy camera with only limited recording time =p

thanks for all the great feed back every one!

thanks for the advice. now i just gotta convince somebody to come with me. or find somebody who lives in tokyo who could show me a good club and some stores or whatever else is interesting

me too :O!
you've answered so many of my questions :)
thanksss

I am in Tokyo but most of the time spending in my apartment ... now in March planning to visit different places... If I will find a japanese friend ....then it will be easy for me to visit places and to learn japanese as well ....

dont spend your time in your apartment!

go out and find some friends!

try goin to festivals, concerts, clubs, bars, art galleries, any where!

Easy for you to say :P I'm way to shy to just find people to hang out with x.x... Also do you plan on going to Japan this year, Thang?

Lol just use Housetek on the forums =D

and yea i plan on going in may hopefully.

ill be doing charity work in vietnam, i was hoping to go from vietnam to japan but we'll see how it goes.

if i do go ill be most likely staying in Yoyogi or Takanawa in tokyo

ahh my bad :P if you do wind up going could you sneak a pic of an arcade?