Japanese hornets are not always ground dwellers and they also live in big cities.

sorry soooo off topic:)
I removed a nest of bees which was under the eave of my house last week.That's why I know a little about them and I don't live in farming area.

Many thanks for your replies kujiratyan - i've had a look at the websites you've suggested and i'll keep looking out for bands that i like. I'm struggling to find any other bands that might be playing due to the website being in Japanese :( but i'm attempting to learn Japanese at the moment (i only know about 500 kanji and hiragana/katakana, but hopefully i'll be able to translate it a bit better soon!).

The little house diagram is cool as well! Are you Japanese or have you moved to live in Japan from somewhere else? I am from the UK.

To Polar: Not one, but two volcanoes erupted on your trip?! That is very unlucky. When did you travel to Japan?

Hey, nice to see you here.:)

kujiratyan: I was talking about the giant ones not regular ones.

MidnightSun: I was there last March, the morning I flew out was the morning the Chinese FedEx plane crashed :eek:

we were one of 4 flights that got that out afternoon.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for the replies - are there any more places you particualrly love to visit in Japan that you would recommend from personal experience? This can be for any reason: nice temples, scenery, nightlife, anime, jpop, food, shopping, crazyness, anything really!

I'd really love to hear some more opinions on this - a big thank you to all who have replied so far.

Also with regards to time-scale, i will have 30 full days in Japan.

MidnightSun

Meiji Jingu if you get to the shrine around 8:00am or so you'll see the Shinto priests address the ancestors, that's pretty magical or felt so to me on my second day.

Shibuya for the bus terminal ...





The scramble



This building has a giant LCD screen on it's front



and also for the architecture



Prada store is a MUST see !



Cat Walk street is cool too

Hi Polar,

Many thanks for your suggestions. I've now booked my flights so am very excited to go!