Tokyo

After a long flight from Paris with a stop in Seoul, I finally arrived in Tokyo ! I spent a full week in Tokyo and believe me I didn't get bored at all. The city is really huge and you can easily spend one day to visit one area of the city (that's what I did). Everybody say that Tokyo is an expensive city but I don't really agree especially on food. If you're low on money as I was I suggest you to buy the most of your food in convenient store they have some really nice bento at a starting price around 5€!
Tokyo. Just the name needs a sentence all to itself. Tokyo is like a princess cut diamond, turn around and a new glittering surface reveals itself. Tokyo is beautiful, ugly, ancient, modern, a whole contradiction. Take Shinjuku-ku (新宿区) for example. Starting at the station, taking a short stroll past glass and steel towers housing government offices and suddenly you will find yourself in the wicked red-lights of Kabuki-chuo (歌舞伎町). Find an old temple in Asakusa, the newest in fashion in Omotesando, or bizarrest technology in Akihabara, Tokyo has it all. Even karaoke.
I'm starting off this guide with Jimbocho, the place where we spent the first few days of our trip. Jimbocho is the booksellers district of Japan and there's countless bookshops. I felt like I was in heaven, until I realised all the books were in Japanese and I couldn't read any of them. When we were there, there was a festival going on for the manga One Piece, so the first of many surreal experiences in Japan was walking down the street to our hotel and seeing displays of manga panels and banners of One Piece everywhere. Jimbocho is a quiet area which is close to several major sights, such as the Imperial Palace. It's a good place to start a trip when you're still recovering from jet lag.
The second leg of our trip was Ikebukuro. It's one of Tokyo's entertainment districts and you can really tell. There's neon everywhere, the streets are crowded all day long, but even more so in the evenings, there's restaurants, clubs, pubs, karaoke bars. A good food experience is to go to the bottom or top floor of department stores, where they have a 'food court'. Be prepared not to recognise anything and to hear a lot of shouting. The people selling the goods (from fresh fruit to sushi to live lobsters) all yell what they are selling and how cheap it is.
As a friend of mine would say, you take London and put it in Asia, it gives you Tokyo. There are few cities in the world as vibrant and captivating as Tokyo. You could leave your wallet at peak time in the middle of Shibuya station and would find it right at the same place a few hours later. You could run from North to South and have the impression to be in the same country you've always dreamed about, though in a different time, a different era. There's so much to do, to see, to taste, to visit, to dance on, to try, that Tokyo is a whole destination in itself. Grand.
Another stop in Tokyo, another crazy night in the heart of the Tiger.
Tokyo is a very huge city of more than 35 millions inhabitants, which make it the biggest city in the world. It is really great to visit Tokyo as it is very clean and you can find indications of touristic places. However, you need to prepare a bit your trip if you want to see a maximum and enjoy your stay. There are different subway companies (3 mainly), so be careful before buying daily passes. You can take the Tokyo Metro pass, you will be able to go everywhere but it can be longer. You should organise your days to avoid too many subway travels. Concerning the food, you can easily find some cheap and typical restaurants for 3-5€ but the most frequent are 7-12€. You should count between 45 and 80€ per day (including hostel) if you want to enjoy the great mix between new high skycrapers with old buddhist temples. I divided Tokyo by district where you can spend from half to full day depending on your envies.
Tokyo is a modern city, always in effervescence, that still respects a lot of traditional values, even if most of its historical testimonies have disappeared during the second World War. One of the most striking thing in the city is the respect of the rules and of the authority. As there is a code for vehicules it seems to be the same on the sideway : don't smoke in the street and walk on the right side of the sideway to avoid the "gaijin" (tourist) that some bicycles might say while passing you. You can have a glimpse of history visiting Askusa neighborhood and finish the day partying in Shinjuku, the "hot" place to be at night. And if you wanna know more about the latest fashion trends don't miss Shibuya and Harajuku, where you will meet a lot of Japanese, both men and women, always stylish. Style seems to be something essential in Tokyo. Good to know : Japanese women are never cold. Having the right style is more important than all the rest. Most of the time, it really worth it !
It's the city of higtech, computergames, manga, harajuku girls and cosplay, karaoke, surprising architecture mixing with old temples. Everything is well-organized and goes fast in this city. But the people still hold on to old traditions. The Japanese are polite people, but at night they go crazy! Tokyo is amazing! Different districts, all with their own personality. Asakusa, where you find the oldest temple, the Senso-ji. Roppongi, where everybody goes out to party! Where you can awe at the fastness of this city from Roppongi Hills and sing karaoke until the early morning. Shinjuku, where big office buildings roam. Aoyama and Ginza, the domains of big brands like Prada, Dior and Gucci. If you want to be trendy and spendy, these are the places to be! And in Harajuku people can be whatever or whomever they want! Every district has their parks, where you can get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Tokyo is divers, there's something for everyone!
A huge city! We spent three days there. We should have spent more time as there is so much to see and do. Also, because not many Japanese people speak English everything takes longer to do, to book, to understand. This is all part of the experience and i'll gladly go back to Tokyo (to spend at least a week).
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Tokyo, la capitale du Japon, est une des plus grandes villes du monde avec une population de 13,00 millions d'habitants, et la plus grande des 47 préfectures du Japon. La longue histoire de sa prospérité a débuté avec l' établissement du Shogunat par Tokugawa Ieyasu en 1603. A cette époque, Tokyo s'appelait Edo, et elle est ensuite devenue au 18ème siècle une immense ville de plus d'un million d'habitants. C'est maintenant le centre politique, économique, et culturel du Japon, entre autres, ainsi que la source de la propagation de l'information. Située géographiquement à peu près au centre de l'archipel japonais et dans le sud de la région du Kantô, Tokyo est entourée de la préfecture de Chiba à l'est, de la préfecture de Yamanashi à l'ouest au pied des montagnes, de la préfecture de Kanagawa au sud le long de la rivière Tamagawa, et de la préfecture de Saitama au nord.
Tokyo is the capital of Japan. It is actually a metropolitan. This prefecture has 23 special wards, 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages. There are many interesting sites that every back packers should go. Make plan for Chiyoda, Akihabara, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa and Odaiba. So plan to stay few days here. Traveling within central Tokyo can be very convenient. There are extensive 13 subway lines by Toei Subways and Tokyo Metro and 5 other railway lines by JR East as well as an extensive bus services. The suburban is covered by many other private subway company. With this extend of public transport services, one has to plan before boarding any of those. Free WiFi is rare here. One of the best method to stay connected while travelling in Japan is to get a data SIM. b-mobile offers data sim with 1GB limit for 3480yen. It can be purchased from Yodobashi Akiba.