make sure you get a guide book or someone who knows the what the score is
Went there a few years back and hardly anyone speaks english, the road layouts are a nightmare as the street numbering is done by when the buildings were built, so 1 could be on the right, 2 on the right half a mile down the road, and 3 on the left half a mile in the other direction. We had a taxi driver who had to stop another driver to find out where the hotel we wanted to go to was even though we had the address.
Also, make sure you don't try and book into a "love" hotel, and look out for the dodgy manga book stores.
Apart from that amazing place, the shinkansen is pretty cool, you'd hardly know is was knocking up to 160mph. Akihabra is mental with electric toilet seats and all sorts of weird gadgets, and for some weird reason all the food gets covered in dried fish scraping, which writhe about like they're maggots which is a bit off putting.
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flapmeister knows where your mum lives, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 13:40,
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