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Have you gone to Japan?
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12-25-2009, 05:36 AM
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I usually spend a couple months a year in japan for training in other martial arts for the past 10 years.
If you want cheaper airfaire, purchase through a japanese or chinese travel agency. In my experience you will save a couple of hundred dollars over expedia, hotwire or any of the other travel websites. Most of them are bilingual.
some good places to start for tickets are JTBUSA:
http://www.jtbusa.com/en/sp/s-nj.asp
HIS
http://his-usa.com/en/top/Top.aspx
Also if you plan on traveling all over for a lot of city to city travel look into purchasing a JR pass before you leave for japan, you can't purchase one while in japan. the below has some info
http://www.jtbusa.com/en/jr/j-all-1.asp
If you are going to hang around tokyo only for a few days then take advantage of the Suica NEX deal. I did it once and now just take the skyliner as its cheaper and closer to my friends house, but its still a good deal.
http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/suica-nex/
Lonely planet has a decent guidebook for tokyo. There's probably a copy at your local library to get you started.
The exchange rate right now is lousy, so its a lot pricier. Of course when my dad lived in japan it was 330 yen to the dollar and the best I have ever had it was around 160 yen to the dollar in the late 90's.
If you know where and how to eat you can eat well and cheaply, but if you want to eat american style or american sized portions you will have a pricier trip. Start out your day just eating out of a convience store or bakery. The baked goods are typically higher quality than american bakerys and you will find plenty of baked goods not availble in the US (love curry donuts!). They're also quite cheap.
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