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Try the JR travel agents near the JR train stations for the accommodation with shinkansen.

I found out that if you use a travel agent in Japan you can get a good cheap package deal including shinkansen tickets and hotel. eg. I went from Nagoya to Osaka on Shinkansen and had a hotel for 5 days for a cost of about $100 pn for 2 people including train ticket. The hotel was the Nikko in...

What to buy Make sure you go to a 100Yen shop to stock up. 100 Yen is about $1.20, but the stuff is excellent quality and nothing like the $2 crapt they sell here. You can get almost everything there. e.g iphone covers! I got 5. Clothing in Japan is amazingly cheap and the Japanese are...

Captain, It seems some of those guys are very desperate for money. With so many of them it must be hard for them to find customers. And Japan is the last place you would expect to see large groups of African men. The ones I spoke to were from Kenya. They say hello and talk like you are their...

I went to Roppongi in Tokyo recently and regretted it. This is the so called red light district with a few strip bars, discos etc. Its a well known area. As soon as I came out of the station I was harrassed by African men trying to get me into a bar. They just wouldn't leave me alone or take...

I love Japan and go about 3-4 times per year, staying in Osaka. Osaka is great because it is in the middle of 3 major cities. Kobe, Kyoto and Nara. Kobe is a nice place squeezed between the sea and mountains. Nara is the ancient capital with many old temples to look at such as Todaiji...