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TOKYO TOURS
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Panoramic Tokyo
Day Tour Meiji Shrine, Asakusa Guest House, National Diet Building, Imperial Palace East Garden, Asakusa Temple, Ginza, Tokyo Bay Cruise, Rainbow Bridge & Odaiba.
Cityrama Tokyo
Afternoon Tour Tokyo Tower, National Diet Building, Imperial Palace Plaza,
Asakusa Kannon Temple, Nakamise Shopping Street & Ginza.
Kyoto Highlights
Day Tour from Tokyo
The best of Kyoto in one day.
Kinkakuji Temple - Golden Pavilion
Kiyomizu Temple
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nijo Castle
Heian Shrine
Sanjusangendo Hall
Kyoto Handicraft Center
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A narrow
street packed with young fashionable people and lined with fashion boutiques
and cafes. This is definitely the place to be seen if you are young
Tokyoite, but well worth visiting as a tourist. Takeshita-dori represents
the cutting edge of fashion in Tokyo where you can see all the latest in
Japanese street fashion and then buy in the boutiques. Takeshita-dori is opposite the exit to
Harajuku station. You can see over 40 photographs of
Takeshita-dori in our picture gallery.
If
it's Harajuku's youth culture you want to see, don't even bother unless it's
the weekend and preferably a Sunday.
The bridge across the train tracks from Harajuku station to
Yoyogi Park is full of
Gothic Lolita or GothLoli. The
costumes are very outstanding and you can't miss them. It is funny to see
the surprise of the western tourists heading to
Yoyogi Park and
Meiji Jingu who clearly had not read their guide books fully on
Harajuku. You can hear their comments that make it very clear they just
don't understand what is going on. Essentially the youth who have dressed up
are just hanging out with friends, many of them come with the hope of being
snapped by one of the many magazine photographers who mingle in the crowd.
Failing that there are lots of western tourist happy to take their pictures.
See nearly 50 exclusive
pictures of GothLoli in Harajuku.
The
broad, tree-lined avenue leading downhill from the southern end of the JR
Harajuku
station is Omote-sandō (表参道). This is the other
side to Harajuku fashion and its challenge to Shibuya and
Ginza. Not only is
the street full of cafes and clothing boutiques, but now features the very
up market Omote-sando Hills. This very stylish centre is full of the who's
who of the world fashion brands.
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