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Susana M's List: JAPAN
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Mar 13, 12
cheap budget money
Anyway, the internet here is really bad, and the computer already shut down itself two times while writing back to you, 6 times in total the last half an hour.. Thats why i will write you partly, i hope thats okay.
So, yeah, I think its a really good idea as the normal transportation in Japan is craaazily expensive, and hitchiking is crazily easy, especially if you look foreign, which should be the case for you, i think.
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So, the most difficult part of long distance hitchhiking is to go on the highway. You have to recherche carefully via google maps which is might the best place to start the trip, but youll figure it out, often you can just stand at the expressway (japanese name for highway), but sometimes not, then you have to have to find a road and good place leading to the highway.. A sign with the name of the expressway should be enough. I highly recommend to always use sign, its just so helpful. Dont buy an expensive map, cause the starting point you can get via google maps better, and at every service or parking area, you can get maps for free, they are very detailled and show the whole prefecture, they are awesome for hitchhiking.
wow, this computer.. cracked up 4 times more even without writing a message.
anyway, what was i talking about? I think you will figure out, theres nothing dangerous in Japan, everything is very safe, and not even police will criticize you. Everybody wants to help foreigners, and usually everybody is willing to pick you up cause of that. IF longer distance, just hitchhiking from one service area to another, they are even open 24 hrs. Bigger Parking areas are also ok, if you cant catch a service area (they are bigger parking areas with supermarket etc.). Youll have all your informations in the maps you become at these service areas.. Yeah, cause there is no danger or something, just try yourself. USually doesnt take long time waiting.
Yeah, please ask as well, if you have some more specific questions.
Im the master of the travelling Japan on the cheap i can say.. And travelling without money is just awesome in every wealth society. I have a few friends who are travelling without money in Europe for nearly one year now. They are great people. But its another lifestyle.
Best Greets from Nepal nowadays,
hope you have fun and very good experiences in japan,
Bea.
Ah, yeah, I read this one, it was 207 from Barcelona to Tokyo and back to Budapest, right? Quite good for one of the two best times of the year to travel there (cherry blossom and autumn leaves). I had also a flight from Italia about Moscow to Tokyo and back for 290 these times.. But i realized then that i hate return-flights ;P
Camping in Japan.. Well, I didnt camped, but I saw some places which were incredibly inviting to camp there and sometimes i was a bit unsure about that the decision to couchsurf only was a good one. It was because on my travels before I never really had the time to use couchsurfing, cause always camped, and so i decided to couchsurf which was also really great. You should definitely do this as well for some times. But i recommend camping too. I dont think that there are camping places like in europe, but i dont think so as well, that its a problem to wildcamp. Police doesnt really have anything against hitchhiking, so they dont have against camping, but they care about everybodys healthy, so may you get invited but i even saw some people camping in the middle of the city. And, by the way, when youll walk sometimes at the riverside or in the city park (these which are not locked in the night), youll see some built up houses, sometimes really beautiful and with garden and dog even and stuff, sometimes only small ones, always have soem blue carpets, blue houses.. These are from the homeless, they have a incredibly luxurious life there And the state doesnt mind about them building up houses at these mostly really beautiful places. So i think camping at these places is also good, there is enough space, you dont have to camp just next to the homelesss, though they are really cool guys sometimes, just getting out of the all-day-working system of japan. Just as a tip, riverside always nice, but anywhere okay, youll find great places, in nara you can camp in the middle of deers There was also this other hitchhiker who was camping there for months, i forgot his name, i think you can find him in the japan group or so as well, he told me, its no problem, and the only thing are the mosquitos if you biwaque, but thats like everywhere i guess.
Anywhere, if you stuck in city anywtime and you dont find a good place to camp, like in tokyo, the cheapest way to bring the night over is to go in a manga cafe for 10 euros or so per night, youll have drinks for free and internet, but its not like a real hotel.. just in case.
And great to have a couch in Barcelona, its definitely a city you pass some times as a hitchhiker
So, about the spending money per day, hehe.. Well, the first week was quite hard, i tried to keep it less than 10 euros per day, was in the end maybe 8 euros? Then I got better and for 3 weeks i even travelled without money.. But I decided to use money again, so i think in total for the trip it was like 3 euros average? But usually it will be more, thats just cause of using very less money some time.. for 300 yen (100 yen is about one euro) you can get full one time, if you buy some food in a cheap supermarket, or find some nice ramen noodle shop. And well, it depends on how you meet people and stuff, an onsen bath is for example around 300, and all the museums and touristic stuff is quite expensive.. oh, and the fuckin metro tickets in tokyo! They are 240 for a normal distance, its crazy.. Yeah, I think you should calculate 10 per day in the end. Or more? I dont know, im not used to use money In Japan I usually spent less than 500 yen, but not everybody is like me, i also met some germans there, and at one point they asked me about my budget, and i said i really dont know, and then they told me about theirs: "well.. for these three weeks we are here i calculated at first two in total for me, got 3 back.. thousand, of course. but well, i will see, ithink it will get really close to the three.." and at the end of the meeting they said soemthing like "boah, yeah, i will miss the food here, woow.. the food today was really incredible, still feel it.. but well, you can not eat everyday for 180 euros.." - mmh.. so, yeah, this is crazy, and they were students
anyway, youll see when you arrive. Just make sure that you get some great couchsurfers for the first days in tokyo. And might think about getting a bicyle in Tokyo instead only driving the metro, cause like i said its incredible expensive, and you can easily spend 10 euros per day or more. I heard of some people who found a hostel for 20 per night, and a bicycle for one euro per day, but dont know where and stuff, but maybe you can find out.
And make sure to eat a good pizza or any dish out of the oven, before you leave, cause you will miss them they jsut dont have ovens, cant believe it.. -
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The Fold of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gauttari that inspired the design of the building, finds a very literal iconography in folded paper: origami. Foreign Office has designed the structure of the building by making triangulated steel-plated portals. The paper iconography is ironic since the architects had won the competition for the Terminal with a design that featured an impossible-to-make waved steel construction that was copy-paste from corrugated cardboar
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Shigeru Ban wanted all 7 brands to have an equal opportunity for public exposure. He organized the building into a stack of three- and four-story volumes, each with its own set of retractable shutters on the main front, and turned the lowest volume into a public thoroughfare contiguous with the sidewalk. Within this four-story, indoor-outdoor passage, he placed tiny, satellite showrooms, one per brand. Doubling as an elevator, each showroom connects only to the brand's main shop, either above or below grade.
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Opening hours 11.00 - 20.00 (Mon - Sat) 11.00 - 19.00 (Sun & Holiday)
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Mar 11, 12
ginza district of tokyo
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The new Swatch flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district immediately stands out from the surrounding high-end fashion boutiques on this densely packed street. There is no doorway, no visible sign, and no glass storefront. Instead, a towering four-story void in the streetscape seems to signify a civic-scale entry.
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The new Swatch flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district immediately stands out from the surrounding high-end fashion boutiques on this densely packed street. There is no doorway, no visible sign, and no glass storefront. Instead, a towering four-story void in the streetscape seems to signify a civic-scale entry.
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Mar 11, 12
GINZA district of Tokyo
transformer house.
"AE Interests: retractable four-story glass curtain wall shutters, glass curtain wall system, hydraulic glass elevators, extensive use of greenery, mass damper system to counter seismic activity, divided into three or four recessed sky gardens, irregular roof geometry"
(quote from: http://aedesign.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/nicolas-g-hayek-center-tokyo-japan-2/ )-
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the house is a bit like a transformer. Can be changed, and so.
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Mar 10, 12
link suggested by Lamy
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Mar 09, 12
to remember the capsule hotels which would be cool to visit ;)
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Most museums open from 10am to 5pm and close on Mondays
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National Art Centre Tokyo, Tokyo. © JNTO
The National Art Centre Tokyo in Roppongi hosts exhibitions of everything from Vermeer and Modigliani to fashion and architecture, but has no permanent collection. The gallery's energy-saving undulating glass exterior, designed by architect Kishô Kurokawa, is a striking landmark.Cost: Varies according to exhibitionOpening Hours: Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; Fri 10am-8pmAddress: 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8858Transport: Nogizaka and Roppongi metro
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Toyo Ito‘s office has sent us a set of photos and a description of the architect’s newly completed Tama Art University Library in Tokyo.
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"Our proposal for the project start by declaring the site as an open public space and proposes to have the roof of the building as an open plaza, continuous with the surface of Yamashita Park as well as Akaranega Park.
The project is then generated from a circulation diagram that aspires to eliminate the linear structure characteristic of piers, and the directionality of the circulation."
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A series of programmatically specific interlocking circulation loops allow the architects to subvert the traditional linear and branching structure characteristic of the building.
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