One day in Tokyo...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Lord_Howit_Hertz said:

does anyone have any tips for a first visit to the place?

You will find loads of tiny restaurants, especially in the business districts, no more than a bench with about 6 seats and a tiny kitchen. For lunch they do a "1 coin meal" as they call it, the coin being 500 yen. (about £3.50)

There's no waitress, just a vending machine at the entrance, with hundreds of buttons, each one being a different meal, starting at 500 yen. All in Japanese. Just hit the top left button. That's always the house special. No idea what it'll be, but it will be very nice and usually about 750/800 yen. And it'll probably have a whole soft boiled egg plopped in the middle. Most of them do. Get the ticket from the machine, hand it to the chef, he'll prepare it in about 30 seconds, and you're expected to eat it and be out in about 15 mins. There's jugs of water on the bench. Great for lunch on a busy day.

[frye]

fizz47 said:

Seeing as it's pistonheads and if you have limited time then you have to do this.......

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1...


Just spent 3 weeks there in October and this was one of the the most fun and amazing things we did....was even more fun doing it dressed up as Mario seeing as I used to play all the time in my youth....so many people would stop, take picture and wave at you...





Got to see a lot of Tokyo on the 3 hour tour ....You get to drive and lark around in road legal go karts at all the main sights...

I remember seeing these zoom past me in Harajuku near the Moshi Moshi Box and thinking bloody hell those guys are brave.