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NorthofAmerica · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 187 Location: Recovering Expat

So I officially am free from work on the 1st of October and then fly out on the 17th from Osaka.

If you had 2 and a half weeks left what would you do? I am living in Shiga just north of Kyoto so I have done Kansai pretty much to death and outside of pricey trips to Hokkaido and Okinawa am looking to see some more of Japan before I go.

I am planning on rolling through Tokyo one last time since I only visited it once and wondering about any other worthwhile spots in Kanto or even Tohoku since I have seen very little of that area. I also never ended up going to a sumo match here which I would like to do, any in October?

What would YOU recommend doing?

gonzarelli · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:35 am Post subject:

No sumo in October but there is one in September in Tokyo:
http://www.sumo.or.jp/eng/ticket/tokyo.html

Have you been to any baseball games? If I could do it over again, I would have eaten like a complete pig in the last few weeks. I miss the food a lot and I can't wait to visit over the holidays with my wife. We've made a list of what to eat and not what to see or do. Cool

humancartography · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 16

Ditto on the food. I haven't been back in over two years and I still miss it.

Hoser · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Toronto, Canada

Kill Saruhashi?

fluffyhamster · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

I was going to recommend taking up the little-practised sport of 'Dispatcher dispatching', but I see that Hoser has beaten me to it with his similar suggestion of 'B*stard bashing'. Failing that you could stroll into an MMA gym and issue a challenge to the resident instructor.

Lyrajean · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 109 Location: going to Okinawa

I've only been to Okinawa and Kansai, so I'd not be much help, but if I could do one thing again it would be to see Himeji-jo (befoer they cover it up again to do a reconstruction job) and go back ot Hiroshima when it is not raining and see/stay on Miyajima. Go back to the Daisho-in temple. And hopefully they've reopened the trails up the mountain on the island. Eat Hiroshima okonomiyaki (its different -lots of negi) and the good beer. There's a suprisingly good okonomiyaki/teppanyaki restaurant in the train station.

southofreality · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 579 Location: Tokyo

Chill in Tokyo.

And I live here, so that's saying something.

gonzarelli · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:05 am Post subject:

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Lyrajean · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 109 Location: going to Okinawa