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[JimDunlop2]

My wife and I are heading down to catch one of the last days of the Aichi Expo near Nagoya...

We plan on heading down on Sunday afternoon, going out on the town Sunday night, sleeping somewhere and heading to expo the next morning.... We will be driving home in the evening.

Given the event at hand, I REALLY don't know if I'm going to have ANY luck finding any accomodations down there -- it's probably either all booked up full or too expensive, or both. AND it's a bit last-minute.... Can anyone recommend anything viable to me? Suggestions for a place to crash?

As a last resort, we can find an out-of-the-way parking lot somewhere and camp out in our van -- we've done it before a few times, so I suppose we could do it again. Hey, the roadside rest-stops on the expressway might be OK -- safe, anyway...

Any Dave's readers have a free parking spot for the night where we can camp out? ...Didn't think so....

Thanks in advance, everyone!

JD

[Brooks]

try the Super Hotel.
They have a website and their phone number is 052-451-9000.

[markle]

First piece of advice- Don't come. Seriously you're coming before it all shuts up right? well so is every other joker in the country.
Second piece- Go in the evening, tix are half price so you won't miss the money when you are dissappointed.
Finally- try places like Toyota, Toyahashi, Okazaki even Gifu for accomodation. All are as accessable to Expo as Nagoya and you might avoid the worse of the rush.

BTW we're having a BBQ on Monday you can come of you want, we live in Toyota.

PS In an absolute pinch PM me we have a spare room.

[JimDunlop2]

Fair enough.... But I think we're pretty much committed now. As for accomodations, I managed to ask a favour of a friend living about an hour out of Nagoya... So we do at least have a place to crash. Never did find anything in or near Nagoya in the way of a hotel though.

Otherwise, as far as expo goes... This will be our second trip. The first time was crowded as well, but we managed. We plan on staying the whole day -- from opening time to closing time.... And as long as the lineup isn't too long in front of the Cuban pavillion (so I can buy a nice box of cigars) I'll be happy.

Last time we went, we did really well. All we had to do was stay away from the Russian, American, Canadian (and other) popular pavilions. Some of the countries that Japanese people don't really give a crap about because they are not Japanese tourist destinations (or in the news every week) were almost abandoned (relatively speaking) but they were still very interesting. We specifically avoided expo during summer holidays and Obon, but now that most kids are back in school, we hope it'll be at least a BIT better.

So, we'll see to what degree our strategy will pay off. I'll post a report up on Tuesday to let everyone know how it went.

Wish us luck!

P.S. Thanks for the BBQ invite.... I'd go if we were down there for more than just 1 day...

[ntropy]

There's a few capsule hotels near the train station.

[JimDunlop2]

[cornishmuppet]

Glad you had a good time!

I went down last weekend, stayed with a mate in Ogaki, just outside Nagoya. Took four hours in total from Ogaki until we actually got inside the place, then an insane two hour wait to get back on the subway at 9pm when it closed.

Like you I didn't want to queue for hours, so went to all the places with short lineups or none whatsoever, and I had a damn good, though very tiring time.

All my friends in Nagano were slating it, (even those who didn't go!) but I found it very interesting. Not something you can do everyday.

chris

[Sweetsee]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for that, partner.


Enjoy,
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