Itinerary Design
D2: Meiji Jingu -> Imperial Palace -> Asakusa Temple -> Ginza -> Shinjuku
D3: Mt. Fuji -> Hakone
D6: Kinkakuji Temple -> Kiyomizudera Temple
Itinerary Guidance
Day 1: Take a flight from Beijing or Shanghai to Tokyo, Japan, and arrive at the bus to go down the stepped Hotel.
Day 2: Visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, the most modern municipal office building in Asia, take the high-speed elevator to the 45th floor observation lounge for a panoramic view of Tokyo, then visit Meiji Jingu Shrine, the Imperial Palace and Senso-ji Temple, followed by shopping in Ginza, and an evening of entertainment in Shinjuku.
Day 3: Sightseeing at Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, followed by a boat trip to Lake Ashi in Hakone Excursion Area in Kanagawa Prefecture, then visit the remains of the volcanic eruption in the Owakudani Valley, and taste eggs boiled in sulfurous, scalding water that gushes out from the rocky crevices in the mountains.
Day 4: Day trip to Tokyo Disneyland.
Day 5: Take the Shinkansen to Osaka, visit Osaka Park, climb up to the castle built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1586 for a panoramic view of Osaka, and then go shopping at Namba Shopping City.
Day 6: Transfer to Kyoto by car, visit Kinkakuji Temple, visit Arashiyama to see the Zhou Enlai Poetry Monument, then go to Fushimi Shrine, and finally stroll through Kiyomizudera Shopping Street.
Day 7: Fly home from Osaka Kansai International Airport.
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Tokyo Shopping Guide
Nowadays, going to Tokyo is no longer just about shopping, it can also be a wonderful learning experience about the culture of famous brands.
Ginza
Ginza is the most expensive part of Tokyo compared to Omotesando, and is also the most important place for trend-setting.
Since the Meiji Restoration a hundred years ago, Ginza has been the first place to absorb the highest level of Western pop culture, and world-famous fashion brands such as Mitsukoshi, Matsuya, Wako and Seibu were the first to move into Ginza, making it a place where Western civilization was pioneered and where famous brand names have a long history.
Today, Ginza is still a concentration of high-class old stores and still possesses the power to convince people that it is first-class premium goods, so in order to conquer all of Japan, you must first come to conquer Ginza, which is why Chanel, Hermes, and others chose Ginza to open flagship stores.
Top of the line: Omotesando
Dubbed Japan's Champs-Elysées, Omotesando, which starts at Harajuku Station and leads to Meiji Jingu Shrine and the Aoyama district area, was originally an avenue for worshippers to walk in front of a shrine, but is now a gathering point for young people, fostering a trend-setting culture in Tokyo.
The Aoyama Apartments of the Tong Run Association, next to Omotesando, has been a concentration of niche galleries and specialty boutiques since the 1960s and 1970s, and its unique sense of popularity and soothing shopping atmosphere has attracted trendy stores and cafes to the area, giving Omotesando an artistic flavor. Since Gucci opened its first store in Omotesando in 1999, and Louis Vuitton moved in in 2002, Omotesando began to change from a niche trend to a new hotspot for famous stores.
In May of 2002, the Castle Peak Apartments of the Tong Run Club were demolished and converted into a new green community for the future, with architect Tadao Ando in charge of the building, and the fashionable design was more in tune with the famous stores across the street.
CHANEL: Ginza's black wall of fascination The newest and most beautiful building on Ginza Chuo-dori must be the Chanel Super Flagship Store, which opened on December 4, 2004, and is also the world's largest Chanel store, which is decorated from the facade to the interior of the store, which is all handled by the famous U.S. architect Pter Marino. This is his third collaboration with Chanel, having won architectural awards for the Chanel stores in the UK and Osaka that he designed in 01 and 03.
The most special feature of the new store is the black glass fa?ade, which integrates Chanel's classic tweed texture with the building's glass curtain wall, and utilizes stainless steel, liquid crystal glass, and rows of LED light bulbs to light up a flashing light show at night, displaying Chanel's classic patterns, fabric prints, or even turning transparent. The store is the tallest ten-story building in Ginza, and it's a real eye-catcher.
The interior details are also based on Chanel's classic designs. The shopping area occupies three floors, with double Clogo buttons on the elevators, walls and staircases designed with different fabric textures, a VIP parking lot on the ground floor displaying Andy Warhol's PopArt No.5 perfume, and even the rooftop balcony covered with double Clogo, making it even more luxurious than Prada's Minami-Aoyama store.
On the top floor is Beige Tokyo, a collaboration with French Michelin chef Alain Ducasse, the first-ever collaboration between a haute couture fashion house and a food and beverage restaurant. The restaurant's name, Beige (apricot), is a classic Chanel color, and it serves high-class French lunches, afternoon teas, and dinners, with reservations required three months in advance. The staff uniforms were designed by Karl Lagerfeld, with white shirts and black pants, just like Chanel.
New concept: PRADA's flagship store
This is Tokyo's most beautiful flagship building, and one that should be visited by anyone who isn't a fan of fashion, as CondeNast Traveler has called it one of the seven new architectural wonders of mankind.
Prada's Epicentre, located on Aoyama-dori/Minami Aoyama in the Omotesando Road area, is a revolutionary streamlined building with a strong technological and creative feel that stands out in the laid-back Minami Aoyama district.
The building was designed by the famous Swiss architects Jacques Herzog & Pierrede Meuron, and was completed at the end of 2002. The original site was Sakura Bank, and it cost 6 billion yen to build the largest flagship store in Asia with 7 floors above ground and 2 floors below ground, which is no less than the 4,000 square meter Prada Epicentre in San Francisco.
The way to appreciate this irregular building, shaped like a crystal, is to start with the facade. The Prada name is not engraved on the facade, which is understated because the designers believe that Building is Building, not a promotional leaflet. The crystal facade consists of diamond-shaped convex glass, in the sunlight shining gold, like a glowing diamond in the evening, in the surrounding low-rise buildings, like a sculpture of the new landmark. Looking in from the outside is a twisted and distorted world, full of fun.
Come to Prada for the shopping (which is pretty much the same as any other store), but don't miss a visit to the state-of-the-art dressing rooms. When you walk in, a computer automatically finds the right size and style of clothes for you and then lets you try them on. The changing rooms automatically become translucent and are an avant-garde shopping experience.
Fashion shows are also held here from time to time. The recent WaistDown world touring exhibition featured dress designs from 1988 to the present day, and showed the movement and static of dresses in different forms, such as human cardboard, vacuum bags and dresses spinning in the shape of mushrooms, making it an innovative shopping experience that is well worth a visit.
Address: 5-2-6 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku
LOUIS VUITTON: Roppongi's Shining Landmark
After the expansion of the Omotesando Hakata Building and the Ginza Flagship Store in '02, the most popular attraction for LV lately has been the new LV store in Roppongi Hills.
The two-story building, which was completed in 2003, has attracted a lot of pilgrimage to Roppongi Hills more or less because of its charm. The designer, Jun Aoki, always carefully analyzes whether the building can blend in with the surrounding environment before he starts construction, so this LV store combines the most popular icon in Roppongi Hills, Takashi Murakami, with a huge KaiKaiKaiKiKi balloon placed in the large window at the entrance, accompanied by the limited edition LV bags designed by Takashi Murakami, which is so powerful that it makes people fall in love with the store.
What's more, the store has several giant wall installations consisting of 30,000 glass circles and 120,000 metal circles that cover the entire interior, like curtains separating the different areas, demonstrating the simplest and most modern design of a modern store. This LV store is more like a nightclub, with three main areas, including BagBar, ShoeSalon and Luggsge Lounge, and a jewelry and watch area on the second floor that looks like a safe, so even if you're not a VIP customer of LV, there are counters and chairs specially designed for you to take your time to shop in each of these areas, which fully brings into full play the concept of modern commercial massclu
The best is yet to come, the evening of LV is particularly beautiful, lighting master George Sextom (GSA) to the entire store **** 400 spotlights for different arrangements, 175 lamps placed in the 10-meter-high ceiling, which can be adjusted according to remote control commands and 90-degree irradiation to create different lighting effects, and the never-ending day of the Roppongi Hills to create the most beautiful photo attractions.
Address
Address: Roppongi Building, 6-12-13 Roppongi, Minato-ku
100-year-old department store: Mitsukoshi Department Store
Nihonbashi is a national treasure of Tokyo. From the time the Tokugawa Shogunate moved the capital to Edo (i.e. Tokyo), this area became the center of politics and economics, the marketplace for fresh fish and handmade goods in Tokyo, the starting point of Japanese streets, the source of railroads, and the beginning of department stores, influencing the culture of life in Tokyo.
Thus, for those who are used to visiting Shinjuku and Shibuya, Nihonbashi has a unique atmosphere of old and new culture.
Today's Nihonbashi, with a highway overhead, is not as grand as it was then. However, the small Kyoto gardens, old pine trees and bodhisattvas around the area are still reminiscent of the old Tokyo days written by Yasujiro Ozu. Even the dozens of meters of building hoardings on Chuo-dori are infected with the old Tokyo feel, printed with a screen of Edo ukiyo-e, turning the pedestrian walkway into an art gallery that makes you admire the Japanese for their virtues of compatibility between old and new cultures.
When you visit Nihonbashi, start with the department store. This is the birthplace of the department store, and Mitsukoshi Department Store, which is across the street from Nihonbashi, is the pioneer of Japanese department stores, and its facade alone is enough to make people stop and admire it. Its magnificent building dominates the entire neighborhood.
The Mitsukoshi Department Store was the first department store to introduce the European and American department store model, offering high-quality goods from around the world at fixed prices and setting the scale of Japan's department stores.
The Mitsukoshi Department Store opened a new building in October 2004 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding, and in order to emphasize the Edo period in which it was built, the Mitsukoshi Department Store invited the artist Kobayashi Yamaguchi, who is famous for his Edo style, to help with the building, printing a picture of the building on the wall of the building in the form of a printout of his 1995 book, "Department Store The picture (Nihonbashi) from 1995 was printed on a limited edition commemorative shopping bag, which was a major event in the department store world.
When you step into the flagship Mitsukoshi Department Store, you will find European-style Roman columns, egg-yellow marble floors, and high, bright ceilings that make the store look particularly cheerful, and you will see that all of the world's famous brands are being sold in such a large and imposing building.
In addition to being a department store, a hundred years ago it was also a social place for wealthy families. Its central theater is also home to a statue of a celestial maiden from Kyoto's Myoshinji Temple, which attracts many celebrities. If you want to feel the feeling of a Japanese department store, go to the seventh floor of the Main Building, where exhibitions and sales of old Tokyo food culture are held from time to time. You can see dried fish, sandwiches-like tofu cubes, and colorful dips hanging on the shelves, and listen to the hustle and bustle of customers and stall owners. If you're hungry, you can have lunch at Mitsukoshi Cafeteria, a restaurant where the last generation of Japanese fell in love.
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Tokyo Food Guide
Eating habits
Japanese people usually use chopsticks, which should be placed on the table so that the bowl is on the left side and the chopsticks are flat in front of it. right hand holds the chopsticks, the left hand carries the rice bowl or soup bowl, and drinks soup directly from the bowl.
Before a meal, people say, "Itadakimasu". (meaning "to receive"), and at the end of the meal, "Gochiso-samadeshita", (meaning "enjoy the meal"), which is used to show appreciation for the meal. In Japan, cold noodles are served on a bamboo plate, with chopsticks to pick up bite-sized portions and eat them in a cold broth. Some restaurants do not put spoons in the soup.
Japanese people are used to picking up bowls of soup. All make noise when eating noodles. If you are in a group and want to drink, you have to wait until everyone raises their glasses and says "cheers" before you drink your first cup.
Japanese meals
Japan is a gourmet's paradise, with a huge variety of restaurants and food in major metropolitan areas, especially Tokyo, which is truly the Mecca of international cooking. But it would be a shame to settle for anything less than good Western food. Japan also has excellent culinary skills. Among the many Japanese dishes, the most appetizing are probably "hot pot" and "tempura," while "sushi" and "sashimi," which feature raw fish, are also a real treat for gourmets.
Chinese food is very popular. The Japanese are no exception, so there are Chinese restaurants almost everywhere in Japan.
The best thing about Tokyo restaurants is that almost every one of them has waxed samples of their main dishes, with prices marked, in the window outside the restaurant for customers to choose from.
When it comes to the price of a restaurant, it depends on the place where the food is served. A restaurant in a high-class restaurant or a high-class inn has a minimum of 2,000 yen for lunch and 3,000 yen for dinner. A tax of 3 percent is levied on each purchase of up to 7,500 yen per person, and 6 percent on each purchase of more than 7,500 yen. But travelers looking for a good deal can take advantage of department store cafeterias, restaurants inside buildings or on underground streets, where a good meal is only 500 yen to 1,000 yen, and those cafeterias or restaurants don't charge any service fees; they don't have menus in Chinese, but they do have samples of dishes displayed in the entrance windows, so the language problem is solved with a simple click of the finger.
Standard Japanese food:
Sukiyaki: Nabe (pot) is placed on the table and slices of beef, vegetables, tofu, etc. are added to the broth, which is cooked and eaten at the same time.
Tempura: Eggs and cold water are added to semolina to make a semolina paste, then shrimp, fish, vegetables, etc., are fried in the pan.
Sushi: Vinegar-flavored rice balls topped with a variety of sashimi.
Sashimi: Raw sliced fish served with soy sauce.
Kaiseki: Considered to be the essence of Japanese cooking techniques. It is refined using vegetables, fish and seaweed, and has an exceptionally delicious flavor.
Yakitoui (Skewers): Skewers of chicken or liver cooked over a fire.
Tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet): slices of pork rolled in breadcrumbs and then fried in oil.
Name Address Phone Number Features
Cuisine Izakaya Kasuga Mansato 7F Gotoen Aldeho Shinjuku, 3-15-11 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku 11:30-15:30
17:00-23:00 This is an affordable night-view-eat-and-dine cuisine restaurant with a focus on Japanese cuisine, which has long been a hit in the Shinjuku area.
Mexican Zani B1F, Fujiya Ginza Bldg. 6-9-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 11:30-23:30 An izakaya that serves healthy food with authentic Mexican flavors. A rough and tumble coolness and bravado wafts through the store, and many male customers gather here. The alligators and chunks of beef make you feel "cool" as a man, as you drink from a full bottle of Mexican spirit.
Taiwan Hosetsu 2-6-7 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 16:00-23:00 This izakaya, with its Taiwanese flavors, is a long-established name on the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo. The traditional Chinese Shaoxing wine is served here, and it is said that this Shaoxing flower-carved wine has a variety of therapeutic effects, including invigorating the blood and removing blood stasis. A Taiwanese sausage made from a secret ancestral recipe, which is oily but not greasy, is also served here and is very popular among customers.
ISOGIN YISOKIN 1F Higashi-Ginza Bldg. 3-8-18 Ginza, Chuo-ku 11:30-13:30 17:00-22:00 The tuna sushi deserves to be one of the restaurant's specialties. As a wholesaler, the restaurant directly purchases fresh tuna, and the delicate flesh of the fish melts in your mouth, while the seasoning of red vinegar adds an extra flavor to the sushi. 2 pieces of tuna sushi are served with 7 pieces of eel, shrimp, and 7 other varieties of sushi, as well as tuna seaweed maki for one person for 900 yen. Low price also means deliciousness here.
Fin Branch (Ginza Fuku's main branch) B2 Ginza Toshiba Bldg. 5-2-1 Ginza, Chuo Ward 11:00-22:00 Sunday Holidays: 11:30-21:00 With a long counter with 40 seats and fresh, delicious sashimi, it's especially good for a midday meal. That's because for lunch, seven pieces of sushi, including tuna and squid, plus six sushi rolls, are available for only 850 yen.
Japanese Restaurant Wish Matsu Ginza Toshiba Bldg. 5-2-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku 11:00-15:00
16:00-22:00 Located along the old tramway, Matsuke is one of the most famous Japanese restaurants in Japan, with a history of more than 50 years. When you enter the restaurant, you can immediately feel the calm atmosphere and simple style.
American POIRUSITONWE Gate Building, 2-13-4 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 11:00am-1:30pm the next day The bright and spacious restaurant has a southern American atmosphere, and the ingredients are based on southern American cuisine, so you can enjoy the romance and freedom of America here.
Hitsuka
(Izakaya) B1 Shinjuku Island Tower, 6-5-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 11:30-14:00
17:00-23:00
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Tokyo Specialties
Tokyo's food is characterized by the fact that it has it all and as a cosmopolitan city, it's not just about the food. As a cosmopolitan city, you can enjoy a wide range of cuisines from all over Japan and representative dishes from around the world.
Some of the most popular dishes in Tokyo include sushi, shabu-shabu, yakitori, rice bowls, ramen, and many more, so it's not a waste of a trip to Tokyo to try some of these authentic Japanese dishes.
Recommended restaurants:
Shinyotei
Address: 9-86 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Food information: A popular traditional tea house. Savor desserts and green tea on bamboo mats.
Hours: 10:00-17:00
Izu Sakae Honten
Address: 2-12-22 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Food Info: A traditional eel restaurant founded in the Edo period, with a history of 260 years. The signature dish is kabayaki eel rice.
Hours: 11:00-22:00