Tokyo Tour Guide
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Omotesando to Harajuku. Full day. Omotesando station is at the crossing of two huge boulevards: Route 246 (Aoyamao-dori) and Omotesando Ave. From Omotesando station, begin at around 11am in front of the video store and walk down the narrowest street coming off the intersection. That's Fashion Street. Stop into the famous name boutiques and have a look. If you have lots of time, at the end of the street is Nezu Museum which has very old relics and a nice tea garden. Go back up the other side of the street and continue down Omotesando. Notice that you can see every hairstyle of the last 40 years simultaneously. At Meiji-dori, turn right a block or two. La Foret is a trendy department store. Takeshita-dori is a kids' mall street. Go up past the pretty good French sidewalk cafe to the cute temple. Return to the corner of Omotesando and turn left. At the top of the hill is Yoyogi Park, where you can walk around. Or go into Meiji Shrine at that corner. It has a beautiful old temple and a few museums.
Asakusa. The supreme "old Tokyo" place. Temple to Kannon, flea market, cheap lunches. Check out the weird "Unchi Building" (turd building) across the river. Designed by Phillipe Starck, with a golden turd on top. A kilometer or so to the west is Kappabashi, the central kitchen equipment district of Tokyo. You can buy those cool wax or plastic sushi models they put in front of restaurants.
Shinjuku. Go out the South Exit of Shinjuku Station, turn left and go into Takashimaya. It's a major department store with great food places. Attached to it are Tokyu Hands, a kind of hardware department store, and Kinokuniya Books, which has a foreign book department on the 7th floor. Return to the station. At the West Exit, across the street, are some of the biggest electronics stores in Japan (besides Akihabara, the electronics district) like Yodobashi Camera. It's a trip.
Ueno Park. A very touristy park with seven or so museums, fitting all tastes.
Roppongi Hills and Roppongi. 5pm or so. The Hills is a major mixed-use real estate development with a hotel, a huge multi-level mall, a huge cinema, tons of restaurants, and public sculpture. It's a bit expensive. Roppongi is Tokyo's tacky foreigner nightlife central. Ignore the nasty dudes hawking the nightclubs and lap dances.
Weirder parts Shinjuku 2-chome is the gay district, rather like San Francisco in the 1970's. Akihabara is the electronics shopping district, but it also is home to about 50,000 nerds and their lost-child womenfolk. Shibuya boasts the weirdest costumes. Asakusa has the oldest bars in the country.