Tokyo and Osaka
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Tokyo is great, and the biggest urban sprawl on the planet! There's so much to see.
I guess this won't be in the tourist guides.
Clubs in Tokyo are amazing. But really quite hard to find. You've gotta talk with locals.
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Yeah, Tokyo's so big.
Do you have some friend(s) there to help show you around ?
If not , got to get to a club , record store and pick up fliers to ck what's on ...
There have been threads on Tokyo at least a few times here on Dissensus ... mucoh info in there too >
Otherwise: Club Unit is nice and large, good system, main stage room,
Saloon and a cafe where the food is good and place is pretty chill, likely to see the groups hanging out there before show
July 11 Moritz Von Oswald Trio 2 sets @ Unit . In Daikenyama www.unit-tokyo.com
w/ Jah Light soundsystem in the Saloon
7/19 Drum & Bass Sessions , DubStep Wars > Mary Anne Hobbes , Logistics, Goth Trad, RIlla others
7/25 '4 hours of Detroit Roots'
7/26 Haus Tek Vol.6 Spectral Sound Label Party
A club lineup that sounds like pages taken right off the Dissensus music forum , for the most part.
Even if you don't go in ($), there are always piles of select fliers by the door
Also Bonjour Records not far from Unit, pretty good range of vinyl, CD's, books
and fliers , hot neighborhood.
If you haven't been then just watching people is enough entertainment
Also Spiral Records in Aoyama, ditto . Plus little gifts, souv's, nick nacks, design stuff.
Almost always worth a look -see
Kabukicho area - Back side of Shinjuku multi Asian food (Viet, Thai, Burmese, Cambod, everything -and usually cheaper then the Tokyo stuff) ,
also 'Golden Street' full of tiny bars and food
Osaka - Of course a different vibe in Osaka.
Ck Club Noon, under the train tracks . Good people
Great Okonmiyami within walking distance
No Kyoto or Nara huh ? maybe next time ...
It's getting to be end of rainy season in Japan, so it's Super humid and then hot in the weeks to come.
Dunno how familiar you are with this kind of Asian humidity ,
but one goes through at least a shirt a day in it.
Gets a bit hard to deal, watch out for crowd time trains in Tokyo ! plan around that
Happy travel man
Do you have some friend(s) there to help show you around ?
If not , got to get to a club , record store and pick up fliers to ck what's on ...
There have been threads on Tokyo at least a few times here on Dissensus ... mucoh info in there too >
Otherwise: Club Unit is nice and large, good system, main stage room,
Saloon and a cafe where the food is good and place is pretty chill, likely to see the groups hanging out there before show
July 11 Moritz Von Oswald Trio 2 sets @ Unit . In Daikenyama www.unit-tokyo.com
w/ Jah Light soundsystem in the Saloon
7/19 Drum & Bass Sessions , DubStep Wars > Mary Anne Hobbes , Logistics, Goth Trad, RIlla others
7/25 '4 hours of Detroit Roots'
7/26 Haus Tek Vol.6 Spectral Sound Label Party
A club lineup that sounds like pages taken right off the Dissensus music forum , for the most part.
Even if you don't go in ($), there are always piles of select fliers by the door
Also Bonjour Records not far from Unit, pretty good range of vinyl, CD's, books
and fliers , hot neighborhood.
If you haven't been then just watching people is enough entertainment
Also Spiral Records in Aoyama, ditto . Plus little gifts, souv's, nick nacks, design stuff.
Almost always worth a look -see
Kabukicho area - Back side of Shinjuku multi Asian food (Viet, Thai, Burmese, Cambod, everything -and usually cheaper then the Tokyo stuff) ,
also 'Golden Street' full of tiny bars and food
Osaka - Of course a different vibe in Osaka.
Ck Club Noon, under the train tracks . Good people
Great Okonmiyami within walking distance
No Kyoto or Nara huh ? maybe next time ...
It's getting to be end of rainy season in Japan, so it's Super humid and then hot in the weeks to come.
Dunno how familiar you are with this kind of Asian humidity ,
but one goes through at least a shirt a day in it.
Gets a bit hard to deal, watch out for crowd time trains in Tokyo ! plan around that
Happy travel man
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thanks for all your advice...turned out to be a much more velo than music flavoured trip. Definitely got the gaijin feeling - not so much stared at, more a case of being actively ignored/being invisible to strangers - made even London seem like a "friendly place". That said met some lovely locals and other expats.
was probably a good move going from Osaka to Tokyo as Tokyo is definitely a notch up or two on the scale tip.
highlights were catching up with various peops and booting around the city on my bike - Shibuya at night with these canyons of neon was fun. was also lovely checking out some of the quieter spots (temples etc) but would love to have made it to some of Japan's quieter corners and to Kyoto but time constraints.
was probably a good move going from Osaka to Tokyo as Tokyo is definitely a notch up or two on the scale tip.
highlights were catching up with various peops and booting around the city on my bike - Shibuya at night with these canyons of neon was fun. was also lovely checking out some of the quieter spots (temples etc) but would love to have made it to some of Japan's quieter corners and to Kyoto but time constraints.
