On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Winnie Leung <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found the Sensoji and the surrounding area in Asakusa to be very > interesting, and if you walk a bit further (ok quite a bit further), the Edo > Tokyo Museum is very good as well.
I also recommend the Asakusa area, it's great fun. Sensoji is a huge Buddhist temple, very lively and interesting. One of the post-convention tour options will be a guided tour of the area, so if you've signed up for the post-Tanteidan tours, you could choose that one. > And one of the must-see would be the Tsujiki Fish Market and the food market > distract around it. If you can be bothered getting up super early, go and > see the tuna auction as well. Supposedly there is no subway at that time, so > you'll need to probably jump on a taxi. Tsukiji Market (note spelling, Winnie had some consonants swapped) has an English-language website here: http://www.tsukiji-market.or.jp/tukiji_e.htm Note that the 13th-15th is Obon season, and though it's not an official national holiday, many businesses are closed for some of that period; according to their calendar, Tsukiji will be closed on the 15th, 16th and 17th. And the tuna auction is, indeed, very, very early, pre-subway. The market is amazing, but it is a very busy, working place, so be careful not to get in the way if you go! Also, I should note: the US-based volunteer helpers who help the Tanteidan convention foreign attendees maintain a small website here: http://web.mit.edu/lavin/www/origami/tanteidan-guide/index.shtml If you're coming this year, *please do look through it*, as it has both year-specific information (plus lots of links to useful stuff), and general info about Japan travel (it's hot! the food is fish-based! get and read a guidebook!) Each year we build a web-accessible spreadsheet where folks can share their travel schedules, and can decide whether to try to meet up to share rides in from the airport, etc. You can use the "Contact Us" page at that site to send us mail if you have further questions! Hope that's useful, Anne
