Guide to Japan

Please accept our warm greeting from Niigata, Japan. We are very happy to become your guide.
From here you can get useful informations and find related websites of Shopping Center, Transportation, Travel Agencies, Hotel, Japanese Culture, Food before you come to Japan. We hope that it will help you to make your travel plan.
Welcome to Japan and enjoy your travel!

Once you come in Japan, one of your enjoyment is absolutely SAKE!!! Sake is the latest mixing sensation in New World Cocktails, proving to be the ideal base in a clear and low to medium level alcoholic beverage. Sake is a gentle and delicate mixer, easily and harmoniously blending an earthy dry, yet delicate flavour to most chosen cocktails.

Japanese sake has many benefits as tasty,good for health and beautiful beverage if you drink sake after tomorrow you will not feel horrible.

Among all Japanese sake, Niigata province, especially starting with pure, high quality groundwater, and world-famous rice Sado Island has become known as an excellent place to produce sake.

We would like to introduce you one of premium sake company Obata Shuzo Obata Shuzo The Company's Manotsuru Sake has GOLD MEDAL, International Wine Challenge 2007, GOLD MEDAL(six years in a row, National Sake Competition, Zenkoku Shinshu Kanpyoukai.The longest record in Niigata pref.)

They have many kinds of sake you can you can choose.

We hope that it can be a very nice souviner gift from Japan for your father, friends and your business partners. Please enjoy Number One Premium Sake in Japan. Cheers!

There many places can shop-including Shibuya, Ginza, Akihabara, Shinjuku, Odaiba and Harajuku. Tokyo shopping is some of the best shopping in the world.
People from Tokyo and Japan in general love to go shopping, so they have some of the best shops in the world. You can easily find Japanese traditional items and the latest goods in Tokyo.

Tokyo Shopping Districts are here

Japan is situated in northeastern Asia between the North Pacific and the Sea of Japan. The area of Japan is 377,873 square kilometers. Japan consists of four major islands, surrounded by more than 4,000 smaller islands.Japan's population is over 126 million. Most Japanese reside in densely populated urban areas. Japan's capital city is Tokyo. The population of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area including the city, some of its suburbs and the surrounding area is approximately 12 million.
The "Land of the Rising Sun" offer its tourists many exciting places to visit. Besides the festivals, cuisines, museums, temples, castles, hot springs and shrines, there are other attractions in Japan those are worth a visit. There are some famous koyo spots like Hokkaido,Tohoku, Kanto, Tokyo, Nikko , Hakone, Fuji Five Lakes, Kansai, Kyoto, Shikoku and Kyushu, which hold forth the Japanese culture with the radiance of natural bounty through their colorful flora. Learn more>>

From traditional Japanese and Chinese to French and Italian, cuisines from around the world can be enjoyed in Japan. A variety of popular fast food restaurants are also available.

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Japan has the most sophisticated transportation system in the world. A taxi can be hailed easily and quickly from virtually any train or subway station in the cities. Buses, subways, and trains snake throughout, creating a complex maze that travels everywhere quickly and economically. You will find most everything in Japan to be immaculately clean, and the area of public transportation is no exception. From taxis, with spotless white seat covers and drivers wearing white gloves, to the famed shinkansen bullet trains, with luxurious seats and dining cars, travel in Japan by public transportation is enjoyable, safe, and efficient. Punctuality is the rule, as trains roll up to platforms on time to the second, so don’t be late! And don’t be surprised during very busy times if transportation personnel on the platforms assist you by helping to gently push everyone into the crowded trains so that the doors will close (remember Tokyo has over 20 million people)!
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You can choose to stay in the familiar comforts of a western-style hotel, or enjoy the comfort and personal attention of a traditional Japanese inn. By taking time to search out some of the nation's less-publicized types of lodgings, you're sure to find clean and comfortable places to stay that suit your pocketbook. Almost hotel staffs can speak English. Don't worry about language problem.

The accommodation charge is subject to a consumption tax of 5%. First class hotels also impose a 10 to 15% service charge as well.

Tipping is not customary except at top luxury ryokan, where a guest will tip a maid when she first serves tea in the room.

Find out more about hotel guide in Japan here. For cheap hotels please click here

As mentioned hotels, have you heard about Japanese Love Hotel? A love hotel (ラブホテル, rabu hoteru?) is a type of short-stay hotel found in Japan operated primarily for the purpose of allowing couples privacy to have sexual intercourse. Love hotels can usually be identified using symbols such as hearts and the offer of a room rate for a "rest" (休憩, kyūkei) as well as for an overnight stay.