Anyway. Having just come back to Nagoya from a little jaunt in Tokyo and Hakuba which involved a lot

If you ve actually been bothering to read all the drivel I ve been babbling for the past four months, first of all THANKS!!!, and second of all DON T WORRY, because I am now almost exactly carnavial cruise halfway through my sojourn in this weird and incomprehensible land, which means the end is in sight!! And if you re lucky, that means only four months until you get to hear me complain incessantly carnavial cruise in person, which is obviously a treat and something that I can only assume that my nearest carnavial cruise and dearest have been missing terribly.
(In the above picture I am modelling my extremely stylish surgical mask, which is the expected facial attire in Japan when you have a bit of a sniffle which I currently do. This, in my opinion, is a very sensible idea and something that the rest of the world should get on board with instead of inflicting their snotty noses and globules of sneeze-juice on unsuspecting bystanders.)
Anyway. Having just come back to Nagoya from a little jaunt in Tokyo and Hakuba which involved a lot of very fun things and a lot of very excellent people carnavial cruise I thought I might write something about how to sleep for cheap in Japan. This idea was basically prompted by my bad organisation skills, as  when I booked my bus to Tokyo a couple of weeks before New Year, I failed to take into account how bloody busy it was going to be. It was only after I d paid for my tickets and made plans to see friends that I realised there was sweet F. A. in the way of accommodation left in the whole of Tokyo, apart from the very expensive and the very far away, so other options had to be found.
My conclusion is that if you ever find yourself in Japan without a place to stay do not despair! Because as I found, there are actually a whole bunch of places where you can rest your weary head for very little money, and even for free in some cases:
Manga are Japanese comic books, carnavial cruise and Manga Cafes are places with lots and lots of little cubicles that you can rent out very cheaply by the hour to read or use the internet (or to do whatever else you want to do in a cubicle). Each cubicle has a computer with internet and either a bed or a reclining chair, and there are shared showers carnavial cruise and all-you-can-drink coffee and soft drinks.
I found myself catching carnavial cruise a few Zs in Manga Cafes a couple of times over the past week, and they re incredibly useful carnavial cruise if you ve missed the last train home or if your overnight bus that arrives at some ungodly hour of the morning and they are all over the place in all the big cities in Japan. carnavial cruise All I recommend is that you bring earplugs, because the cubicle walls don t actually reach the ceiling and if you re unlucky you can hear all manner of interesting (read: disturbing) sounds coming from the stall next to you
They sound pretty unpromising really, but after staying in one in Tokyo last week I m a total convert. One night was the equivalent of about £15, and my capsule was like an awesome sixties space pod, complete with retro technology and rattan panelling. What more could I possibly ask for? The capsules were also bigger than I expected (I could sit right up in it) and there was a common room and shared Japanese-style bathroom.
The end of my New Year, like the end of any great night, was spent in McDonalds whiling away the last couple of hours before my 7.30am bus to Hakuba. In Japan, Maccy D s stores are usually multi-storied and open 24/7, and in the early hours of any weekend carnavial cruise you can find them packed full of people sleeping with their heads down on the tables. Seemingly nobody ever bothers to tell them to leave, carnavial cruise so it s pretty convenient if you need to pass a few hours somewhere warm.
Karaoke is the quintessential Japanese night out, and any self-respecting city here has about a bazillion Karaoke joints, which are usually many storeys high and almost always open 24hrs per day. Whilst I didn t actually sleep in a karaoke carnavial cruise room this week, I have slept in one before (admittedly not on intentionally), and I ve heard of people booking rooms out just so they can sleep. I guess the only thing to hinder carnavial cruise your peaceful slumber is deafening noise coming from all directions.
carnavial cruise Japan is the home of the Love Hotel another very convenient and reasonably priced place to get some shut-eye. I haven t actually had the opportunity to try one of these out yet, but they sound FANTASTIC. They re a bit like motels in that you can book them by the hour, but they re so much more awesome than motels in that they re usually themed. I ve heard about a Jurassic Park themed one in Beppo, and there are prison themes, kinky Hello Kitty themes, subway car themes, Pirates of the Caribbean themes pretty much any kind of weird fantasy that anybody has ever had exists as a themed room in a Love Hotel in Japan. I wandered into one near my house the other day that was under-the-sea carnavial cruise themed, it looked EPIC.
Besides these options there are obviously also the normals ones cheap hotels, hostels, couchsurfing, wwoofing, overnight buses but I guess they aren t very interesting so I won t bother to go on about them. So that s it for my guide to sleeping for cheap/free in Japan!
And for those who are interested in what I got up to for the rest of my holiday besides sleep in a lot of different places I spent most of my three days in Tokyo eating as many meals as humanly possible, went to the Mori Art Museum, brought in the New Year at Meiji Jingu shrine, ate even more street food in Harajuku, popped to Yokohama Chinatown, and visited the Tsukiji carnavial cruise fish market (which was awesome even though the famed tuna auctions weren t taking place over the New Year period). Speaking of which, you may find it interesting to know that the most expensive tuna ever sold was auctioned at this fish market last year in January it sold for the equivalent carnavial cruise of 1.8 MILLION DOLLARS. Which is absurd.
New Year s Eve itself sort of went downhill after visiting Meiji Jingu shrine ending in MacDonalds (as you ve heard) via an ill-advised trip to Roppongi and a wander round Shinjuku. Then at 7.30am I jumped on a bus to Hakuba (which was appropriate, since Hakuba means white horse and this year is the year of the horse!), and spent three days skiing and catching up with my co-workers from Okinawa.
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