Tokyo

Tokyo is quite a challenge. For a start it is very big, 24 million people including the satellite cities. The transport system is mind boggling and, even though many of the signs are transliterated into "romanji" or Roman characters, it is still pretty impenetrable.

One of the best museums is the open air buildings museum at Kawasaki, where they have brought traditional buildings from all over Japan, so if you are feeling very lazy, or even just totally out of your depth, you do not have to cover the whole country.

You can definitely have a lot of fun in Tokyo, from night clubs, to temples, museums, art galleries or outdoor markets. It is all there and up for grabs assuming you have a suitably big credit limit.

Free of charge, and therefore good value for money, are the bizarre Sunday afternoon goings on in Harajuku Broadway, where any aspiring musical or entertainment artist can make a fool of themselves in public.