Japan Sanrio Puroland( Hello Kitty Land)

Sanrio Puroland or also known as Hello Kitty Land is an indoor theme park and hosts various musicals,restaurants, attractions, and theme rides using popular characters such as Hello Kitty, Pochacco,
Keroppi, and many more. It is located in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan that attracts many visitors from overseas as well as Japan because of the worldwide popularity of these characters. Pallade (Characters Show) features Sanrio characters (HelloKitty, Little twin stars, Usahana, Cinnamon, etc.) and dancers attract guests with dances and songs. Children can join the dance at the end of the show. Or you can take the Swinging Coffee Cups where in this game you can choose your favorite character. Visitors also can have Birthday Party Show. Children who are having birthday in the month, after registering at the information center, will be celebrated on the stage. It’s Kitty everywhere..Girls love it!! Puroland also has an extensive souvenirs shop featuring Sanrio characters. Tourists visiting in the summer will be able to see fireworks on a daily basis. It is also situated within walking distance of the Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo.

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Japan Tokyo Kabukicho

Tokyo’s red light district, Kabukicho, lies northeast of the Shinjuku station.It is called "Sleepless Town", the city that does not sleep, ever! In this place you can find the hostess clubs
,casinos, bars, hotels but also love theater and movies.
Kabukicho is an area of just 600 square metres, but it is, nevertheless, home to over 300 sex shops, nearly 200 clubs, 80 hotels, and hundreds of bars and restaurants. It is estimated that around 150,000 people pass through it each day.

The district's name comes from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater: although the theater was never built, the name stuck.

Japan’s Kabukicho comes to life only after six p.m, especially on Fridays and Saturdays.

Some of the bars are ramshackle looking places but they have long been tolerated as a place where (sexual) pleasure-seeking Japanese - and visitors - let off steam. Anyone expecting the sort of sex clubs found in American or European cities could be in for a surprise. Here are entire clubs populated by pretend nurses, govenesses, secretaries, dominatrices - everything is available in Kabukicho. Here also can be found "naked karaoke", life-size latex dolls (for the use of), a reconstructed train filled with short-skirted schoolgirls (guaranteed not to press charges) and even a giant tank outside of which businessmen in suits can watch naked girls swim underwater.

Many of Japan’s infamous yakuza and the Chinese Triads are to be found in this area, although they may be difficult to detect by foreigners and native Japanese alike.

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Japan Tokyo Joypolis

Tokyo Joypolis is the largest and most sophisticated of the amusement arcades in Tokyo operated by Sega Co. Ltd. It occupies the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors of the DECKS Tokyo Beach complex, near
Odaiba Beach.
Besides the latest video games developed by Sega, it also features seventeen different attractions. These can be divided into five categories (although many combine two or more categories):
1. Games (such as Power Sled and Boat Race Grand Prix)
2. Rides (Rail Chase The Ride; Horror Ride; Half Pipe Canyon; Time Fall)
3. Walk-through (Weird Photo Studio; Terrors of America 2)
4. Virtual reality 3D adventures (AS-1; The Crypt; Aqua Nova)
5. Fortune telling (5 Senses Garden; Fortune Museum)

Instructions for each of the attractions are provided in Japanese and English. Where headphones are used (e.g. Murder Lodge; Time Fall), commentaries are available in either Japanese or English.

The basic admission fee is 500 yen per person (300 yen for children). In addition, there are further charges for access to the attractions (300 -700 yen), for which prepaid cards are available.

A passport can be purchased (either at the entrance or inside Joypolis) for 3,800 yen, covering admission and unlimited access to the attractions for one day. Disabled visitors may enter Joypolis free of charge with a helper, by showing a valid registered disabled person's card.

On some of the attractions, there are height or age restrictions for children. There are snacks and soft drinks available inside Joypolis, as well as a cafe/bar serving fast food and drinks that offers a panoramic view of the Rainbow Bridge.

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Japan Tokyo National Museum

The gigantic Tokyo National Museum Tōkyō kokuritsu hakubutsukan, houses almost 100,000 art objects covering Japanese history from the Jomon period to the 20th century. Some descriptions are in
English. General admission ¥420, university students ¥130, high school and younger free. Open daily 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, closed Mon. Special exhibitions charge separate admission fees.

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Japan Asakusa

Asakusa - Japan's famous temple town. While you breathe the air of Asakusa, stand in front of the old gate, walk through shops ("Nakamise,") and you feel this harmony of
ancient and present Japan. The energy from people and the town rise up high while Japanese tradition and culture, present and past co-exist together. Asakusa is one of the landmarks of Tokyo, Japan, and Asakusa became a place that tourists cannot miss.
Asakusa has many shrines to visit and each shrine gives you a fresh mind and "Zen" spirit. The most remarkable temple is Senso-ji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, Japan.
Having been bombed and mostly destroyed during World War II, then rebuilt, it became a symbol of rebirth and peace to the Japanese people. A tree in its courtyard, that was hit by a bomb in the air raids, regrew in the husk of the old tree and is a similar symbol to the temple itself.

Senso-ji is the center of Tokyo's largest and most popular Shinto festival, "Sanja Matsuri", which takes place in late spring.

When approaching Senso-ji (also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple), located in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, visitors mainly go through Kaminari Mon, Nakamise, and Hazomon. The first thing that catches your eye is a famous gate with a large red lantern - Kaminari Mon. "Kaminari" means thunder and "Mon" means gate. This has become one of the traditional sights of Tokyo.

There is a legend about this temple, the legend says that two fishermen built a statue of the God Kannon (Guan Yin), the head of the temple declared this a sacred statue and he transformed his house into a small temple, turning the place into a place of worship

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