Planning the itinerary

A great site for your planning pleasure is Japan Guide. They have great write ups of the main tourist areas of Japan. This is a great place to look for what interests you. Most guides are heavy on temples and this one is no different. I am not a big temple fan. I think the best part of traveling in Japan is just wandering the streets of a big city, getting lost and finding something unexpected around the corner. By unexpected I mean porno video shops. I don't think I will be doing a lot of porno video shop tours this time because Lois will be going with me. So this trip's "unexpected" could be a small shrine, a great restaurant or drunk salary man barfing. What I m trying to say is that the regular web sites on Japan will not be talking about that kind of stuff. A great part of the Japan Guide is the FORUM section. Here you can read letters from readers that start off with " I never thought the letters to the forum were real until this happened to me...." Oopps. That is the Penthouse Forum. The forum at Japan Guide is a questions and answer board where people exchange information. You can get a lot of great info from the questions that previous travelers have asked. Use the search function. Odds are your question has already been asked before. One of the best posters is the one of Farah Faucet with the one hard nipple. Also one of the best posters on the forum is a Japanese guy named Uji who is very helpful answering transportation questions. There are also a ton of links to cheap (or should i say "less expensive") hotels. I found all of my hotels following different links from this site. Since I haven't gone to Japan yet, I can't tell you how it all worked out yet.

Google maps is also a great way to prepare for your trip. Here is a street view of one of my past trips wandering around a big city looking for the "unexpected". If you are looking for the unexpected is it still unexpected? Anyways one of the places for porno video shop finding is in Shinjuku in the Kabukicho area. For all you youngsters out there, in the bad old days of porn you had to physically walk into video shops filled with other like minded people, although those guys were loser pervert jerkoffs, pick your porn o' the day and rent it fron the guy working the counter. The guy at the counter always had some problem with the video you picked and would have to ask his co-workers in a loud voice "This guy right here wants to rent this midget port video but I can't find the tape." The coworker would come over and say "Where did you find this midget porn video? I have worked here for a long time and I never seen anything as messed up as midget porn." Now all the pervert jerk offs in the store start looking for the midget porn because it is the only thing they haven't jerked to....Now you young wiper snappers can just point and click and get all the porn you ever need. The reason why this is so important is the video shop is a dying breed and this could change Kabukicho forever. The poor pron masters will be out of work and the video store will be replace by a used high school girl's panty shop. Don't laugh I am not joking. What is so special about porn in Kabukicho? This is where they sell the under ground porn vids with no blurring of the J-guys micro junk. But I guess most guys make the effort to go there and deal with the yakuza to see the girls micro junk (usually about the same size as the guys). Anyways fifteen years ago when I lived in Japan this is what a guy had to do to get his hands on some good porn. Damn! Why does it always come back to porn!