mau mau... sailor moon, MKR and Japan Trip

[aimeekitty]

can anyone help me find screenshots of the transformation sequences for Sailor Moon and the Magic Knights Rayearth?

<--- must fanart

JAPAN PLANNING --- Also... those of you have gone to Japan for vacation, can I ask your advice again? I want to go to back to Kyoto and Tokyo, and some outlying places for side trips (like within an hour or three max from Kyoto or Tokyo)

Do you think there is any preference for going to Kyoto or Tokyo first in your trip? I usually think about it this way,... Tokyo has more shopping so do that last. But due to the weather, it might be better for me to do it the opposite way (go to Tokyo first.) Mitch is going with me this time,... I do worry about if we go to Tokyo first (even with the prefered weather) that he might think the whole trip is about shopping! LOL!

Advice and thoughts welcome! Also if you have any favorite "side trips", please let me know. I know I'd like to go see one of those Princess-Mononoke-esque mossy forests. and I definitely want to go out to Kawazu (on the coast) for that onsen and some other things like that.

Comments

[withinity.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend spending the night at Koyasan:
http://www.shukubo.jp/eng/

Nara has my favourite traditional sightseeing in all Japan, and is very close to Kyoto.

The Osaka Aquarium is quite nice and there is a modern art museum nearby that often has animation-related exhibits.

If you are coming in spring or autumn, definitely go to one (or more) of the maiko/geiko performances in Kyoto. It is very easy to get tickets and your only chance to see them perform, short of paying astronomical fees and having connections.

Iwatsuki in Saitama (less than an hour from Tokyo) is known for traditional doll-making, there is a doll museum there and you can practically go on a doll tour of the town.

The gardens in Mito, about 90 minutes from Tokyo, are quite stunning but I wouldn't recommend them unless you are really quite keen on gardens, as it's a fair bit of walking and takes a long while to get through. Still, it's one of the three most famous gardens in Japan and there are good photo opportunities.

And if you haven't been to the Miyazaki museum yet, go!

And go to Disney Sea, it's the only one of its kind in the world and much prettier than Disneyland.

I am not sure how far Hiroshima is from Kyoto, might be too much of a stretch for a daytrip, but Miyajima is incredibly beautiful. (my icon) The view from the cablecar up the mountain is breathtaking.

Himeji has a very famous castle and is an easy daytrip from Kyoto, but be warned that it's a very steep climb up many steps, and the building is not air-conditioned. The walled gardens outside are probably some of the nicest I've seen in Japan, and there is a literature museum nearby that's quite beautiful if you like modern architecture.

My various vacation pics from my travels around Japan earlier this year are dumped here, there are some of Koyasan and Miyajima:
http://www.evadne.net/lj/march2007/

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

if we could only go to one side trip type thing,... what would be better? Himeji or Nara?? (or something else?)

Mitch wants to go to Disney, so we'll do that. and we're definitely going to Ghibli this time.

so far, I'm thinking:
2-3 days in Gion/Pontocho/Central Kyoto
1 day Fushimi Inari/ Sake
2 days at the onsen
2 days at disney
1 day ghibli
3-4 days tokyo.