travel advice please: after Tokyo then what?

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Ok, I'm going to be in Japan visiting with Mrs. Wollner's family and seeing the sights for two weeks in the summer.

Vacation time and money allowing, we'd like to go somewhere else in Asia for about a week. Where should we go?

Ideally, it should be somewhere that will be a bit of a relief after the pace and prices of Tokyo, and an affordable flight from there.

We've both already been to Thailand, and wouldn't mind revisiting it but also thinking it would be fun to go somewhere new. Viet Nam? Malaysia? any ideas?

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

new jetset answers

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Singapore?

― jel --, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hadn't thought of Singapore, actually. ever been there?

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, go to Seoul. It's hella-cool.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

really? That would definitely be a cheap flight. I've only flown into Seoul's airport and from the air it just looked like miles and miles of identical apartment complexes (hardly a fair impression, I know).

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fritz, you need to buy a Ticket Around The World which enables you to go where EVAH you like after Tokyo. I did this. Went from Japan to Hawaii and then San Francisco.

― nathalie, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The shopping district (Itewon?) has to be seen to be believed. So many amazig deals on everything! The city itself is kind of dingy, but the people are really, really cool. Kwangju (hope I spelled that right...) was also great. We met a guy who took us out to the after-hours spots where people hang out in fields uder tarps and eat and drink until 4:00 AM. It was excellent. Plus, the food is uniformly excellent.

Korea rocks, yo.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nathalie - damn that sounds perfect but I've only got a week after Japan, would it be worth it? Korea sounds amazing (just thinking about the food makes me want to go), but I might need to be out of big cities for a bit after Tokyo, you know?

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

These days I believe Angkor Wat in Cambodia can be visited. I've not been, but it's the single place in Asia I most want to see: all those big temples in a lush jungle setting, some deliberately not reclaimed. I think it's still the world's biggest ever complex of religious buildings.

Actually, if I could afford it, I'd stay in Japan for another couple of weeks, but that's just me.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one of my good friends just left on an unconventional tour of asia - but he's doing a strange route (china to uzbekistan, to kazakhstan, tajikistan, pakistan, etc): i don't know if i'd recommend what he's doing, though.

― geeta, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

now the problem with asking a question like this is it's just making me want to go everywhere that people have mentioned, doesn't narrow things down much - though I won't be following in Geeta's brave friend's footsteps. Angkor Wat would be pretty inforgettable.

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tokyo, then bust

― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll have to stay clear of the record shops in tokyo or bust it will be. damn.

― fritz, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Slightly different this time. It looks like I'll be in the fareast this August, flying in and out of Hong Kong. The first week and the last week of the break will be taken up with trips to various (not very touristy) bits of China, and I don't think I can cope with 2 weeks in Hong Kong, so I need to find somewhere to escape for a week.

Since I'm travelling by myself, where would ilxors recommend that I should go?
I'm quite tempted by Shanghai or maybe Taipei
or should I go for something completely different and go to the Philippeans, Vietnam or Malaysia?
Or where else should I consider?

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Just booked my tickets. So anyone, any suggestions?

No? :(

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Ken C to thread!

(for more answers, try posting a new thread so people don't think you're just another person visiting Tokyo)

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

you can spend a week in the yangshuo area of guangxi province. i think its guangxi anyways. its about a day's travel from HK on bus, or maybe 2 hour flight. i got there by taking the train to shenzhen, then a 6 hour bus to wuzhou, then another 7 hour bus or so to guilin, then like an hour bus to yangshuo - but you can probably fly from HK or shenzhen or guangzhou to guilin for $100. but once you get there its super cheap.

it's super nice. its where all those limestone formations rising out of nowhere, or by the river are. can easily spend a week in the area biking around. it's somwhat touristy, but in the dirty-backpacker way, and not the filthy-rich-package-tourist sort of way, if that makes it better at all.

http://homepage.mac.com/philtwo/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-08-13%2015.29.34%20-0700/Image-C94B81A3CDDC11D7.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/philtwo/PhotoAlbum9.html

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat

― ConsiderSomewherPleasant, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

You can get very cheap flights to Hanoi from Hong Kong, and there are some great bits of North vietnam to see. So they saya nyway, its what I'm doing next week.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

if you look closely at the photo you can see the cute german in orange shirt that i was totally crushing on. sigh

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd personally take a look at flights to Okinawa.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

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