Its on the pail list but not at the top, when they said they needed to make an extra stop, you twisted their arm and managed to schedule a long layover between La, Honolulu and Bangkok, so the challenge is you only have 36 hours between flights and this includes sleeping, eating and getting to and from Narita airport, which I might add is 2 hours each way. Oh and lest I forget, no funds and severely jetlagged because you had too much fun in La and Hawaii.
So I didn't do a geisha show, and I missed the zoo and I didn't do the kabuki theater either. What I did do was a stand up noodles cafeteria in Ikebukuro, a quick stray through the imperial gardens, wandered nearby the Ginza, saw the Tokyo central train hub and stopped at Wendy's for a triple, but no fries or drink as I am a diet.
Tokyo is not a cheap place, hotels, even the cheapest reduction hotels start at , so doing Tokyo fast and cheap requires that you be creative, one way to control your costs are the capsule hotels where you can get a long tube big adequate to slip into with a Tv, radio, air con and alarm clock all built in, these start nearby a night. an additional one option is not to get any room at all and sleep in a lazy boy at the capsule hotels, which before you laugh de facto have some cool amenities like large screen Lcd Tv's hot tubs, Jacuzzis and sauna's. Some might say hey hot tubs are Jacuzzis, alas in any place but Japan this would be true, however the Japanese have made taking a hot soak into a minor art form that you would be remiss to miss, especially if like this madman you do Tokyo in the middle of January in tropical Hawaiian Aloha attire.
