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What about Kyoto vs Tokyo? Is there also the "small city" experience (calmer streets, slow people) in those cities, in places away from the center, perhaps?
by swah 4y ago
What about Kyoto vs Tokyo? Is there also the "small city" experience (calmer streets, slow people) in those cities, in places away from the center, perhaps?
- TheFattestNinja 4y agoIn my xp not for Tokyo. Best you can get is charming alleys but still busy. Kyoto bit better but still a hard sell on that front
- bluepizza 4y agoNear Tokyo, you can visit the seaside towns, like Zushi or Enoshima, and get a small town feeling. But only on weekdays, as Tokyoites also want to flee the craziness from the city, and end up crowding the smaller places around it too. North of Tokyo, you can reach Tsukuba, which is one of the most lovely towns in the Kanto region. Beautiful, spacious, very calm.
- m4rtink 4y agoCan recommned Enoshima, very nice! :) As for Tsukuba - haven't been there but I have noticed there is a dedicated express rail line linking it with Akihabara station. :)
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoMy recent experience doesn't count - frontiers shut down 2 days after I arrived, and therefore I lived a very unique Kyoto without tourists.
- higeorge13 4y agoMust have been great right?
- rjh29 4y agoIt's a very big city, so yeah there are lots of districts which are quieter. They are essentially small towns all jammed together. I've stayed in a place 15 minutes walk from Shinjuku that was almost dead.
- rippercushions 4y agoKyoto is not a small city: it has over 1 million people and is part of the Keihanshin sprawl of greater Osaka. Go there for the culture, not the city.