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Yeah, hit up Akihabara. Not only are there mountains of merchandise if you're a weeaboo, but there are amazing electronics stores and shops selling technological curios and just all sorts of fucking weird stores that you can't find outside of Japan.
Hit up Harajuku for fashion, particularly the two (separate) stores named CHICAGO for used-but-good Japanese goods like kimonos or yukata. I got an extremely high-quality used kimono for sixty bucks because of a nearly invisible tear in the silk.
Do not go to Burger King. Go to a tightly-packed Ramen shop in the middle of lunch hour and marvel at the efficiency of the process and then eat some really fucking good ramen. If you must eat a fast-food burger, find a MosBurger and get some uniquely Japanese fast food.
There's a charming little town on the border of Tokyo and Chiba called Baraki-Nakayama. I lived there for a few months and it's got a great, great, great Okonomiyaki restaurant.
Go to that big shrine by Harajuku. It's just over the bridge covered in cosplayers and musicians.
Hit up Roppongi and fuck a Japanese girl in a Love Hotel. Find a Nomihodai or a Viking joint and eat/drink all you possibly can, then go out for 24-hour karaoke in the heart of the city and drink and eat some more. Stumble into a ludicrously expensive cab at the end of the night and wonder why you only spent a day in Tokyo.
And oh, oh god, if you like sushi even a little bit, you fucking owe it to yourself to go to Tsukiji, the legendary fish market. You probably can't get into the fish market itself, but the alleys and streets surrounding it contain a veritable fuckload of sushi bars that sell the tastiest and cheapest sushi on earth. Go there, you fucker, go there with a supply of booze and sushi-bar-hop. Listen as each chef bellows "IRASSHAEMASE!" simultaneously any time ANY asshole wanders through the door and watch as they yank fish from the tank and chop them to bits right in front of you. Do it, faggot. Tsukiji.
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