a month in japan.
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Since I'm always staying with my wife's family when I go there I don't have a lot of rec for places to stay on the cheap, as I'm always there with kids in tow, although this place always looked intriguing to me in Tokyo:
http://www.andon.co.jp/index.htm…
Where are you thinking of going? Tokyo and environs is a place you can do a month easy of course.
I always love Kyoto myself. Spending a night at a buddhist monastery there is great and waking up with the monks when they start their chanting is pretty sublime. Plus all the temples and the kick ass hyper modern train station with the awesome restuarants on the 11th floor...
Did Nara one time I was there, which was cool city with an awesome temple.
Went to Gifu prefecture last time to check out the historical farming villages there, Ogimachi being the largest and most interesting. Great mountain food up there as well.
I only have me personal preferences when I go there, which might not gel with yours. There's a little custom jewelry shop in Harajuku in Tokyo I love, ran by a guy from Brooklyn and his Japanese wife: http://www.oztokyo.com/
Got tattooed here: http://www.sunsqlit.com/
Um...shit...get the JR rail pass...pick some destinations, try to make some connections before you go and meet people there. Japanese people can be the most friendly and charming in the world when you don't feel like a total gaijin tool.
Other tips: There are no public garbage cans. Don't walk around and eat food or drink something, very rude. Don't go all gaijin smash unless you have too. Perfect the tilt head to the side, sucking breath through your teeth loudly puzzle/wince look while making the "a-no" sound whenever you want to say "no" or are confused. Lots of mileage in that gesture.
I dunno..I got nothing.