Japan Manga, Anime & Games Tour
Time to take a break from all the gloom and doom. Here’s a more cheerful news brought to you by Mr. Lim, a former teacher of mine. He’s a bona fide gaming enthusiast and frequently takes random trips to Japan for no particular reason other than spending money. He is also the only (former) teacher I know who owns a PS3 and an Xbox 360. After quitting his job at my former school last year, he has been busy organizing various events and what not.
Anyway, Mr. Lim is organizing a tour group to Japan…for the Tokyo Game Show! Basically it is a one-week otaku-centric tour package with geeky destinations that include:
The duration is from 18th to 23rd September 2007. The total cost of the tour, excluding airport tax, is S$1,600. You can find out more information from the website and this flyer.
For enquiries and bookings, please call 63983686 or e-mail icp@globaltravel.com.sg. You probably will not get any discount for mentioning my blog. LOL.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Wow,that’s some cool former teacher you have there.
I bet most people would wish for such teachers LOL
August 20th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Your teacher found his niche, do tell me if he needs assistants for next year term break.
August 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
OMG, I wanna go… but after forking out the money for the trip, I wouldn’t have enough cash left to buy merchandise… sob… the curse of freelancing.
Ah well, there’s always NEXT YEAR!!!!
August 20th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Wow, that’s actually not a half bad deal!
Sounds like he’s got a good thing going there. I hope it works out well for him. I’d love to be able to organize tour events and take people around Japan like that. :D
August 20th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
My uncle told me about this travel package for North Americans at jalpak dot com, which is a 5 day package to visit the TGS, comes to like US$850 before airfare and includes everything else.
What’s amusing is that it looks like someone like your teacher could be working as a guide for the same tour company. LOL. There’s a similar set of itinerary posted on that site and even the price seems the same.
August 20th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I am your senior, you!
August 20th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Shut up and die.
August 20th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Now we know where DM got his l33t eroge playing skills.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
OMG, I wish I knew about this earlier but I’m now committed to go for a trip to Beijing in Oct and getting leave in Sept is not possible now. =(
Maybe he’ll organize one next year? :)
August 21st, 2007 at 12:12 am
Why not drop by Tokyo Big Sight as well?
Might not have anything anime-related during that period, but it’s between Makuhari Messe and Tokyo, and you can say you’ve been to the holy site for Comiket and TAF. :)
August 21st, 2007 at 1:16 am
lol….some teacher really does play games and watch anime!!
Hard to think how he really look like…maybe disgusting enough like onizuka ,GTO…..(kidding.^.^)
August 21st, 2007 at 1:55 am
Well, it’s certainly less than my high school’s senior Disney trip to Florida… and longer too… OTL
August 21st, 2007 at 3:05 am
What’s the catch?
August 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am
@Kesenaitsumi
Or maybe Kimura-sensei from Azumanga Daioh.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:26 am
Sounds like fun I wish the TGS was longer though theres lots to see there ^^ I was at TGS06 for the whole 3 days last year but did not have time to go to the other placed mentioned in the flyer. Still it was an enjoyable trip with my friend who was along with me. We did visit Akihabara though but not the maid cafes.
Sadly this year I am unable to attend TGS, If anyone from sg is going do tell me about the trip in your blog or Photo site.
August 21st, 2007 at 11:18 am
Ops it seems like I was too late. Due to insufficient response, Mr. Lim had to cancel the trip. But he is interested in organizing one for end of the year (comiket?) or next year. Hopefully I will bring the news earlier next time. >_<
August 21st, 2007 at 11:26 am
NEXT YEAR!!! Definately!!!
August 21st, 2007 at 11:55 am
@ Orion
Agree too ^.^
Too bad it is canceled.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
WOW GREAT idea but too bad even if i’m able to fork out 1.6k SGD I can’t really leave singapore cause of (male have to serve NS) sort of things… haiz~ (more like they worried that i’ll run from NS)
HAPPY B-DAY SINGAPORE (a bit late now but who cares)
August 21st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
That’s one cool plan your teacher’s got there!!
I’ll second what double said, if only we all had such teachers…
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Next year! Maybe I should start saving now…
August 27th, 2007 at 8:16 am
I’ll definitely start saving for next year.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:16 am
We went with a British company on their Japan Manga Tour. It was cheaper than this and included a private visit to an anime studio – fantastic.
If you want to know the website its http://www.japanjourneys.co.uk
September 8th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Hello, I came across your blog posting after searching for cool anime and your post on Games Tour makes an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I will research more next Friday when I have the day off.