Business traveller in Tokyo?

Just landed in Tokyo, and I had little time to prepare this trip (other than the business side). I just have a guide book, and 10 days - most will be business, but if someone has good idea about what to do else - bearing in mind that a woman travelling alone can be made feel "unconfortable" here....

Ideally, I am looking at a couple of off-the-beaten-track ideas, some shopping ideas (not the classy department stores at a zillion dollars for a pantyhose!!!), and one or two night-time ideas that are safe and will take me out of my lonely hotel room with a blasting japanese tv (courses of german in japanese was this morning's show).

THHHHAAAANKKKKKKKS!!!

I am a lonely lilith here.

oh, yeah... I should have said I am in Akasaka.

For tourist kinds of things, I recommend the Tokyo Tower, the Imperial Palace or Meiji Park/Shrine. For shopping, your options there are endless. There are an endless number of department stores.

http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/englis...

Hi, plenty of things to do in Tokyo. If your down town try Shinjuku, go to Tokyo metropolitan building for a great view, shopping Shibuya and Harajuku, food, western style Roppongi and Azabu Juban, Japanese food anywhwere.Yes, its hard travelling alone but get up, out of your room and be curious, ask questions and wander and try. Imagine you will have a great time.Dont be intimidate, its just new!If you have troubles with language just write what you want to say in English and show the person. Have a great trip. Please post photos of the food you try and the people you meet! Check out this video to get your mouth watering
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Akasaka - Take the Tokyo Metro Subway to Meiji Jingu Mae, and checkout Meiji Shrine and Harajuku. From Harajuku take the JR Yamanote line to Shinjuku, walk around get lost be amazed. Find your way back to The JR Yamanote line, and take it to Shibuya. Check out the Shibuya crossing and the huge amounts of people. Walk around and check out what young Tokyo has to offer. Take a walk down the small road just to the left of the Starbucks, Center Gai.
Find your way back to the Tokyo Metro and take the subway to Roppingi. Go to the Roppongi Hills area. Check out Tokyo from the sky. Go to the Mori Tower City View. If the weather is clear you can see much of Tokyo. Find your way to West Walk and spend a fortune for some Ralph Lauren or DKNY clothing. There are four floors to West Walk. You can also catch a movie at the Virgin-Toho Cinema. I suggest to do this before flying back home. For a laugh, find your way to the Hollywood building and the Cold Stone Creamery. The punch line is the 1 hour wait to have Cold Stone Creamery ice cream. I am only guilty of waiting 40 minutes. After the sun sets and you have had dinner, you can head out to the Roppongi entertainment district and throw back some drinks.

If you wake up early in the morning, jet lagged at 0400, take the Subway to Tsukiji fish market. The market is open to the public at about 0500. walk around and see the huge fish, crab, and shell fish being sold. It is a cool place to visit. Then head over to the adjacent sushi restaurants and have some sushi.

Depending on what ya shopping for, I suggest trying out a hyaku en shop (100 yen store). You would think they have cheap junk..but they actually have some real cool stuff. You can buy your gifts there to bring back to home. You can find them close by to any train station. Lots of times they'll have 100 and then the yen symbol, displayed somewhere so you can tell its a 100 yen shop. I like shopping in them to buy snacks, cheap cool items and souvenirs.
Also, if you are shopping for clothes, try a store called UNIQLO. For Japan, its cheap stuff, but in actuality, the quality of the clothes is quite good, and very stylish. I compare it to a store like GAP or maybe even JCREW in the USA. The difference is in GAP USA you can still buy cheap stuff cheaply made, but at UNIQLO you can get cheap stuff made with quality. I don't know if your guide book says anything about it, but I bet you can get locations from their website or with google.
Oh, one more thing...If your business colleagues invite you for karaoke...GO...its SOO fun!