Tokyo is the door to Japan ¡ª a door that can hit you on either the way in or out, if you don¡¯t come prepared.

For there is much to see and do, and the casual traveler can easily get bumped astray in the maze of options.

Yet a Google here, a Google there and all the sights of the Kanto Plain can soon be sewn together into one lumpy Frankenstein of fun.