When I went there for the first time it was a kind of opposite Paris Syndrome. "Tokyo Syndrome". I expected more of a Cyberpunk city. It still was but it was the absolutely clean and working version of it. Everything I've heard of or seen was really there also. All the small streets, those weird shops, strange food, unbelievably different people. I had the feeling that the Japanese are what people thing of Germans. Everything is working so well. The view was stunning. I went to the hotel where they filmed Lost in Translation and it was even BETTER. OK now I really sound like a guy who dresses in furry costumes...but believe me, I don't. I just loved it :)

Additionally, in my Japan experiences, if you politely ask someone for help in Japanese (no matter how terrible your pronunciation / syntax) they will go out of their way to help. I had the exact opposite experience in France.

Unfortunately this goes so far that (like in my case) you ask someone for directions, they don't know it and still show you some way ;)