Here is the newly revised Japan Trip Itinerary!

• Fly into Narita - take the Skyliner to Ueno.
• Stay at the Tokyo Green Ochanomizu for two days.
• Take the Shinkansen all the way up north to Aomori.
• Stay at Hotel Aomori for 5 days, exploring the mountains and Pacific coast. We plan on taking local trains to the coast and around the countryside.
• Take a sleeper car down the Japan Sea coast to Niigata, and a Shinkansen back to Tokyo.
• Take another Shinkansen to Osaka.
• Spend seven days, exploring Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and the surrounding area. We are renting a condo for the week (so cheap!)
• Take the Shinkansen back to Tokyo for the last week, staying at the Tokyo Green Ochanomizu again. I wanted the last portion of our trip to be relaxing and familiar (and how could I possibly skip hanging out in Akiba again.)

Exciting! We've purchased everything except the rail passes (which, alone, cost over $1100.00 USD! - but are totally worth it). I plan on bringing back some new knives and some katsuobushi and a katsuobushi kezuriki. Sandy and I have both been studying Japanese constantly, so we will be a bit more linguistically equipped this time.

Labels: Japan, vacation

posted by tangentbot @ 5:30 PM