Tokyo, Japan
Check festivals in May
https://en.japantravel.com/events/tokyo?type=event&p=86
https://marronnier-matsuri.com/
The Sanno Matsuri Grand Parade
This section is notes:
Travel 30th Thursday
Add car parking
Dog sitting
Hotel heathrow
, arrive Saturday morning
Check in Tokyo, stay 2 nights (24-25)
Check out 26 by 11, hand luggage - travel to Hokkaido (evening?)
(send luggage to Fukuoka from tokyo?)
Stay in tokyo - 23-25 - 2N ~175£
Stay in hokkaido 25-28 - 3N ~ 130£
Stay in Fukuoka 28-31 - 3N ~130£
( a night in beppu 50-70£ ish)
Osaka (daytrip to Kyoro 31-3 - 3N - 180£
Tokyo 3-8 - 5N - ~400£
Total ~1k accommodation
Car rent 30-40per day - 4 days - 150£
Internal flights total 170£
Check train fukuoka to osaka
Flights 2200
Acc 1000
Car ~ 150
THOUGHTS:
We could get sanyo rail pass which covers Kyushu island - fukuoka/kumamoto and rent a car for beppu only / or train there
Then train to osaka and then train to kyoto
To cover fukuoka-kumamoto-beppu-osaka-kyoto ~ 130£ pp = 260
Also includes trip to tsuruga and from there 26£ to kanazawa
Hokkaido:
Stay in Sapporo
Daytrip or stay :
Jozankei onsen
Lake Toya
Noboribetsu Onsen
Daizetsuan National Park & Onsen
Fukuoka:
Stay in Fukuoka
daytrip to Kumamoto
Either daytrip beppu or a night there (rent a car for a day or at beppu)
Osaka
Daytrip to Kyoto
JAL Osaka to Tokyo - flight 55£ pp
JAL Kanazawa to Tokyo 55£ pp
SUMMARY:
Itinerary:
Tokyo - Hokkaido (i)- Kyushu (i)- Osaka - Kyoto - Kanazawa - Tokyo
Hokkaido : Sapporo, Jozankei-Toya-Noboribetsu, Daizetsuan
Kyushu: Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Beppu
Accommodation 1000
Flights 2200
Flights domestic 150 (T-Sap-Fuk)
Car rent 40 pd
Rail pass to cover fukuoka till kyoto 260
Flight osaka-tokyo 55£ pp
Money: cover 500 from acc and 1000 flights from savings - 1500
1000 from savings for day to day?
Acc 500 paypal pay in 3(90pp pm) flights 1200 paypal credit - 100 pm - 1year?
If Commenced Feb-March-April - May payday clear
Car rent, pass,domestic - add a sum to each month, eg February - 90+50(covers car) and March 90+40(covers domestic) April is 90 and May is 130 each to cover passes
A REVIEW:
(C) by car
(T) by train
(P) by paws
Fly - reasoning for AM : hotel checkout 10, if we get up 9 and wrap up, with hand luggage only, taxi to airport 20 mins ——>
We can catch something around 11/ 11:30
Flights on average 1.5h so by 1pm we are in the city, drop off luggage, freshen up and ready to go with a full day ahead
Fly - reasoning for PM : arrive and settle in, have a dinner and a walk, significantly cheaper in particular directions, spend next day exploring
Fly 23 UK AM - Arrive 24 JP AM
24 1D+N Tokyo
25AM Fly AM to Sapporo
25PM 1D(p) - Sapporo 1D+2N
26 1D(c) - Jozankey/Toya/Noboribetsu TBC ( daytip ) night in Sapporo
27 AM sapporo, flight 5/ 5:30-8pm
27 PM from 8 pm fukuoka
28 1D(c) Beppu daytip or overnight
29 1D(p) day in fukuoka fly 7pm-8:30
29 check in osaka, evening in osaka
30 osaka
31 kyoto
01 seki post town / arima onsen town /tsumago juku / imaicho
Flights sapporo-fukuoka-osaka : 300£ (T)
Where do we go now.. where do we go..
02 -//- or tokyo? Fly 11AM-12:15PM 85£ (T)
03 tokyo
04 kamakura
05 tokyo
06 tokyo
07 tokyo shops and wrap up
08 fly early AM arrive 4PM SAME DAY
If fly everywhere :
2.2 flights
1k acc
400£ domestic
80 car rent
Vs
If fly + train
2.2 flights
1k acc
160 Domestic tokyo-sapporo-fukuoka
260 rail pass fukuoka to osaka ( covers all kyushu, osaka region kyoto and all)
85£ domestic osaka to tokyo
80 car rent
Tokyo, Japan
This section is notes:
Travel 23rd Friday, arrive Saturday morning
Check in Tokyo, stay 2 nights (24-25)
Check out 26 by 11, hand luggage - travel to Hokkaido (evening?)
(send luggage to Fukuoka from tokyo?)
Stay in tokyo - 23-25 - 2N ~175£
Stay in hokkaido 25-28 - 3N ~ 130£
Stay in Fukuoka 28-31 - 3N ~130£
( a night in beppu 50-70£ ish)
Osaka (daytrip to Kyoro 31-3 - 3N - 180£
Tokyo 3-8 - 5N - ~400£
Total ~1k accommodation
Car rent 30-40per day - 4 days - 150£
Internal flights total 170£
Check train fukuoka to osaka
Flights 2200
Acc 1000
Car ~ 150
THOUGHTS:
We could get sanyo rail pass which covers Kyushu island - fukuoka/kumamoto and rent a car for beppu only / or train there
Then train to osaka and then train to kyoto
To cover fukuoka-kumamoto-beppu-osaka-kyoto ~ 130£ pp = 260
Also includes trip to tsuruga and from there 26£ to kanazawa
Hokkaido:
Stay in Sapporo
Daytrip or stay :
Jozankei onsen
Lake Toya
Noboribetsu Onsen
Daizetsuan National Park & Onsen
Fukuoka:
Stay in Fukuoka
daytrip to Kumamoto
Either daytrip beppu or a night there (rent a car for a day or at beppu)
Osaka
Daytrip to Kyoto
JAL Osaka to Tokyo - flight 55£ pp
JAL Kanazawa to Tokyo 55£ pp
SUMMARY:
Itinerary:
Tokyo - Hokkaido (i)- Kyushu (i)- Osaka - Kyoto - Kanazawa - Tokyo
Hokkaido : Sapporo, Jozankei-Toya-Noboribetsu, Daizetsuan
Kyushu: Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Beppu
Accommodation 1000
Flights 2200
Flights domestic 150 (T-Sap-Fuk)
Car rent 40 pd
Rail pass to cover fukuoka till kyoto 260
Flight osaka-tokyo 55£ pp
Money: cover 500 from acc and 1000 flights from savings - 1500
1000 from savings for day to day?
Acc 500 paypal pay in 3(90pp pm) flights 1200 paypal credit - 100 pm - 1year?
If Commenced Feb-March-April - May payday clear
Car rent, pass,domestic - add a sum to each month, eg February - 90+50(covers car) and March 90+40(covers domestic) April is 90 and May is 130 each to cover passes
A REVIEW:
(C) by car
(T) by train
(P) by paws
Fly - reasoning for AM : hotel checkout 10, if we get up 9 and wrap up, with hand luggage only, taxi to airport 20 mins ——>
We can catch something around 11/ 11:30
Flights on average 1.5h so by 1pm we are in the city, drop off luggage, freshen up and ready to go with a full day ahead
Fly - reasoning for PM : arrive and settle in, have a dinner and a walk, significantly cheaper in particular directions, spend next day exploring
Fly 23 UK AM - Arrive 24 JP AM
24 1D+N Tokyo
25AM Fly AM to Sapporo
25PM 1D(p) - Sapporo 1D+2N
26 1D(c) - Jozankey/Toya/Noboribetsu TBC ( daytip ) night in Sapporo
27 AM sapporo, flight 5/ 5:30-8pm
27 PM from 8 pm fukuoka
28 1D(c) Beppu daytip or overnight
29 1D(p) day in fukuoka fly 7pm-8:30
29 check in osaka, evening in osaka
30 osaka
31 kyoto
01 seki post town / arima onsen town /tsumago juku / imaicho
Flights sapporo-fukuoka-osaka : 300£ (T)
Where do we go now.. where do we go..
02 -//- or tokyo? Fly 11AM-12:15PM 85£ (T)
03 tokyo
04 kamakura
05 tokyo
06 tokyo
07 tokyo shops and wrap up
08 fly early AM arrive 4PM SAME DAY
If fly everywhere :
2.2 flights
1k acc
400£ domestic
80 car rent
Vs
If fly + train
2.2 flights
1k acc
160 Domestic tokyo-sapporo-fukuoka
260 rail pass fukuoka to osaka ( covers all kyushu, osaka region kyoto and all)
85£ domestic osaka to tokyo
80 car rent