Hi,
My son and I are coming to Japan for three weeks, arriving August 1.
For info I am 56 and he is 13.
I had planned to visit in a couple of years time and 'travel round japan', although with no particular idea where to go as we haven't really done much research
However, my wife has booked it as a surprise trip, and paid for us to stay in tokyo (near Shinjuku) for three weeks, so not quite what I had in mind.
After a bit of rushed internet searching, we have booked to stay with a japanese family in Kyoto for 4 nights, and a Ryoken near Hakone.
So the itinerary currently looks like this:
August
1 arrive
2 Tokyo
3 Tokyo or maybe a trip to somewhere and return to Tokyo
4 Tokyo
5 Go to Kyoto
6 Kyoto
7 Nara
8 Kyoto
9 Kyoto and back to Tokyo
10 Tokyo
11 Trip to somewhere and return to Tokyo
12 Tokyo
13 Trip to somewhere and return to Tokyo
14 son's birthday, probably Tokyo
15 Ghibli museum (booked)
16 Tokyo / trip
17 Tokyo / trip
18 to Hakone / ryokan
19 Hakone and back to Tokyo
20 Tokyo
21 return to UK
I'm very under researched and under prepared, but have been told that the JR pass is generally a good idea.
Do you think this is the case?
I have started looking at day trips from Tokyo, but haven't decided anything.
Do you have any suggestions?
I'd like to get a better idea of what we are going to do each day, and how we are going to manage our travel plans, rather than spending time while we are there wondering what to do, how to get there and getting lost
Any advice would be much appreciated