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Help! Feasible 14 Day Itinerary

PaskalinAstrid
PaskalinAstrid
almost 6 years ago
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Hi everyone,

This is my first time travelling to Japan with my family (parents in the 50s with my brother) so I was wondering if this itinerary draft is reasonable (and affordable in terms of the transportation), would like to be bit relaxed trip for my parents too. My family likes to try lots of local food and go to churches (that's why we include Nagasaki) and my brother likes to go for vintage stuffs.

I am thinking of going for the 14 days JR Pass for the trip.
These are the drafted itineraries.

Day 1 (24 June) - Arrival at Tokyo (ETA: 05:30 AM)
Day 2 (25 June) - Tokyo
Day 3 (26 June) - Tokyo - Nikko - Tokyo
Day 4 (27 June) - Tokyo - Takayama
Day 5 (28 June) - Takayama - ShirakawaGo - Kanazawa
Day 6 (29 June) - Kanazawa
Day 7 (30 June) - Kanazawa - Hiroshima - Miyajima - Hiroshima
Day 8 ( 1 July ) - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Day 9 ( 2 July ) - Nagasaki
Day 10 ( 3 July ) - Nagasaki - Kyoto
Day 11 ( 4 July ) - Kyoto
Day 12 ( 5 July ) - Kyoto (possible day trip)
Day 13 ( 6 July ) - Kyoto - Osaka (Tanabata) - Kyoto / Osaka
Day 14 ( 7 July ) - Kyoto / Osaka - KIX (ETD: 16.00PM)

Please do advise on this! Is it doable? Worrying if it's too much during the season.

Thank you and have an awesome day!

Paskalin Astrid

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Daniel-san
18835 posts
almost 6 years ago
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Hi Paskalin Astrid,

I think a 14 day JR Pass would work really well for your trip and give you a good amount of savings compared to purchasing normal tickets.

I must say that your itinerary looks pretty busy, you'll spend a lot of time traveling. Have a look at travel times for each part of the route and ask yourself if you're okay with it. Especially: Day 7 (30 June) - Kanazawa - Hiroshima - Miyajima - Hiroshima
Day 8 ( 1 July ) - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
looks busy to me.

Hope this helps,
Daniel


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