Hi, two of us will be travelling to nagoya in early December. Having been to osaka, kyoto and tokyo, we thought of visiting the Alps and Hokkaido. Please advice on Iteneary below -
should we travel hokkaido first than back to nagoya area or the other way round considering that it is early winter near nagoya and we may still catch some foliage near Kazanama and takanama
please advice if we should get a 7 day or 14 day JRPass for the proposed Iteneary below:
Day 1
Arrive Nagoya airport at 9am morning
Travel from Nagoya to takayama (is wide hida train covered by JRPass?)
Overnight at takayama
Dy 2
Visit takayama
Overnight at takayama
Day 3
takayama to shirawago Day trip (by Nohi bus)
Afternoon to Kanazawa ( by Nohi bus)
Overnight at Kanazawa
Day 4
Kanazawa sightseeing
afternoon train to Tokyo
Overnight Tokyo (or alternative travel to hokadate since overnight in tokyo is just to break the journey?)
Day 5
Tokyo to hakodate (this will not be the case if we travel to Hakodate on day 4 but we will still be at Hakodate)
Day 6
Hakodate sightseeing
overnight train to Sapporo using Hamanasu from Aomori (this is covered by JRPass? Any surcharge?)
(is it possible to get on this train as I understand is hard to book)
Day 7
Sapporo sight seeing
Day 9
Sapporo
day trip to lake Toya n Noboribetsu
Day 10
Sapporo
day trip to otaru
Travel from Sapporo to Aomori to Tokyo by overnight train
Day 11
Arrive from Sapporo to Tokyo then train to Nagona
Overnight Nagona
Day 12
Nagona skiiing (is it a good time since it is only second week of December, not sure if enough snow)
Or any recommendation since skiing is not a must do agenda.
Would you suggest travel straight to Nagoya instead?
Day 13
Nagona to Nagoya
Travel to airport in the evening and home
Thank you in advance for your advice.
KK