Using Jr Pass

Hello there,

I checked your itinerary to see whether a JR Pass would be useful and you can make some reasonable savings with a 7 day JR Pass by using it from May 3 - May 9.

1.) Almost every station you go to has the same name as the area. This applies for Osaka, Tokyo, Gala Yuzawa, Gotemba and Yokohama. Osaka, does have a special Shinkansen station which is called Shin-Osaka and the Shinkansen station for Hakone is called Odawara.

2.) I would definitely recommend visiting Nikko north of Tokyo. You can also use the Shinkansen to travel there part of the way.

3.) Is a but of a difficult one. It's about 120 minutes by bus from Takayama station. Which in itself takes a good amount of time to travel to from Tokyo or Osaka. I don't see a possibility to plan it in easily. You could combine it with a visit to Takayama but that would mean changing your itinerary a lot. Access details can be found here.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Thanks you for your assistance Daniel-san.