Narita to Hokkaido to Osaka

Hi there,

I am afraid that it will be nearly impossible to get seats for the Sleeper train from Aomori to Sapporo, this is the Hamanasu train, which will be retired later in 2016. A lot of people want to experience it before it goes away and tickets have been selling out very quickly. So I am afraid the only option would be to travel by day. While I do think that your itinerary works even without a sleeper train, please consider first how you would like to proceed. For instance you could make a stop over at Aomori, stay there for a night and travel on the following morning.

Good stop overs to make between Sapporo and Osaka include, Hakodate, Sendai, Hirosaki, Tokyo, Hakone, Nagoya and Kyoto.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
Will look into my plans again, thanks for your advice=)