Yes i can concur Google Maps work perfectly well.

alright ! all set to go.. POI @ google maps to be saved before departure

getting excited.. counting down to exactly 2 months from now

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This post has been edited by BlackPen: Feb 20 2014, 01:42 PM

Dear all~ Appreciate if you can help to review and comment on my itinerary. Going in 1 week + time!! ^-^

*Shopping not a priority*

4 Mar
staying: near tsukiji fish market, chuo shintomi
(tue)Day 1: arrive at night, mini van to apartment

(wed)Day 2: Disney sea

(thurs) Day 3:
- morning: walk to tsukiji outer market to visit
- tokyo imperial palace (garden and park)
- shibuya
- meiji shrine - harajuku
- shinjuku (buy hakone free pass here)

(fri) Day 4:
- Asakusa (sensoji temple,ameyoko street)
- ueno park
- sky tree
- akihabara

staying: Hakone
(sat) Day 5:
- JR + private line to Mt Fuji
- Hakone loop
- Tenzan

Staying: Osaka yodogawa
(sun) Day 6:
- JR + private line mt fuji to osaka
- check in + half day osaka (osaka aquarium, spa world)

(mon) Day 7:
- JR to Kyoto
- Bus to Kiyomizudera
- higashiyama
- kodaiji
- kenninji
- gion
- back to osaka

(tue) Day 8:
- JR to Kyoto
- Bus to Otagi
- Otagi Nenbutsuji
- Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street
- Gioji
- Jojakkoji
- Bamboo Groves
- Tenryuji
- Togetsukyo Bridge
- back to osaka

(wed) Day 9:
- Shinsaibashi
- back to tokyo



buying jr pass, using on day 3 onwards. using suica card in tokyo for metro lines. individual tickets for kyoto and osaka.

Day 4 schedule was wrong.
Go find out

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Feb 20 2014, 06:07 PM

Since you are not using romance car, you can buy Hakone Pass at Odawara Station. Cheaper.

I emailed the odakyu visitor center. They said I am able to buy the 3900 yen ticket at shinjuku too ^-^ (hopefully no miscommunication here.)

This post has been edited by xmascat: Feb 20 2014, 06:31 PM

Oh that would be good if it's true, do update us when you return.

If your intention to go to Shinjuku is only to buy the ticket, then you could skip it and but at Odawara. Just an alternative.

Fixed

thanks for reviewing! Is there any "must see" places that I missed out? ^-^

thanks for the advice! will update.

thank you very much!!!

You can buy 3900 pass at Shinjuku.
Even you buy 5000 yen pass . You still need top up 800yen for Romance Car each way.

But without that 5000 yen pass. Romance Car each way will cost you 3000 yen per way.

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Feb 20 2014, 07:36 PM

have anyone been to yurakucho (Yurakucho Gado-shita Dining)? thinking of going there after disney sea or should i go to ginza area near ginza station?

This post has been edited by xmascat: Feb 20 2014, 09:06 PM

Hi,
anyone tried the sleeper train from Hokkaido to Tokyo? or from Hokkaido to Osaka?
I'm undecided if it's worth it to top up the extra to take the sleeper train

Currently, starting to build my plan and itinerary for the trip

This post has been edited by electron: Feb 21 2014, 04:51 PM

Missing out a lot in Tokyo I would say... But since you need to go Hakone and Osaka, ahhh

I been try all.
Same as night bus.
Travel at night to save hotel money.

If you a train fans...you will like it.
If not then take Willer Express Bus. More comfortable.

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Feb 21 2014, 05:38 PM

what else? roponggi hill? still comtemplating whether to replace disney sea or not

I was in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. I decided to go to Starbucks coz it was summer. Used Google Maps. Guess what?! it directed me to STRATOUSBOURG! had a good laugh anyway. haha

Ginza is a very very very eexpensive to eat at. lol

I am not pro, but then in Tokyo you have so many places other than just Shibuya, Asakusa etc.

(Harajuku, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Odaiba)

Bro RegentCid, do you mind if I ask you a little help in reserving tickets for Fujiko Museum?

I tried to reserve online, registered here and there, and in the end they need a Lawson card which they only deliver to Japan address.