In Kyoto,

I will said that you should concentrate on how cheap the price you can get.
Raw rice-300-400 yen for 1kg pac, but they do have pre-cook rice, which you can
buy it and re-heat it in microwave, rice portion enough for 2 meal-200-300yen,

bread- a bread with super soft quality, 6-8 slice, ,150-200yen

egg- 12 egg about 200-300 yen

It depend on location and which store u going in, different store have different price,
generally, 7-11, Dawson and Familymart are the 3 big player they, in term of pricing,
each have it own attracting item. In every street u will see at least 1 big 3 grocery store
over they.

If you lazy to choose and cook, just buy their set meal for noddle or rice or Japanese set, the price
range from 300-700 yen.

For the pricing in Tokyo, might be slightly expensive, or waite for others forumer comments.

Boss,

the rice can serve you 2 meal,
the bread & egg can cook for 2-3 person for breakfast lei,
some pack packer place, u can get free coffee as well.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Aug 4 2014, 12:38 PM

Actually they will issue 2 pcs- Haruka ticket to you,
one for the outbound KIX( use on day 1) and another ticket for you to take
the Haruka back to KIX (use on last day), please get early to train station to
board the Haruka train which is painted in silver colour and the interval time
for non-peak hour is about 30 min one.

Sep-Oct for me still quite warm, a cooler weather will be on Nov-Dec.

Why, you have no ball or small bird? Any issue?

Hi,

I been travel Kyoto-Osaka in may this year.
If you have limited budget, u need do more homework as suggestted by ours senior here. Basically, beside airfare, accommodation and transport cost were 2 main cost to travel in Japan, for yrs trip, i will advise that u concentrate on Nagoya, Osaka and Kyoto, this 3 city was big enough for u to look see look see for 9 days.

U need to book a backpacker hostel in advance, at least 1-2 month ahead, some good bacpacker hostel can be have for 2000 yen/nite, dun worry, some good hostel was really clean and equiped with full facilities like cooking. U can squeece abit on yrs budget by buying raw food from convinient store like 7 eleven, lawson, it can found nearly on every street . Some of the back packer hostel do provided free cooking oil, kichap, salt and sugar for their guests, so make use of this facilities for breakfast and dinner, u will suprise that, it not that expensive by own cooking in Japan.

I not agreed that most temple need to pay entrance fee, alot of temple and tourism spot in Kyoto neednot pay that, u just need to do more homework by study the japan guide before yrs trip, for me i would go into those free one or those very unique temple like golden temple, some place like Arashiyama is totally free by walking, the fushimi inari is anothrt unique place with free entrance.

For internet, u actually neednot it, most of the packbacker hostel was equiped with superfast internet connection, what u need to do at night was to surf net and take down the infor into a piece of paper or write on their tour map.

I spent about rm850 for my 6d5n trip in Osaka + Kyoto, exluded airfare, u can save alot on transportation, if you plan wisely.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Aug 27 2014, 11:15 PM

No good, i went to Kyoto & Osaka on middle of May this year, the weather oledi quite warm at day time, in japan u need walk alot, it will be sweating like hell, better tour Japan on yrs year end school break like end of Nov or Dec,

In kyoto, backpacker hostel k's house kyoto,
Been stayed 4 nite on the dorm with 6 share room, clean, efficient and friendly hostel, suitable for people like to cook, have fully and modern kitchen for cooking, free coffee, cooking oil, salt, sugar etc. Have 600ft^2 hall for guest to meet up , with sofa and table while enjoy their food. But need book it early, fill up rate pretty fast.

In osaka, Oasis hotel in Tennogy station was a clean and nice hotel, kitchen was small for light cooking. Near to subway and train station, the price is reasonable.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Sep 7 2014, 12:52 PM

Actually local train was quite fast and alot faster than our KTM and reliable, but makesure
u have sufficient time to get to the station, buying ticket, walk down to platform,
which was opposite to the arrival hall. One thing you can do is hand carry a medium
backpack instead of carry luguage, you will wasting quite some time during baggage collection.

But our ktm door close time also a lot longer,
sometime they can stop at some station for few min without move.
on time ah.., Malaysia KTM almost 99% fail.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Sep 13 2014, 05:47 PM

It definately too rush, i dun thing u can do it comfortably, travel with older and friend need to be slow, especially yr aim is to catch the sakura.

Try to cover Osaka and Kyoto only will be better idea, forget about Nagoya and Tokyo. U have miss out the Arashiyama in Kyoto, it can take at least haft day tour they.

Dun try to cover all those area and squeeze like running walkaton, i dare to say you not able to enjoy it.and yrs mom and uncle will complaint like hell. Do u see people come to enjoy the sakura by walk in walk out with pact schedule? Your plan look like" riding horse to see sakura".

Please bear in mind that sightseeing and shopping in Japan need alot of walking and stamina. You need to understand that bring the older for tour is to enjoy and relax, slowly to appreciate their culture, the sakura season, their temple. If you plan like that, with pact schedule like working in big city, it would be better stay home and working everyday.

please do some homework by study the geografic of each city, transport system. The way you plan will waste u alot money yet unable to enjoy the trip. Please read the travel japan guide also, alot of traveller have raise out this same plan/question over the year, and answer can be found they easily.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Sep 16 2014, 06:35 AM

Can consider Kansai area pass ,study the route before purchase,
For me, a Icoca card for train and subway is a must, it save the hassle to go to find and walking to main station to buy the bus pass.
Or buy daily bus pass
Or daily subway pass.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Oct 1 2014, 10:50 AM

The most easy way is to take kintetsu train from Nagoya to Osaka, try google japan-guide.com in pg 1, and click in the map with nagoya wording.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Nov 2 2014, 09:09 PM

Have u booking yrs air ticket already?, if u arrival in Tokyo and go back fr Osaka, then no point getting the JR pass, since u only utilise one way. If you arrival and depart on same city, u may consider JR pass, since u will fullly utilise it.