I am travelling to Kobe on July 4th, staying there for a week or so.
Any recommendation on places to go nearby?
Thanks.

Is 45000 Yen good enough for Osaka + Kyoto 7D6N trip?

**excluding air tickets and accomodation

is it possible to send the sim to hotel reception 1st?

your itinerary spanned across much larger area

did you rent a car back then?

Bus?  At Kyoto didn't used any buses?

Not bad.....In this forum which I know not more than 5 people know Osaka tram.
And You ride on Osaka tram 

LOL, Actually this tram line linked up whole Osaka famous temple + garden. 
More than 10 Temple & 5 Garden.
I call it ''Sembayang'' Line

Good enough...

guys
what bank atm available there that we can open bank in malaysia?
to withdraw money not just visa debit while buying things
like how it is cimb and maybank in indonesia

nice pic fruitie

nice pics fruitie !

wah blue sky
mine... the sky first day fog, second day fog, third day white 
still better than nothing 

and it is very very hard to take pix... white snow + white sky + white cloud....
everything is overexposure
hahaha my skill is not there yet 

can any1 advise what is the cost for so-net prepaid sim card or any cheaper prepaid sim available in japan? Main purpose is for data usage.

thanks for the info RegentCid, as always

just wanna confirm that what Ive gathered from my research so far is right

I'll be traveling to Osaka ( 2 days there ) and then to Tokyo. I just need a 1 way shinkansen ticket to Tokyo and then travelling across the different areas in Tokyo, I'll just need to get a Suica card which I will reload it along the way. Looking to go to Mount Fuji on a day trip so I'll get a bus from Shinjuku to Kawaguchiko and then a shinkansen back to Tokyo.

Am I right so far in the sense that I do not need to get a JR pass or any other passes which I might have missed, which would save me on transportation costs..

ah ok, thanks

yup I'll be buying the Shinkansen ticket separately, Osaka to Tokyo on a Nozomi train

Pasmo and Suica are about the same right, especially if I'm just using it to go around the popular areas..Akihabara, Odaiba etc, been reading up on it but so far as I can tell, theyre literally about the same

How much in RM it cost?

So this better & cheaper than getting Pocket WiFi Rental?

In Osaka, is it better to get Kansai thru pass or osaka amazing pass?

As I know Kansai thru pass cannot take jr train.

for the sake of trying
i tried horse meat... it taste like jerky
but wont eat it anymore

and i think it is kinda disappointment
why ppl boycott dog meat, but not horse
sad day for the horse ... whale & dolphin oso

Donket meat classified as Dragon Meat.....the most highest class meat.  Because this red meat no that disgusting smell.  Pork got that strong pork meat smell when you not processing it well.....Beef also same....goat meat was strongest smell....But only one meat in the world that does't have any smell.....Donkey

We don't say about white meat such as chicken or fish......on red meat...donkey was highest class

For me business trip and leisure travelling is two different things. Sad to say I travel to Europe almost once a month.....but its Fly from Tokyo on Monday and leave Europe on Friday where there is  no time to really travel around. Just only once a while I give myself the pleasure to extend a weekend to explore.

Im also travelling to Japan end of this month 24/3 - 4/4. Doing a rather weird route cause most of the hotels are fully booked. Till now I still have yet to book a place to stay in Tokyo and Hakone.

Will be arriving at Osaka and will stay there for bout 4 days and travel to Kyoto and Nara. Then depart to Tokyo from Osaka most likely via Shinkansen.

From Tokyo, will stay for a few days then head to Hakone for a night/day trip (still looking for an affordable place), then back to Tokyo again. Then from Tokyo will be travelling to Takayama for a night and back to Tokyo again for the flight back to KUL. Was busy with work and didn't really look for hotels and now really headache.lol