For those of you visiting Legoland, you may purchase tickets from Japanican to enjoy some savings rather than buy directly from Legoland website. Buying a parent and child combo ticket from Legoland directly costs ¥3000 but if you buy from Japanican you pay ¥2800 instead.

Japan Legoland Opening at 2017. Still too early to post here. It will Open at Nagoya

i got different suggestion, try driving from Nagoya at the morning
you will arrive in gero about 2 hours, try gero 噴泉池, free and beside river
after that you can proceed to takayama
You may choose to stay in takayama or Hirayu onsen or Okuhida onsen staying one night
the next day you can proceed to shirakawa-go, suggest to stay one night there
at night you can drive up to the mountain, for the peaceful village night view and also the milky way, it is so damn beautiful especially at winter time.
you may proceed to kanazawa or go back to nagoya
if you like natural, suggest you plan more day around takayama area.
around end of April, Kamikochi will be open up for forest hiking and lodging, and will be close at mid of November

PS: i would recommend must stay at 槍見館, i had one of the best kaiseki in Japan
especially the beef, 10x better than overate kobe beef

Good suggestion! For the previous trip, I didn't plan for Gero, Okuhida and Hirayu onsen due to time constraint as I have allocated more days at Kyoto + Osaka. Next round will focus more on the GIFU and some rural areas of Japan like Kiso Valley. But then, your suggestion is self driving but we have no guts to drive in winter.

Good suggestion! For the previous trip, I didn't plan for Gero, Okuhida and Hirayu onsen due to time constraint as I have allocated more days at Kyoto + Osaka. Next round will focus more on the GIFU and some rural areas of Japan like Kiso Valley. But then, your suggestion is self driving but we have no guts to drive in winter.

Gero, accessible by train
Okuhida and Hirayu onsen accessible by bus
driving in winter actually quite fun

Driving on winter was fun but once accident all holiday gone. Specially deadly black ice.
I accident few times. Hospitalize one times

Give me some time.
Need dig out from my notebook. All hand writing.
So have to go page by page,  book by book.

Driving on winter was fun but once accident all holiday gone. Specially deadly black ice.
I accident few times. Hospitalize one times

i planned to go osaka, kyoto this this cny
any special recommendation?

coz earlier this cny in tokyo very boring
normaly touring oni, except going to some onsen in hakone/kawaguchiko

i got different suggestion, try driving from Nagoya at the morning
you will arrive in gero about 2 hours, try gero 噴泉池, free and beside river
after that you can proceed to takayama
You may choose to stay in takayama or Hirayu onsen or Okuhida onsen staying one night
the next day you can proceed to shirakawa-go, suggest to stay one night there
at night you can drive up to the mountain, for the peaceful village night view and also the milky way, it is so damn beautiful especially at winter time.
you may proceed to kanazawa or go back to nagoya
if you like natural, suggest you plan more day around takayama area.
around end of April, Kamikochi will be open up for forest hiking and lodging, and will be close at mid of November

PS: i would recommend must stay at 槍見館, i had one of the best kaiseki in Japan
especially the beef, 10x better than overate kobe beef

Just come back from Takayama..spend 1 night...no enough time spend here. On morning went to Okuhida ,very nice view for Mountain Hotaka , Kasagadake and Nuketo... its take 1 hour 15 minute drive from Takayama City to Okuhida. Then come back to Takayama City around 2.30pm...later 4.00pm going back home. Really not enough time for traveling on this area..

Going to Takayama without hotel booking,most of room are fully booked at Takayama and Gero...all by booking.com and Agoda. Lucky got room at Takayama..

Next trips maybe Nagano ...

I'm planning to travel in Japan for about 9 days.
But I'm still hesitating to travel on which month, whether september, october or november is the best time to travel in Japan?

I will be boarding at Osaka staying there for 2 days then I'll be taking bus to Tokyo then Kyoto..

It would be helpful for those who actually have a perfect itenary for 9days travel in Japan. I'll be taking my flight back in Osaka.

Go Asuka celebrate Onda Matsuri

mid to end of november for the autumn season 

autumn @hokkaido  start at mid sept
but u can only njoy it during mid of oct
and ya i think by mid of nov for autumn viewing in tokyo/kyoto is the best time

sept+oct might encounter typhoon (i think HK, Taiwan oso the same)

looks fun 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRAgaQhAyZo

I will be boarding at Osaka staying there for 2 days then I'll be taking bus to Tokyo then Kyoto..
It would be helpful for those who actually have a perfect itenary for 9days travel in Japan. I'll be taking my flight back in Osaka.

autumn @hokkaido  start at mid sept
but u can only njoy it during mid of oct
and ya i think by mid of nov for autumn viewing in tokyo/kyoto is the best time

sept+oct might encounter typhoon (i think HK, Taiwan oso the same)