It's in the Kinugawa Onsen area, nearer to the northern side.
If taking public transport, there is a train station with the same name (龍王峡) just outside the hiking trail.

The trail itself is not hard but there are some slippery and rocky parts especially if it's raining or rained the night before.
The link below should help

http://nikko-travel.jp/english/course/course21.html

Preference is also tied to budget, 14 days JR pass is almost as expensive as the air ticket
Plus there’s no direct Shinkansen from Tokyo to Sapporo, overall it will take almost 8hours

No.... All need to transit at tokyo.

Sorry let me explain
I just want to know what’s the best plan if I were to spend 15 days (9 days Hokkaido and 6 days Tokyo including 2 days Disneyland)?
I’m doing multicity it’s just because My son wants to experience the Shinkansen but that comes at the expense of 1 day spent on just train rides, I’m sure he’ll like it but 8 hours seems like an overkill?
But if I don’t do it, I won’t be able to fit in a Shinkansen ride anywhere in my itinerary
The shortest Shinkansen ride I think is Hakodate to Aomori, with that I might as well take all the way to Tokyo
Any suggestions?

anyone can search flight on AA website now?

Yep no problems for me

Do day trip from Tokyo to Yokohama and take that Shinkansen lo.

I have drafted my free & easy trip to tokyo as follow.

Can anyone advise me on my queries.

1) Plan to stay at 1 hotel for day 7 to day 11. Which district/city is most concenient to stay. I put Shijuku as a draft

2) Please recommend any other district/city to visit for day 10,11&12. Any name will do as i have no specific preferences. Just go there relax.


Day 1 - Arrive Haneda, pick up car to Hakone
Day 2 - Hakone
Day 3 - Hakone
Day 4 - Heading to kawaguchigo
Day 5 - Kawaguchigo
Day 6 - Kawaguchigo
Day 7 - Heading to Shinjuku, return car. Check in any Shinjuku hotel
Day 8 - Shinjuku
Day 9 - Shibuya
Day 10 - ?
Day 11 - ?
Day 12 - ? ,check in any Disneyland hotel
Day 13 - Disneyland
Day 14 - DisneySea, check in any Odaiba hotel
Day 15 - Odaiba
Day 16 - Check out, Depart from Haneda

This post has been edited by musteng: Dec 9 2018, 03:19 AM

This year is Disney 35yrs anniversary and Mickey 90yrs old birthday.

Last chance this month for this yrs.

some forums said no feel due to short distance... i might stick to initial plan then, air to New Chitose and train back to Tokyo

thanks for the suggestion though, made me look at the Tokyo - Osaka route as well but that will be in another trip i guess

Assuming that you have fix your trip to both Hokkaido and Tokyo, I guess your plan is pretty much good. Cause you still need to get to Tokyo and the other way is to fly from Sapporo. As others have suggessted, take a short trip around Tokyo area. You can even take a trip to Karuizawa using the Tokyo WIde pass which is about 2 hours journey and spend a day there.

thanks for the suggestion

tweaking it a bit after reading more of other people's blogs, planning end April-early May where there's no snow nor pink moss nor lavender:
day 1 arrive Hokkaido
day 2 Sapporo
day 3 Asahikawa day trip
day 4 Sapporo to Otaru
day 5 Otaru
day 6 Otaru
day 7 Otaru to Noboribetsu (~3 hours)
day 8 Noboribetsu
day 9 Lake Toya day trip
day 10 Noboribetsu to Hakodate ~(2.5 hours)
day 11 Hakodate to Tokyo (~6 hours)
day 12 Tokyo
day 13 Tokyo - Disneyland
day 14 Tokyo - Disneysea
day 15 Tokyo
day 16 depart Tokyo

Trying to do 3 nights in Sapporo, Otaru and Noboribetsu each... added another day to accommodate all the train rides...
The thing i am unsure is whether:
1. 1.5-2 days in Sapporo is enough - there's nothing much there aside from the beer factory
2. 3 nights in Noboribetsu too much?
3. 1-1.5 days in Hakodate enough - the reason this is here is because of the train to Tokyo

This post has been edited by kenji1903: Dec 10 2018, 09:26 AM

Too much at Otaru
Btw, you no need to overnight at Otaru, Just depart from Sapporo morning and back to Sapporo at Night. 1 full day at Otaru enough cover it all.
Even Furano at April no lavender, but those Hokkaido sweet corn & fruit still worth to visit at Tomita Farm

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Dec 10 2018, 09:30 AM

which town has more food? initially put Otaru more because there seems to be more good food there when i googled

Farm Tomito is a bit out of the way, train takes almost 4 hours, is it worth it to rent a car and drive 1.5 hours just to go there?

This post has been edited by kenji1903: Dec 10 2018, 11:19 AM

Otaru more like craft town and alot more on dessert and bakery
Asahikawa more like hunter, more towards meat side. (Santouka Ramen born place)
Hakkodate more on western because early age open port to west.
Sapporo got overall of all food. It still got biggest fish market at Hokkaido.

If you want eat best Corn ever taste in your life, it worth to visit Tomita. It also got 2nd best melon too.

Best Melon in World still at Xinjiang, China

Nice, you've got enough time to cover Fuji 5 Lakes.

As for the empty days - depends on what you want to do. Consider Asakusa, Ueno, Tokyo Tower, Ginza, Akihabara etc which is not in your list. Suggest you do up more research and see what interests you.

hmmm... interesting... do you have any car rental recommendation?
i saw that a Toyota Yaris equivalent comes out cheaper than taking JR 7 day Hokkaido pass!
that's going to save me quite a lot of train rides!

seems like the farm is pretty much closed except for lavender ice cream from Oct to May, no point going

This post has been edited by kenji1903: Dec 12 2018, 08:55 AM

Nippon rent a car and Toyota rent a car
This 2 are my usual one. Very reliable.

Since going as family size, car renting are more bettter option plus april, no icing road.

Any thumb of rule for car rent ?

International license require right ?

Yes,
Process of rent car at Japan are super easy because staff you guide you step by step and explain insurance detail.

Just make sure you check the car properlly, see any dent or not and take picture.Take picture of car fuel also, when return also put same amount.

Make sure tyre are perfect or acceptable range too

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Dec 10 2018, 03:26 PM