OK, read about this earlier. I will check with my hotel then.

E Ticket not very sure

1000yen reservation is to reserve seat using online with ur JR pass. Reserve seat at selected station JR office is free.

Suica can use in fukuoka. But i didnt really use a lot suica bcox they city day pass seem can save more.

Thanks for the link.

How about cancelling the reservation and book a new one if we arrived the station very much earlier?

Is this a norm or also something ppl frown upon?

Any idea how to explore Fruit Bus Stops at Nagasaki? I Googled and not much details but it's famous in China. Apparently they are along a highway and may not be easy to travel around.

RegentCid, is this written somewhere in your 555 book?

With your super pack schedule, no way you can visit fruit bus stop.
It was inside Konagai Town which is 1 hour away from Nagasaki City.

No la. Not packed for Nagasaki, only three places to visit. The rest on day 1 near hotel, within walking distance.
I saw it can be reached with JR train?

Nagasaki only 3 places to visit....oh man....your homework are not done well.

Because we are not going to visit the atomic bomb place and Peace Park. Not a fan to see this kind of things.
That's day 2 ma. Day 1 will visit 4 places and the million dollar view.

I didn't visit Konagai before. So I ask my travel kaki from Japan and he did go.
He conclusion was:
If you go by public transport are waste of time.
You had to take normal train to Konagai Station and walk 15 minute to reach 1st strawberry bus stop Location https://goo.gl/maps/aFa3z6Q5LFZBkNby9
Next bus stop are far away, beyond reach by walking. Due to small town, bus are not frequent. Waiting at Strawberry bus stop taking bus to next fruit bus stop might take 30 - 60 minute of waiting time.

He suggestion was, If you got 3 -4 hrs to waste for this nonsense, you are good to go

Yeah, same information posted here: https://www.japankuru.com/en/tour/e2115.html

I will discuss with my friend again.. Thanks by the way. She wants to go, I wasn't aware of this place until she told me.

I didn't know there was such an attraction! But yeah after googling there's about 14 types of fruit stops, so if you want to maximise ur fruity coverage don't use the buses. Better to rent car and hop from stop to stop otherwise ur waiting time will probably be longer than ur excitement.

Also Nagasaki has much more than just the A Bomb stuff but I guess not everything suits everyone's cup of matcha tea.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Sep 11 2019, 12:13 AM

I will be covering 7 places in Nagasaki, I guess that's good enough but this fruit thingy is really challenging.
Unless I drive which I don't have much choice anyway.

Let me break the news to her tomorrow because if possible we try not to drive for this trip and want to use their public transport. Next year if we are going to NZ, I'm going to drive like really a lot, all the time.

This post has been edited by fruitie: Sep 11 2019, 12:20 AM

From this https://zekkeijapan.com/spot/index/709/ and this https://grapee.jp/en/54483 seems like its limited to only 1 road which is Highway 207 so hunting is much easier; just go along this route.

But I think another better way is get to Konagai and find a private tour or a local taxi driver that could take you both to all these stops and wait at the side. I read that some cities, taxis can be rented for the whole day but not sure if this is applicable to your case.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Sep 11 2019, 12:50 AM

Renting taxi in Japan are not same as Malaysia.
It will cost you Rm1000 above.

10 minute distance in Japan taxi already cost 4000 to 5000 yen.

Thanks! JR West Office does indeed close at 11pm!

One less thing to worry about

Yeah, I'm well aware of that when I suggested that. Certainly not cheap but it would better to work out a flat rate half day fare or something. That or self-drive otherwise its gonna be a big waste of time just waiting for the buses at each stop.

I think that's fine as long as you don't keep doing it.
Normally if you reach early and cancel your original booking, it's ok because that means that seat can now be used for other passengers.

better to go now before their GST hike and their olympic begins
from october onwards until next year olympic is over, it's going to be very expensive to travel to japan

The Yen is going up quite steeply nowadays and this is not helping too.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Sep 11 2019, 11:42 AM

Some have planned long ago so can't avoid it. Like me, I'm supposed to arrive there smack right on 1st day of tax hike so you can see how I feel, but what to do. Japan is an expensive country to go to anyway regardless of tax hike or currency inflation or Olympics, so just need to make sure got budget enough for visit, travel in comfort, not being too calculative, and extras for contingencies.