Caporegime
I went in November last year for 2 weeks:-
Tokyo (just for transfer)-_
Fukuoka (for the Ramen)
Hiroshima (for Okinomiyaki and the WW2 stuff)
Miyajima (for the Shrine in the sea)
Kobe (for the beef)
Osaka (for their version of Okinomiyaki and Takoyaki, Osaka is the "Kitchen" of Japan)
Nara (Deer and temples)
Kyoto (The many World heritage sites)
Hakone (Mt Fuji and Onsen)
Tokyo - Day 8 onwards (For everything else)
If you want, you can read it here :- https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...pan-for-2-weeks.18784382/page-6#post-31604653
The trip is not for the fainthearted as it does involve a lot of military style get up and go mentality (I was often up at 6am) and not much lingering around in the 1st week. I stayed in a mix of 4/5 star hotels to 1 night in a business hotel (£50) in Osaka and a Ryokan (£450) in Hakone.
Arashiyama with no one in sight…if you heard of this place, you know it never happens unless you got to be REALLY early.
Actually, forget what I said in an earlier post, the entire 2 weeks, including that £450 for a single night, my accommodation came to £2,000 (actually something like £1996 and change. It was just under my £2k budget, I was quite proud of that!) So if you take away that £450, and drop it to a reasonable £150. I could have done 2 weeks of accommodation for £1700, and all the rooms I stayed at were double or twin, another 7 days would be…say £2500.
If you were to just do the Kensai region, I prefer just Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Tokyo. You can throw in Nagoya if you want but I personally would give Hiroshima a miss, besides the War Memorial I didn’t find the city that interesting unless you like to see Deer in Miyajima, which is a charming little place but Nara was just as fun I thought. Although I really was only in Hiroshima 1 evening and 1 morning as I went to Miyajima the first day, arrived back at 8pm to town and then left next day around 11am to Kobe.
Japan is not a cheap place like most of Asia but no different than London, you can be smart and try to save money here and there but a lot of things do cost money, get a JR Pass to save on the Shinkansen and actually drinking is surprisingly really cheap. There are places where you pay a fixed fee (£40) and it is free drink all night.
Budget £10 per meal. A typical Ramen meal is about £10.
Budget £10 per day on the underground in Tokyo.
Budget £5-10 per entry fee per temple/observation deck (except Skytree, that is like £30)
I budgeted £100 spending money per day, with £200 contingency and I came back with £4 in change, and I didn’t go out drinking or anything. Did the tourist stuff, temples, Robot Restaurants, street food, convenient store food, Ramen. That kind of thing, if you want to see things, and experience things in Japan, it will cost you money.
Tokyo (just for transfer)-_
Fukuoka (for the Ramen)
Hiroshima (for Okinomiyaki and the WW2 stuff)
Miyajima (for the Shrine in the sea)
Kobe (for the beef)
Osaka (for their version of Okinomiyaki and Takoyaki, Osaka is the "Kitchen" of Japan)
Nara (Deer and temples)
Kyoto (The many World heritage sites)
Hakone (Mt Fuji and Onsen)
Tokyo - Day 8 onwards (For everything else)
If you want, you can read it here :- https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...pan-for-2-weeks.18784382/page-6#post-31604653
The trip is not for the fainthearted as it does involve a lot of military style get up and go mentality (I was often up at 6am) and not much lingering around in the 1st week. I stayed in a mix of 4/5 star hotels to 1 night in a business hotel (£50) in Osaka and a Ryokan (£450) in Hakone.
Arashiyama with no one in sight…if you heard of this place, you know it never happens unless you got to be REALLY early.
Actually, forget what I said in an earlier post, the entire 2 weeks, including that £450 for a single night, my accommodation came to £2,000 (actually something like £1996 and change. It was just under my £2k budget, I was quite proud of that!) So if you take away that £450, and drop it to a reasonable £150. I could have done 2 weeks of accommodation for £1700, and all the rooms I stayed at were double or twin, another 7 days would be…say £2500.
If you were to just do the Kensai region, I prefer just Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Tokyo. You can throw in Nagoya if you want but I personally would give Hiroshima a miss, besides the War Memorial I didn’t find the city that interesting unless you like to see Deer in Miyajima, which is a charming little place but Nara was just as fun I thought. Although I really was only in Hiroshima 1 evening and 1 morning as I went to Miyajima the first day, arrived back at 8pm to town and then left next day around 11am to Kobe.
Japan is not a cheap place like most of Asia but no different than London, you can be smart and try to save money here and there but a lot of things do cost money, get a JR Pass to save on the Shinkansen and actually drinking is surprisingly really cheap. There are places where you pay a fixed fee (£40) and it is free drink all night.
Budget £10 per meal. A typical Ramen meal is about £10.
Budget £10 per day on the underground in Tokyo.
Budget £5-10 per entry fee per temple/observation deck (except Skytree, that is like £30)
I budgeted £100 spending money per day, with £200 contingency and I came back with £4 in change, and I didn’t go out drinking or anything. Did the tourist stuff, temples, Robot Restaurants, street food, convenient store food, Ramen. That kind of thing, if you want to see things, and experience things in Japan, it will cost you money.
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