Route and costs in Japan
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1. If you want to travel around Japan, you should definitely buy a JR Pass, it will quickly pay for itself on high-speed trains between cities.
2. To travel to a particular city, you do not need to find out transfer stations in advance, at the stations in Japan they will tell you how to get to the desired station and where to make transfers. But there are stations where there are no staff in the evenings, like Nagiso.
3. Trains in Japan run very often.
Itinerary times are accurate to the nearest 30 minutes, including trains.
Arriving in Tokyo
22:30 Arrival in Tokyo.
00:00 We have dinner and check into the hotel.
Day 1 Nikko Tosho-gu Temple Complex and Edo Wonderland Village
09:40 – 10:00 JR Pass activation.
10:10 – 11:10 By train to Nikko.
11:10 – 14:50 Hike to the Tosho-gu temple complex, visit the complex and walk back.
14:50 – 15:15 By free bus to Edo Wonderland village.
15:15 – 17:00 Visit Edo Wonderland village. We didn't have much time, another hour would have been just right.
17:15 - 17:40 Free bus to Nikko railway station.
18:10 – 19:10 By train to Tokyo.
19:10 - 21:30 We walk around the Akihabara area.
21:30 – 22:30 Visit Maid Cafe.
22:30 – 23:30 Walk to the hotel.
Day 2. Kyoto and Inari Temple
10:00 – 10:30 Breakfast.
12:00 - 14:35 By train to Kyoto.
14:45 – 15:00 By train to Inari.
15:00 – 17:00 Visit Inari Shrine.
17:00 – 17:15 By train to Kyoto.
Due to heavy rain and far away hotel, in fact - the end of the day.
17:15 – 18:30 Transfer to the hotel and check-in.
20:30 – 21:30 Dinner.
Day 3. Kyoto
Please note that at the entrances to the temples you can sometimes buy a ticket for several temples at once, check at the entrance if the desired temple is in the combined ticket. Entrance to each temple separately costs about 600 yen at 2019 prices.
10:00 – 10:30 Sagano Bamboo Forest, panoramas from Kameyama Park to the river.
11:00 - 12:50 Tenryu-ji temple garden without entrance, Jjakk-ji temple, Gio-ji moss temple.
12:50 – 13:15 Lunch at Sabou Sagano.
13:15 - 14:00 Walk to Daikakuji Temple (combined entry ticket from one of the previous temples).
14:00 - 14:45 Visit Daikakuji Temple, with the same ticket, visit the adjacent lake and walk through the wild bamboo grove on the temple grounds.
14:45 – 15:30 By bus to the rock garden.
15:30 – 16:00 Rock garden and its park.
16:00 - 17:00 Take a bus here to Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station.
17:00 - 17:40 We walk along the walking street down, we pass through Gion-Shijo Station to the Gion arch.
17:40 - 19:00 We walk through Kodai-ji Temple, along souvenir streets with cafes, with a visit to the Ghibli Studios Shop (shop is cute, just a walk) to Kiyomizu Temple.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Left luggage at Kyoto Station. Train to Nara.
12:00 - 16:30 We walk in the park, gardens and temples. Details will be written to you in the tourist information directly at the station. We liked Todai-ji the best.
17:30 – 18:30 Train to Kyoto, pick up your luggage.
18:30 - 21:00 Two trains to Nagiso Station. We leave some things at Nagiso Station.
21:00 - 22:00 Walk to Tsumago town and check into a ryokan hotel.
Day 5. Tsumago, Feudal Trail, Magome.
10:00 – 13:30 We walk along the path of the feudal lords from Tsumago to Magome.
13:30 - 14:00 We take the bus back to Nagiso Station and pick up our luggage.
The Tsumago-Magome route will be slightly uphill. On the contrary, you can go down, but then you either need to spend the night in Magome or take a bus from Tsumago to Magome and go in the opposite direction, but go 4 km more, since you need to walk to Nagiso station to leave by train. It all looks a little complicated, but the ryokans are worth it.
14:00 – 19:00 We take three trains to Tokyo with transfers. The transfers were long, but the cities were great to take a walk during the transfers.
19:00 - 20:00 We walk around the Ginza area, we reach the Tsukiji market.
20:00 – 21:00 We eat sushi in one of the restaurants of the market.
21:00 - 22:00 We walk around the Ginza area and go to check into a hotel. If the hotel check-in time allows, then it is better to go for a walk in the Shibuya area, where the famous crossing.
Day 6. Odaiba and Tokyo
10:00 – 11:00 We walk around Hamarikyu Gardens and sail to Odaiba by ferry. But the ferries here are infrequent.
11:30 – 18:30 Visit the Science Museum on the island. We have been to other entertainment places on the island, but it is not necessary to waste time on them.
19:00 - 21:00 Crossroads of Shibuya area, then drive and walk around Rapongi area.
Day 7. Shizuoka
Because of the rain, I had to cancel my plans and go to where the sun is. On this day, one could visit the city of Kamakura or take a walk around Tokyo.
11:00 - 12:00 By train to Shizuoka.
12:00 – 17:00 Downtown and by bus to the Pacific Ocean.
18:00 - 19:00 By train to Tokyo.
23:00 Departure from Japan.
