Went to Tokyo for 8 days 2 years ago and loved itGoing to Japan next year, this time for 2 weeks and planning on booking hotels for 2-3 locations throughout the trip, preferably at least one urban location and one more rural out there location
Osaka and Kyoto obviously.
>>2907513I really dug Beppu out in Kyushu. Bus ride from Fukuoka or Nagasaki. It is a hot spring town, but has a bit of an old resort town that time forgot kind of feel with hot spring steam everywhere. Early moring walks are a serious vibe. Some rugged bathhouses there and some fancier ones along with the Hell pools.
Hokkaido
>>2907515Kansai has a lot going for it in addition to Osaka and Kyoto. There's Nara, Himeji, Iga, Wakayama. Not to mention it's an hour and a half away from Hiroshima by Shinkansen.
>>2907513Sapporo
>>2907963>sapporoPlease tell us more about your time here. Any reccomended towns to stop off in on the Shinkansen?
>>2907968You've got 12 more years until the Shinkansen to Sapporo is finished.
>>2907972But since it goes all the way to Hakodate, if you transfer there, you can get to Sapporo.
>>2907972>12 more yearsLet me rephrase my questionAny recomended Shitkansun stops between Tokyo and Hakodate?
>>2907988Nta but take the fucking plane to cts and go to sapporo and base yourself out of thereSure theres technically shit to see and do if you wanna shinkansen from tokyo to hakodate and then get on different trains or whatever; but this is like flyover country type stuffIf u dead set, theres nikko (big old shrine complex) and sendai (big city) and zao (fox village)Plane's cheaper than trains and much faster and very convenient, and then you have more time to do things in hokkaido
>>2908367> base out of sapporoYeah depending how much time I have I think it would be cool to fly one way and then shitkansen one way and see wtfs up with Aamori, Morioka or jaunt to Akita train rides also give me a boner so its worth the extra $ for daddy ( thats me )but anyway it sounds like maybe you can reccomend some Hokkaido spots or Sapporo things to do ?
>>2907513Containment thread still up, weeb>>2904992
I'm literally in Hokkaido right now, it's nice
>>2907513Hit okinawa for a week. They are a little racist if you look american but its an amazing place. Great beaches, food is amazing, not too expensive. Im unsure if they still have a banana show. They have the worlds largest tug of war every year in Naha or Nago, cant remember. But shits so big it doesnt really move. Great festivals for cherry blossom season.
>>2907513Spend at least two days in Nikko. The place itself is a asian redwoods-style forest with multiple temples, some UNESCO world heritages. The nips themselves have the quote: "you can't say marvelous untill you've been to Nikko"
>>2910533 (samefag)This is one of the main temples seen from Tokugawa Ieyasu's gravesite, it's incredibly beautiful
>>2907516If Kusatsu is a onsen town, then Beppu is a onsen city.
>>2910533Where did you stay?
>>2907513I'm spending some time in Hakone with my wife in December. Shizuoka is very nice in general.
>>2910533nice panorama, very good
>>2907516Have you been to Yufuin, which is about an hour by train from Beppu?It’s a hot spring resort for those who want to relax in peace—the complete opposite of Beppu, which is geared toward active travelers.
>>2907513tokyo is the best place in japan because it's the only city big enough to absorb the massive amounts of tourists. They have 45 million japs there, so none of the infrastructure or amenities is significantly bogged down by even 1 million tourists.I started in Fukuoka this trip but quickly went to Tokyo because Fukuoka was way too overtouristed. Getting a room for rent was near impossible, they wanted Harajuku prices for places a 30 minute walk up a mountain on the last stop of the last train station on a secondary train line. Most parts of Tokyo are unironically cheaper. Today I am staying 2 blocks away from Akihabara for 2000 yen, in Fukuoka the cheapest rooms were starting at double that. Fukuoka isn't even a big city, it's about two blocks big, but right now it is completely swamped. It has westerners there, from australia and europe, but the biggest groups are the koreans and taiwanese. Every tourist there acts like cattle and the forward facing service workers are sick of tourists. The japanese girls I approached there were friendly, that's one group who doesn't seem sick of the tourists apparently, but the logistics weren't really viable. If you go to a tourist area in Fukuoka and you approach people, you will see that out of 10 people, around 9 of them aren't japanese, and if they are japanese, they were often travelers from a different part of japan. I can't speak for the other places, but I imagine Hokkaido is the same, and I heard the same thing about Osaka. If you want the pure Japanese experience, you have to go to the big city in Tokyo to escape diversity, ironically.
>>2907513Yakushima, a World Natural Heritage Site
>>2914211>Are those mossy rocks? In Japan? OMG I'M GOING INSANE
The jpg thread has become dysfunctional because someone with autism is trolling it all by themselves. Maybe I should talk about travel over here instead?
>>2910533>>2910534Is it viable to go sightseeing there if I'm not hiring a car? I haven't driven outside of home before and I'm not sure if I would be confident doing so. In the past I've traveled with my mother who does the driving - and has much experience driving in countries around the world - while I help with navigation etc. I have about 2 weeks by myself around late November and was looking for somewhere interesting outside Tokyo or Osaka. The other place I was eyeing was Kushimoto but not for any particular reason. I'm a /p/ fag and enjoy history and shrines.
>>2914129So you have been to 2 cities as a poor person and are now a japan tourism expert. Fascinating
>>2914591Takayama and kanazawa are very nice and easily walkable, could split do 3 or 4 days in each
>>2914595>seething paypig makes angry squealing noises
>>2914608>Ur mad im poorNot much of a flex pal
>>2914614enjoy your two weeks in japan pto tard
>>2914608>>2914614>>2914626Hearty chuckle
>>2914626Ive got 90 days bunkboy
>>2907513Shikoku Pilgrimage
why is pto bad
>>2914591I think you should take the train to a city near your destination, and then rent a car for the parts where trains and buses aren't convenient.
Yeah right like I'm telling the hoards where to go to annoy more peopleStay in Kanto
2,600 yen per night: Private rooms with all-you-can-eat meals and unlimited access to the large public bathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwwlUiHJ1uM
>>2917461where is it ? whats the place called ?
>>2917488Search for “Gran Custama Ueno”
>>2915311Once you have visited all the pilgrimage sites in Shikoku, you should go to Okuno-in on Mount Koya to report to Kobo Daishi and express your gratitude, saying, “Thank you for watching over me and keeping me safe throughout my journey.” This is the proper way to complete the pilgrimage.
>>2907513>one urban locationOsaka is the "True Heart of Japan"; would highly recommend going; 0 tourists and Western culture hasn't really reached it. If you have been to Tokyo, Osaka is the antithesis you didn't know you craved. Expect the best eateries you've ever been to, and the warmest people you've ever met. You WILL stand out as a white person, but just roll with it and enjoy it, be the life of the party wherever you go and I promise you you will have a fucking blast.>one more rural out there locationThere is a remote town called Nara that time simply forgot. It feels like straight out of a Gibli movie, not just how it looks, but how it *feels*. I'm not a religious man, but I swear, there is something about this place that makes you feel like the boundary to the spirit realm has never been thinner. Only downside: you definitely need to speak Japanese here, not fluently but probably N3/N4 at least.
>>2918627>Osaka is the "True Heart of Japan"; would highly recommend going; 0 touristskek
An extreme obsession with Japan— "Japanophilia" —is typically driven by underlying psychological needs such as identity formation, escapism, social alienation, and compensatory coping mechanisms
>>2907513Why don't you go to the Sea of Japan coast?
