>>2919986
2 years isn't enough time. you should plan your trip at least 10 years ahead of time

90 days
No planning
everywhere with a McDonalds
$100 per day

>>2919986
I planned my trip with a friend in a pretty retarded way. We looked at accomodations on booking.com and simply chose two that we liked. We completely ignored locations. Only a few weeks before the trip we finally checked where our accomodations are located in japan. The first one was in katashina, a small village in the middle of the mountains in gunma. The second one was in myouko-kougen in nagano between nagano city and niigata. It's famous for skiing, but we went there in fall so no snow yet. We planned to stay a week at each location, but after 3 days of hiking in katashina we booked a hotel in tokyo for 2 days and went there instead.

I'm not sure I would do it like that again, because we had to drive around quite a bit >2000km in 2 weeks. There simply was not much public transportation in those areas. That said there definitely were some unique experiences:
Katashina:
- everyone was really friendly and interested because they haven't seen tourists in ages
- nice onsens and hiking area
- eating in restaurants always ended up in sitting with locals, getting strange food for free (bear meat, horse sashimi, raw and bloody squid), because they wanted to see our reaction
- old grandma restaurant owner overslept and her kitchen was not ready when we arrived, so she offered us to eat traditional breakfast with her

Myouko-kougen:
- best sushi I ever had
- meeting two black bears in the middle of the village while taking a walk
- we mainly did daytrips near nagano city (temples, castles, wasabi fields) and niigata (beach, aquarium)
- on some days I was extremely relaxed here, even fell asleep while sitting several times

Costs were around 2k€ for each of us for the whole trip (flights, hotels, car, sim card, food)