Japan Travel Thread

Foster

Could be a good call that actually spending a few nights on Miyajima, Having a look online and Kyoto - Hiroshima - Osaka is £150 by Train, But the sanyo-san'in area pass is £127 with unlimited travel in those areas. The JR pass is £200 for 7 days and 311 for 14 days.

Foster

Have any of you guys been to the Yamazaki Distillery?

Foster

Well first hurdle booked 2 nights at a guesthouse on Miyajima via Expedia, it was pay when you get there but then I checked my phone the day after an email from expedia saying the booking was cancelled and a text from natwest blocking a payment for £0.58 from Japan (a card was needed to book but nothing stated about trying to authorise a payment from it!

paulyoung666

Nightmare !! , I'm glad I got in early for Tokyo , looks as though rooms are selling out very fast !!

Foster

They will be now, hows your plans going for it?

paulyoung666

Not very quickly at the moment , although we have some ideas , gonna leave it till the New Year and attack it !!!

Foster

Yeah think i'll be doing the same, just wanting hotels to be booked.

paulyoung666

I need to get some option hotels booked outside of Tokyo , thinking Hiroshima and Kyoto to start with to make the best use of the Japan rail pass which is going to be around £600 for a fortnight for the 2 of us , really going to have to put some thought into this .....

Foster

We booked gran ms hotel for Kyoto and tokyu rei for Hiroshima.

paulyoung666

Will look into that , when are you going ?