Bob and Joyce
Adventurers in Japan

2008

 Travel Plan

To call this a plan is a bit of a stretch. We left home with round trip tickets and an exchange order for a Japan Rail Pass. We did not even know the address of the friends we were visiting - only a phone number. We had no further itinerary at all. This is the plan after the fact.

Date Travel Mode (in addition to walking) Destination
March 11 Van Dulles (IAD)
March 11 United Airlines -777 (14 hours flying) Washington to Tokyo
March 12 Limo Bus Tokyo Airport (NRT) to Tokyo (Akasaka)
March 13 Subway/Train/Shinkansen(Bullet train) Hakone
March 14 Subway Tokyo - National Museum -Asakusa
March 15 Subway/Train/Shinkansen Nikko
March 16 Subway Church (Asakasa) - Shinjuku - Meiji Shrine
March 17 make overnight arrangements for Kyoto and Miyajima
March 17 Subway/Shinkansen Kyoto
March 18 Bus Kyoto
March 19 Bus/Shinkansen/Train/Ferry Kyoto - Miyajima
March 20 Ferry/Train/Shinkansen/Tram/Subway Miyajima- Hiroshima - back to Tokyo
March 21 Subway/Train/Bus Kamakura
March 22 Subway/Shinkansen/Train/Bus Nagano-Matsumoto-Tokyo (Shinjuku)
March 23 Subway/Train Easter Church - Shrine - Gardens
March 24 Subway Tokyo - Ginza
March 24 Subway/Train Tokyo to Narita Airport
March 24 United Airlines 777 (12.5 hours flying) Tokyo to Chicago to Washington
March 24 Van IAD to Home
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