Bruin Steve Posted August 5, 2023 #1 Share Posted August 5, 2023 (edited) We arrive in Tokyo on a Saturday and stay five nights in Shinjuku prior to our back-to-back cruises embarking on Thursday. Figuring Saturday is getting to the hotel, checking in, relaxation and acclimating ourselves to the time change, that leaves Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday...leaving Thursday for checking out and checking onto the ship. Never been to Tokyo before. I have heard itr's easy to get around...but, for orientation and simplification reasons, we always like to do an organized tour or two. I've found a full day Tokyo tour for, likely, Sunday...and figure we can do something more unusual Monday, then leave Tuesday and Wednesday for "on our own". Found a full day tour for Monday that leaves the city and heads to Nikko-- --Nikko Tosho-gu World Heritage Shrine --Irohazaka Route --Kegon Falls --Lake Chuzenji --A volcanic lake at the foot of Mt. Futara. Is this a reasonable use of one day of our four available? Sites worth going to? It's a bus tour, so a fairly large group...$117 pp including lunch. Seems to be a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city on days 1, 3 and 4. Or would it be better to go to Kamakura & Enoshima-- Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Daibutsukiritoshi/Great Buddha statue, Hase-dera Temple/eleven-headed statue of Kannon the Goddess of Mercy, Enoshima Island...Also a one day bus tour, $65 pp, lunch not included. Any thoughts? Thanks... Edited August 5, 2023 by Bruin Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetiredandTravel Posted August 6, 2023 #2 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Tokyo is very manageable. Depending on how comfortable you feel you can easily do it on your own. Japanese people are wonderful. Not sure of your cruise or past experience but IMO Kyoto should be a prime focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruin Steve Posted August 6, 2023 Author #3 Share Posted August 6, 2023 1 hour ago, RetiredandTravel said: Tokyo is very manageable. Depending on how comfortable you feel you can easily do it on your own. Japanese people are wonderful. Not sure of your cruise or past experience but IMO Kyoto should be a prime focus. I understand Tokyo is "manageable" on our own...We just like having a tour of some sort for orientation purposes in an unfamiliar city. It also becames a method of efficiently organizing the day. The Tokyo tour is only one day of the five we will be there. Doing a tour to Nikko would just be a way of having a guide to take us out of the city. As to Kyoto being a focus, we will actually be visiting Kyoto for a considerable amount of time. We are on two 12-night cruises and both itineraries have two-day stops in Osaka in order to visit Kyoto...as well as a stop in nearby Kobe). Day 1, Thu, Mar 28, 2024 TOKYO (YOKOHAMA), JAPAN Departs: 7:00PM Day 2, Fri, Mar 29, 2024 MT FUJI (SHIMIZU), JAPAN 7:00AM to 3:00PM Day 3, Sat, Mar 30, 2024 KYOTO (OSAKA), JAPAN Arrival: 12:00PM Day 4, Sun, Mar 31, 2024 KYOTO (OSAKA), JAPAN Departs: 6:00PM Day 5, Mon, Apr 1, 2024 KOCHI, JAPAN 7:00AM to 6:00PM Day 6, Tue, Apr 2, 2024 AT SEA Day 7, Wed, Apr 3, 2024 OKINAWA, JAPAN 7:00AM to 5:00PM Day 8, Thu, Apr 4, 2024 ISHIGAKI, JAPAN 8:00AM to 4:00PM Day 9, Fri, Apr 5, 2024 AT SEA Day 10, Sat, Apr 6, 2024 JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA 8:00AM to 4:00PM Day 11, Sun, Apr 7, 2024 KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN 10:00AM to 6:00PM Day 12, Mon, Apr 8, 2024 AT SEA Day 13, Tue, Apr 9, 2024 TOKYO (YOKOHAMA), JAPAN 6:30AM to 7:00PM Day 14, Wed, Apr 10, 2024 MT FUJI (SHIMIZU), JAPAN 7:00AM to 3:00PM Day 15, Thu, Apr 11, 2024 KOBE, JAPAN 12:00PM to 5:00AM Day 16, Fri, Apr 12, 2024 KYOTO (OSAKA), JAPAN Arrival: 8:00AM Day 17, Sat, Apr 13, 2024 KYOTO (OSAKA), JAPAN Departs: 5:00PM Day 18, Sun, Apr 14, 2024 KOCHI, JAPAN 7:00AM to 5:00PM Day 19, Mon, Apr 15, 2024 AT SEA Day 20, Tue, Apr 16, 2024 BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA 7:00AM to 4:00PM Day 21, Wed, Apr 17, 2024 AT SEA Day 22, Thu, Apr 18, 2024 HAKODATE, JAPAN 9:30AM to 8:00PM Day 23, Fri, Apr 19, 2024 AOMORI, JAPAN 7:00AM to 5:00PM Day 24, Sat, Apr 20, 2024 AT SEA Day 25, Sun, Apr 21, 2024 TOKYO (YOKOHAMA), JAPAN Arrival: 6:30AM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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