So 4 of us have a trip to japan booked Mon 29th april to 12th May.
Mon 29th April – Sun 5th May we are staying in Tokyo. On the Sunday 5th we are travelling down to Hirosima/ Miyajima Island, then going to Kyoto, Osaka and back to Tokyo the following week.
We booked this a while ago, now we are looking at tickets for the Shinkansen and we noticed a warning sign about reservations due to ‘Golden Week’
Unfortunately we were restricted in our times to go when booking and when we were looking things up we somehow missed the biggest holiday in japan..
It looks like we’re mainly hitting golden week on the first week we’re in Tokyo, and might get a little bit when we go to Miyajima.
When researching what Golden Week is on youtube we’re hit with these senational titles saying AVOID JAPAN DURING THIS WEEK.
So my question is.. is it really as bad as these youtube videos make it out to be? It’s now put a bit of a dampner on things and as I said we don’t really have any alternate dates to go!
Thanks!