Dear members, my husband and I are going to Japan for the second time this December 16 days (returning to our home country a few days before NYE). We have been to Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto already (side trips to Odaiba, Nara, Himeji, Hiroshima, Kobe, Yokohama, Kamakura) but don’t mind revisiting some of these places plus a new detour to Kanazawa this time.
Please offer your thoughts and feedback on our itinerary so far and ***whether we should purchase the 7 day or 14 day JR pass?***
\*I’ve **bolded** all the places we DID NOT visit during our last trip.
*TOKYO BASE (fly into Narita airport the afternoon before and we are staying in Shinjuku)*
DAY 1: **Ueno park/ Ameyoko street/ Asakusa**
DAY 2: Shinjuku shopping day/ **Omoide Yokocho**
DAY 3: **Tokyo Disneyland** (we’ve been do DisneySea)
DAY 4: Hakone day trip – **Lake Ashi, Little Prince Museum, Tenzan Onsen**
DAY 5: Harajuku & Shibuya
KANAZAWA BASE
DAY 6: Leave Tokyo and travel to **Kanazawa -** **Kenrokuen Garden/castle**
DAY 7: **Higashi Chaya District,** **Omicho Market, Samurai District**
DAY 8: **Shirakawago**
DAY 9: **Takayama**
*OSAKA BASE*
DAY 10: *Leave Kanazawa and travel to Osaka*
DAY 11: Kyoto – Gion etc
DAY 12: **Osaka castle/** Dotonbori
DAY 13: **Kurashiki**
DAY 14: Nara – deer park
DAY 15: ??? Undecided yet
DAY 16: Afternoon flight leaving from Osaka
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Your travel from Tokyo > Kanazawa > Osaka is all within 7 days, so that pretty much rules out the 14 day pass. But you should confirm if those trips will be more or less than the pass, to find if you need a pass at all.
Tokyo-Kanazawa is ~15000, Kanazawa-Osaka is ~8000. If this is more than the JR pass, then you should buy it, if not, you don’t need it.