Planning a quick short trip to Kyoto from chubu area of Japan.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the next two weeks or so, I will be writing my posts from Japan. I got here a few days ago, and it’s been great to see friends and family. I still have not had chances to do everything I want to do here yet, but slowly and surely, I will get to it. Weather here in Gifu has been not so great where we have had some rain but for me, rain doesn’t bother me any more after living in the Northwest for a while. Compared to the humid summer weather I have experienced in the past, I would rather want to take a bit rainy weather any day, actually. This time of the year from mid June to mid July, Japan has a rainy season, typically, and humidity with rain is much expected.<\/p>\n
However, weather forecast is telling me that it will be sunny for the next two days. \u00a0So, I decided to take a short trip to Kyoto from here. This will be just two day trip. \u00a0In the next few blog posts, I will show you the easiest process of getting your travel planned and making it happen in Japan, and will take you with me to Kyoto as I write about our trip to Kyoto.<\/p>\n
This trip was decided in the last minute, actually, so I didn’t have much time to look around in terms of pricing etc, but checked out a few web sites for prices, and after getting some ideas, I decided to book this trip with travel agency called “JR \u6771\u6d77\u30c4\u30a2\u30fc\u30ba” (JR Tokai Tours) that is located at JR Gifu station.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Going to Kyoto from Gifu will be the easiest using Shinkansen \u65b0\u5e79\u7dda (bullet train), using Shinkansen, it only takes about 40 minutes to get to Kyoto. \u00a0To make things convenient, we decided to book this hotel that is located right above the JR Kyoto station, called “Hotel Kintetsu Kyoto Station (\u30db\u30c6\u30eb\u8fd1\u9244\u4eac\u90fd\u99c5)” .<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The main reason we picked this hotel is due to its convenience. We will be arriving close to noon tomorrow, and first thing we will be doing is to drop off our luggage at the hotel\u00a0so we can start our short tour around Kyoto.<\/p>\n
This will be my third time in Kyoto, and I have visited most of the major temples in the past. My main goal of this trip will be shopping and eating.. (but I am not telling this to my hubby as he is looking forward to going to see some of the well known temples..) We will see how things go..<\/p>\n
So, just to give you an idea, we will be leaving from JR Hashima station tomorrow morning around 11 am, and including round trip shinkansen ticket and hotel stay, between two of us, the cost is just below 30,000 yen. (About $300) Oh, I forgot to tell you, this package also includes the breakfast buffet for both of us.<\/p>\n
What I like about getting things booked with travel agent is, basically the convenience. We were done booking pretty much everything in 30 minutes, within that time, our agent quickly made reservation for shinkansen as well as hotels. Yes, you could probably do this on your own too, but she also gave me some tips on where to shop and where to eat. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Stay tuned to see where our trip to Kyoto will take us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Planning a quick short trip to Kyoto from chubu area of Japan. For the next two weeks or so, I will be writing my posts from Japan. I got here a few days ago, and it’s been great to see friends and family. I still have not had chances to do everything I want…<\/p>\n