For all students in the class, please put your ideas down
about a half-day or longer
itinerary in Sendai, Kyoto, or Tokyo (Hiroshima is pretty
much set with no significant free time).
Your itinerary should include one attraction/venue, at least
one meal, transportation information,
and other details, including expenses. So, one could do a visit to the Ghibli
museum, plus
perhaps dinner in Kichijoji (the largest station nearby) and
an evening activity. Please look at the
previous
itineraries and do not duplicate any of them. Tourist sites, entertainment venues,
shopping, museums,
etc. are all possibilities.
If, however, someone is interested in doing Hiroshima, perhaps you can come up with a half-day or slightly longer itinerary of what to do at the Peace Memorial Museum and Park.
Please post by noon Friday, March 28. Please note that the project itself will go on your individual blog.
Anthony Vu’s Itinerary:
ReplyDeleteGoing to Akihabara from Akita International University by train (Wada, Omagari, then Ueono), I will have to pay $156 US dollars to get there, and then another $156 to get back by train. Because the trip takes 5 hours long, I will be waking up at 4AM to get on the train early. At Akihabara, I will be eating at the Maid Café, which will cost around $40 US dollars. After that, I will enter the Odaiba Joypolis to play video games for hours, which costs around $40 US dollars.
I've never made an itinerary in my life, so here goes nothing:
ReplyDeleteI'd like to go to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka while we're in Japan. A ticket will cost me approximately 1000 JPY.
Please look at some of the other posts for suggestions as to how to flesh out your itinerary.
DeleteFirst, I’ll travel by shinkansen from AIU to Tokyo. Time: 5h 16min Cost: $182. Next I’ll travel from Tokyo Narita Airport to Tokyo Japan. Time 56 min. Cost: $12. Next I’ll travel from Tokyo to the Shinjuku National Garden. Time: 15 min Cost: $12. Next I’ll travel to the Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku Cost: Inexpensive, walk. Time: 5 mins. Next I’ll take the train to the Meiji Jingumae station in Japan to visit the Meiji Jingu. Time: 19 mins Cost $3. Then I’ll walk back to the Tokyo station and take the shinkansen back to Akita.
ReplyDelete.
http://www.rome2rio.com/
-extremely helpful gives costs, times, and different methods of transportation
I will be going to the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace in Tokyo. I will be going by subway. It will cost about ¥130. To eat I will be going to Umegaoka Sushi no Midori Akasaka-branch.
ReplyDeleteI will visit the Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, a research facility operated by Tokyo University.
ReplyDeleteEntrance Fee:
Adults – 330円
Directions:
From Tokyo Station, Tokyo to 3-7-1 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo, 112-0001
Tokyo Station (Platform 2)
Subway - Marunouchi Line - Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line towards Ikebukuro
Cost – 160円
Myogadani Station
Walk to Japan, Tōkyō-to, Bunkyō-ku, Hakusan, 3 Chome 東京大学小石川宿舎１号棟
The Gardens are a 10 minutes walk from Hakusan station of Mita subway line, or a 15 minutes walk from Myogadani station of Marunouchi subway line
Lunch can be had at Hotto Cafe and Bar @ Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Nishi kata 2-18-17, Tokyo, Japan 03-6801-5776
The cafe is a 15 minute walk from the gardens.
Price - 400円ー１０００円
Since it's nearby, I would spend the rest of the day and into the evening at Ueno park in Taito. I can then head back to Tokyo by route of the Hanzomon line to Mizonokuchi Station.
Total Cost for the trip: 142０円ー2120円 (round trip)
I would like to attend a sumo or judo match. there are sumo matches in tokyo from may 11th to 25 also maybe attend judo instruction classes. had trouble finding prices maybe we could talk about that latter. also it would be cool to go to a pachinko parlor
ReplyDeleteI'd like to spend time in Shinjuku between Isetan, Takashimaya, and a break (perhaps in between) at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. These are all easily within walking distance of the Shinjuku station.
ReplyDeleteThe station is serviced by a dozen different lines, and I'm not completely sure which one I will be taking yet, but I understand that the price for a one way ticket would probably fall between 190-300円. Admission to the garden would cost 200円. I plan to eat in the basement food court at Isetan.
I think I will be making a couple of purchases, but would like to also just spend my time looking around and observing as well. I estimate that the total cost for me would fall very safely below 2000円.
I would like to either do a day tour of Fuji-san (Mt. Fuji) or do the two-day sunrise climb. Bus tours from Tokyo appear to be about 2,000円 round-trip, and climbing groups run in July and August, and there are numerous price ranges for hiring guides. I found one site that lists a tour package (including bus, one-night stay in a mountain hut, guide, food, and onsen) at 4,950円.
ReplyDeleteThere is a ramen restaurant at the summit of the mountain, which would probably cost around 900円 for a meal. Snacks for climbing and bathroom visits would probably total another 1,000 or so 円. In total, the trip (using the travel package) would be about 6 or 7,000円.
In Tokyo I plan on visiting Sensoji Temple-- the city's oldest and most popular temple! On the way I plan on walking the streets of Nakamise Dori to buy some handmade crafts and souvenirs. I hope to make a stop at Muji, the popular minimalist clothing store ad eat at "Meal Muji," for an inexpensive meal.
ReplyDeleteThe meal would cost approx. 800 - 1000 yen.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone:
ReplyDeleteThank you for your itineraries. Some of you gave more details than I expected at this time. As I noted, you should present a more expansive version of your itinerary on your blog, with links, a few more details, and images etc. Particularly important would be to tell how you got some of the information, especially about such things as transportation or restaurants. If you have found sites that are particularly helpful, please give them and I will place links on the right-hand side of the course blog. Thanks!
(I don't want to make this too onerous, so if you gave one of the more detailed itineraries, you can start your final version by copying and pasting what you wrote to a post on your individual blog, and then add links and other information.)
One added bit of information: if you have noted discounted tickets for college students, please add that information. This may encourage us to go for the International Student ID card, although I'm not sure how widely accepted it will be in Japan.
ReplyDeleteI would like to spend a day visiting Shibuya since I am really interested in fashion and the city life in Japan. One could get there by bus or train, and since there are several train lines that run to Shibuya I am not sure which train I will be taking yet. Prices seem to range from 360円 (Train from Shinjuku (Jr) to Shibuya) to 3200円 (although again, it depends from where I will be leaving from, and I am not sure yet).
ReplyDeleteFrom the Shibuya station I plan to exit and see the Hachiko statue which is in the corner of the big plaza outside of the station and take a picture.
Next, I will head to Center Gai, an area known as one of the birthplaces of Japanese fashion trends. Since it is loaded with many stores/boutiques and game centers I will take my time explore them.
After that, I would like to visit the Spain Slope (Supeinzaka) which is closeby. It’s a narrow long pedestrian street with stairs leading up the slope to the Parco department store. And, since it has cafes and restaurants, I will eat lunch somewhere around there, most likely at the well-known restaurant Bidoro Ginzaten, a Spanish-inspired restaurant. Prices for meals there are not very expensive, with prices from 980 to 3,800 円. Afterwards, I want to go to koen dori, and walk along more shopping stores and rest at yoyogi park and enjoy the view of the park.
All in all, I might buy a few things but I am more interested in looking at fashion and exploring rather than shopping. Also, I know that clothes and items in Shibuya depends on where one goes shopping, and if I do buy a few things besides food I hope to spend no more than 円10293 (About 100 USD). I most likely won't spend that much though.