31/03/2024
Things to note and remember from our trip to japan (while hopefully i can still remember 😆🫠💕)
Patawa kmi. 1st family after pandemic and we chose japan 🙃 di man lng nag warm up ng mas simpleng travel 😆😆
Nabighani kasi sa cheap fare ni jetstar (around 9k+++ round trip nagoya) ... dahil napahinga ng travel ng 2 years due to pandemic ...
1. Nawala sa isip na may travel tax 1600++ per pax. And dahil 7 kmi, hay times 7 din 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
2. Lalo na ang jrpass. Oh my gee, almost times 3 of the rate (of P7k) from our last travel in japan (2015). So additional 19k x2 plus not sure if 15k times 4 kids - buti free pa si chamie 🙏🙏)
Di lng sa addituonal cost kmi nadale, haaaaayyyy, grabe travel bringing all our luggages pagdating ng nagoya straight to tokyo!!! 🫢🫣🫨😵💫😱 wag na wag na wag nyo kming gayahin! Will try to share our israelits going to promised land shot 😆😆😆 imagine 6 adults, 10 kids, many luggages plus strollers changing trains, getting confused, asking around using google translate and hand and acting gestures in the wonderful world of japan rails!!! 😆😆😆
Eniweis, let's go to the things to note (hope this will also help families who would like to travel to japan 🙏💕)
1. Travel per region if possible. There are cheaper option than jrpass when you go per region. If you don't know what a jrpass is, it's an unli ride in all jr group lines - good buy sya if you use the shinkansen like from nagoya to tokyo ganern but may mas cheaper alternative i think 27k yen if you want to travel osaka to tokyo. Japan guide is very helpful re rail passes https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2357.html
2. If you plan to go to fuji, better if you are in tokyo than in nagoya. There's a tokyo wide pass that includes going to mt. Fuji. If we go back and go to fuji would like to check out ryokan and onsen overnight as an option
3. If you plan to focus on nagoya, no need to buy jrpass. It's not that useful there.
4. 10 degrees is already cold for me. My legs needs to double up if I'm wearing slacks. Wearing thick jogging pants is better.
5. My husband is the one in charge of the luggages (carrying, putting in the check in counter, getting it in the luggage carousel. That's why he does not want me to pack for the kids (i overpack, i hope i'll do better). Effective style nya. Take a bath at night and Suotin na kids what they will wear the next day. Yng innermost garment (coz we need to double triple up our clothes) can be worn as the outermost layer the next day. Vaccuuming the clothes also helped a lot in space esp winter coats (we were planning to experience snow coz our son Bentley wants to expetience it)
6. I thought we only need to wear thermal clothes for our sbow trip. If we will come back and weather is 10 deg or lower, it's vetter to wear thermal clothes as the innermost garment- kahit yng pants lng)
7. Google translate and google map are your best friends :) 😆 with navigating japan rails, esp shinkansen, you need to check the time it will depart, not just the shortezt travel time. That's why we got losr. Coz i just check the shortest time and did not consider the departure time (toink!!!)
*** 8. If you plan to go to a different region, stay 1 night at your place of arrival, preferrably in a hotel so you can leave your luggage there, be able to rest first vefore travelling to a different reguon with a smaller luggage that you need for your stay there. Don't go to a different region right away with all your luggages!!!
9. The time of travel in google map, you need to times 2 to 3 so you can take in lost time, wait time, rest eat time etc
10. It is still best to bring double stroller or 2 stroller and baby carrier when travelling. Kids really gets tired from all the walking and they need to rest in the stroller. Baby carrier helps a lot if they want us to carry them coz it takes off some of the kid's weight and frees up our hands for other things)
11. Book way way ahead of time if you are many and would lijw to stay in tokyo. Airbnb is cheaper than a gotwl if in tokyo esp when you are a big group. Fix your itinerary right away and book airbnb asap to have better options.
12. Wherever you are, and you need to free up your hands, always put your stuffs in your bag so as bot to leave anything behind)
That's all i can remember for now. Will update if i remember something. Do message me if you have questions and would be glad to be of help 💕 :)
Learning the train system in japan is confusing at first but when you get to figure it out, like with me and my husband, we'd like to go back and excited to take on the challenge of japan trains :) :) 🥰🩷 para syang game that you'd like to conquer 🥰💕
About Japanese rail passes.
