{"id":69,"date":"2005-08-05T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/archives\/69"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:58:36","slug":"tentative-japan-itinerary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/tentative-japan-itinerary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentative Japan itinerary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a bit more than a month until I leave. Slowly I&apos;m getting a better idea of where to go in the four weeks I&apos;ll be in Japan. I have to decide some things before I leave, because things like the <a href=\"http:\/\/japanrailpass.net\" target=\"_blank\">Japan RailPass<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/e\/e2364.html\" target=\"_blank\">air passes<\/a> have to be purchased before entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear: It will be insanely expensive, but I just don&apos;t want to miss anything. After all, who knows when\/if I&apos;ll be back.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tentative itinerary<\/b>:<br \/>\nZurich &#8211; Singapore &#8211; Osaka &#8211; Okinawa &#8211; Fukuoka &#8211; Kumamoto &#8211; Hiroshima (Miyajima) &#8211; Himeiji &#8211; Nara &#8211; Ise &#8211; Kyoto &#8211; Hiraizumi &#8211; Tono &#8211; Kakunodate &#8211; Hakodate &#8211; Noboribetsu (Poroto Kotan) &#8211; Nibutani &#8211; Sounkyo Onsen &#8211; Sapporo &#8211; Tokyo &#8211; Nikko &#8211; Fuji &#8211; Tokyo &#8211; Zurich<\/p>\n<p>I might have to skip some of these destinations for time reasons, but this is what I have in mind so far.<\/p>\n<p><b>Random useful notes:<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Currency conversion:<\/i> 1000 JPY = ~12 CHF<br \/>\n<i>Time:<\/i> Sept 10 &#8211; Oct 17 (Singapore: Sept 11 &#8211; Sept 16)<br \/>\n<i>Railpass 21 days:<\/i> 57 700 JPY (650 CHF)<br \/>\n<i>Star Alliance Japan Airpass:<\/i> 11 550 JPY\/flight (130 CHF)<br \/>\n<i>Flights:<\/i> Osaka &#8211; Okinawa; Okinawa &#8211; Fukuoka; Sapporo &#8211; Tokyo<br \/>\n<i>People to visit:<\/i> <lj user=\"franklymydear\"> (Kitakyushu city), <lj user=\"eledhwenlin\"> (Kumamoto)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a bit more than a month until I leave. Slowly I&apos;m getting a better idea of where to go in the four weeks I&apos;ll be in Japan. I have to decide some things before I leave, because things like the Japan RailPass and air passes have to be purchased before entering the country. One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/tentative-japan-itinerary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tentative Japan itinerary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-home","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}