Flights booked to Japan for September next year, doing a 5 week trip in Hokkaido and Tohoku with a few nights in Tokyo at the start and end. CANNOT WAIT! My itinerary is pretty much planned (but nothing booked yet). Am very open to your recommendations (for sightseeing, food, drink, hotels, anything). Thanks so much and woo hooo!
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I probably should have mentioned that this will be our 4th trip to Japan, but first to Hokkaido and Tohoku. So mainly keen to get tips on those regions.
Still open to Tokyo tips that are beyond the normal first timer stuff. We've been to Tokyo on all 3 trips but know there's tonnes we missed.
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@kavey Noboribetsu in Hokkaido was beautiful, specifically Jigokudani.
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@smellsofbikes Fab, have a night there in my itinerary. (Planned and tentatively set several months ago but nothing booked until I could get the flights).
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@smellsofbikes Do you have any hotel or restaurant to recommend from there? Or anything else about your wider itinerary? <3 Thank you!
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@kavey we stayed at a BIG resort there, the only time we did, and it was actually fun (aside from the japanese weirdness of having basically a brothel in the basement.) they have animatronic shows in town of the giant monsters that ... Tried to protect the area from human incursion. So that's odd.
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@smellsofbikes wait that sounds crazy, what was it called? 🤣🤣🤣
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@kavey I cannot remember the name but I'll find it tonight. It had this two story high robot in the middle of the hotel that performed 4x per day. It was so weird.
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@smellsofbikes Haa, I love Japanese robots, we came across a few serving in restaurants in Korea too a couple of years back.
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@kavey the one we stayed in is the one immediately southeast of the demon shrine because it had a hot tub facing the Jigokudani valley, which was pretty amazing. But it was a lot of $, by quite a bit the most expensive place we stayed the whole trip.
Another cool place was yamanouchi in Nagano. The whole town is an onsen. One jinja had the traditional hand and face washing well out front, with a carved dragon head that continuously blew steam out its nostrils.
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@kavey we stayed at a small onsen here and the woman who owned it, whose family has owned it for 800 years, made the dinner for us and then sat and chatted with us about japanese cooking while we ate, and it was the best dinner I've ever had. It was astonishingly good.
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@smellsofbikes please do let me know the names, they sound wonderful and I'll look them all up
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@smellsofbikes yamanouchi is actually on the itinerary too🥰🥰🥰
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@kavey also Kyoto is the most beautiful city in the world and I'll die on this hill.
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@kavey would welcome any Tokyo tips!
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@g12dcb oooh it's been a while but if you love cooking do visit kappabashi dori, "kitchen town" though really just a few blocks of one street, loads of shops selling cookware and teaware and coffeeware and all sorts
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@g12dcb my restaurant recos probably outdated now but we didn't bother with high end sushi as the basic stuff was better than what I had palate and experience to appreciate, so local chain SushiZanmai we really like
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@g12dcb oh and wait this will probably be useful, an a-z of Japanese food to seek out https://www.kaveyeats.com/a-to-z-of-japanese-food
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@g12dcb and if you want to understand sake try this guide I wrote
https://www.kaveyeats.com/japanese-sake-guide-for-beginners
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@kavey thanks!
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@g12dcb pleasure
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