Jun 4, 2024 · When you said Honshu - it means taking out Tohoku as well… Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are left. To the West beyond Honshu, it’s Kyushu and Shikoku (although it’s technically more East of Honshu Hiroshima/Okayama side). Kyushu’s main city is Fukuoka.

Nov 27, 2023 · The conundrum is trying to anticipate when the fall foliage will be able to be seen in both Hokkaido and in Honshu - should I arrange with work to have leave on October 28 or November 4, where the idea would be to see Hokkaido first for about a week and then parts of Honshu second?

Oct 9, 2020 · Good on you for making the trek! It's definitely out of the way. For me the real magic of skiing in this area are the small local fields, with night skiing, cheap tickets and zero crowds. Zao's kind of an interesting one, because it's big (as you know) and close to the capital of the prefecture, but despite the height of Mt Zao it doesn

For context, our first trip to Japan was earlier this year, for the month of April to see cherry blossoms, and we absolutely loved it. We stuck to Honshu and spent time in: Tokyo; Fuji Five Lakes; Hakone; Magome/Tsumago/Nakasendo Trail; Kyoto; Nara; Osaka; Nachi Falls; Himeji; and Hiroshima/Miyajima.

Nov 8, 2012 · Even more fun facts: The characters of Honshu read as "main province" but honshu contains several prefectures including Tokyo. That's right. While Tokyo-shi is a also city within the prefecture of Tokyo-to, when we talk about Tokyo, we are actually talking about the distinct prefecture, Tokyo-to.

Jun 4, 2019 · In late September, I'm going to Japan for 2 weeks, and I want to see a bunch of different cities and places in Japan. Of course, I will spend two or three days in Tokyo, but I'm already set on either heading North to Tohoku, the north coast, and the Alps, or visiting Kansai, western Honshu, and maybe Kyushu.

Jul 31, 2023 · We are 3 friends visiting Japan for the first time, from 15. October to 3. November. We limited ourself to southern Japan consciously. Currently, we are planning the rough itinerary (which places and how many days we want to spend there). We will think about the day to day activies in more details later on.

A few observations about Tokyo (3d), Kyoto (3d) and Hiroshima (1+d) trip with 2 adults, 2 teens and a 65+ aunt, from a prior visitor 20y ago. Japan is an awesome place (spouse remarked "the only place we can compare Japan to is Switzerland), wonderful …

Honshu in the main island! The island that Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, etc. is on! It’s confusing to lump the bigger and smaller islands together because the four big islands are typically put together (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido), while the much smaller islands are typically a …

It’s known as “Samurai city Japan”. It has some good and cheap Ryokan there as well. A day and a half or 2 day trip is well worth it in my opinion. Also there is a town next to it known as Kitakata, which is one of the best Ramen places in Japan, and …