Getting to Okinawa Island From/To: Tokyo By air 5 h ¥6,000 - 38,000 JAL, ANA, Skymark, Solaseed, Peach Aviation and Jetstar Japan operate manyflightsper day betweenTokyo(HanedaandNaritaairports) andNahaAirport. Flight duration is 2.5 hours. The regular one way fare by JAL and ANA is...
“Traveling to Okinawa is expensive,” a Japanese friend once told me. “If I wanted to go to the beach, I could go to a Southeast Asian country for much cheaper.” Mention Okinawa and there are bound to be some people who think that it’s just too far or too expensive to be worth...
Covered by:Japan Rail Pass TokyoandKyotoare connected with each other by theJR Tokaido Shinkansen. Nozomi trains require about 140 minutes to reach Kyoto from Tokyo, Hikari trains about 160 minutes and Kodama trains about four hours. The regular one way fare from Tokyo to Kyoto is 13,320 yen...
The JR PASS features many options. For example, with theKansai WIDE Area Pass, you can arrive at Kyoto Station from the airport but also go as far as Kobe and Okayama. There's also a JR PASS that allows you to travel as far as Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. It's an economical way t...
Hakodate-Tokyo: 23,500 JPY Nara-Kyoto: 1,100 JPY Tokyo-Odawara: 3,200 JPY Getting Around Japan By Public Bus Buses are a less expensive alternative to trains but they take more time. For example, the three-hour bullet train ride fromTokyoto Osaka is over nine hours on the bus. ...
Airfare to Japan The first big expense for a trip to Japan is, of course, airfare. Economy class flights to Japan from New York during shoulder and high seasons will likely start at around$1,200 per person.We paid about $3,200 per person to fly from Boston to Tokyo via Detroit in De...
After years of languishing in the background, J-rap is finally becoming a genre worthy of note at home, and on the global stage too. Finding A Formula For Rapping As hip-hop spread across the U.S. and beyond, the music made its way to Japan in the early '80s. Tokyo-basedDJ Hirosh...
Whether you’re coming from near or far, if this is your first trip to Japan, it’s perfectly reasonable to visit Tokyo and Kyoto and perhaps just one other destination (Nara or Kanazawa perhaps). You can do that in a week if you want. ...
When riding abusin Japan, cash or an IC card like a Suica is necessary. Buses in Tokyo's 23 Wards: Paying Ahead of Time/Fixed Amounts The buses in Tokyo’s 23 districts have a pay first policy where you pay the bus fare when entering from the front door of the bus. Within Tokyo'...
The average cost to fly to Japan from the U.S. hovers around $1,500. It’s possible to save $100-300 if you get a seat sale or you’re willing to take a stopover. That said, finding airfare at higher prices is also pretty common. Note that Tokyo has two major airports. Haneda ...