I travelled in Japan in March for 3 weeks using the rail pass... i visited Tokyo Kyoto Osaka Hiroshima Nara Kanazawa Matsumoto Fujikawaguchiko and Tokyo again... personally I thought Osaka was the least impressive of them all. Nara on the other hand was fun to visit.
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Wow cool! Will go through your Japan posts and pictures! Thanks a lot! May we know how many hours it takes from Tokyo to Kyoto? Because our base will stay in Tokyo and we would just do day trips but always go back to Tokyo...we will google the other destinations you have wrote down too :)
Nevermind we just discovered your blog post about the bullet trains :) so it's 135min hehehe
Really? I think thats a waste of time honestly...travelling back and forth to Tokyo. Tokyo itself is a destination to stay, but so is Kyoto. Actually to get the most out of Kyoto you would need 2 days there so I recommend a 1 night stay there...why dont you check to see what there is in Kyoto and you will see its too much to see in 1 day, including wasting 5 hours of travelling time between Kyoto and Tokyo.
good input, yeah maybe go in the morning towards kyoto or even further and spend one night in kyoto.
we'll see, still have to plan it with my friends :)
I do recommend spending two days. You know why? Because the two things you would definitely want to see are on both sides on the city and both take more than half a day if you dont want to rush through it.