Travel plans/Spring 2017

This is for the ohanami trip.

Schedule

3/25-30: Tokyo (started blooming 3/21)

3/30-31: Fukuoka (start blooming 3/22)

3/31-4/2: Shikoku (start blooming 3/25)

4/2-4/4: Kyoto/Nara (start blooming 3/30)

4/4-4/5: Gifu? TBD -> Tokyo

4/6: Home

Tokyo

• 3/25-30
• Airbnb (reserved)
• Rikugien

Fukuoka

• 3/30-3/31
• To stay: TBD
• To do:

picnic at Ogura Castle in Kitakyusyu

visit TOTO Museum

visit Mojiko "retro": maybe skip if we want to go somewhere else on 3/31 like Itsukushima.

visit Maitsuru koen: note this is in Fukuoka-shi while the others above are in Kitakyuusyuu

Shikoku

• ? Stop in Hiroshima/Itsukushima for sakura/okonomiyaki?

• 3/31-4/2

• Mitoyo-shi in Kagawa for Shiudeyama?
• Near Mityo-shi in Kagawa for Kotohiragu: famous shrine for having many stairs. Also, good onsen
• Mitoyo-shi in Kagawa for a park
• Takamatsu-shi in Kagawa for Ritsurin Park: we've been there. More udon time?

Kyoto/Osaka/Nara

• 4/2-4/4
• Maybe stay in Kyoto or Osaka and make day trips?

• Kyoto

Maruyama koen

• Osaka

Osaka Castle

Banpaku Park

• Nara

Yoshinoyama

1000 year old tree?

Hasedera? 1000 sakura trees.

Gifu or Yamanashi?

• 4/4-4/5
• Those two trees are regarded as one of the oldest and best sakura trees in Japan:
• Neodani Usuzumi Sakura: in Gifu.
• Yamataka-Jindai Sakura: in Yamanashi; a bit out of the way but doable.　Lots of onsen in a nearby town.