Originally Posted by
Dinka
I was more looking for a personal recommendation...
For hotel choices, the hotel specific sites (such as those that that abmj recommended) are a better bet than FT. The customer comments on the Japanese guest house site are about as personal as it gets.
Other random thoughts
- Skip the night in Nagoya
- There's an Okayama International Villa in Ushimado - near Bizen
- Several FT trip reports on Hiroshima and Miyajima provide hotel/ryokan reviews