Thanks freecia!!, will definitely look into the luggage forwarding system, might save the hassles in dragging our bags on the bullet train and dealing with them at the train station, thanks for the advice

Will have to start looking into the weather as to what clothes we should bring, I hear it has been a longer winter than usual, is this true??? For those of you who are in Japan, what do you think the weather would be like in early April??

Cant wait until we set off over there, have been planning and looking forward to this trip for months, will be sure to report back when we return to let everyone who helped me out with the planning know how we went

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