Originally Posted by
booogle
Thanks for all the hints and tips, very helpful. Our plan is 5 nights Tokyo (include a Mt Fuji day trip), 5 nights Kyoto (include a nara trip and we will go to Hiroshima for 1 night mid way through the Kyoto stay keeping the room on in Kyoto), 2 nights in Osaka, 1 night in Yokohama to finish. We will be there over the golden week so I guess that might not be ideal but I'm sure we will manage. Now we have to plan what we are going to see in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, not done that part yet!
Hope you saw the post quoted below below.
You can visit Hiroshima and/or Miyajima as a day trip from Kyoto. If you were to spend that night in a nice ryokan on Mijajima then that makes some sense. But the only reason to spend that night in Hiroshima would be to attend a Hiroshima Carp baseball game. (I like Hiroshima and the only reason am suggesting a day trip is because you are wasting a hotel room night in Kyoto).
I reccommend attending Miyako Odori in Kyoto.
Originally Posted by
mrwunrfl
In that case, you definitely don't want a 7-day JR Pass. Those 7 nights make for an 8-day trip.
The pass days are calendar days, each day ending at midnight. If day 1 was the day you traveled Tokyo to Kyoto then the travel from Osaka to Yokohama would be day 8.