Great advice on the hotel front. We knew the rooms would be small and whilst we were agnostic about the brand, we generally couldn’t find rooms bigger than 20m2 in the locations we were after. Perhaps the error was compounded by booking.com.

Also for future readers, our reasoning for Fukuoka Hakata (over Nagasaki) was driven almost entirely by transport convenience. A flight into the city centre from NRT and Hakata is a rail hub. With hindsight, one more day there could have been well spent but it’s not a tourist place at all. I can’t comment on Nagasaki except to say it was on the list … which was very very long.