2009 – China and Japan

Setting up the site.

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I have been slowly setting up this site. I’ve added an Itinerary Page with links to all of our accommodation. I’ve also created a bit of a wish list for China and Japan. Here we will keep adding links to places we’d like to visit. Check out the list for Japan and China.

If you find some you’d like us to do then leave a note on our Guestbook (on the right hand side or the full page), all suggestions will be considered.

You can always check out our latest photos by clicking on the New Photos page. It shows the latest 25 photos from both Helen and I.

Itinerary and Travel Gods

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Yes the Obon Festival finishes on 16 August 2009. This just happens to be the same day we wanted to get a train from Tokyo to Saporro… that’s just bad luck. Even though we had a good travel agent in Japan trying to get us a ticket when they were released for sale today. Special people, perhaps stockholders or JR staff, had snapped up all the berths before they went on sale!! Rude eh?

Anyway, we’ve got a flight arranged, but I am sure Helen is praying to the travel gods.

I’ve uploaded our itinerary you can see it on the Itinerary Page.

Japan Rail

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Japan Rail offers very convenient and fast services throughout Japan. The JR Pass is also great value. Trying to book a JR Sleeper train on the other hand is quite difficult. You need to find a person or travel agent in Japan to book it for you. It can only be booked one month before hand, so it makes it somewhat difficult to plan an itinerary. For those who are inters ted JR East does offer Shinkansen and and some limited express bookings online.

We are trying to book the Cassiopeia, Japan’s dream journey from Ueno to Sapporo. So please cross your fingers and hope we can get our booking on 16 July 2009.