I just completed an 18 day trip where I spent around 6 days in Tokyo a couple of months ago in March and I'm planning to go back to Japan next April with my wife and kids (they did not join me on this trip I completed).
I'm planning to do 2 weeks next year with 1 of the weeks in Tokyo so I can take my kids to Tokyo Disney and Tokyo Disney Sea and spend more time around Tokyo. I was thinking maybe a day trip to Kamakura? Anywhere else I should check out?
Then with the rest of the time I was hoping to re-visit Takayama or the area near Takayama. I really loved that old small town feeling and the canal lined streets. I don't know if I want to go straight up back to Takayama and stay there or maybe stay in Hida? or Kanazawa? I would like to at least go back to Takayama for a single day and experience 1 day there again. I won't need the whole week there so I'm wondering if there's other places near Takayama/Hida/Kanazawa I should check out? All 3? We talked to someone in March in Takayama and they did Shirakawa-go by bus and they said they were disappointed so I was not planning to go there.
Any suggestions? At this stage I'm unusure of the exact divide of the trip just the total number of days (fly in day 1 well evening 1 on a saturday japan time, then 12 days, then fly home day 13 on a friday)
by mercury187