Hello everyone
I'm living in Sapporo and my family is coming for a trip in Japan for the New year Eve.
We have already made a trip once in summer and we loved travelling by car and go a bit around everywhere, to some touristic spots of course, but a lot in rural areas in Honshuu.
On this next trip we're not planning on going around the same places as last time (Tokyo, Nikko, Nagano, Shizuoka, Kyoto) so I was wondering where could be a good place to travel during early winter. I think this time of the year is not when the nature is the most beautiful if I'm not mistaking, but maybe there are still nice places ?
So far I have 3 ideas of where to go:
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Hokkaido : it would be the best for beautiful landscapes as there should be snow but hard to go around by car as almost nobody in my family has ever driven on snow. It seems dangerous and very dependent on the weather… So if we were to do it in Hokkaido it would probably be by train. Also, I'm living in Hokkaido so I wouldn't be discovering too much except if we go far away from Sapporo.
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Tohoku : this one seems the most interesting to me at the moment. Very rural and interesting place I think. I don't know too much about where would be good to visit so I should do some research (Maybe Fukushima and above). There might be a little of snow at some places, more around Aomori maybe ? But if it's not too much I guess it would be fine to drive.
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Fukuoka/Hiroshima : Less cold, easier to go around and probably a lot of nice places.
This is the 3 places we consider going to during the trip, but I would like opinions/recommendations about the plans. If you know somewhere we should visit in any of these places, or even places outside of these, I would be glad to hear about it !
Also Tohoku is the one I'm the least familiar with, so I don't really know about the weather conditions around that time.
So basically if you have any recommendation for a trip in Japan for New year Eve appart from Kantou, Kansai and Chubu, I would be glad to hear it !
by Reminder84