“We are a family flying heading first to Fukuoka but what other places should we include on the way back to Tokyo over 10 days?”
We’re a family travelling to Japan for two weeks in October with children aged eight and 10. We are flying in and out of Tokyo and heading first to Fukuoka but what other places should we include on the way back to Tokyo over 10 days that would work for all of us?You can reach Fukuoka by train in under six hours and this is a thrilling introduction to Japan’s superb high-speed train network.
If time allows, spend a couple of nights in Magome, one of the towns on the Nakasendo Trail, the original road between Tokyo and Kyoto, and still powerfully evocative of Japan in its cloistered Edo era. You can walk a half-day section of the Nakasendo between Tsumago and Magome, where the trail threads through mossy forests of cypress trees and rice farms, past Shinto shrines and tea houses and over galloping streams. Magome is a five-hour journey by taxi, bus and train from Tokyo.
At the Eismeer viewing point at 3159 metres, the train makes a brief stop for the view from inside the fearsome north face of the Eiger, a testing ground for some of the world’s greatest mountaineers. When you leave the train you’ll step out onto ice or snow, be prepared for the cold and wear decent footwear.From here you can ascend even higher by taking the lift to the Sphinx viewpoint at 3571 metres.
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