Mathieu:On airport Narita change JR train voucher into JR Rail Pass ; change money, Both airport terminals have ATM's on the arrival floor : Post Ofice before customs ! Make reservations for train Nikko to Kyoto ; make reservations for those trains you are sure to take the next weeks. You can always change this in every station. You cannot make reservations in all stations! Go down to the basement where the train stations are. At the end we took the bus from Narita Airport to Tochigi, Utsunomiya, +81 (0)120-176-521 5 10
Purchase a ticket, 4,070 yen, at Keisei Counter; Operating Company/ Bus Service : The bus is called Marronnier Bus ; it drives to Utsunomiya in about 3 hours. After that a train to Nikko ; where the landlord of Pension LOGETTE SAINBOIS picked us up. See our first photograph.

When you are lucky you are allowed to stay in LOGETTE SAINBOIS . A pension with a perfect Cook en landlady. A nice bath midst the woods of Nikko. Watch the dog ; he is too nice !!

wednesday 17-05-06 Buy Nikko Kinugawa Pass? ; Transport: by Tobu to Nikko Pension LOGETTE SAINBOIS
1560 Tokorono Nikko City 3 nights HOTELBOOKING CONFIRMED BY WIRC/ITCJ -

  Visit Sennin Gyoretsu Nikko
Photo album May-June Japan 2006	 Home Page Japan page PREVIOUS PAGE Nikko Kinugawa Pass

Mathieu:Op airport Narita JR voucher voor trein in JR Rail Pass omzetten ; geld pinnen Post Ofice voor douane ! Reserveer treinplaatsen voor reis Nikko naar Kyoto op de 20e ; leg meteen reserveringen vast voor die lange treinreizen welke al voor je vaststaan. Uji/Railfan: Take the Keisei Limited Express train runs between Narita Airport and Aoto ( 60 minutes ) - Get off the train here in Aoto; Walk 10 meters to the other site and take subway oshiage direction asakusa - This is the Keisei Ohiage Line (becomes Asakusa Subway Line along the way without changing trains) from Aoto to Asakusa (15 minutes) going through Toei Asakusa Line and Keikyu Line - ; from there walk 500 meter to Tobu Asakusa Station ( basement Matsuya department store ; change train at Shimo-Imaichi for Nikko ; There are signs on each car of the train, indicating the final destination of the specific car. Nikko bound cars will have the sign "Tobu-Nikko" or "Nikko". ) walking to Tobu Sightseeing Service Center
 and buy a 4-day Nikko Kinugawa Pass.  Railfan: If you stay underground it should be exit number "7" if you are arriving from Toei Asakusa line the exits are numbered "A1-A5" when you make over to Tokyo Metro Asakusa Station the exits are numbered "1-7" , Tobu Asakusa Stations should be exit number "7". Look for those large yellow info maps for exits.

Mogelijk af te leggen bezoeken aan:
Shinkyo, de Heilige Brug
Rinno-ji-tempel: Sanbutsu-do, Hokke-do en Jogyo-do
Toshogu Jinja, het mausoleum van Tokugawa Ieyasu
Futarasan Jinja
Taiyuin-byo Shrine

An alternative - less walking - route by bus to Utsunomiya and train to Nikko:
Departure time from Narita Airport:
8:10AM/9:40AM/11:10AM/1:10PM/2:40PM/3:40PM/5:00PM/6:10PM/7:40PM/8:50PM
Utsunomiya, Airport busstop 10 at Terminal 2 ,1st Floor:Bus Stops Step out the Airport and mount the bus
In Utsunomiya buy a train ticket to Nikko:
Required time: 41minute (taking time 41min) Distance: 40.5 km Total amount of money: ¥740 14:30 JR Nikko Line

Our journey to Japan 2006.
The general idea is to create a scenario
visiting Japan in an affordable way.
When we will be able to find a sponsor
we will update this site every day we are in Japan.

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