Sakura train | New Year's Day, it is time to plan Japan cherry tour!
Once a New Year's Day, it is time to plan Japan's cherry blossom tour! As an office worker who does not have much annual leave, he certainly hopes to meet Japan in this most beautiful time and to spend every minute of his vacation on his own. Today banana planet recommended cherry for you the most essence - Kansai, and most of the focus of travel on Kyoto.
What time to see the best cherry?
When to prepare for the cherry blossom season travel, first of all, the most crucial thing is to look at accommodation in Kyoto, because the Kyoto season accommodation is really hard to book hard to set. As long as you can get accommodation, the other will be relatively simple.
Prior to Xiaobian last year, scheduled early in January booked a plane ticket, and then check accommodation on the website, 99% of the rooms in Kyoto have been set out to go, it is so written 99%. Finally, I often brush up and found someone unsubscribe, I like to grab the Spring Festival train booked the same accommodation. And compared to other periods, prices almost doubled during the cherry blossom season.
Therefore, I still suggest that this trip should be prepared at least for more than three months, or preferably for more than six months. You can even do extreme, for example, 5-7 April 2018 is the Ching Ming Festival holiday, no matter how you fly, this time you will certainly be in Kansai, then you can buy a ticket before, First set a few nights Kyoto room. Other cities are not so tight, you can wait for the ticket down and then have time to settle down.
If you really can not book accommodation in Kyoto, you can also consider booking Osaka or Nara, go to Kyoto on the same day, but be sure to pick away from the station near the accommodation Oh, you can take Google Maps calculate the round-trip time from the hotel. Under special emphasis, Kyoto super fun, do not because of accommodation difficult to reduce the number of days to play in Kyoto! Will suffer ~
Next to talk about the cherry open time ~ that is, when do I go to Japan in order to see full bloom of cherry? Because the Japanese cherry blossoms are really short, a cherry tree, from flowers to flowers only a short period of 7 days. Like I last time, one night I heard the wind and rain overnight ah, until the next morning and then look at the door of the cherry tree, opened yesterday, well, and now has fallen 40%.
However, the Japanese are more concerned with this matter than we are, so they started broadcasting the "Sakura front" basically in early February and revised the map lines of cherry blossoms throughout Japan on a weekly basis.
In general, cherry blossoms begin to bloom in the southern part of Kyushu in late March, then gradually northward until the cherry blossoms arrive in Hokkaido in early May, even at the end of the entire flowering period.
Sakura Sakura Kyoto line recommended
Give you a number of Kyoto Sakura map, we can refer to it.
ROUTE1: Silver Pavilion Temple - Kiyomizu Temple Line
The first map is the most classic line in Kyoto, north of Silver Pavilion Temple, south of Kiyomizu Temple, this line to wear most of Kyoto's most quintessential attractions, if you only have one day in Kyoto, according to this take a trip OK!
And this line there is no convenient rail transport, so mainly by public transport and walking, this day can buy a 500 yen a day pass public transit. Of course, if your foot force is good, it will not be impossible to stalk your way all the way
ROUTE2: Lan electricity day trip
The next picture is a Lan tour day tour, lan electric full name is "Beijing Fu electric railway", is the only streetcar in Kyoto. Special note, it and the legendary Arashiyama train is not a thing.
It also has a one-day pass, 500 yen can be unlimited ride, but it can only be purchased at larger stations, other stations can only get on the train when to pay one-way ticket, is 200 yen.
All spent blue circle place are suitable to get off to see, Hirano shrine recommended on the last leg, because the night cherry is still very beautiful.
ROUTE3: subway map
The third one is the subway map. In general, Kyoto is more visited by public transport and walking, but there are also several cherry viewing spots that can be directly accessed by the subway. For example, the very famous temple, as well as (vinegar) on the station on the railway, and Nyingo night cherry can also see.
Because Japan has a lot of traffic, I will not elaborate here.
2 traffic to be determined before the trip:
From the airport traffic
Large transport between cities (meticulous to A City Hotel and B City Hotel traffic between)
Where accommodation is particularly key, it is likely that the transport of your choice will likely determine the route you choose, using Google Maps on the web to calculate the route, time and cost. If you are lazy enough to travel to banana planet can be completely customized free exercise.
How to avoid crowds of people cherry?
In my opinion the most popular popular cherry blossoms, it should be your own encounter it. In some cases, if you jump out of a precise itinerary, you will easily get a surprise, and if you are suddenly walking by a cherry blossoming in the distance, it may be just an ordinary street. Your private secret.
If you are more famous place, want to avoid crowds of people, the best way is to get up early, grab in front of most tourists and tour groups, maybe you can have a little clean.
And in some places, many tourists may not be a disappointment, for example, like the Yuanshan Park, Hirano shrine, in my opinion the crowd under the cherry tree has become a landscape, you see the locals sitting Sakura tree Under the wine Huan, particularly good, like a cherry-themed carnival.
Below I will give you some column I like to see the cherry, the first recommendation to everyone cherry tunnel!
NO.1 Lan electric cherry tunnel
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Coordinates: Kyoto · Lan Electric Narita Station and Udo Station
Evaluation: This is my most recommended cherry tram! The cherry blossom tunnel a total of 200 meters away, to meet the imagination of all your girl heart, one second through to the Japanese animation inside.
You can see the cherry blossom tunnel with two perspectives, one sitting at the intersection and other trams, and once you take the camera and pat it. The other is to get on the tram, first occupy the most advantageous position, that is, behind the driver in the first section, and then through the cherry blossom tunnel, you can see a large group of cherry blossoms. You can buy a day ticket, if you want, how many times to sit back and forth are no problem!
NO.2 Osaka Tenmang Bridge
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Coordinates: Osaka subway Tiananabashi station, Okawa coast
There are countless kinds of urban style elements in this place. Yeah like cherry ah, cruise it, cherry tree snack bar ah, far in the high-rise buildings Yeah, a variety of combinations. And not many people, people can quietly walk in the river. I still recommend to go in the evening, from dusk to night, the ever-changing colors, especially beautiful.
NO.3 philosophy of the road
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Coordinates: Kyoto bus "Silver Pavilion Temple Road" stop, go to the silver Pavilion Temple on the road
Evaluation: Philosophical way, is mentioned in Kyoto have to mention a scenic spot, the heyday of the spectacular, here for the first time to see the falling petals of the river are paved pink, was shocked. However, the number of tourists here is let me shocked, all people.
NO. 4 Golden Temple light temple
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Coordinates: Get off at Okazaki Station on the Kyoto bus and walk about 5 minutes