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nampramos wrote:
Did you check flights for those trips too?
We got pretty cheap flights with Jetstar and in the end ended up doing only one bullet train trip.
Oh yeah, I've done a bazillion searches on flights and various itineraries.
It'll be me, wife, and our son who will be 6 then. He loves trains.
We have limited time (3 weeks), and very specific main destinations we will be hitting. To fly between Tokyo and Osaka and back, then up to Tohoku and back, when factoring either getting tix w/ ANA or JAL (includes checked bags) or one of the smaller LCC's and paying extra for luggage.... also trains to/from the airports, hassle of dealing with airports, etc, it will be far simpler to just do the trains. This will also allow us more leeway if we want to make a side trip, or change our schedule a tad. Will probably wind up costing slightly less in the end, too.
The Tokyo-Hachinohe trip alone would be $1000 round trip via normal (train) tickets, I think. That is a long one, all the way at the top of mainland.
Flights alone are pretty cheap, but travelling with a 6yo greatly complicates things. This will be his first serious trip.
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