RBpower 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Hello, Would anyone here have a slight idea of travelling time from Toyko to HOKKAIDO?? By train......(long)!! As i am coming to Japan and would want to visit 2 mountain!! Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 probably cheaper and easier to fly. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 You can do Haneda to Sapporo in 235 min for 27, 260 yen by plane, or Tokyo to Sapporo in 692 min for 22,480 yen by train. I don't know how valuable your time is to you, but I'd recommend splurging that extra 5,000 yen to fly... Anybody interested in travelling anywhere should have this URL in their bookmarks; http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/norikae/ It's got plane and train routes in English with times and prices. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 but if you book the plane a month or so in advance its about 10,000 each way! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 which is a great price relative to 'local' shinkansen ticket prices (7,500 one way Tokyo-Nagano) Link to post Share on other sites
RBpower 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Author Share Posted December 19, 2002 Thanks guys!! I now have a fair idea..... Do most of you live in Japan??? When I go I usually go to hakuba and get accommodations for about 7300yen with meals, is that what you guy been paying for as well?? Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Assuming your coming from oz and you dont want to go to Tokyo you should have got your flight to Sapporo when you got your flight to japan, when I came last time the travel agent found the cheapest way to get me from NZ to Sapporo was via Osaka rather than Tokyo. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Andrew, yes I am in japan as my profile will tell you! 7300 Yen semms pretty standard for accom, Brekkie and dinner. You wont get much cheaper unless you cook your own food and stay at a place like snowbeds etc. Link to post Share on other sites
Simon 0 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Andrew, one thing more. The only good reason to travel by train from Tokyo to Sapporo is already having a Japan Rail Pass. For example, you're travelling for work from Tokyo to Osaka (and back) and your company pays for transportation. A single trip on the Shinkansen is 13.750 yen, If I remember right. More than 27.000 yen for the whole trip. For that price, you can buy a pass (7 days: 28.300 yen, 14 days: 45.100 yen), do the 3 hours trip from Tokyo to Shin Osaka (and back) and with the same pass travel "for free" wherever you want. Other than that, the trip is a pain in the ass (I've done that a couple of times). Like Ocean said, it's more than 11 hours. The shinkansen stops in Morioka. There, you have to take the Morioka-Hakodate train, where reserved seats are usually booked way in advance (and you're travelling with a backpack and a board/skis bag). Then it's Hakodate-Sapporo... Not very funny. And anyway, when you arrive in Sapporo it's usually too late to go to any resort and you have to wait for the next day. If you don't wanna fork out the cash for the plane tickets and you're in Japan for work, it's ok. Other than that, skip it. End of rant. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 That was Simon from Italy/Switzerland who seems a whole lot more clued up about Japan than most of us who are actually living here... kudos Link to post Share on other sites
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