Japan

Traveling to Japan for free is much easier than it may seem at first glance, although for many travelers it may seem that it is a difficult country, both for the language and for the cultural difference with the West. Given these doubts, we can only tell you that, taking into account some aspects, in addition to several tips for traveling to Japan for free, we are sure that your trip to Japan will be unforgettable, as well as incredibly enriching in all aspects and as we said principle, much easier than you imagine.

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With this guide to travel to Japan we hope to help you prepare your trip to Japan, one of the most wonderful and special places in the world. Known for being one of the destinations most requested by travelers and unfortunately sometimes discarded by the topic of being a very expensive country, Japan is the ideal place to meet and live in the first person, as the most ancestral tradition and the most extreme modernity , can live in true harmony.

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Day 7: INARI (Fushimi Inari-Taisha) - NARA: Kofukuji, Todaiji Temple, Kasuga Taisha - KYOTO Thursday, December 26, 2013 Today we start the day at 5.30 in the morning, which after a couple of days getting up a little later, we missed these early rises! And today is a special day, which deserves at least these hours of less sleep.

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Day 6: KYOTO - Way of Philosophy: Ginkakuji, Nanzen Ji, Chio In - Gion Wednesday, December 25, 2013 Today we start our day in Kyoto a little later than we have done these days ago and leave our hotel in Kyoto, the Citadines Kyoto Karasuma-Gojo, after 7 in the morning with a fixed destination, the Way of Philosophy in Kyoto.

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Day 5: KIOTO - Heian Gunju, Kamigamo Jinga - KOBE Tuesday, December 24, 2013 We start again the day with that “Ringgggg…” early riser that is already usual in all our trips and today has played at 5.30 in the morning, to remind us that today is a special day, in which we will go from Kyoto to Kobe.

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Day 9: MIYAJIMA - OSAKA Saturday, December 28, 2013 Today we woke up a little later, not only to finish enjoying our ryokan in Miyajima, Ryoso Kawaguchi, but we also thought it would dawn about 8, like these days previous, but just wake up we see that we have been wrong and about 7 o'clock.

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Day 8: KYOTO - OKAYAMA - HIROSHIMA - MIYAJIMA Friday, December 27, 2013 Today the alarm sounds at 4.15 in the morning. But what is this? We weren't on vacation? Yes, but today is a very special day, we will go to Okayama and then we will enjoy Hiroshima and Miyajima in one day.

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Day 4: KYOTO - Shimogamo-Jinja, Kinkakuji or Golden Pavilion, Ryoanji, Ninnaji, Arashiyama Monday, December 23, 2013 Today is our second full day in Kyoto and although we can say that we have "a few hours" here, we already intuit that in this trip to Japan the pace of travel will far exceed the previous trips of Street Travelers.

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Our trip to Japan for free in 18 days led us to visit Kyoto, Inari, Nara, Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Osaka, Takayama, Shirakawa-go, Tokyo, Nikko, Kamakura and Yokohama. The best time to travel to Japan is in spring and autumn, but we, on this occasion, having more than two weeks in Christmas and this being a destination that we had pending for many years, we decided that this could also be a season Perfect to get to know the Japanese country and at the same time enjoy the celebrations that take place at this time of year.

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Day 18: TOKYO - ISTANBUL - BARCELONA Monday, January 6, 2014 If yesterday we woke up with a little low mood, because it was the last full day of our trip to Japan, today has been no less . In a few hours we will start the transfer from Tokyo to the airport and that always causes us a feeling of "abandonment" of the trip.

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Citadines Karasuma-Gojo at Kyoto Hotel in Kyoto, one of our best hotels in Japan, located just over 1 km from Kyoto Station. It is worth this distance, just to enjoy the magnificent facilities available. The rooms have measures well above the Japanese standards.

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Day 2: ISTANBUL - KANSAI AIRPORT (OSAKA) - KYOTO Saturday, December 21, 2013 And so we spent the day of December 20 almost without realizing, at the Istanbul airport, waiting for our flight to Japan, passing again the controls of security, taking off boots for the second time and removing the laptop, ipad ... etc from the backpacks.

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Day 1: BARCELONA - ISTANBUL Friday, December 20, 2013 With the alarm clock almost everyone starts, if not all of our travel diaries. And as always when we write that this alarm sounds is that we have a trip underway and this time it is our trip to Japan. We are going to spend Christmas in Japan!

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TRAVEL PREPARATIONS It was in January of this year that we were confirmed that this year we would have Christmas, New Year's Eve and Kings holidays. We did not expect to have the possibility of traveling this year again and we immediately remember the trip to Israel and Palestine last year.

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Day 3: KYOTO: Kiyomizudera, Sanjusangen-do, Higashi Hongashi Temple, Nishi Hongan-ji, Kiyomizudera District, Gion, Pontocho Sunday, December 22, 2013 Today is our first day in Kyoto and we woke up with a sweet taste at 6 in the morning at the first alarm clock decided to visit the Temples of Kyoto.

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Day 17: TOKYO: Tsukiji - Takeshita - Omotesando - Shibuya - Shibuya 109 - Dogenzaka Sunday, January 5, 2014 Today we woke up with a bittersweet feeling in our room at the Hotel Horidome Villa. It is our last full day in Japan since tomorrow, we will return to the airport, this time to catch a plane that will take us home again.

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Day 16: TOKYO - ASAKUSA: Sensoji Temple, Nakamise, Denbouin, Kappabashi, SUMIDA, walk along the Sumida river to ODAIBA, Aqua City Shopping Center Saturday, January 04, 2014 Today we get up at 6.30 in the morning because we have one day complete of the most complete, which will include the visit to the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.

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Day 12: TOKYO: Ueno Park, Toshogu Shrine Temple, Yushima Temple, Ameyoko, Akihabara, Asakusa, Shibuya, Omotesando, Meiji Jingu, Takeshita Dori Tuesday, December 31, 2013 Today the alarm clock rang at 6 in the morning and The first thing we do when we wake up is to look through the window of our hotel in Tokyo, the Horidome Villa Hotel, and get excited about what will be the third part of our trip to Japan and especially with something very special: celebrate the New Year in Tokyo .

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Day 14: TOKYO: Imperial Palace, Tokyo Station, Tokyo International Forum, Ginza, Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo Tower, Zozogi Temple, Shinjuku, Korean Quarter Thursday, December 19, 2013 Today we start the day at our hotel in Tokyo At 6.30 in the morning and as soon as we get up we begin to notice that the body is already resenting these early rises that we are getting into since we started the free trip to Japan.

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Day 15: TOKYO - KAMAKURA: Engaku-ji, Tokeiji, Jochi-ji, Kencho-ji, Tsurugaoka, Desidera YOKOHAMA: Minato Minari 21 Friday, January 03, 2014 Today we get up at our hotel in Tokyo knowing that we are going to do the Last "excursion" of our trip to Japan. Today it is time to make two of the most famous visits from the capital of Japan: Kamakura and Yokohama from Tokyo.

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