Japan

Plans and Worries

Hello again. I'm now in Fukuoka and am trying to work out what I'm going to be doing next.

Yesterday I took a Shinkansen from Hiroshima to here via Shimonoseki, where my guide book suggested you could get a very good view of the straight between Honshu and Kyushu. It was a nice view from the top, and I quite enjoyed the climb up and down the mountain to see it, but by the time it had started to rain I'm not entirely sure the stop was worthwhile.

I stayed overnight in a hotel here in Fukuoka and am now trying to work out what I'm going to do next. I may see if I can find another night or two here or possibly go straight on to Nagasaki and stay there for a few nights.

I am getting increasingly worried about the upcoming golden week. This is a period where a lot of national holidays fall close together and so apparently everything gets extremely busy and hotels often get booked up weeks in advance. Since I have only a few days left until the start of golden week, and I don't yet know where I'm staying you can understand why I'm somewhat worried. I can either try to go ahead as I would otherwise, ignoring golden week and simply hoping I can find something whereever I happen to be, or I can try now to book something for the week so I know I have somewhere to go.

Booking ahead may well be the more sensible option, but I haven't tried booking at hotel myself yet and more importantly it requires that I work out in advance where exactly I am going to be significantly ahead, which as yet I have not been able to do.

I do have a general plan now for the route I would like to take round Kyushu, Shikoku and then back onto Honshu but I have not as yet come up with a list of places where I want to stop along that route and it will probably still take me some time to come up with such a list.

Posted by Haifisch at April 24, 2003 02:10 AM