Itinerary Check: 19d Kansai/Chugoku/Kyushu

Hello everyone!

I am going to Japan in November and wanted to ask for your opinion and especially your advice/criticisms of the itinerary I had in mind!

I will be visiting southern Japan, the regions of Kansai, Chūgoku, and Kyūshū.
What do you think? Anything I need to skip or definitely do?
For now i am really more interested about your opinion about the correct distrubution of days than what to do, that I will decide when I have decided how to move! It's too much? It's better in other way?

I am going to Japan in November for the third time to see the foliage!
I won't be taking a car, I will only travel by public transportation.

Thank you in advance!!! :) :) :)


P.S. I apologize for any spelling/syntax errors, English is not my first language!


Day 1:

- morning arrival at Osaka (Kansai) airport

- from Osaka (Kansai) airport we go directly to Nagasaki (domestic flight or train)

- afternoon arrival in Nagasaki, afternoon /evening tour of the city

- sleep in Nagasaki


Day 2:

- full day in Nagasaki

- night in ?????, i have to decide whether to move to fukuoka in the evening and sleep in fukuoka or sleep still in nagasaki and move to fukuoka early morning the next day


Day 3:

- full day in fukuoka (sightseeing)

- first certain night in fukuoka


Day 4:

- day trip to Kumamoto (round trip from Fukuoka on the same day)

- second night in Fukuoka


Day 5:

- Day trip to Beppu (round trip from Fukuoka on the same day)

- third night in Fukuoka


Day 6:

- first half day in Fukuoka

- early afternoon move to Hiroshima

- mid-afternoon to evening tour in Hiroshima

- first night in Hiroshima


Day 7:

- Day trip to Miyajima Island (same-day round trip from Hiroshima)

- second night in Hiroshima


Day 8:

- early in the morning, departure from Hiroshima to Izumo Taisha temple (about 3 + 1/2 hours)

- visit to Izumo Taisha and the town of Izumo

- move in the evening to Matsue

- sleep in Matsue


Day 9:

- since morning until afternoon in Matsue

- afternoon move to Okayama

- first night in Okayama



Day 10:

- full day in Kurashiki / Okayama

- second night in Okayama



Day 11:

- Departure in the morning from Okayama for Himeji.

- after visiting Himeji (3/4 hours), transfer to Osaka

- late afternoon/evening in Osaka

- first night in Osaka


Day 12:

- full day visit to Osaka

- second night in Osaka


Day 13:

- in the morning departure from Osaka to Mt. Koya

- afternoon/evening visit to Mt. Koya

- sleep at Mt. Koya


Day 14:

- from morning until afternoon, tour to Mt. Koya

- late afternoon move to Kyoto

- first night in Kyoto


Day 15:

- full day visiting Kyoto

- second night in Kyoto


Day 16:

- full day visiting Kyoto

- third night in Kyoto


Day 17:

- full day visiting Kyoto

- fourth night in Kyoto


Day 18:

- full day visiting Kyoto

- Late evening flight from Osaka to home

D1 - don't plan anything. Just get to Nagasaki, anything else is a bonus.

D2 - head to Fukuoka late.

D6 - head to Nagasaki early.

Sounds good to me. At what time of the day you move you can still decide on the spot if you have completed what you wanted to do in city A or if there are more things that attract you in city B

I think Day 1 is somewhat difficult.

If you take trains it will take 5.5 hrs and cost 22000 yen. Flight is faster (2.5 hrs including Nagasaki airport to the city of Nagasaki) and cheaper (less than 10000 yen). The problem with the flight is it is quite infrequent.

https://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/en/flight/kix_scheduleresult?dep_regi...

The only flight from Kansai (KIX) to Nagasaki is 15:10 by Peach.

There are four flights to Fukuoka.

https://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/en/flight/kix_scheduleresult?dep_regi...

Two to Kagoshima.

https://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/en/flight/kix_scheduleresult?dep_regi...

You may better to start from Fukuoka or Kagoshima (if your international flight suite the domestic flight) or Kansai area since trains are quite frequent so you don�ft need to book them.

Note that at present flight schedule for November is not released yet (It will be late August).