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Originally Posted by samurai007
Thanks! I took over 700 photos while I lived in Japan, I've only posted a small selection so far, the best of the best, you could say. So that may be part of it. Follow the link in my sig to see more of my photos.
You don't need the JRP at least until you leave the Kyoto area, so don't buy a 2nd one. In fact, you don't even need it to go to Nara and other close by places. Nara is probably only about $10 for a train ticket from Kyoto (each way). And the train that goes to Koya-san from Osaka is Nankai, not JR, so your rail pass won't work on that. (It's about $20 each way from Osaka to Koya-san and back, which includes the cable car ride from the last train station. If you do decide to activate the rail pass before then, because you have enough days, you can take a longer JR train that comes down through Nara prefecture and the beautiful Yoshino Valley, changing trains just after crossing into Wakayama prefecture in the city of Hashimoto, where I lived for 2 years teaching English! I can tell you some of my favorite restaurants within walking distance of Hashimoto station, if you stop off there!)
But if you are short of JRP time, I think you could probably wait until you are heading for Tokyo, after leaving Koya-san, to activate your rail pass. With it, you can then board the bullet train in Osaka and zip over to Tokyo in about 3-4 hours.
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Hmm, that will depends how far he travel from Kyoto no? If he make trips between Kyoto > Miyajima, he probably will make multiple trips to stop at Himeji and Kobe etc etc, that will add up;...