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Originally Posted by MarcusTan
Bascially both of us need to clear our leave and we never been to Japan before and we guess it would be interesting for us too.
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Hi, first, I think you need to figure out where to stay. Its better if you stay close to the city, for OSaka, I gues it will be either clse to the Osaka/Umeda station or the Namba station. I use Japanhotel.net myself, but others on this forum have had negative experieince with it, so its up to you who you want to go with. Here is there site:
JapanHotel.net Japanese Business Hotels, Ryokans, Minshukus, Guest Houses, Hot Springs and other accommodation
Which airport will you be landing in? The next thing is to figure out how to get yourself to the hotel from the airport. JR Hyperdia is a good tool to do the search:
Enter the station name
Then, there will be your itinerary, which you can get a lot of info on attractions (Do specify what you want to see) from board members, but Japan Guide is also a good starting place:
Osaka Travel Guide
Osaka Info is also a good place for info:
OSAKA-INFO - Osaka Visitor's Guide
Wiht a 8 days itinerary, you probably want to drop by surrounding cities as well, Himeji, Kobe, Nara and Kyoto will be good choices. Himeji and Kobe can be a day trip from Osaka. I didn't find Kobe interesting, so I say that will be half a day. Osaka is nice and all, but I don't see it lasting you more than 3 days. You can probably spend the rest of your time around Kyoto and Nara
With 8 days, it is rather difficult to cover both Osaka and Tokyo, I mean it can be done, but you will be doing a lot of "run and glance"
My recommendation will be either do 4 days tokyo, 2 days Kyoto, 2 days Osaka/Nara, or the above mentioned itinerary:
Himeji 1 day
Kobe 1/2 day
Osaka 2.5 days
Nara 1 day
Kyoto 3 days
Have fun