AW in Osaka,Japan – Part I 🍁❄️

Hey guys, I’ve just came back from Japan, my long awaited trip for 2018. This trip to Japan, I’ve covered Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.

Osaka – one of the popular places to visit in Japan aside from Tokyo.

There’s a direct flight from Singapore to Osaka (Kansai International Airport – KIX) which take about 7 hours.

As we’ve made some bookings via klook and kkday which can only be redeemed at Narita airport, we booked our flight from Singapore to Tokyo Narita airport instead.

I would highly recommend you to plan your time wisely if you’re covering different cities within 10 days like we do.

And in the cases where you’re travelling to different cities like us, it is highly recommended to purchase JR pass Nationwide, as it would saves you a lot of trouble and money.

We purchased our JR pass ticket via Klook and collect the ticket at Singapore’s Klook office. Tickets will be ready 2-3days after you’ve made your booking.

Photo credit japan rail pass

Types of JR pass

There are several types of JR pass available.

• There are ordinary cart and green cart

• And valid for 7 days, 14 days and 21 days from the day when you exchanged your JR pass at Japan.

JR pass covers few different area,

• Nationwide
• Kanto/Tohoku
• Hokkaido
• Kansai
• Kyushu
• And etc

You may select the types of JR pass base on the places that you’ll be visiting and by the numbers of days.

As we will be covering (places as below), we chose JR pass NationWide 7days.

Narita

Osaka

Nagoya

• Kyoto
• Yokohama
• Tokyo

Not sure if you should purchase JR pass? You may use fare calculator to compute if it’s worth it.

Time spend in Osaka for us is 4 days 3 nights. Depending on individual preferences to plan your itinerary. Our trip covers the following,

1. Day trip to Takayama/Shirakawago
2. Universal Studio Japan
3. Shopping district @ Namba, Shinsaibashi, Dotonburi

• Day trip to Shirakawago/Takayama

Our day trip to Takayama/Shirakawago was booked via Kkday and they offers transport services at Nagoya.

We dint get to see snow, but the temperature was rather low and it was snowing just days before we reached!

Old street @ Hida Takayama

• Shirakawago

• Toki Premium Outlet

There are large numbers of retail stores available, do get your credit card ready if you planned to shop 😆

I’ll continue my post on other days spent in Osaka in the next post as it’s getting lengthy 😝

Thank you so much for reading! Ciaoz!