Tickets for the Sydney FC v Kashima Antlers game on 16th March have already been purchased in Sydney, only costing $32 which is a very reasonable price. Too bad another $2,500 is budgeted to get there and back!
On the day I arrive in Tokyo, it happens that Urawa Reds are playing Gamba Osaka in Saitama (Tokyo). Chances are I am going to take in that game as well. Urawa average just under 50,000 for their home games.
After that game, I will be on the lookout for a sports bar of some sort to try to watch the A-League Grand Final.
This blog now at www.tonyj2japan.wordpress.com
- Tony and Veronica Jarrett
- Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
- A world Cup football game between Australia and Japan in Yokohama was the driver for Tony's first trip to Japan in February 2009. Since then, Veronica and Tony have traveled together, and Tony has been back two more times - an abbreviated holiday in March, 2011 at the time of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, and in July/August, 2011.
Accommodation is all sorted
For the first time, I am taking the night flight from Australia with Qantas, so I should be in Tokyo by 9:00am on Saturday 12th March.
I have booked for 4 nights in K's House youth hostel in Kuramae - near Asakusa. Being an older single traveller, bunking with others can be hit and miss. So I have gone for a single room for the first night, and am on the 'wait list' for a single for the other 3 nights.
I look to the lounges and kitchens to be the best places in hostels to meet other people and share ideas and experiences. The room thing is a minor issue, and it allows conservative old me to go to bed at 10pm.
K's House hostels are great, with 2 in Tokyo, plus Kyoto, Horoshima, Ito, and Hakuba.
After Tokyo, is off to Mito, about 1 hour north by train. These 2 nights in a hotel will be my equivalent of a luxury stay. I will use Mito as the base to get to the football match in Kashima-kinju which is about an hour away on a local train line.
I plan to spend 2 nights at Narusawa Lodge in Nikko. The lodge is a minshuko, or family run bed and breakfast. I am really looking forward to this stay, although it is only for 2 nights. My other stays in Japan have been in youth hostels at one end, then 3 or 4 star hotels at the other.
The last day will be spent in old Narita before flying back to Australia on the night of 20th March.
I have booked for 4 nights in K's House youth hostel in Kuramae - near Asakusa. Being an older single traveller, bunking with others can be hit and miss. So I have gone for a single room for the first night, and am on the 'wait list' for a single for the other 3 nights.
I look to the lounges and kitchens to be the best places in hostels to meet other people and share ideas and experiences. The room thing is a minor issue, and it allows conservative old me to go to bed at 10pm.
K's House hostels are great, with 2 in Tokyo, plus Kyoto, Horoshima, Ito, and Hakuba.
After Tokyo, is off to Mito, about 1 hour north by train. These 2 nights in a hotel will be my equivalent of a luxury stay. I will use Mito as the base to get to the football match in Kashima-kinju which is about an hour away on a local train line.
I plan to spend 2 nights at Narusawa Lodge in Nikko. The lodge is a minshuko, or family run bed and breakfast. I am really looking forward to this stay, although it is only for 2 nights. My other stays in Japan have been in youth hostels at one end, then 3 or 4 star hotels at the other.
The last day will be spent in old Narita before flying back to Australia on the night of 20th March.
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