Jenny,
Don't worry about birding in Osaka, spend the time going around the fast food
and snack joints. They are amazing. I could spend a week doing that there.
Enjoy the trip.
Carl Clifford
> On 14 Jul 2014, at 10:29, "Jenny Stiles" <> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I would very much appreciate some advice on travelling to Japan at the end of
> October this year after my youngest son finishes the HSC. Normally I pick the
> holidays and have very definite goal in mind, but this time my "men" have
> chosen but their goals are vague [weird vending machines, cool castles, weird
> people, snow monkeys, Mt Fuji, Hiroshima, Kyoto]
> This will be a family holiday, so the only birding will be incidental or to a
> place that everyone will enjoy! Of course I do hope to sneak some [lots?] in
> and would also like to see some of the native mammals!! My sons are 23, 21
> [has autism] & 18 and are pretty tolerant of birding stops.
> So far the rough itinerary is as follows: Tokyo [2 or 3 nights], Nikko [1
> night], Nagano (to see the snow monkeys*) [1 night], Hakone [1 night], Kyoto
> [3 nights or maybe 2 & 1 night at Nara], Hiroshima [2 nights], Osaka [1
> night] & fly home from there. There is still scope to add in a few more stops
> or extend the ones I have selected.
>
> I have found it all a bit overwhelming actually, especially thinking about
> travelling by train and bus rather than a car [used to just stashing
> suitcases in the hire car, not having them with us!] and I have no idea how
> to choose hotels, so any recommendations would be extremely welcome. I gather
> there are not going to be rooms that sleep 5, so I assume we will need 2
> rooms? One for my husband and myself & my son with autism & another for my
> other 2 sons. I hope there are rooms that fit 3 people?
>
> Has anyone been out to see the Snow Monkeys at Jigokudani Yaen-koen? We are
> really keen to see some Japanese Macaques and it sounds like the scenery is
> pretty & I hoped to see some birds too, but there is another monkey park in
> easy reach of Kyoto, so wondered if the Jigokudani Yaen-koen park is worth
> the extra effort. Lonely Planet gives it a terrible review but visitors
> posting on Trip Advisor seems to be very happy on the whole.
>
> Any advice of where in the various Tokyo parks would have the best chance of
> birds would be good too. I have looked on Eremaea to get the names of likely
> spots, but since I will be dragging non birders about it would be great to
> have some specific instructions! For instance, the moat around the Imperial
> Palace looks pretty big so it would be great to know if there is a section
> that is more likely to have ducks.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read my email.
>
> From Jenny Stiles, Sydney
>
>
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