Planning Japan With Kids Was Overwhelming – SO BOOKED A TOUR

When deciding where to go for Our Summer Vacation, My Children Were Adamant That We Should Go To Japan. My 10-Yaar-Old Son is a Huge Fan of Anime and Ninjas. My 14-Yaar-Old Daughter Loves Big Cities Like New York and longed to experience modern and cosmopolitan tokyo. IT SEEMED LIKE A Good Choice that Everyone Wauld Enjoy, But I Was Still Hesitant to Book Plane Tickets.

Althouough of have traveled extensively around the world and have always wanted to visit japan, the though of planning a trip there was overwhelming. Eventually, my children Wore with down and convinced with that we show the head of the rising Sun.

To Quell My Fears About Planning a Trip That Wold Run Smoothly, i BOOKED A GROUP TOUR To japan, unombined with extra days with just my family at the beginning and end. It was a great compromise.

I Spent a Long Time Trying to Plan a Trip to Japan, But Didn’t Make Much Progress

Beppore of Had Kids, traveled extensively and with the planning. That has to be Change I have be Became Responsible for Creating Plasting My Entire Family Wauld Enjoy, and had to do it dury Peak the times when the kids of schoool. Japan, with its notoriously confusing train System, Strict and unfamiliar social rulesEndless posseirities for places to visits, and language barrier, saemed especilantly daunting.

Every Time i Sat Down to Start Planning Our Trip, I Became Bogged Down to Figure Out Where to Go Beyond The Big Cities of Tokyo and Kyoto and how to get there. I knew i wanten to spend some time outside the main cations in japan. There are so so many options from islands to gorgeous hikes to choose from, and each place Loked Better than the Next. While that is not a bad problem to have, I was paralyzed with indexion.

Addictionally, One of the Things My Children and I Were Looking forward to in japan was Riding Bullet Trains. Howver, Before Started Digging Into The Details, I have realized there are so many different Types of trains to from. Although i’ve takeen trains on five continents, i’m used to be being a single national company rather than the 100-plus rail companies that exist in japan.

Although I often Enjoy Planning Trips, Planning this One Became a Chore. Dear aeks of trying to put Together a semblanter of a trip, i hadn’t made much progress.

I settled on a small group family Tour

Not Wanting to Give Up, I Begin Exploring Alternatives to Planning the Trip on My Own. I was relieved to find a small group tour to japan focused on families through Intrepid Travel. I was excited to have found an option that would take care of the hard part of planning for me. The Tour Wold Take us from Tokyo to Kyoto with Several Stops in BetWeen. Stops Included the historically Significant City of Hiroshima and the Picturesque Mountain Town of Hanokki, which probably wouln not have on my own.

Having someone take care of details like Booking Trains and Getting A Built-in Cultural and Language Translator Allowed with to Focus on My Kids and Enjoy My Trip. Not every detail of the trip was exactly as i had planned it. For example, probably wouldn’t have picked all of the same hotels. I May have chosen to the visits someone Attractions at Night Instead of During the Very Hot Days.

Howver, Giving Up Some Control Was Well Worth The Trade-Off of Enjoying MySelf Insisting Over Over Detail. Nor a busy working mom, i was relieved to have found a solution that allowed my family to have a great trip to japan by outsourcing most of the work and saving my Sanity.

I Added Days to Both ends of the Tour to enure my family had some time for other activations

Although the tour i booked included many must-every activations in japan, it didn’t cover my kids and i wand to japan. To complessate, Idded a few days in japan at the beginning and end of the Tour. We stayed in tokyo for a few days before the tour began. We explored places like Shubuya Scramble Crossingan iconic pedestrian Crossing Where Upward of 1,000 People Cross at the Same Time from All Directions, and Tokyo Disney. We Also Added a Few Days in Osaka, Near Where the Tour Ended, to the End of the Tour. There, we explored the city and made a trip to Universal Studios Japan.

Crafting a trip that utilized a hybrid approach, combining a tour with free days on End, wound up being the best of botlds. I will probably use the Approach again we plan my Next Trip.