Hey Japan crew, I posted a while ago in the travel forum about my wife and I visiting Japan in Oct and you threw out a few ideas for me. I was wondering if you knew anything about Japanese pro baseball. I would love to catch a game and judging by their website im assuming it'll be playoff season over there (i think anyways). If thats the case are these tickets impossible to get ahold of like in the states or not really? We'll be in country from Oct 14-28th, landing in Tokyo for 4 days, Kyoto for 3, Hiroshima for a night, back to Osaka for 3 and Tokyo for 2. If you have any other tips/ideas/must do im all ears as well. I can give more specifics if needed. |
There is so many ways to answer this; your biggest obstacle might be getting someone that can read (and speak) Japanese. |
You should look into tickets sooner, rather than later. I think playoffs should start around 10th and maybe you can get a game or two in depending on who is playing. I don't think it's as hard here as in the US to get tickets. I am sure some travel forums can fill you in though. |
Originally posted by TimE Awesome, thanks TimE. I'm planning on doing a day trip out of Osaka to Nara, and probably an evening towards Kobe as well for dinner just kind of using Osaka as my base for those few days. And can always shoot back up to Kyoto too if we end up needing another day there (probably) I'll scour some sites for the playoff tickets, japanball.com doesn't have a mention of it yet but I'm guessing no one really does since it's still regular season. I'm just hoping we'll be somewhere near where a game is being played. We're doing the JR pass i was kind of assuming we could get out of Tokyo for an afternoon/day trip into the mountains as well if the mood strikes. My wife isn't really into that so much so some of our plan is as we go and just soak it all in. |
Probably if you want to do day trips to see fall colors AND you have the rail pass then places like Karuizawa are awesome. If you can take a full day, then I would recommend going to Nozawa Onsen - amazing atmosphere, great brewery and should be beautiful scenery (take bullet train to Iiyama station and then 30 min bus to Nozawa Onsen - ask information at Iiyama station about what bus to get on). |
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