Japan with kids!
$49.99
Japan With Kids: The Complete Family Guide
Three months on the ground. So your two weeks actually work.
42 pages. Everything we'd tell a friend before their trip.
Most Japan guides are written by someone who spent a long weekend in Tokyo.
We spent three months there with our three kids, mid-September to mid-December 2024. We learned the train systems the hard way, found the temples where nobody else was standing, and figured out which famous things earn their lines and which ones bite. Literally, in the case of the Nara deer.
What's inside:
Routes that actually work at 5, 7, 10 and 14+ days, with night counts and move days built in, plus a Kyushu week and a repeat-visitor route nobody else writes.
The systems chapter: IC cards, the two train websites, luggage shipping, the rail-pass math, and the arrival playbook that gets you from Narita to your hotel without a meltdown.
Where to stay in every city, including the one base decision that changes your whole Tokyo trip.
The Skip List: the famous stuff we'd tell you to skip, with reasons. This is the chapter people quote back at us.
Rankings, adult and kid versions, because our kids disagreed with us and the disagreement is the useful part.
The Collector's Chapter on temple seals and stamp hunting, which is the single best trick we found for kids who are getting templed out.
Eat, honestly: what our kids actually ate for three months, and why the convenience stores are a feature and not a compromise.
Kids specifically: onsen etiquette, jet lag rules, quiet-train reality, and the laundry system that let five people travel light.
Our promise: everything in this guide, we actually did. The few places we recommend but didn't personally reach are marked. If it's not marked, we were there.
No filler, no copied-from-the-internet history lessons. Forty-two pages of what we learned by being there.
Also inside: a boar shrine your kids will love, the pillar in Nara you crawl through for guaranteed enlightenment, an overnight ferry with an onsen on board, and the shrine that's a zoo at 10am and completely yours at 10pm.
Instant download. 42-page PDF, built to read on your phone in a train station. $49.
Want it built around YOUR kids' ages and dates? The Family Trip Blueprint is a fully custom itinerary: wherethekidsroam.com/plan