Hello,
I'm going backwards and forwards about buying a JR rail pass. I will also buy a Suica & Nex card to travel between Narita and Tokyo because of the duration of our stay (9 days). I have been checking and calculating and recalculating between options until I'm at a point where I'm a bit lost. Here's my itinerary:
Day 1: Tokyo
Day 2: Tokyo
Day 3: Hakone (at my father's request, we will ride the Romance Car with a Hakone pass for the cruise and the cable car, etc.)
Day 4: Hakone
Day 5: Kyoto: Shinkansen from Odawara
Day 6: Kyoto
Day 7: Kyoto (maybe a day trip to Nara)
Day 8: Tokyo (Shinkansen from Kyoto)
Day 9: Home (to Narita Airport)
I can use my Suica & Nex card for travelling in Tokyo and to/from Narita.
From my latest calculations (if I did it right), with the day trip to Nara, the sum is less than 27,000 Yen, which is less than the JR Rail Pass. But I'm thinking that I might have missed something.
I will really appreciate your input on this one. This is my first time in Japan and, I must say, I'm already exhausted.
Best regards,
Nawee