Hi,
I will be landing at Haneda airport on 5/2 at 2230. I plan to spend May 3rd in Tokyo, then leave on the 4th.
My question is what is the best way to use my JRPass to get to the Shiba-sakura festival and continue to Kokura station on the same day?
From what I can gather, it looks like I can take Kodama 639 at 08:26 on May 4th and get off at Shin-Fuji station. From there I can take a local bus, but I'm not sure which one to take? It looks like there is a specific local bus for this event. This is the event I am talking about: http://www.shibazakura.jp/eng/
I plan to get back to Shin-Fuji station around 16:00, and take Kodama 665 at 16:12, get off at Nagoya, and then take Nozomi 47 and get off at Kokura station to see the Wisteria tunnel on May 5th.
I know it's a lot of train riding, but we're on a somewhat tight time schedule.
Any insight or problems with this itinerary, aside from it being Golden Week?