As the title says, planning a 6 week trip for next March-April and trying to decide where to spend half of it. I did the typical golden route last time + Hiroshima, Nagoya, Hakone, but def set on Osaka again and doing trips to Nara and Kobe that I skipped on last time. So I'm planning 3 weeks for Osaka/Tokyo, the rest I'm torn between spending it around Kyushu (Fukuoka, etc) or Kanazawa (plus Shirakawa, Takayama), Nagano (Matsumoto Castle)... I haven't done too much research into them as I haven't yet decided 😅
Anyone that did either/both got thoughts/recs? I'd prefer having a homebase for min 5 days at a time and doing trips if needed than moving around every 2-3 days like I did last time