John W. wrote:

> I'll send you an email when plans firm up. Most likely it'll be me and
> maybe a friend. A good friend from my grad school days wants to hook up
> and have a redneck's night out in Kyoto so maybe I'll convince them to
> change that to Nagoya since he and I haven't been there before.

I don't know what a redneck's night out might entail, but remember I'm 
not in Nagoya but 30 minutes southeast up the tokaido line.

> And I'll probably investigate the rail pass scams. I'd planned on
> getting the kansai regional pass, or the sanyo area pass, but IIRC
> those don't cover travel to Nagoya.

I think the kansai regional pass covers shiga, so it might be cheaper 
just to pay the ordinary fare once leaving the kansai area if you are 
only going to travel east the one time.

Google for my cellphone number if you need it.

-- 
"UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.